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This song isn’t necessarily new, but it may be new to you. Steadfast is a song written by Sandra McCracken, Josh Silverberg, and Leslie Jordan. It debuted on McCracken’s album in 2016 titled “God’s Way”. Every hurricane season, we see images of coastal communities devastated by a storm. Predictably, the beachfront properties often sustain major damage. Despite the knowledge of history’s vivid paintings, we humans continue to think we can outsmart these storms year after year, and we build homes on sand again and again and again. We combine science and engineering to build structures to withstand what we predict will happen in the next storm. We dig down deeper to get below the sand, to bedrock, and anchor the home – so that it’s not built “on sand”. Because really, the Bible is literal right? Who in their right mind would actually build a house on sand? That would be foolish – even the Bible says so… In our personal lives, we do the same thing. We put our hope and security in the circu

This is one of my top favorite hymns of all time! It was written by a young farm boy named Charles Gabriel from Iowa who, like me, learned music at an early age. It was published in 1905 and has since found its way into over 200 hymnals. In the first verse, we sing of the posture of the redeemed. “I stand amazed in the presence…”! When I sing that, I’m immediately swept up in the imagery of Jesus’ magnificence. “And wonder how he could love me, A sinner, condemned, unclean.”, those are my words, that is my heart, that is so true! I know the wretchedness of my sins and the Apostle Paul did too. In Romans 7:24, Paul says “Wretched man that I am! Who will delivery me from this body of death?” He goes on in Romans 8:1 to show us that because of what Christ has done for us, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” HOW MARVELOUS!! HOW WONDERFUL!! In verse two, we dive in a little more into the work of Christ in our lives. “He took my sins and my sorrows, He