Western Shoreline by Christa Wells.
From Christa’s 2020 release Pacific, a demonstration of her storytelling skill in song.
A very personal expression, but one that invites our own memories of place to evoke the same feelings that are being sung about.
Morning and Evening services conducted on August 30 with Mount Gambier Presbyterian Church.
Jesus is condemned to death on a charge of seeking to overthrow the civil authority. He goes to the cross in place of someone who is actually guilty of that crime. His kingdom is one founded on his personal innocence and his acceptance of the punishment due to others.
As a bonus, I’ve been waiting to sing Is He Worthy with mgpc since March 2018, and yesterday was the first time we introduced it to the congregation.
Jeremiah 29 contains well-known words about faithfully living as God’s people in an alien culture. The emphasis is accepting the circumstance as a means by which God is seeking to have his people draw closer to him, not to the foreign culture. After all, that was why they were being sent to exile. Rather than hearing false promises that encouraged them to stay the same, God’s people hear his word in terms of how we must change to draw deeper into trusting his grace.
Our Prayer, from Rend Collective.
The lyrics:
1
Let blessings flow again
Where fear too long has reigned
Lord let the church bells ring
From here to the nations
On earth as in heaven
Refrain
Lord our prayer will ever be Your kingdom come
Restore the mighty name of Christ the Son
Let prodigals return to raise Your song
Our God Our God has no rival
Our prayer our prayer is revival
2
Lord hear the cry of saints
Of those who yearn and wait
Come meet us in this place
We pray for the nations
We cry to the heavens
Refrain.
Bridge.
Our prayer is the weapon here in the fight
Our prayer is the weapon that scatters the night
Your victory’s coming it can’t be denied
You are reigning, sovereign
Words and Music: Nick Herbert, Chris Llewellyn, Gareth Gilkeson
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Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 35
Q & A 76
Q Which is the ninth commandment?
A The ninth commandment is, You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.*1
Q & A 77
Q What is required in the ninth commandment?
A The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbor’s good name,2 especially in witness-bearing.3
Q & A 78
Q What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
A The ninth commandment forbids whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbor’s, good name.*4
*1 Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20.
*2 Zechariah 8:16; Acts 25:10; 3 John 12.
*3 Proverbs 14:5, 25.
*4 Leviticus 19:16; Proverbs 6:16-19; Luke 3:14.
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