Praise is our Defense AND Offense
It sounds a little strange, doesn’t it? Praise — a weapon? When life feels like a battle, my first instinct isn’t to sing — it’s to stress and whine. To fix. To figure it out. Maybe even to complain just a little (or a lot). But Psalms 8:2 flips that thinking upside down.“Through praise —…
Turning Praise into a Prayer Weapon
In a talk I gave to a room of grandmothers on Tuesday, I started out sharing the words of this song: “I Raise a Hallelujah”. The song was written by recording artists and Bethel music leaders, Jonathan and Melissa Helser when their friends’ two-year-old son was airlifted to intensive care and not expected to live…