adieu, dad & mom kao + glo as you migrate to the mother land...
one day love will bring us back 'round again.
ps: triply good worship set yesterday containing our recent trio of faves: "never once", "one thing remains", "how He loves". (x2 for y). He always knows just what we need...
Higher than the mountains that I face
Stronger than the power of the grave
Constant through the trial and the change
One thing remains
One thing remains
Your love never fails and never gives up
It never runs out on me
On and one and on and on it goes
It overwhelms and satisfies my soul
And I never ever have to be afraid
One thing remains
In death, in life
I'm confident and covered by the power of Your great love
My debt is paid
There is nothing that can separate my heart from Your great love
what a message last sunday... esp. the illustration of one struggling her whole life w/ doing "good", the other with being "bad"... both in need of grace. brought together by Him. constantly covered by His life-giving provision. uncannily too familiar...
listen
a single service wasn't enough to celebrate and reflect on these truths...
and oh, the finale, with this song first shared to our body a few Easters ago that moved so many of us to tears, to our knees:
Let no one caught in sin remain
Inside the lie of inward shame
But fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to Him who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely You've bled for us
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bowed to none but heaven's will
No scheme of hell, no scoffer's crown
No burden great can hold You down
In strength You reign
Forever let Your church proclaim
O death, where is your sting?
O hell, where is your victory?
O church, come stand in the light
The glory of God has defeated the night
O death, where is your sting?
O hell, where is your victory?
O church, come stand in the light
Our God is not dead
He's alive! He's alive!
drink in our brother freddie's story... not just one but so many others, including ours, of grace, love, and redemption being written and woven as part of His plan of Salvation. pick up a stone around campus and you shall see... :)
"I hate the term 'Good Friday'"
"For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ." 2 Corinthians 1:5
