Songs of worship and praise

[marc]

[True]

I got to see this band and hear this song in concert. They have some songs and their bass is so strong that it felt like the stripping warriors were there praising God. It felt like they were patriotic songs to God. I know that sounds strange but that is how it felt. If you ever get a chance to go hear Big Daddy Weave, go.

[marc]

Shabbat Shalom!
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[marc]

♡ I'm a child of God!

[h_p]

[h_p]

This one really fit my day today...

If you could only let your guard down
You could learn to trust me somehow
I swear, that I won't let you go
If you could only let go your doubts
If you could just believe in me now
I swear, that I won't let you go

[marc]

[marc]

Switching gears a little. This Brazilian man poses as an intoxicated transient who enters chapels hoping to sing for them. In reality, he is a pastor who seems to teach congregations about love.

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[marc]

I love that song, h_p!

[h_p]

I love that song, h_p!

Me, too. I just discovered it recently, at a time when I most needed to hear it, I think.

[True]

I keep meaning to put this up here:

[marc]

It's good to see more of these beautiful songs being produced. I've never been a fan of Avril Lavigne, but after suffering from her bout with Lyme disease, I wonder if she's turned to becoming a Christian song writer. I can only hope. But she now has a powerful story to tell.

[h_p]

Another good Lauren Daigle one. I've been listening to her music a lot lately:

[marc]

♡

[Thinker]

Kinda funny how these last few videos show arms outstretched.
Hugs.

[marc]

May the name of my Savior be always magnified...Jesus Christ ♡
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[marc]

[onefour1]

My favorite Christmas hymn and a touching video:

[LittleNipper]

The Story Behind…
Let the Lower Lights be Burning

At one of D.L. Moody’s meetings in America he related the story of a shipwreck on a dark and stormy night, when not even a star was visible. A ship was approaching the Cleveland harbor, with a pilot aboard. The captain (observing only one solitary light as they drew near from the lighthouse) asked the pilot if he was quite sure that it was Cleveland harbor. Other lights normally should be burning at the harbor mouth. The pilot replied that he was sure, whereupon the captain inquired:

“Where are the lower lights?” “Gone out, sir,” replied the pilot.

“Can you make the harbor, then?” asked the captain, to which the pilot answered:

“We must, sir, or perish.”

Bravely the old man steered the vessel upon her course toward safety. But sadly! In the darkness of the harbor mouth he missed the channel, and the ship struck upon the rocks, and in the stormy waters many lives were lost.

Then Moody made his appeal to his audience: “Brothers, the Master will take care of the great lighthouse! Let us keep the lower lights burning!”

Among Moody’s hearers that evening was Mr. Philip P. Bliss, the well-known hymn writer, and the striking story at once suggested to him one of his most popular hymns.

Philip Paul Bliss
1838–1876
Rome, Pennsylvania

December 29, 1876, Ashtabula, Ohio. Bliss and his wife died in a train wreck caused by a bridge collapse. He survived the initial impact, but went back into the flames in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue his wife. The remains retrieved from the Ashtabula disaster were placed in a common grave marked by a cenotaph in the Ashtabula Cemetery. A cenotaph in memory of the Blisses was also erected in the cemetery at Rome, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1877.

The night before this terrible railroad accident at Ashtabula…he said to his audience, I may not pass this way again; then he sang a solo, I’m Going Home Tomorrow. This indeed proved prophetic of his own home going.

[LittleNipper]

Amazing range of voices. Beautiful song!
."Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807) who had became saved and left the career of that of a slave trader/transporter.
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[LittleNipper]

This is one of my life songs. Thank GOD I am a tenor... Be Thou My Vision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxHvBtR7hs

[marc]

[LittleNipper]

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrg7jQ5Ic8c

[marc]