Today, at our annual Good Friday service where three local churches join together to commemorate Christ's sacrifice on the cross, one of the songs our joint worship team sang was Amazing Love. This simple song makes some very personal statements regarding the outcome of Jesus' work.
I'm Forgiven...
I'm accepted...
I'm alive and well...
Each of these statements is juxtaposed with elements of His gift. Respectively:
...because you were forsaken!
...You were condemned!
...Your Spirit is within me, because you died and rose again!!
And the chorus goes on to elaborate on just how "Amazing" God's love for us is.
This is one of my favorite songs in our worship team's repertoire. I like the way we do it, actually, better than Chris Tomlin's original. I think we put a little more "umph" into the very strong statements made in this powerful song. Anyway, I hope you listen to, and enjoy, Chris's inferior version. LOL
Friday, March 29, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Welcome to MILLERSHIPS!
If you haven't noticed by now, all of my blogs are Miller(ActionVerb) formatted. So far all of the action verbs have been single syllable words (MILLERWRITES, MILLERVENTS and MILLERPOINTS) so to maintain the pattern, this blog could only contain half the vital word. By itself, however, "ship" is a real word so all is well in my little blogging world. Anyway the whole word is WORSHIP; a very important word to the Church, and one that carries a lot of import. We who love the Lord believe it is a serious and worthy duty to tell Him so in many ways, and often.
My goal here is to comment on the songs we sing, the hymns we love, and the goals and aims of the worship service, in the hope that the hearts we turn to Him on Sunday morning, or on a Tuesday afternoon for that matter, do properly worship Him as Jesus said "in spirit and in truth".
"Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4:23,24
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope we grow together in loving Him!
My goal here is to comment on the songs we sing, the hymns we love, and the goals and aims of the worship service, in the hope that the hearts we turn to Him on Sunday morning, or on a Tuesday afternoon for that matter, do properly worship Him as Jesus said "in spirit and in truth".
"Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4:23,24
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope we grow together in loving Him!
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