Dr. Scott Ferrell

Dear Friends,
You are to be shining examples of what it means to be a Christian and to live a Christian life.  Thus, your life is a witness of what it feels like to be a disciple of Christ.  While we were on tour in Italy and singing our concerts, one of the many responses we got from our listeners and watchers was that we “sang with such heart and passion”.  I’m not so sure that choirs in the past sang sacred music with spirit-filled passion and pure joy.  Of all of the music available to us, why wouldn’t we sing with heart and passion while singing about God and our Savior Jesus Christ!?  So, believe me, folks are watching and trying to decide if being a Christian is really the way to life a full, happy and joyful life.  Show and tell them it is!  Peace and Love, Scott

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Learn To Enjoy Life More.  Relax, remembering that I am God with you.  I crafted you with enormous capacity to know Me and enjoy My Presence.  When My people wear sour faces and walk through their lives with resigned rigidity, I am displeased.  When you walk through a day with childlike delight, savoring every blessing, you proclaim your trust in Me, your ever-present Shepherd.  The more you focus on My Presence with you, the more fully you can enjoy life.  Glorify Me through your pleasure in Me.  Thus you proclaim My Presence to the watching world.
Matthew 1:23  23″The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”—which means, “God with us.”
John 10:10-11  10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. 11″I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

Dear Friends,
It was great being in worship with you yesterday.  I’m very excited to have new folks coming into our choir family and orchestra family (two new violinists!).  As we get closer to the start of a new school year and a new fall/Christmas season, I am reminded by the devotional below to not be afraid of being weak and weary.  It is indeed in our weakness that Christ is able to do His best work!  This spiritual codependency was designed by God to keep us close to Him throughout our days.  Embrace this beautiful relationship and be blessed!  Peace and Love, Scott

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Come To Me when you are weak and weary.  Rest snugly in My everlasting arms.  I do not despise your weakness, My child.  Actually, it draws Me closer to you, because weakness stirs up My compassion–My yearning to help.  Accept yourself in your weariness, knowing that I understand how difficult your journey has been. 

Do not compare yourself with others, who seem to skip along their life–paths with ease.  Their journeys have been different from yours, and I have gifted them with abundant energy.  I have gifted you with fragility, providing opportunities for your spirit to blossom in My Presence.  Accept this gift as a sacred treasure delicate, yet glowing with brilliant Light.  Rather than struggling to disguise or deny your weakness, allow Me to bless you richly through it.

Isaiah 42:3  3 A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice

Isaiah 54:10 10 Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Romans 8:26 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

Dear Friends,

Feeling a slight “tug”?  Read on.  See you Wednesday friends!  Hugs, Scott

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Come To Me Continually.  I am meant to be the Center of Your consciousness, the Anchor of your soul.  Your mind will wander from Me, but the question is how far you allow it to wander.  An anchor on a short rope lets a boat drift only slightly before the taut line tugs the boat back toward the center.  Similarly, as you drift away from Me, My Spirit within you gives a tug, prompting you to return to Me.  As you become increasingly attuned to My Presence, the length of rope on your soul’s Anchor is shortened.  You wander only a short distance before feeling that inner tug–telling you to return to your true Center in Me.

Hebrews 6:19  19We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

1 John 2:28  28And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.

Matthew 22:37  37Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

Dear Friends,

Dear Friends,