More Than a Song - Discovering the Truth of Scripture Hidden in Today's Popular Christian Music

More Than a Song – Discovering the Truth of Scripture Hidden in Today’s Popular Christian Music

More Than a Song is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to helping you discover the truth of Scripture hidden in today’s popular Christian music. Each episode teaches you to connect portions of God’s Word with the songs you’re singing along with on the radio to help you meditate on Truths that will transform your way of thinking and, ultimately, your life.

This Week's Challenge

Read Psalm 3 for yourself. Make your own observations and identify your own patterns in this song of lament. David offers us an example of sincere faith we can follow in the midst of troubling times. Let this Psalm change your prayers and remind you of the rest and peace offered by our Deliverer.

This Week's Challenge

Turn off the podcast and turn on an audio version of God’s Word. What Scripture references did your pastor use on Sunday? Grab that book of the Bible, start at the beginning, and press play. Get lost in the story of Scripture. Read and keep on reading (or perhaps, listen and keep on listening).

This Week's Challenge

Explore Ephesians and Colossians with an eye out for evidence that we were dead men walking before God stepped in and gave us new life. Really ponder this idea that it is GOD that makes us alive in Christ. Then lift your head, your hands, and your heart in worship to our merciful God Who rescued you from the ways of this world that you may walk in newness of life.

This Week's Challenge

Read all about King Asa in 2 Chronicles 14-16. Read the entire story and compare and contrast the wholeheartedness and divided hearts of the king and his people and consider the results of each. Seek the Lord with your whole heart and thank Him for the good that He freely pours out with His whole heart.

This Week's Challenge

Have I inspired you at all to take a crack at Lamentations? I hope so. There is great pain and sorrow to be found there, but there is great repentance and hope as well. I’ve only scratched the surface. I pray you allow God to meet you in your sorrow but, as in Lamentations, that you are honest in your sorrow. Read all five chapters and really give yourself a chance to process slowly -- chase down a few cross references for perspective while you’re at it.

This Week's Challenge

Dive into Genesis 11 through 23. Read with Sarah on your mind. Take notes -- begin to understand who she was as a woman, who she was as a wife, who she was as a mother, and who she was as a woman of God. Get creative and write a historical-fiction account of something that happened to her in this text. But most of all, remember that Sarah was real. She was a part of God's overarching plan to rescue all of us from sin and death -- but she was a real woman with real feelings, real fears, and was a real example that nothing is impossible with God.

This Week's Challenge

Read Paul's letter to the Philippians. Listen to it a few more times in various translations. Then sit down, slow down, and really process what you're reading. Maybe grab a friend and try to explain it to them. Ponder what you would put on your "gain" list. Ponder what you would put on your "everything else" list. Consider what you're grasping tightly to (on either list) that you could let go so your hands are free to strain toward what is ahead.

This Week's Challenge

Read 1 Samuel 1-3. Spend some time really taking in the context of the world around Samuel's existence. Grab a friend and discuss the details together. Once you've read and re-read the text a few times, it's okay to peek down at your study Bible notes, or seek out a trusted commentary. And the next time you hear God speaking to you, be sure to obey. It may just be like it was for Samuel...more about your obedience and less about the message.

This Week's Challenge

While I don’t have a specific place to go in Scripture this week, wherever you choose to go, take a step back and seek how it relates and connects to the meta-narrative…the grand story of God’s Word. And don’t forget...this Word of God is not about you at all…it’s about Him and His rescue plan for all who will believe in Him.