Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. T. Taylor TCGG p.375

Holy and Anointed One (click here to hear on youtube)
John Barnett (?) by David Crowder Band

Jesus, Jesus,
Holy and anointed One,
Jesus

Jesus, Jesus,
Risen and exalted One,
Jesus

Your name is like honey on my lips,
Your Spirit like water to my soul,
Your word is a lamp unto my feet,
Jesus I love You, I love You

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All the sin of heathendom, all the sin of Christendom, is but he outgrowth of the one root - God dethroned, self enthroned in the heart of man.

Andrew Murray TCGG p.504

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Love Crucified Arose (click here to hear on youtube)
Michael Card

Long ago He blessed the earth
Born older than the years
And in the stall the cross He saw
Through the first of many tears
A life of homeless wandering
Cast out in sorrow's way
The Shepherd seeking for the lost
His life the price He paid

Chorus
Love crucified arose
The risen One in splendour
Jehovah's sole Defender
Has won the victory
Love crucified arose
And the grave became a place of hope
For the heart that sin and sorrow broke
Is beating once again

Throughout Your life You've felt the weight
Of what You'd come to give
To drink for us that crimson cup
So we might really live
At last the time love and die
The dark appointed day
That one forsaken moment when
Your Father turned His face away

It is no easy matter to speak so plain that the ignorant may understand us, so seriously that the deadest hearts may feel us and so convincingly that contradictory cavaliers may be silenced.

Richard Baxter TCGG p.474

Immanuel (click here to hear on youtube)
Michael Card

A sign shall be given
A virgin will conceive
A human baby bearing
Undiminished deity
The glory of the nations
A light for all to see
That hope for all who will embrace
His warm reality

Immanuel
Our God is with us
And if God is with us
Who could stand against us
Our God is with us
Immanuel

For all those who live in the shadow of death
A glorious light has dawned
For all those who stumble in the darkness
Behold your light has come

So what will be your answer?
Will you hear the call?
Of Him who did not spare His son
But gave him for us all
On earth there is no power
There is no depth or height
That could ever separate us
From the love of God in Christ

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge TCGG p.457

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Potter's Hand (click here to hear on youtube)
Hillsong

Beautiful Lord, Wonderful savior
I know for sure all of my days are held in your hands
Crafted into your perfect plans

You gently called me into your presence
Guiding me by Your Holy Spirit
Teach me dear Lord to live all of my life
Through your eyes

I'm captured by your holy calling
Set me apart. I know you're drawing me to yourself
lead me, Lord. I pray

Oh Take me, mold me, use me, fill me
I give my life to the potter's hand
Oh Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside me
I give my life to the potter's hand

You gently call me into your presence
Guiding me by your holy spirit
Teach me dear lord to live all of my life through your eyes

I'm captured by your holy calling
Set me apart. I know you're drawing me to yourself
lead me, Lord. I pray

All nature, including the nature of man, is a wondrous instrument of many strings, delicately tuned to work God's will and upon which he plays with a master hand.

J. Gresham Machen TCGG p.430

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All Men Will Know (click here to hear on youtube)
Acapella

I have lived among you here on earth
I have shown you love
I have shown you worth
Now it’s nearly over you will find
That the spirit will remind you
Of all the things I had in mind
Now I want you to remember

All men will know
All men will find
All men will see
That you are mine

Now the time is coming I must go
But the Comforter will guide you
In the things you need to know
No it won’t be easy you will see
They will hate you and despise you
All the same they did to me
Now I want you to remember

Very soon His own disciples found
The testing quickly came around
To share their faith with boldness, without fear (without fear)
Now today we face an equal test
Divinely called to do our best
To share with the world - what will they hear?

"The Christian way is different: harder and easier. Christ says 'Give me All. I don't want so much of

living sacrifices

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God— this is your spiritual act of worship. (Romans 12:1)

your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don't want to cut off a branch here and branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don't want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked - the whole outfit. I will give you a new self insted. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.'

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.

In justification we are not only told that Christ has paid the debt of our sins. We receive Christ's righteousness!

Sinclair Ferguson TCGG p.363

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Portas Abertas (click here to hear on youtube)
Alex Gonzaga By Grupo Logos

Ontem deixou sua casa e saiu pelo mundo
De coração lá no fundo eu não entendi
Tudo que fiz o que ele quis, meus braço abertos ficaram
E ainda estão assim, e vão continuar, até um dia vê-lo regressar
Posso pensar que o mundo lhe tem preparado
Sei... privações tem passado e tudo porque
Falsos amigos por aí,
Conselhos vazios, mais cheios de palavras vãs
Que grande ilusão, mentiram ao seu jovem coração.

Mais nunca é tarde, não, sai da escuridão
Há um novo dia, nova amanhã
A mesma casa tem, portas abertas
Pessoas certas, amigos e irmãos

Parece um sonho mas nem a distância me engana
O coração de quem ama não pode esquecer
Seus passos fracos, tropeções
Seus olhos rebrilham e choram

Pai, eu sei que errei, mas vim pra acertar
Permita-me de novo aqui ficar
Pai, só lamento que onde passei
Via muitos filhos sem rumo,
Sem teto e carentes de amor
Que o Senhor lhes dê a mão,
Lhes mostre de novo o caminho
Para um renascer, um novo proceder
Na mais perfeita e bela comunhão

Mais nunca é tarde não, sai da escuridão...

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The glory of the incarnation is that it presents to our adoring gaze not a humanised God or a deified man, but a true Godman - one who is all that God is and at the same time all that man is ; one on whose almighty arm we can rest, and to whose human sympathy we can appeal.

Benjamin B. Warfield TCGG p.335

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All Creatures of Our God and King (click here to hear on youtube)
St. Frances os Assisi

All creatures of our God and King
Lift up your voice and with us sing,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou burning sun with golden beam,
Thou silver moon with softer gleam!

O praise Him! O praise Him!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Thou rushing wind that art so strong
Ye clouds that sail in Heaven along,
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Thou rising moon, in praise rejoice,
Ye lights of evening, find a voice!

Refrain

Thou flowing water, pure and clear,
Make music for thy Lord to hear,
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Thou fire so masterful and bright,
That givest man both warmth and light.

And all ye men of tender heart,
Forgiving others, take your part,
O sing ye! Alleluia!
Ye who long pain and sorrow bear,
Praise God and on Him cast your care!

Let all things their Creator bless,
And worship Him in humbleness,
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son,
And praise the Spirit, Three in One!