Written in Thailand in 2018, this is the most recent song featured in Keys in the Sand. It can be found in Chapter 3: Elevating Our Expectations. God gave me this song when things weren’t going as planned and I was entertaining a lot of worries about the future. He reassured me with His presence […]
A book with sand in the title that features music should probably include a a song about sand. I wrote this song in 2004 while living in southwest China. It was inspired by the following passage, which is also crucial to the book: How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!How vast is
This is yet another song I wrote while living in Argentina. I had already been inspired to draw a picture of Jesus pulling a wagon. He was connected to the wagon with a yoke that He carried while a little girl swung from the other side. The song naturally flowed from the same mental image
Have you ever double-dog dared the Lord? The apostle Peter did, and Jesus called his bluff. I got the first 3 lines of the chorus to If It’s You in 2002, and wasn’t inspired to finish in until 2021, when I heard a Chinese podcast about Christian entrepreneurship from Taiwan. The pastor of Fight. K
I also wrote this song in Argentina – it seems that quite a few of the songs for the book originated during the short season I lived there over 15 years ago! The song Turn Around was inspired by the gospel story of the woman with the issue of blood, whose healing is detailed in
This song is featured in the Keys in the Sand book (Chapter 4: Invitation to Imagine) and was written in 2005 when I was teaching in Argentina. I was reflecting on some of the unfulfilled dreams I still had and the lyrics came all at once. This was not a song I sang to God,
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