Hillsong United-Solution

Andy has been doing this song a lot at church lately. And I really love it. I've been listening to it a lot lately as I wait for Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne, who authored Ordinary Radicals, who in the book is making a point to Christians that being a Democrat or Republican is not how what we decide to do things to help this world. The Kingdom of God is what decides what we do in dealing with ourselves and the world around us. God is the solution and politics should not decide if we are his hands and feet to the world around us....





It is not a human right
To stare not fight
While broken nations dream
Open up our eyes, so blind
That we might find
The Mercy for the need

Singing, Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession
Yeah

It is not too far a cry
To much to try
To help the least of these
Politics will not decide
If we should rise
And be your hands and feet

Singing, Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey Now
As we hold to our confession

Woah-oh-oh,
God be the solution
Woah-oh-oh
We will be Your hands and be Your feet.
Yeah, yeah

Higher than a circumstance
Your promise stands
Your love for all to see
Higher than protest line and dollar signs
Your love is all we need

Only You can mend the broken heart
And cause the blind to see
Erase complete the sinners past
And set the captives free
Only You can take the widows cry
And cause her heart to sing
Be a Father to the fatherless
Our Savior and our King
We will be Your hands, we will be Your feet
We will run this race
On the darkest place, we will be Your light
We will be Your light

We will be Your hands , we will be Your feet
We will run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place, we will be your light
We will be your light
We’ll sing

Woah-oh-oh,
God be the solution
Woah-oh-oh
We will be Your hands and be Your feet.

Woah-oh-oh,
God be the solution
Woah-oh-oh
We will be Your hands and be Your feet.
Yeah, yeah

We will run we will run
We will run with the solution (2x)

We will be Your hands we will be Your feet
We will run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be Your light
We will be Your light
We sing

Tank!

I have many memories of watching this with my brother Christopher...





Why do I mention this? I just bought this complete collection off of ebay for 20 bucks. Not bad for six seasons of probably the best Japanese cartoon ever made. Or at least my personal favorite.

Let the morning

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. -Psalm 143:8

This Too Shall Be Made Right

James 1:27, "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."



I have been thinking about this song a lot lately....

people love you the most for the things you hate
and hate you for loving the things that you cannot keep straight
people judge you on a curve
and tell you you’re getting what you deserve
this too shall be made right

children cannot learn when children cannot eat
stack them like lumber when children cannot sleep
children dream of wishing wells
whose waters quench all the fires of Hell
this too shall be made right

the earth and the sky and the sea are all holding their breath
wars and abuses have nature groaning with death
we say we’re just trying to stay alive
but it looks so much more like a way to die
this too shall be made right

there’s a time for peace and there is a time for war
a time to forgive and a time to settle the score
a time for babies to lose their lives
a time for hunger and genocide
this too shall be made right

I don’t know the suffering of people outside my front door
I join the oppressors of those who i choose to ignore
I’m trading comfort for human life
and that’s not just murder it’s suicide
this too shall be made right
~Derek Webb


I am guilty of being apathetic. I am guilty for buying into consumerism. I am guilty of these things. I am the very person I swore I would never become. And of these things, I repent.


Praise you, the God of our yesterdays,
Praise you, the God who is here today,
Praise you, our God, as tomorrow comes.
We thank you for grace in our yesterdays,
We thank you for peace in our hearts today,
And thank you, our Joy, as tomorrow comes,
We will trust you, God.
~Matt Redman

Regrets that linger in the air

Even with gas prices being outta control right now, I still enjoy taking a sunday drive to clear the mind. Lately I've been spending a lot of time thinking about what to some of the problems I had during ages 21 to 24. I'm kinda in the "man, I regret how I acted there" stage of the thinking. Every time in my life God has finally got through to me, this is how the change happens in my life. He smacks me upside the head with a truth filled two-by-four and then opens my eyes to the truth I refused to live out. I have many regrets that I can't take back. I have said many vicious things that still linger in the air above me. I've got my hands on the plow and I'm not looking back and I can't look back for I fear the will be the death of me. If I turn around now, I'll turn into a pillar of salt and ruin the dreams I have for me. My heart is filled with pain of many past things that I will, in time, learn from. Right now, I live in the humbling place of honest regret. That place where in the bible they would put on sack cloth, shave their heads, pour ashes and recite lamentations to God.

Another great youtube find

I think I have posted on here before how I continue to find great artists on youtube. This video I am posting is by Staffan Svahn. He has a very pleasant and beautiful way of playing the guitar. This is also a plug for Mac, because he records all his stuff on a Mac! Once again apple continues to prove they are the coolest. With out further ado here is "Summer Holidays" by Staffan Svahn...

Jon Foreman -Your Love is Strong - Spring EP

This is currently my favorite song...

Heavenly Father, you always amaze me
Let your kingdom come in my world and in my life
Give me the food I need to live through today
And forgive me as I forgive the people that wrong me
Lead me far from temptation
Deliver me from the evil one

I look out the window the birds are composing
Not a note is out of tune or out of place
I walk to the meadow and stare at the flowers
Better dressed than any girl on her wedding day

So why do I worry?
Why do I freak out?
God knows what I need
You know what I need

Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong
Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong
Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong

The kingdom of the heavens is now advancing
Invade my heart, invade this broken town
The kingdom of the Heavens is buried treasure
Would you sell yourself to buy the one you've found?

Two things you told me
That you are strong
And you love me
Yes, you love me

Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong
Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong
Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong
Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong

Our God in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Above all names
Your kingdom come
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us today our daily bread
Forgive us weary sinners
Keep us far away from our vices
And deliver us from these prisons