No Better Legacy

There is no way, humanly speaking, I would be preaching today if my mom had not instilled in me a love for God’s Word. From my earliest memories, she gathered her own kids with the neighborhood kids, and through flannel graph and passionate storytelling deposited in our little souls a love for God’s Word.

What better legacy can we leave to the next generation than a love for God and His Word?

Yesterday, I was reminded of her powerful legacy when I saw our son Luke’s video of his four-year-old son Reid. Apparently just the repetition of hearing the new release from Vertical Church Band, Church Songs, has written the Word of God on his heart. No concentrated memorization, no demands to get those Awana verses down word perfect—just the Word of God wrapped in meaningful worship, played over and over. They were surprised to hear him recite it all, and we were incredibly blessed. In fact, upon seeing this I said to Luke, “From now on all our recordings must have an extended portion of Scripture like this.”  Watch both videos and see the impact of keeping the Word of God central in our worship. Well done, Andi and Reid!

“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7).