{"id":23897,"date":"2019-11-27T08:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=23897"},"modified":"2019-11-27T17:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T22:42:24","slug":"worship-wednesday-what-a-beautiful-name-agnus-dei-travis-daughter-lily-cottrell-and-a-whole-lot-of-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=23897","title":{"rendered":"Worship Wednesday – What a Beautiful Name\/Agnus Dei – Travis & Daughter Lily Cottrell and a Whole Lot of Other People"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: YouTube, Travis & Lily Cottrell<\/a><\/p>\n

[Adapted from the Archives<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:<\/em><\/p>\n

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to cling to, <\/em>but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.<\/em><\/p>\n

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death\u2014even death on a cross.<\/em><\/p>\n

Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place, and gave Him the name above all names, <\/strong>that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord<\/strong>,<\/em><\/p>\n

to the glory of God the Father.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Philippians 2:5-11<\/a><\/p>\n

Considering the answer to questions is a part of how we learn, how we set a course toward knowing. We search out in our own minds the answer to a question. If we come up blank, we seek out other resources, those who show mastery, knowledge, or understanding that we lack.<\/p>\n

Is there a most important question in life?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m posing this as the most important question: What will you do with Jesus?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The weight of evidence that Jesus existed is substantial, unquestionable. In fact, to say he didn\u2019t would require more faith than not, given the historical documentation and his impact on history. Note one reference here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What we do with this Jesus is partly determined on whether we see him as a man, a prophet, a revolutionary\u2026or God.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During my early childhood years, my family was not religious. There were no rituals, no spiritual conversations, no sense of God or who he was.<\/p>\n

I was eight years old before we ever went into a church building. This followed my parents\u2019 divorce, a couple of house moves, and my mom\u2019s remarriage to my sweet step-dad. Lots of ups and downs in there.<\/p>\n

A student of mine once told me that he believed children just grow up in the faith of their parents\u2026no personal wrestling of what to believe\u2026or whom to believe in.<\/p>\n

My family didn\u2019t have any faith to speak of in those days. When friends invited us to join them in church, it began a journey for my mom, dad, and siblings. For my parents, it was a re-acquainting themselves with God\u2026for me an amazing new discovery.<\/p>\n

Everything I have learned about Jesus and know of him through personal experience has enriched my life like nothing else in this world.<\/strong> No human love, no accomplishment, no other adventure can compare with what has come to me through him.<\/p>\n

There is no question for me that if there is God, then Jesus is God<\/strong>. It is difficult to wrap the mind around the reality of a triune God \u2013 the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We have to take that by faith, but not a blind faith. The life and teaching of Jesus point to one linked so intimately to the Father, they are one.<\/strong> Thoroughly infused by the Spirit of God. No ordinary man, or woman, could live as he lived, love as he loved, spend himself as he did. He was human and divine\u2026 completely\u2026and without sin.<\/p>\n

As a child from a broken home, whose biological father\u2019s neglect and disregard continued through our lives until he died\u2026I longed for the love that only God, through Christ Jesus, offered.<\/p>\n

He has never disappointed.<\/p>\n

Two beautiful songs have been weaved together in today’s Worship Wednesday. The Hillsong Worship<\/a> song-writer team of Ben Fielding<\/a> & Brooke Ligertwood<\/a> gave us What a Beautiful Name – <\/em>a song that describes something of the beauty of the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo Credit: Phatmass<\/a><\/p>\n

Singer Songwriter Michael W. Smith<\/a>‘s Agnus Dei<\/a><\/em> is a huge worship anthem lifting Jesus, the Lamb of God, as worthy of all praise.<\/p>\n

What a Beautiful Name\/Agnus Dei<\/em><\/a> has been arranged for choir by singer\/songwriter Travis Cottrell<\/a>. The song features his daughter Lily Cottrell<\/a>, and a whole lot of other people.<\/p>\n