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  1. Lyrics for Worship on the Lawn 10/11/20

    Let the Name of the Lord Be Praised

    Let the name of the Lord be praised, Let the name of the Lord be praised
    Let the name of the Lord be praised, Right now

    Let the name of the Lord be praised, Let the name of the Lord be praised
    Right now and forevermore, Right now and forevermore

    From the rising of the sun
    To the place where it goes down
    The name of the Lord is to be praised 4X

     

    Cornerstone

    My hope is built on nothing less, Than Jesus blood and righteousness
    I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly trust in Jesus name

    Christ alone, Cornerstone
    Weak made strong in the Savior’s love
    Through the storm, He is Lord, Lord of all

    When darkness seems to hide His face, I rest on His unchanging grace
    In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil 2X

    He is Lord, Lord of all

    When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh may I then in Him be found
    Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless stand before the throne

     

    All Glory

    Holy, Holy, You are God Almighty
    And You reign victorious over all the earth
    Holy, Holy, You are God Almighty
    Yes, You reign victorious over all the earth

    Let Your Kingdom come, and Your will be done
    Here on earth as it is in heaven
    And to Your renown hear our hearts cry out
    Singing “Holy is the Lord”

    God of Glory see Your victory story
    In the lives of those who gather at the cross
    Rock of ages be adorned with praises
    As Your people raise their voice in thanks and love

    Let Your Kingdom come, and Your will be done
    Here on earth as it is in heaven
    And to Your renown hear our hearts cry out
    Singing “Holy is the Lord” 4X

    All Glory, all honor, all wisdom strength and power
    All Glory, all honor, are Yours alone forever

     

    Gracious Lord

    Your Grace has been my strength when I am weakest
    And when I’m wounded, Lord, Your grace heals all my brokenness
    When I’ve fallen down, I feel Your gentle, loving hand
    And I know it’s Your grace by which I stand

    Gracious Lord, God of all compassion
    You have poured Your kindness over me
    O my Lord, Jesus by Your mercy
    I bow down and worship at Your feet, gracious Lord

    The Beauty of Your presence overwhelms me
    You are clothed in power and reign in perfect purity
    All that I possess as an offering I raise
    To the Lamb and the praise of His glorious grace

     

    Good, Good Father

    I’ve heard a thousand stories of what they think You’re like
    But I’ve heard the tender whispers of love in the dead of night
    And you tell me that You’re pleased
    And that I’m never alone

    You’re a good good Father
    It’s who You are, it’s who You are, it’s who You are
    And I’m loved by You
    It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

    I’ve seen many searching for answers far and wide
    But I know we’re all searching
    For answers only You provide
    ‘Cause You know just what we need
    Before we say a word

    Because You are perfect in all of Your ways
    You are perfect in all of Your ways
    You are perfect in all of Your ways to us

    Love so undeniable
    I, I can hardly speak
    Peace so unexplainable
    I, I can hardly think
    As You call me deeper still
    As You call me deeper still
    As You call me deeper still
    Into love, love, love

     

     

  2. God Is The Same Yesterday Today and Tomorrow: Three Case Studies

    October 4, 2020

    God Is The Same Yesterday Today and Tomorrow: Three Case Studies

    God uniquely qualified to be the Judge of All.  There is no one more qualified.  Trust in God.

    God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.

    James 2:12,13. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. 13 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

    God desires mercy for us.  This does not mean there is no judgement.

    For God So Loved the World

    16 “For God so loved the world,[a] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
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  3. Lyrics for Worship on the Lawn 10/4/20

    Who You Say I Am

    Who am I that the highest King
    Would welcome me?
    I was lost but He brought me in
    Oh His love for me; Oh His love for me

    Who the Son sets free, Oh – is free indeed
    I’m a child of God; Yes I am

    Free at last
    He has ransomed me
    His grace runs deep
    While I was a slave to sin
    Jesus died for me; Yes He died for me

    Who the Son sets free, Oh – is free indeed
    I’m a child of God; Yes I am
    In my Father’s house
    There’s a place for me
    I’m a child of God; Yes I am

    I am chosen, Not forsaken
    I am who You say I am
    You are for me, Not against me
    I am who You say I am

     

    Sing Hallelujah to the Lord

    Sing hallelujah to the Lord (echo) x2
    Sing hallelujah x2
    Sing hallelujah to the Lord

    Jesus is Lord and King of all (echo) x2
    Jesus is Lord x2
    Jesus is Lord and King of all

    Jesus is coming back again (echo) x2
    Jesus is coming x2
    Jesus is coming back again

     

    Lord, Take Our Children

    Lord, take our children; Lord, give them freedom; Lord, send Your Spirit upon them (2X)
    Like arrows from a mighty warrior; like arrows flaming in the darkness
    Send Your Light into the night; may Jesus Christ be glorified,
    In our children, through our children

     

    The Heart of Worship

    When the music fades, All is stripped away
    And I simply come
    Longing just to bring, Something that’s of worth
    That will bless Your heart

    I’ll bring You more than a song
    For a song in itself, Is not what You have required
    You search much deeper within
    Through the way things appear, You’re looking into my heart

    I’m coming back to the heart of worship
    And it’s all about You, it’s all about You, Jesus
    I’m sorry, Lord, for the thing I’ve made it
    When it’s all about You, it’s all about You, Jesus

    King of endless worth, No one could express
    How much you deserve
    Though I’m weak and poor, All I have is Yours
    Every single breath!

     

    Overcome

    Seated above, enthroned in the Father’s love
    Destined to die, poured out for all mankind
    God’s only Son perfect and spotless One
    He never sinned, but suffered as if He did

    All authority, every victory is Yours x2

    Savior, worthy of honor and glory, worthy of all our praise, You overcame
    Jesus, awesome in power forever, awesome and great is Your Name, You overcame

    Power in hand, speaking the Father’s plan
    You’re sending us out, light in this broken land

    We will overcome by the blood of the Lamb
    and the word of our testimony, everyone overcome

     

    Nothing But the Blood

    Your blood speaks a better word
    Than all the empty claims I’ve heard upon this earth
    Speaks righteousness for me, And stands in my defense
    Jesus, it’s Your blood

    What can wash away our sins? What can make us whole again?
    Nothing but the blood, Nothing but the blood of Jesus
    What can wash us pure as snow, Welcomed as the friends of God?
    Nothing but Your blood; Nothing but Your blood, King Jesus

    Your Cross testifies in grace
    Tells of the Father’s heart to make a way for us
    Now boldly we approach, Not by earthly confidence
    It’s only Your blood

  4. What will we do in eternity?

    Sept. 27, 2020

    Growing Cantaloupe in the New Earth?  Would Jesus plant Cantaloupe, raise a flock of sheep?  Artist? Engineers?  Geophysicists? Mathematicians? Musicians?

    What will we do in eternity?

    Genesis 1:28 Dominion
    28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

    Psalm 8:3-5
    When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

        the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
    what is man that you are mindful of him,
        and the son of man that you care for him?

    Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[a]
        and crowned him with glory and honor.

    Hebrews 2:5-8a
    For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
    It has been testified somewhere,

    “What is man, that you are mindful of him,
        or the son of man, that you care for him?
    You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
        you have crowned him with glory and honor,[a]
        putting everything in subjection under his feet.”

    We will be moving from the Garden to the City.  Recreating culture post garden.

    Genesis 4:20-22
    20 Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. 21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. 22 Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

    Revelation 5:9-10

    And they sang a new song, saying,

    “Worthy are you to take the scroll
        and to open its seals,
    for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
        from every tribe and language and people and nation,
    10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,
        and they shall reign on the earth.”

    Will my dog be in heaven?  Geno’s Theory. Imprinting.

    Isaiah 11:1-9

    There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
        and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
    And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
        the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
        the Spirit of counsel and might,
        the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
    And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
    He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
        or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
    but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
        and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
    and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
        and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
    Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
        and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

    The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
        and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
    and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
        and a little child shall lead them.
    The cow and the bear shall graze;
        their young shall lie down together;
        and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
    The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
        and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.

    Romans 8:15b-17
    15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
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  5. How to Have Church Wherever You Are

    The world is rapidly changing and as followers of Jesus, we need to understand how to have church in a variety of different contexts. Come learn the easily reproducible scriptural model for being the body of Christ in various settings- whether in our building, at your home, or at your work.

    Join us for 4 Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm

    Oct 13, 20, 27 and Nov 3

    Taught by Mark and Ceci Proeger (with special guests)

    Location TBD

  6. Lyrics for Worship on the Lawn 9/27

    Our God

    Water You turned into wine, opened the eyes of the blind,

    There’s no one like You, none like You

    Into the darkness You shine, out of the ashes we rise
    There’s No one like You, none like You

    Our God is greater, our God is stronger, God You are higher than any other
    Our God is Healer, awesome in power, Our God, Our God

    And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us?

    And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?

     

    Lord, I Lift Your Name on High

    Lord, I lift Your name on high, Lord, I love to sing Your praises,

    I’m so glad You’re in my life, I’m so glad You came to save us

    You came from heaven to earth, to show the way

    From the earth to the cross my debt to pay
    From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky,

    Lord, I lift Your name on high (2X)

     

    Lord, Take Our Children

    Lord, take our children; Lord, give them freedom; Lord, send Your Spirit upon them (2X)

    Like arrows from a mighty warrior; like arrows flaming in the darkness

    Send Your Light into the night; may Jesus Christ be glorified

    In our children, through our children

     

    You’re Beautiful

    I see Your face in every sunrise, the colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
    The world awakens in the light of the day, I look up to the sky and say, You’re beautiful

    Oh oh oh oh oh, you’re beautiful (repeat)

    I see Your power in the moonlit night, where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright
    We are amazed in the light of the stars, it’s all proclaiming who You are

    You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful

    I see You there hanging on a tree, You bled and then You died and then You rose again for me
    Now You are sitting on Your heavenly throne, soon we will be coming home
    You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful

    When we arrive at eternity’s shore, Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
    We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring, Your bride will come together and we’ll sing
    You’re beautiful…

    I see Your face, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful (2X)

     

    The Same Love

    You choose the humble and raise them high

    You choose the weak and make them strong
    You heal our brokenness inside and give us life

    The same love that set the captives free, the same love that opened eyes to see
    Is calling us all by name, You are calling us all by name

    The same God that spread the heavens wide, the same God that was crucified
    Is calling us all by name, You are calling us all by name

    You take the faithless one aside, and speak the words “You are mine”
    You call the cynic and the proud, “Come to Me now”

    You’re calling, You’re calling, You’re calling us to the cross
    You’re calling, You’re calling, You’re calling us to the cross

     

    I Will Serve You

    I will serve You
    Because I love you
    You have given life to me
    I was nothing until You found me
    You have given life to me

    Heartaches, broken people
    Ruined lives are why You died
    Your touch is what I long for
    You have given life to me

     

    Had It Not Been (Psalm 124)

    Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
    Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
    The anger of the enemy would have swallowed us alive
    Had it not been the Lord who was on our side.

    Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
    Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
    The waters would have engulfed us, we would have surely died
    Had it not been the Lord who was on our side.

    Blessed be the Lord who would not give us up
    Blessed be the Lord for His unfailing love
    The snare is broken and we have escaped
    Our help is in the name of the Lord.

    Blessed be the Lord!