Here is Esther Mui with God is My Defense, to welcome reader Linda Sorci’s newest grandson into the world. He was born last night, I believe.
May his generation be wiser and holier than ours.
Tag: christian music
By Request, ‘No More Night’
Here’s Morris Chapman, with No More Night, inspired by God’s promises in the Book of Revelation (“He makes all things new”). Nice way to start a Sunday.
And I think I’m caught up in my hymn requests for now, so please, folks, keep ’em coming. If you haven’t requested a hymn before, well, don’t be bashful, anyone can do it. Just “leave a comment” at the bottom of a post, mentioning your hymn request and anything else you have a mind to say.
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.
‘He’s Still God’
Erlene, this one’s for you–He’s Still God, by Carroll Roberson.
Scanning the news last night, trying to decide what to report this morning, it was all so bad, I almost laughed.
I don’t think God wants us to feel dismayed all the time. So maybe today–if I can get away with it–I’ll write about things other than the news.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision (Psalm 2). Our movers and shakers and wise men must be keeping Him in stitches, these days.
By Request, ‘Lay Your Burden Down’
Before I sail any farther into harm’s way, let me catch up a little on hymn requests–with Lay Your Burden Down, performed by Chuck Girard.
I will try to post all hymns requested by my readers. So step right up, folks, don’t be shy.
By Request, ‘Soldiers of the Lion’
Here’s one to make the libs, progs, and flatline churches nervous–Soldiers of the Lion, performed by Chuck Girard.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12)–of whom the evil and ungodly rulers of the present age are but the worldly servants.
By Request, ‘Sitting at the Feet of Jesus’
This for Erlene: Sitting at the Feet of Jesus, by the Gaither Vocal Band.
I don’t know why, but this hymn–if it were in a hymnal, it would be a hymn and not just “Christian music”–reminds me of Puddleglum in The Silver Chair, telling the Witch that even if everything she’s saying is true (which it isn’t), it’s funny how a couple of children playing a game can dream up a world “that licks your world hollow.”
Only thing is, we didn’t make up Jesus. God the Father, through Him, made us up.
By Request, ‘Sometimes Alleluia’
Before I go rushing off to the nursing home to see my aunt–she misses the caregiver, a woman from Ghana, who devotedly tended to her and her sisters for going on twenty years, and there’s nothing I can do about that–let me post this, requested by Linda: Sometimes Alleluia, by Chuck Girard.
It’s hard to learn how to just lean on Jesus’ everlasting arms. I haven’t got the hang of it yet. I am glad He is patient with me.
By Request, ‘While You Were Sleeping’
By request, While You Were Sleeping by Casting Crowns, from their Christmas album.
There are some who object to the “right-wing politics” in this song, particularly the verse with mentions American “philosophies” such as “save the trees and kill the children,” and describes the USA as “a nation with no room for its king.”
Well, Christ was King of Kings before anyone invented “right-wing politics.” Abortion was a moral wrong 2,000 years ago and it’s still a wrong today, never mind a “president” who says it’s the way young girls achieve their dreams.
But the King will come whether anybody likes it or not: for the Lord hath spoken it.
By Request, ‘I’ll Rise Again’
Erlene, welcome back to this blog audience. This is the hymn which you say brings down your blood pressure–I’ll Rise Again, by Dallas Holm. We should all have a couple of hymns that do that for us. We need them.
We stand in the watch-tower, sounding the alarm bell. God will not blame us if no one listens. But He will blame us if we remain silent.
‘Who is the King of Glory?’
From G. F. Handel’s The Messiah, this is Who is the King of Glory?, performed by the Crown College Choir.
I heard a Bible lesson on the radio once. Read these three Psalms back-to-back: 22, 23, and 24. Try it, go ahead. Together they teach Christ’s passion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
Hmm…. What if nobody wants to open the gates, when the King of Glory is ready to come in?
I don’t think you want to be there when that happens.