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Joining in God’s Song

September 24, 2017 |

“To Christ the Lord let every tongue
Its noblest tribute bring.
When He’s the subject of the song,
Who can refuse to sing?
Survey the beauties of His face
And on His glories dwell.
Think of the wonder of His grace
And all His triumphs tell.

Since from His bounty I receive
Such proofs of love divine,
Had I a thousand hearts to give
Lord, they should all be Thine!
A thousand men could not compose
A worthy song to bring,
Yet Your love is a melody
Our hearts can’t help but sing!”

—Samuel Stennett

 

“Words and music did for me what solid, even rigorous religious argument could never do, they introduced me to God, not belief in God, more an experiential sense of God.”

—Bono

 

“Chant down Babylon with music!”

—Bob Marley

Putting Deadly Sin to Death

September 3, 2017 |

“Greed, gluttony, lust, envy, and pride are no more than sad efforts to fill the empty place where love belongs, and anger and sloth are just two things that may happen when you find that not even all seven of them at their deadliest ever can.”

—Frederick Buechner

 

“I am a riddle to myself; a heap of inconsistencies.”

—John Newton

 

“Come with thy heart hard, dead, cold, full of wickedness; come as a blood-red sinner; this is the way to come to Christ.”

—John Bunyan

 

“Though sin wars, it shall not reign; and though it breaks our peace, it cannot separate from his love. Nor is it inconsistent with his holiness and perfection, to manifest his favor to such poor defiled creatures, or to admit them to communion with himself; for they are not considered as in themselves, but as one with Jesus, to whom they have fled for refuge, and by whom they live by faith.”

—John Newton

Union with Christ: Christ in You!

May 7, 2017 |

“He who dwells in a house, keeps the house in repair; so the Spirit dwelling in a believer, keeps grace in repair. Grace is compared to a river of the water of life (John 7:38). This river can never be dried up because God’s Spirit is the spring that continually feeds it.”

– Thomas Watson

“The movement of God’s Spirit is very gentle, very soft – and hidden. It does not seek attention. But that movement is also very persistent, strong and deep.”

– Henri Nouwen

“For your gift of God the Spirit, power to make our lives anew,
pledge of life and hope of glory, Savior, we would worship you.
Crowning gift of resurrection sent from your ascended throne,
fullness of the very Godhead, come to make your life our own.

Father, grant your Holy Spirit, in our hearts may rule today,
grieved not, quenched not, but unhindered, work in us his sovereign way.
Fill us with your holy fullness, God the Father, Spirit, Son;
in us, through us, then, forever, shall your perfect will be done.”

– Margaret Clarkson

Union with Christ: In Christ!

April 30, 2017 |

“Jesus Christ is not to be relegated, like other religious leaders, to history and the history books.  He is not dead and gone, finished or fossilized.  He is alive and active. He calls us to follow him, and he offers himself to us as our indwelling and transforming Savior . . . Once again this is unique. There is nothing comparable to it in the other religions. The Buddhist does not claim to know the Buddha, nor the Confucianist Confucius, nor the Muslim Muhammad, nor the Marxist Karl Marx. Each reveres the founder of his religion or ideology as a teacher of the past.  To Christians too Jesus is a teacher, but even more he is our living Lord and Savior. Phrases claiming this “recur on page after page of the New Testament, and make it clear that it is this intimate and personal relationship of trust, devotion, and communion, which the very heart of the Christian faith.”

—John Stott

“Union with Christ is strong precisely in those places where we in our secular age tend to be weak. It gives us an ability to speak into the void created by our disenchanted, self-centered world, which has only narrowed our vision and caused us to forget who we are.”

—Rankin Wilbourne

“Made like him, like him we rise; ours the cross, the grave, the skies!”

—Charles Wesley

The King We Need: Wonderful Counselor

November 27, 2016 |

The public seems to think that if you can’t maintain the illusion of mental health, then you are not fit to belong to normal society. You become what the Gospel calls a “leper,” referring not to a physical disease but to a condition of exclusion. You are ostracized because you are not perceived as conventionally normal.—Thomas Moore, “Everyone Should Be in Therapy,” The Huffington Post

All praise to the fighter of the night
Who rides on the light
Whose gun is the grace of the God of the sky

 —Andrew Peterson, “High Noon”

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself. His rescue produces change that fundamentally alters my response to these inescapable realities. … And as he changes us, he allows us to be a part of what he is doing in the lives of others. As you respond to the Redeemer’s work in your life, you can learn to be an instrument in his hands.”—Paul Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands

The Truth Will Set You Free

August 14, 2016 |

“We embrace lies—reams of them—about our bodies, our money, our sexuality, our food, our vocations, and our relationships. The temptation to construe reality along the contours of our lies—to literally build a false creation—is everywhere, and never more so than now. In fact, one could argue that the chief destructive force of contemporary Western culture is the unparalleled power and fertility of its lies. We are locked away in a hall of mirrors.

Redemption, however, is about learning to hate the lies, about learning to see again. And part of the calling of God’s people is to name the parody as it presents itself to us and make war upon it. We look for the particular lies that lead us (and our communities) into the poison fog of non-reality and then go after them (in word and deed) with a battle axe. We find the anti-Eden and burn it down. Hating is part of our task in the world.”—Greg Thompson

“An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.” —Proverbs 24: 26

Working From Rest

June 5, 2016 |

“Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do.  It is, or should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers  himself to God.” —Dorothy Sayers

“Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade – not outside it.  The Apostles     complained rightly when they said it was not meet they should leave the word of God and serve tables; their vocation was to preach the word.  But the person whose vocation it is to prepare the meals beautifully might with equal justice protest: It is not meet for us to leave the service of our  tables to preach the word.”  —Dorothy Sayers

“Workaholics do not work because they have a desire to be gainfully employed; they work to prove something to themselves.  Though they keep trying by working harder, working better or trying to find the perfect job, they can never do enough to give full meaning to their lives.” —Paul Marshall

“Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”  —Psalm 121:4

Christ In You, The Hope of Glory

July 5, 2015 |

[The mature Christian] has attained to more enlarged views… but his chief desire is that God may be glorified in him, whether by his life or by his death. He is not his own; nor does he desire to be his own; but so that the power of Jesus may be manifested in him, he will take pleasure in infirmities, in distresses, in temptations; and though he longs for heaven, would be content to live as long as Methuselah upon earth, if, by any thing he could do or suffer, the will and glory of God might be promoted. —John Newton