Quote of the Day

If you were to get up and hum a tune then you wouldn’t get anything if you had no theology. Now I can just hear a message in song, if I know the song and I know the words of it; I can get a blessing from it. But I’m not getting it from the music; I’m getting it primarily from the word that the music is seeking to proclaim. Now if music was intended to be put on the plane of the word of God, then the Lord Jesus would have come from heaven and whistled and hummed. 

S. Lewis Johnson

Quote of the Day

A mighty bulwark is our God

A doughty ward and weapon.

He helps us clear from every rod

By which we now are smitten.

Still our ancient foe

Girds him to strike a blow.

Might and guile his gear,

His armor striketh fear

 On earth is not his equal.

By our own strength is nothing won.

We court at once disaster.

There fights for us the Champion

 Whom God has named our Master.

Would you know his name?

Jesus Christ the same

Lord Sabaoth is he.

No other God can be.

The field is his to hold it.

And though the fiends on every hand

Were threatening to devour us,

We would not waver from our stand.

They cannot overpower us.

This world’s prince may rave.

However he behave,

He can do no ill.

God’s truth abideth still.

One little word shall fell him.

That word they never can dismay,

 However much they batter,

For God himself is in the fray

And nothing else can matter.

Then let them take our life,

Goods, honor, children, wife.

We will let all go.

They shall not conquer so,

 For God will win the battle

 

Martin Luther

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My song shall bless the Lord of all,

My praise shall climb to His abode;

Thee, Savior, by that name I call,

The great Supreme, the mighty God.

Without beginning, or decline,

Object of faith, and not of sense;

Eternal ages saw Him shine,

He shines eternal ages hence.

As much, when in the manger laid,

Almighty Ruler of the sky;

As when the six days’ works He made,

Filled all the morning-stars with joy.

A cheerful confidence I feel,

My well-placed hopes with joy I see;

My bosom glows with heav’nly zeal

To worship Him Who died for me.

As man, He pities my complaint,

His pow’r and truth are all divine;

He will not fail, He cannot faint,

Salvation’s sure, and must be mine.

 

William Cowper

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O my God, what must I do?

Thou alone the way canst show;

Thou canst save me in this hour;

I have neither will nor power:

God, if over all thou art,

Greater than my sinful heart,

All thy power on me be shown,

Take away the heart of stone.

Take away my darling sin,

Make me willing to be clean;

Make me willing to receive

All thy goodness waits to give.

Force me, Lord, with all to part;

Tear these idols from my heart;

Now thy love almighty show,

Make even me a creature new.

Jesus, mighty to renew,

Work in me to will and do;

Turn my nature's rapid tide,

Stem the torrent of my pride;

Stop the whirlwind of my will;

Speak, and bid the sun stand still;

Now thy love almighty show,

Make even me a creature new.

Arm of God, thy strength put on;

Bow the heavens, and come down;

All my unbelief o'erthrow;

Lay th' aspiring mountain low:

Conquer thy worst foe in me,

Get thyself the victory;

Save the vilest of the race;

Force me to be saved by grace.

- Amazingly, this is from a book collection of hymns by JOHN WESLEY

His Robes For Mine

This is an excellent song! You can listen to it here:  http://www.sacredaudio.com/previews/player.php?id=1005_18  

His robes for mine: O wonderful exchange!
Clothed in my sin, Christ suffered ‘neath God’s rage.
Draped in His righteousness, I’m justified.
In Christ I live, for in my place He died.

Chorus:

I cling to Christ, and marvel at the cost:
Jesus forsaken, God estranged from God.
Bought by such love, my life is not my own.
My praise-my all-shall be for Christ alone.

His robes for mine: what cause have I for dread?
God’s daunting Law Christ mastered in my stead.
Faultless I stand with righteous works not mine,
Saved by my Lord’s vicarious death and life.

His robes for mine: God’s justice is appeased.
Jesus is crushed, and thus the Father’s pleased.
Christ drank God’s wrath on sin, then cried “‘Tis done!”
Sin’s wage is paid; propitiation won.

His robes for mine: such anguish none can know.
Christ, God’s beloved, condemned as though His foe.
He, as though I, accursed and left alone;
I, as though He, embraced and welcomed home!

- Written by Christ Anderson.  The sheet music can be purchased here:  http://www.bjupress.com/product/279752?path=169192&spot=1

Quote of the Day

1. Father, long before creation

Thou hadst chosen us in love,

And that love so deep, so moving,

Draws us close to Christ above.

Still it keeps us, still it keeps us

Firmly fixed in Christ alone.

2. Though the world may change its fashion,

Yet our God is e'er the same;

His compassion and His covenant

Through all ages will remain.

God's own children,

God's own children

Must forever praise His name.

3. God's compassion is my story,

Is my boasting all the day;

Mercy free and never failing

Moves my will, directs my way.

God so loved us,

God so loved us

That His only Son He gave.

4. Loving Father now before Thee

We will ever praise Thy love,

And our songs will sound unceasing

'Til we reach our home above,

Giving glory,

giving glory

To our God and to the Lamb.

Chinese Hymn written in c. 1952 during the Cultural Revolution, a time of brutal persecution for Chinese Christians.