jon's lyrics -- part three

Check this out:  (from Fall)

The Cure for Pain

So I'm not sure why it always flows downhill

Why broken cisterns never could stay filled

I've spent ten years singing gravity away

But the water keeps on falling from the sky

And here tonight while the stars are blacking out

With every hope and dream I've ever had in doubt

I've spent ten years trying to sing these doubts away

But the water keeps on falling from my eyes

And heaven knows, heaven knows

I tried to find a cure for the pain

Oh my Lord! To suffer like you do

It would be a lie to run away

So blood is fire pulsing through our veins

We're either writers or fools behind the reigns

I've spent ten years trying to sing it all away

But the water keeps on falling from my tries

And heaven knows, heaven knows

I tried to find a cure for the pain

Oh my Lord! To suffer like you do

It would be a lie to run away

Sigh.

Singing gravity away . . . but the water keeps on falling

It would be a lie to run away.

WOW

upside down . . . . . inside out

the wise will be foolish

the strong will be weak

the first will be last

the proud will be made low

the rich will be poor

the master will be the servant

to live you must die

jon's lyrics --part two

Lord save me from myself

Okay -- that's not a whole lot of lyrics!  :)

The entire song is great -- but that one line says it all!

Most people think they need to be saved from:

• boring job
• dull existence
• routine
• nagging family members
• sin (whatever that is . . . bad stuff I do?)
• irritating people
• shady past
• small addictions
• _______________ (fill in the blank)

BUT there is really only one thing from which we need to be saved.

OURSELVES!  

ME IN THE MIDDLE is otherwise known as SIN!

When it is all about ME, I need to be saved!

Lord, save me from myself!

Sigh.

jon's lyrics --part one

Okay -- do you know Jon Foreman?

Switchfoot.  Ring any bells?

The man has recently released four EPs entitled

"fall," "winter," "spring," and "summer."

AMAZING stuff!!!

The lyrics are awesome.  Really.

Check this out:

All along I thought
I was learning how to take
How to bend not how to break
How to laugh not how to cry
But really
I've been learning how to die

("Learning How To Die" from winter)

WOW!  I mean -- that is what I was blogging about the other day.

Seeming contradictions.  

This life is all about learning to die!

John 12:24-26

Following Jesus means

denying ourselves,

picking up our cross (that's DEATH!) daily,

and following HIM!

Luke 9:23-25

did i pick up my cross today?????

grace

Grace.

"Musa" in Zulu.  

Name of my second daughter:  Hannah!

According to my dictionary:

grace:  1)  simple elegance

            2)  free and unmerited favour of God

            3)  an extended period granted as a special favour

            4)  a short prayer of thanks before a meal

            5)  address for a duke, duchess or archbishop

Okay -- I am talking about the #2 kinda grace!

How to define "grace?"  What did Paul have to say about it?

Check out Romans.  Paul juxtaposes grace with legalism.

Can you earn it?  How?  

Is there reward for merit?

It is something that has to be experienced.

So, grace to each of us will be a bit different?  And yet the same?

Tell me about your experience of GRACE!!!

I  WANNA  HEAR  STORIES  OF  GRACE!!!!

questions in corinthians

Where is the wise man?

Where is the scholar?

Where is the philosopher of this age?

The foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom.

The weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

like a child

MATTHEW 18:2-4

all the answers

you seem to know all the answers.

you even reply before the question is complete.

how wonderful to be filled with so much knowledge.

like a little leavening 

in a little loaf

goes a long way.

Lord, save us from ourselves!

faith and following

What is faith?

Are there different levels of faith?

Or different kinds of faith?

What is the difference between faith and trust?

In what/whom do we have faith?

In what/whom do we put our trust?

Faith determines behaviour.

Faith is manifest through behaviour.

Live by faith.  How does this happen?

What does it mean to have our faith tested?

And who is the testing for?

What is meant by a "living faith?"

Ephesians 2

Hebrews 11

What depends on me?

Does my salvation depend on me?

Does my faith depend on me?

Does my life depend on me?

What depends on me?

What is it that we follow?

Do we follow a faith?

Do we follow a set of doctrines?

Do we follow a system of beliefs?

Or do we follow Jesus?

How do we follow Jesus?

Matthew 16:24