Way back in 1897, a composer named Johnson Oatman Jr. penned song lyrics that still serve to pick us up from our doldrums, or ward off even the heavier blows of life, and put us back into a positive ...

There is an old church hymn titled “Count Your Blessings”, I love the lyrics that say “count your blessings name them one, count your blessings see what God has done.” It is amazing when we focus on ...

In last week’s Clergy Corner, my WEMM colleague Jorge Henneke wrote an inspiring piece on counting blessings, concluding with the well-known hymn: “Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And ...

When I was growing up, watching the “Lawrence Welk Show” on Saturday nights was almost a tradition in our home. The holiday shows were my favorite. I was probably 7 or 8 when I first heard a lovely ...