I don’t think I’ve heard The Brandenberger Family before.
This is an enjoyable rendition of Keep On The Sunny Side.
I don’t think I’ve heard The Brandenberger Family before.
This is an enjoyable rendition of Keep On The Sunny Side.
A Christian Funeral is missional.
Funerals are a part of the the church’s existence, a time of thanksgiving, of consolation, a time when the people of God draw together, and a time when the people of God draw comfort from the closeness and promises of God.
Funerals also experience sorrow drawing down hope, which in turn further equips and focuses us as God’s people as we return to a world replete with its own sorrows, a world lacking in hope.
A Christian Funeral is not an escape from the reality of the world, it is a place where God’s people most acutely engage with the only solution to all the sorrows that surround us.
And then we go forward to take that good news out to the world.
From Thomas G. Long’s Accompany Them With Singing – The Christian Funeral.
The funeral is not a stopping place for God’s people, but a way station on the journey of faith. We take a loved one to the place of departure and say farewell, and then we go back and get to work serving God’s world. A Good funeral prays, then, not just for ourselves in our loss, but also for the world in its sorrows and needs.
Thomas G. Long, Accompany Them With Singing – The Christian Funeral, Westminster John Knox Press, 2013 paperback edition, originally published 2009, pg. 139.
All My Boast Is In Jesus.
I like the tempo of this one.
The lyrics:
1.
What wonder of wonders, what love is this
That Christ would die for me
His goodness, His merit, His righteousness
This sinner’s only plea
Pre-chorus.
O foolish pride, be crucified
The work is finished
Chorus.
All my boast is in Jesus
All my hope is His love
And I will glory forever
In what the cross has done
2.
Now fully forgiven, my life is filled
With graces undeserved
For mercy that flowed down that sacred hill
Let praises now return
Pre-chorus.
Rise up my soul, and bless the Lord
Who else is worthy?
Chorus.
Bridge.
O praise the One forever blessed
Him alone my heart adores
And I will boast in nothing less
Than the love of Christ my Lord
Repeat bridge.
3.
I boast not in riches, in strength or might
But in the grace of God
I glory in weakness, to live is Christ
In plenty or in want
Pre-chorus
That I may know, that all may see
His pow’r within me
Chorus.
Pre-chorus.
Now I stand in this freedom
Ransomed, clean in His sight
Final chorus.
And I cannot be ashamed for
My boast is Jesus Christ
My boast is Jesus Christ
Forever my boast is Jesus Christ
Words and Music: (C) 2023 by Matt Boswell, Bryan Fowler, Keith Getty, and Matt Papa
2023 Getty Music Publishing (BMI) / Messenger Hymns (BMI) / Be Essential Songs (BMI) / BryanFowlerSongs (BMI) / Getty Music Hymns and Songs (ASCAP) / Love Your Enemies Publishing (ASCAP) / adm. at MusicServices.com
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 32
86.
Q. Since we are redeemed from our sin and its wretched consequences by grace through Christ without any merit of our own, why must we do good works?
A. Because just as Christ has redeemed us with his blood he also renews us through his Holy Spirit according to his own image, so that with our whole life we may show ourselves grateful to God for his goodness and that he may be glorified through us; and further, so that we ourselves may be assured of our faith by its fruits and by our reverent behavior may win our neighbors to Christ.
87.
Q. Can those who do not turn to God from their ungrateful, impenitent life be saved?
A. Certainly not! Scripture says, “Surely you know that the unjust will never come into possession of the kingdom of God. Make no mistake: no fornicator or idolater, none who are guilty either of adultery or of homosexual perversion, no thieves or grabbers or drunkards or slanderers or swindlers, will possess the kingdom of God.”
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