THE GIFT EXCHANGE | 2024-2025
January 2025
ABBA FATHER
by Sherri Youngward
Chorus:
Abba, Father
Hear the voices of Your sons and Your daughters
Abba, Father
Hear the praises that we bring
As You look upon this place
With all the angels from above
See the power of Your grace
See Your Son is loved
(Chorus)
Here is trying to express
All the love that fills our hearts
Knowing our lives safely rest
Securely in Your Arms
(Bridge)
(Chorus)
December 2024
This photo has nothing to do with your gift. But then again, it’s a gift in itself because it’s only been shared between Gia and me (and the squirrel) until now.
November 2024
1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-8 NASB
I never imagined that I would sing words like “noisy gong” or “clanging cymbal” in a song, but as brash as these words sound, that’s exactly Paul’s point. An unloving Christian is supposed to be this out of place. For years now, I still turn to this passage when I need love defined or redefined. “Love is patient, love is kind”…These words have popped into my mind at just the right time.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels
But do not have love, I have become
A noisy gong or a clanging cymbal
If I have the gift of prophecy
And know all mysteries and all knowledge
And if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains
But do not have love, I am nothing
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor
And if I surrender my body to be burned
But do not have love, it profits me nothing
Love is patient, love is kind
And is not jealous; love does not brag
And is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly
It does not seek its own, is not provoked
Does not take into account a wrong suffered
Does not rejoice in unrighteousness
But rejoices with the truth
Bears all things, believes all things
Hopes all things, endures all things
Love never fails
October 2024
YOUR UNFAILING LOVE
Psalm 143:8-10
A Psalm of David
Let the morning bring me word
Of Your unfailing love
For I have put my trust in You
Show me the way I should go
For to You I lift up my soul
Rescue me from my enemies O LORD
For I hide myself in You
Teach me to do Your will
For You are my God
May Your good Spirit
Lead me on level ground
September 2024
August 2024
ABIDE IN MY LOVE
John 15:9
As the Father has loved me,
So have I loved you.
Abide in my love.
As the Father has loved me,
So have I loved you.
Abide in my love.
Abide in my love.
Abide in my love.
July 2024
-IN THE SHELTER-
PSALM 61:1-4 (NKJV)
Hear my cry, O God; Attend to my prayer
From the end of the earth I will cry to You
When my heart is overwhelmed
Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I
For You have been a shelter for me
A strong tower from the enemy
I will abide in Your tabernacle forever
I will trust in the shelter of Your wings