Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
Morning Hope With MercyMe’s “Nothing But The Blood”
Start the day with a melody that carries more than nostalgia. We take you inside MercyMe’s cabin session of “Nothing But The Blood” and explore why a familiar hymn still speaks with startling clarity about forgiveness, redemption, and the costly love that makes us whole. From the band’s log-cabin retreat near Nashville to the quiet power of a stripped-back performance, the story behind the song opens a path to begin the morning centered and grounded.
Whether you’re sipping coffee or rushing to work, this five-minute reflection offers more than a soundtrack—it offers a way to carry grace into errands, meetings, and hard conversations. Press play, listen to the linked cabin performance, and let “Oh precious is the flow” become your refrain. If this encouraged you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs hope, and leave a quick review so others can find a five-minute start that lifts the soul.
Here is the YouTube link to Nothing but the blood
https://youtu.be/ay0vnkRd7mQ?si=nN5Lod8aS98MZ3Qs
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mack. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and let me help you start your day right. Good morning everybody. Welcome to Monday. And today I have a song for you that Mercy Me just released within this last week. Now it's not a new song, but it's their version of the song Nothing But the Blood. Bart Millard and the rest of Mercy Me have been around for quite a while now. And although they may have gotten a little bit older and their looks may have changed, the power of the music and their message has only gotten stronger over the years. The band had just purchased a log cabin just outside of Nashville, where they were able to go and meet and pray and read and study and write music together, and that place has become very important to them. And just recently they released what they called the cabin sessions. One of those songs was nothing but the blood. When we think about Jesus shedding his blood on that cross, it can make us feel uncomfortable. And it probably should. Here was an innocent man guilty of absolutely nothing wrong, who allowed himself to go to that cross, to die in the most horrible of fashion, but he did it for all of us. He did it so that you and I would not have to be punished for our sin, for our separation from God, for the things that we do wrong and the ways that we fall short. He did it because of his love for us, so that we might be able to have this relationship with God and to be able to reside with him for eternity. That's why Jesus did it. It was all based upon his love for us, his willingness to give of himself completely and fully, so that you and I could have life. And today's song is just a reminder of some of the things that were accomplished because of what Christ did on that cross. Hebrews 9 22 says, Under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Over in Ephesians chapter one and verse 7, in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace. In Matthew 26, Jesus was having the Last Supper with the disciples, and he broke the bread and gave them the cup, and he said this for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Christ's blood paid the price for our sin. He did it for us. And him takes those concepts, wraps them up, and presents them so that we can speak them clearly and thank God for what he's done. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh precious is the flow that washes white as snow. No other fountain I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus. I came across two verses from the original version of Nothing But the Blood that are often excluded from our hymnals. They go like this. Now by this I'll overcome nothing but the blood of Jesus. Now by this I'll reach my home, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Glory, glory this I sing, nothing but the blood of Jesus. All my praise for this I bring, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Here's a clip of Mercy Me from their cabin session singing Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. And in your show notes today there will be the YouTube link where it will take you to the YouTube version of the song. You can watch and listen to it there. It is wonderful. It will encourage you. Be blessed. Be thankful to God that He paid the price for you and me for all of our sins and all of our mistakes. He did it by the shedding of His blood. And we are so thankful to Him. Have a great day. And here's Mercy Me with nothing but the blood.
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