Category: Worship
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When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. The only God I believe in is the one Nietzsche ridiculed as “God on the Cross.” In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples and stood…
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10 Principles for Worship
The highest calling and greatest privilege of all Christians is to love and worship God. In worship we encounter God with increasing awareness of who he is. In worship we together magnify God’s glory. The following are 10 principles, developed over a number of years, and influenced by a variety of sources, that not only express my philosophy of worship,…
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How Deep
VERSE 1You were broken that I might be healedYou were cast off that I might draw nearYou were thirsty that I might come drinkCried out in anguish that I might sing CHORUSHow deep is Your loveHow high and how wide is Your mercyHow deep is Your graceOur hearts overflow with praiseTo You VERSE 2You knew…
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Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise
Surely one of the greatest problems of our times is that we have become so nonchalent about the Lord of the cosmos. Certainly if we were more immersed in God’s splendor we would find ourselves thoroughly “lost in wonder, love, and praise”. With all the amazing sights and sounds of our cyberspace world, however, many…
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Help My Unbelief
If I had a favorite hymn from Red Mountain Music, this would probably be it. It reflects the common duality of our hearts, simultaneously Believing and Struggling to Believe; simultaneously Saints & Sinners. (See Mark 9.24) It reflects and explains the cause of Paul’s dimemma: Failing to do what he wanted to do, and doing…
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I Asked the Lord to Grow in Grace
This song comes from a beautiful poem by John Newton. It is a powerful reminder to me about God’s grace and how God works. Like Newton in the opening lines of this poem, I often ask God to grow me in grace and faith and the fruits of his Spirit. I asked the Lord that I might…
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The Lamb is a Lion
Mark 11.12-18 & Luke 19.45-47 Weak from the journey, the long travelling days/ Hungry to worship, to join in the praise/ Shock mad with anger that burned on His face/ As He entered the wasteland of that barren place Chorus: And the Lamb is a Lion who’s roaring with rage/At the empty religion that’s filling…
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There is a Fountain Filled With Blood
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins; and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day; and there may I, though vile as he, wash all my…
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5 Songs for Good Friday
With Easter coming Sunday, the MOST Holy day on the Christian calendar, it is easy to overlook or undervalue Good Friday. But to do so deprives us of great opportunity to glory in the Cross. When I was a kid, I remember asking my mother one day: “Why do they call it Good Friday, if…
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Order of Sunday Fellow-Hip
A number of years ago I ran across this satirical outline for all-too-common worship planning. It is a sad but almost realistic caricature of what takes place in many churches every Sunday. See if you recognize any of these things. *** Prologue Fellowshippers shall enter the sanctuary garrulously, centering their attention on each other, and…
