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I learnt this song last term while visiting a youth group. It’s been in my head all week.
I love the music. I love the lyrics. I love the Saviour. Here’s the chorus:
I know you gave the world
Your only son for us
To know your name
To live within the Saviour’s love
He took my place
Knowing He´d be crucified
And You loved, You loved
A people undeserving!
Here’s the film clip:
Overseas Council Australia are doing an incredible job at helping to proclaim the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection throughout the world. “OCA raises funds in Australia to give to approved theological colleges in developing countries.” Not only are they training locals to preach Jesus in their own context, but they are training faculty to train locals to proclaim Jesus.
Sponsor a student. Give some cash. Proclaim Jesus. Check their website.
We joined in the fun with CCEC people for NITE CHURCH LIVE tonight @ Avoca Beach Theatre (sweet location!). It’s the first live CD that CCEC has done, and hopefully they got some good recordings worth distributing more widely. Purchased played the first set with keyboard driven pop-tunes. Shadow Gallery were second with their folky sound. And Jacob I loved finished off the night with some hard-driving rock.
There was a good combination of new songs with new tunes and old songs with new tunes. The songs were beautifully drenched with cross-centred lyrics. My favourite one of the night would have been the final song “Holy Sovereign Lord”. Keep an ear out for it in your church!
It was good to catch up with people we don’t see often and together praise Jesus. Shout out to my homeboy Dan for the great work he’s been doing with CCEC music for the last couple of years.
I spoke on Grace last night. Faith tonight. Jesus tomorrow. The video below is very cool!
(h/t Peter C – via Lachlan Soper)
This post is true again this year! Last year they were able to find a helmet large enough for my head, this year – they can’t find one big enough!! So my beanie will have to do. Shred Hotham has kicked off well.
To God be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generation for ever and ever! (Eph 3:21)
My aim is to read as many books as I can on the death and resurrection of Jesus. In the last couple of years I have read quite a number because I believe in 1 Corinthians 15:1-6 that the gospel of Jesus’ death and resurrection is of “first importance”. I want to regularly plumb the depths of “the good news that Jesus Christ is the sinless sin bearer of all who are united to him by faith” so that I will keep believing it and preaching it.
Today I began The Great Exchange by Jerry Bridges & Bob Bevington (PDF preview). It’s a book all about 2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
Below is a snippet from Sinclair Ferguson’s Preface to the book: