Christos Anesti - Jimmy Needham

It's Sunday!

Leaving Church in the Fifteenth Century, 1864 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Dress accordingly.  (I'm so glad it's the 21st. century.)

Because We Spring Forward Tonight...

…I really like this now.  My husband has turned our clocks ahead, so an hour of sleep is already lost.  It's time to sing a lullaby.

Slumber My Darling - Alison Krauss 

Because Sometimes a Body Just Has to Rest...

Isaiah 40:28-30

English Standard Version (ESV)

28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

    the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary;

    his understanding is unsearchable.

29 He gives power to the faint,

    and to him who has no might he increases strength.

30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,

    and young men shall fall exhausted;

2 Corinthians 3:5

English Standard Version (ESV)

5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,

…God gives strength to our souls.  He is our sufficiency.  He is all that we need and more.    

Chris Tomlin - Everlasting God w/lyrics

"Though You Slay Me" (featuring John Piper)

God's Oceans

Psalm 93:4

New International Version (NIV)

4 Mightier than the thunder of the great waters,

    mightier than the breakers of the sea—

    the Lord on high is mighty.

Psalm 29:3

New International Version (NIV)

3 The voice of the Lord is over the waters;

    the God of glory thunders,

    the Lord thunders over the mighty waters.

Psalm 139:9-10

English Standard Version (ESV)

9 If I take the wings of the morning

    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand shall lead me,

    and your right hand shall hold me. 

God is mighty and yet tender with His children.  This I know.  I am never out of His Hands.  

Hillsong United - "Oceans" (Live at RELEVANT)

"Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)"

You call me out upon the waters

The great unknown where feet may fail

And there I find You in the mystery

In oceans deep

My faith will stand

And I will call upon Your name

And keep my eyes above the waves

When oceans rise

My soul will rest in Your embrace

For I am Yours and You are mine

Your grace abounds in deepest waters

Your sovereign hand

Will be my guide

Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me

You've never failed and You won't start now

So I will call upon Your name

And keep my eyes above the waves

When oceans rise

My soul will rest in Your embrace

For I am Yours and You are mine

Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders

Let me walk upon the waters

Wherever You would call me

Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander

And my faith will be made stronger

In the presence of my Savior

[x6]

I will call upon Your Name

Keep my eyes above the waves

My soul will rest in Your embrace

I am Yours and You are mine

  

From Dust to Dust to Glorious LIfe

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

3 There is a time for everything,

    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die,

    a time to plant and a time to uproot,

John 11:25

English Standard Version (ESV)

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.[a] Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

1 Corinthians 15:55

English Standard Version (ESV)

55 “O death, where is your victory?

    O death, where is your sting?”

“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)” 

― John Newton

Today I found out that a former coworker, a dear man, passed through the valley of the shadow of death into life everlasting.  He has found his way home.  

Christ Is Risen - Matt Maher