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008 God's Sovereign Care for our Estranged Children with guest Rex Schnelle

008 God's Sovereign Care for our Estranged Children with guest Rex Schnelle

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Mark Whitlock talks with Nashville guitarist and worship leader Rex Paul Schnelle about his new album, Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, and its two Psalm 139 songs. They explore God’s inescapable presence, honest prayer, church as a place of healing for estranged parents, and Rex’s two-minute daily devotionals, then close in prayer.Because God relentlessly pursues us and our estranged children, Psalm 139’s honest prayer, “Search me, O God,” turns brokenness into sacred space where healing and reconciliation can begin.Thanks for visiting Hope for Estranged Parents. Subscribe to receive new posts and support the work.About RexRex Paul Schnelle is a Nashville guitarist, producer and songwriter with more than 30 years in Music City, including studio work for Jim Brickman, Trace Adkins and Kelsey Ballerini, a Sony ATV writer/artist deal, and the acclaimed rock album Illumination with Phil Keaggy. A veteran of Philip Sandifer’s band and the CCM group Rushca, he is now worship leader and elder at Crossroads of the Nations Church in Cool Springs, Tennessee, and the artist behind Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs (2026).Find Rex’s Sacred Space Devotionals every day at facebook.com/rexpaul.SummaryMark Whitlock welcomes longtime friend Rex Paul Schnelle, a Nashville guitarist, songwriter, producer, and worship leader, to talk about his new album, Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, featuring Eric Johnson and Phil Keaggy. The project grew out of a crisis of purpose. Moved by the hymn “Take My Life,” he decided to create exclusively for God, repurposed his social media, and joined the staff of Crossroads of the Nations, a multicultural church in Cool Springs, Tennessee, as worship leader and elder. Writing hymns for his congregation, and setting new music to old lyrics such as “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” became the seed of the record. Mark urges estranged parents to stay plugged into a church, since everyone there has blown it.A demo from Mike Sayers, reworked with Phil Keaggy, became the album’s opening song, followed by his own “Search Me, Lord, and Know My Heart.” Mark applies the psalm to estranged parents: God pursues us, and he also pursues our adult children wherever they are, even when parents cannot call, text or visit. Rex adds that crying out for help is itself a sign God is at work, and he urges parents to make the Lord their portion, where peace and healing fuel reconciliation.They also look at the psalm’s sudden turn from anger to “search me.” Drawing on Tim Keller, Rex explains that the gospel holds justice and mercy together, freeing believers to be ambassadors of reconciliation without being responsible for the response. Rex then describes his two-minute daily devotionals, posted six days a week since April 2024 without a miss, built on a short Scripture, a brief prayer and the idea of sacred space. He closes by praying Psalm 139’s final verses over estranged families.Scripture ReferencesPsalm 1392 Corinthians 3:17–18 (Rex’s life verse: “with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed”)Acts 26 (Paul before Festus: “not only you, but everyone who hears me… except for these chains”)Psalm 88 (a psalm that does not resolve) and Psalm 145 (where that thought is finished)The Lord’s Prayer (the pattern for Rex’s devotional prayers)QuotedPsalm 16:11 (”fullness of joy… at your right hand are pleasures evermore”)Psalm 22:3 (God inhabits the praises of his people, the “sacred space” idea)John 14:15–23 (”if you love me, you will obey me… we will come and make our home with you”; the Helper)1 Corinthians 12:3 (no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit)Ephesians 2:1 (dead in trespasses and sins)1 Peter 5:7 (casting our cares on him because he cares for us)2 Corinthians 5:20 (ambassadors of reconciliation)Romans 6:23 (the wages of sin is death; the gift of God is eternal life)Psalm 147:3 or Isaiah 61:1 (he binds the brokenhearted)John 7:38 (rivers of living water flowing from within)Psalm 51:10 (”create within us clean hearts, renew within us steadfast spirits”)Romans 8 (”nothing will separate us”; life to our mortal bodies)Other Works MentionedPsalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, Rex Paul’s new album (2026), with Eric Johnson and Phil KeaggyIllumination, Rex Paul and Phil Keaggy (about 2019)Randy Stonehill tribute record, There’s a Rainbow Somewhere (Rex and Phil Keaggy played on a track; title not given)“Search Me, Lord” (Rex’s song from Psalm 139)“Cathedral of the Heart” (album track)Psalm 139“Jesus, Lover of My Soul”Rex’s two-minute daily devotionalsCrossroads of the Nations Church and its free English-language classes, Cool Springs, TennesseeMark’s Substack, where the devotions, prayers, readings, and movie and music reviews live.
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