Sunday, March 3, 2024

You Are Calling My Name

 

You whisper on the gentle breeze

And beckon with a moon beam

Branches from the birch tree

Seem to hasten me to come

 

The flowers by the wayside

Remind me to be still

To always rest inside Thy care

To walk within Thy Will

 

Once more You call in sunset’s blaze

I marvel at the sight

But the greatest wonder as You call

Is that You know my name at all

Monday, December 4, 2023

The Daysman

 From eternity to eternity

Always crowned with Deity

Wonderful, Creator

Master, Sustainer

 

Then the Word became flesh--

God with us, God for us

Born in Bethlehem’s stable

A manger for his cradle

 

The King of Glory, The Son of Man

Now hung between the earth and sky

A Rugged Cross spans the gulf between

Appeasing Justice, making sinner clean

 

Jesus—wonderful and holy

Lived a life so meek and lowly

God in flesh—the sinner’s friend

Will you not on Him depend?

 

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Job 9:33  Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. 

Eph 2:4-9

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

Not of works, lest any man should boast. 

Eph 2:14-17  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 

And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 

Thursday, November 23, 2023

The Voice of a Psalm

Give thanks unto the LORD

He has wrought for His Name’s sake

Cleansing our sin

Making us whole

 

Sing praise to our God

For His strength in our weakness

Lifting us up

Giving us grace

 

Worship at His footstool

For He is holiness and compassion

The God of Truth

Who proved His Love

 

Hallelujah to the King of Kings

Our Righteous God still reigns

His Word is everlasting

Pleading to sinners…Come!

 

Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD!

 

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Go All the Way with Me

 

Go All the Way with Me

 

Go all the way with me, Lord, all the way

Stamp in me the cross of Thy Son

Transform my mind, my motive, myself

Do not stop until Thy work is done

 

Go all the way with me, Lord, all the way

Through trials and suffering I don’t understand

Use these times to mold my heart

To respect Thee, adore Thee and hold to Thy hand

 

Go all the way with me, Lord, all the way

Dear Shepherd, help me hear Thy voice

So in death’s shadow or stormy vale

Thy presence will cause my heart to rejoice

 

Go all the way with me, Lord, all the way

Until in Heaven someday I stand

When I shall see Thy blessed face

I will praise Thee again for what You planned

 

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From a sermon by Curtis Hudson

Sunday, April 30, 2023

The New Name

Once on a mountain in the Wilderness

The Law was given—

Rules in which to choose and live or to refuse and die

But no man was found

 

Once on a hill in Jerusalem

A Saviour was given

God who made the Law became Man to fulfill the Law

He is the Promise found

 

Once by humble faith

Salvation was claimed

Not a wage earned but a gift received by faith

It is seeing my sin by the Law—and His sacrifice in my place

 

And They call it Grace

 

 

 

Eph 2:1-10 

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

Not of works, lest any man should boast. 

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 


Tuesday, March 14, 2023

At Thy Feet

Sitting at Thy feet to listen

Healing words I clearly hear

Mercy, grace, abundant pardon

Draw me ever near

 

Falling at Thy feet in anguish

Grief compels my bitter cry

Once again to draw me close

When I don’t know the why

 

Kneeling by Thy feet to wash them

Faith can see the brutal wound

By Thy nail prints, bleeding side

My life in Thine becomes perfumed

 

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Mary learned the importance of being at Jesus’ feet. Her focus was that Christ received all the attention. By her listening, prayer, and service, she pointed always to her Saviour. Let us learn to humbly live at His feet.

 

Psalms 86:1,5-6, 10-11, 15 

Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. 

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 

Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. 

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. 

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. 

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. 

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Now

So many in colonial days

Searched their hearts and knelt to pray

Travailing in tears for this fledgling land

Asking for guidance from God’s own hand

 

And from their supplications grew

This country great and wide and strong

Built upon the Word of God

Laws in which her sons must trod

 

But now the warriors sleep in death

Her sons forsake the olden way

Is anyone taking time to bow--

Who will pray for America now?

 

Who will pray that her heart is good?

That her morals will stand where they once stood?

Who will see the deeper need—

Who will share the Gospel seed?

 

If America’s greatness depended on you,

Would she find help in the things you do?

Or will God say when His search is done

“I sought for a man…

                              But I found none”?

 

Will you pray for America now?