This is a serious worship song–Via Dolorosa, by Sandi Patty–and not to be taken lightly. Our God paid a heavy price for our redemption.
Thank you, Erlene, for requesting it.
Tag: worship songs
By Request, ‘He Will Hold Me Fast’
Here’s a worship song requested today by Susan–He Will Hold Me Fast, performed by the Norton Hall Band at Southern Seminary.
Y’know something? I think I’ll start this weekend with two hymns instead of one. Be right back…
‘Jesus Paid It All’ (The Newsboys)
Thank you, Erlene, for suggesting this worship song, Jesus Paid It All. I hope you like this version I’ve selected, by The Newsboys.
A reminder: Hey, everybody, if you’re tired of me repeating myself in the selection of hymns to start the day, suggest or request one yourself. Leave a comment to that effect anywhere on this blog.
‘How Deep the Father’s Love For Us’
Susan, I can’t be sure this is exactly the hymn/worship song you wanted–but at any rate it’s pretty good! Austin Stone sings How Deep the Father’s Love For Us, and it stirs up his audience with love for God the Father, Christ the Son. “His wounds have paid my ransom.” Amen.
It’s a good thing to see people stirred up for God. There ought to be a bit more of it.
‘ I Surrender All’
Thanks to Erlene for suggesting this worship song to start the day–I Surrender All, sung by Brian Littrell.
The message may seem counter-intuitive, maybe even a little bit crazy, in an age of me-first self-esteem. But we can’t possibly give to Jesus as much as He gives to us: He gives us our very selves, and we are never more truly us than when we know that we belong to Him.
As Steve Brown says, you think about that!
Oh, Yeah! ‘Our God is an Awesome God’
Among the wisest things I’ve ever heard in my life was a very crisp one-liner delivered by a woman on a Christian panel talk show, many years ago on our local Christian radio station.
Asked “What do you do?” when days are dark, your faith is tested constantly and you can just feel it being worn away, when you just don’t seem to know much anymore, what do you do–
“Sing louder,” she said. I’ve never forgotten it.
Our God is an Awesome God is one of those things you may wish to sing louder. It’s been in my head all morning, and I’m glad.
Today’s Hymn: ‘The Hallelujah Chorus’
This is the hymn that I had to hear today, after my daily Bible reading landed me in Job, Jeremiah, and Revelation in succession (I’ll say more about that in the next post)–the immortal Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s The Messiah, performed by the Royal Choral Society. You might want to turn up the volume for this one!
Really, if this can’t crank you over, your soul needs a new battery.
By Request, ‘In the Middle of Tomorrow’
At Erlene’s request, here is Carroll Roberson with In the Middle of Tomorrow, at the Agape Garden in Tennessee.
I hope nobody minds my posting another bit of worship music before I tackle the news tidbits Linda has sent me–if I tackle them at all. Judah the Maccabee kept a custom of refusing to make war on the Sabbath day, unless his army was actually attacked and forced to defend itself. I have tried to keep that custom, too: it was Judah’s way of proclaiming the Lordship of Almighty God.
But then if I were an ordained minister, I would have a duty to preach about these subjects during Sunday services. Either way, to do or not do, as long as it’s to the glory of God, we’re covered.
‘For Your Name is Holy’
Does anyone mind another worship song today? This is For Your Name is Holy, sung by Paul Wilbur, suggested my Linda.
The accompanying video is from a 2000 film, The Apocalypse (also presented as The Book of Revelation), starring Richard Harris as St. John the Evangelist.
Some Christians don’t approve of movies based on Scripture. That’s no idle objection: it’s so very easy for a movie to get it wrong, and that’s something you don’t want to do with the truth of God’s word.
But there’s also something to be said for a work of art that moves the viewer to see Revelation as if for the first time, and to feel something of what the old apostle must have experienced, alone and exiled to a tiny island, when he was given such a vision of Christ’s glory. Even more of a vision than the one received by the prophet in Isaiah 6. These are things very, very hard to capture in words alone–and do we not greatly desire to capture them?
‘Baruch Haba B’Shem Adonai’
Thank you, Erlene, for pointing us to this–Barch Haba B’shem Adonai: meaning, “Bless is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
The movie clips are from The Gospel of John.
The line of scripture is from the prophets and the Gospels, in various places.
The message is God-breathed.