Shelby County Today

February 12, 2026 — Southern Gospel music veteran Trey Wilson will appear in concert on Sunday, April 26, during the 11am worship service at Old Home Baptist Church in Joaquin, Texas. Admission is free, and a love offering will be received during the service.

With more than 26 years of experience in gospel music, Wilson is widely respected for his powerful voice, heartfelt delivery, and deep roots in traditional Southern Gospel music. Raised in the piney woods of East Texas, his musical foundation was shaped in small rural churches where gospel hymns, family harmony, and the Heavenly Highway Hymnal were a central part of his upbringing.

Wilson’s career includes lead vocalist roles with the Southern Plainsmen Quartet and New South, spending a decade with New South as headliners for one of the most successful shows in Branson, Missouri. He later helped form The Downing Street Boys, a quartet praised for its sound and style reminiscent of the golden age of Southern Gospel music. Throughout his career, Wilson has toured nationally, appeared in televised broadcasts, and shared the stage with both gospel and country music legends.

Across his group work and solo career, Wilson has logged thousands of performances and reached millions of fans through live concerts, television appearances, and special events. Known for his warm, soulful delivery and authentic connection with audiences, his performances reflect a lifetime of faith, experience, and conviction.

The April 26 service is open to the public and promises a morning of uplifting music and encouragement for all ages.

https://officialtreywilson.com/home

February 12, 2026 - There is a little obscure sentence found in Philippians 3:10 that expressed the deepest longing and desire of the apostle Paul, where he writes, “That I may know Him.” Paul’s deepest and most fervent longing evidently was to know Jesus better. That ought to be our deepest longing also. The knowledge of God revealed in Jesus Christ gives us a grip on the great spiritual realities. If we are to know Jesus better, then we must spend time with the book of God, the Bible. You see, it is the Bible that reveals Jesus Christ, the son of the living God to us.

Right here, right now, this very minute, how real is Jesus to you? Jesus Christ needs to be real in our lives and we need to make Him more a part of our lives.

If we are to come to know Jesus, if He is going to be real to us, there is a price to be paid to know him. Let’s be honest, everything worthwhile has a price to pay. To be a world class athlete, an individual must pay a huge price in training. To be an accomplished musician, long hours must be spent in practice. There were those in the New Testament who left everything for Jesus. Peter, Andrew, James and John got out of the fishing business. Paul said he counted all things loss for Christ. If we want to know Jesus Christ, really know Jesus Christ, we must be willing to surrender our will to the will of Jesus and make him first in our lives.

It’s something to think about. . . tbp

Come and join us for Worship
Center Church of Christ
www.centerchurchofchrist.com

February 9, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, February 9.

This Saturday is Valentine’s Day. So today, here at the Daily Devotions, we begin a week-long series on the subject... of love.

Tonight marks the 62nd anniversary of a momentous moment. 78 million Americans tuned their TVs to the Ed Sullivan Show, and the world of popular music was changed forever, as four young lads from Liverpool took the stage. John, Paul, George, and Ringo - The Beatles. Maybe some of you were watching. It was a Sunday night, so I was at church!

The Fab Four sang five songs that evening. All five, not surprisingly, were about love. The centerpiece was a simple little song that would become the best-selling single of the sixties, “She Loves You”. You remember that one. It features the immortal lyric - “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”

The Beatles were trailblazers in so many areas of music and culture. But they were far from the first artists to focus on the subject of love. Songwriters and poets and playwrights have been focusing on that lofty theme for as long as there has been language. Why? Because we human beings are created to need love in our lives. That instinct is so strong that sometimes we make poor choices in pursuit of it.

When the Bible talks about the love of God, it uses the Greek word “agape.” This term describes a selfless, giving, steadfast, faithful kind of love. Agape is the word being used here, in this famous scripture verse - “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

In other words - He loves you! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Meet you back here tomorrow,
David 
cindertex50yahoo.com

February 2, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, February 2. 

Welcome to February. Welcome to Groundhog Day. At 6:30 this morning, a little furry rodent emerged from his little wooden house and (drum roll please) he saw his shadow! That means six more weeks of winter. But don’t despair - we’re talking about woodchuck here, not a weatherman, and so we might still have an early spring. Hope springs eternal!

The tradition of Groundhog Day started back in 1887 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania - a small town of about 5,000 people. But on this day, the population swells to over 50,000. Those numbers went way up after the Hollywood movie, “Groundhog Day”, starring Bill Murray, who plays a guy who’s destined to live the same day, over and over and over again. Only Murray could make a movie that repetitious come out that funny.

Every time I watch this film - and it’s one of my favorites - I’m reminded of a quote attributed to Albert Einstein. You know the one - “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result”. We’re surrounded by people living that kind of life, aren’t we? Making the same poor choices again and again, and getting the same bad outcomes. Maybe there’ve been times in your life when you’ve practiced this kind of “insanity”. I know there’ve been some moments like that in mine. But God gives us the opportunity to break this negative cycle. He gives us the opportunity to take a new path, a new journey, that leads to a life of purpose and peace. 

Ephesians 4:22-24. You were taught, with regard to your former life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Phil, the movie weatherman played by Bill Murray, woke up each morning to an old day, with the same problems and the same bad choices. But the Word tells us that God’s mercies are new every morning. We don’t have to continue a cycle of insanity - we can make a good choice, a new choice. We can choose Him.

Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com