Author name: Steve Negley

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that He had done, and He rested on the […]

Welcome to a new series of daily email devotions “In the Beginning…” written and posted by staff members at First Presbyterian Church of Winter Haven. In this post-Easter time, we

Minds are tricky things, and it seems that music helps some words stick pretty well in some minds. That’s at least how my mind works. There are lyrics from old

Whenever I work alongside a Music Director Search Committee (like our church has active right now) and we move toward the interview process with candidates, there is usually some friendly

e of the hymns that first found its way into our church through the Blue Presbyterian Hymnal in the 1990’s, and which to my pleasure has been retained in the

About a decade ago, our church published its own songbook called Treasured Hymns and New Songs of Faith. That little spiral bound booklet gave us an opportunity to include some

I have to admit that when the new Presbyterian hymnal, Glory to God, was ready for publication a couple of years ago, I was ready to adopt it. I had

If you’ve attended our summer Sunday School adult classes over the past several years, or listened to the illustrations in many of my sermons, you probably know that I am

I have been singing songs in worship for nearly 50 years. In the maroon colored Hymnbook (the hymnal of the churches of my childhood and youth) Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord

The first time I heard the haunting tune was in the chapel at Columbia Theological Seminary over 30 years ago. Barry Davies, the chapel organist, had a way with fingers