Sometimes a song is more than melody. Sometimes it can embody our best expressions, and our best emotions. A song that means something to you has the abilty to lift you higher, make colors more colorful, and make you glad for the moment.
This Feb 10 I will have beeen gone from our church of 14 years for 6 months. I know..I keep telling myself I'll write about it sometime.
Two of our band members, husband and wife guitar and keyboard, attend this church still. ONE ACCORD was a band before I attended "our" church, and has never been comprised soley of people who attended that church, although at one time as many as 4 out of 5 of us attended that same church. Now 3 of us don't, including 2 of us who used to. While ONE ACCORD was always a seperate entity, those of us who attended the same church also put our talents to use within the "church band". Our current drummer in the band left the church several years ago, and with my leaving this last August, I understand the "church band" is not what it used to be. There is a cohesiveness that comes from years of playing together, as well as talent, that is not easily replaced.
It is hard to leave a church where you have put so much time and effort into building something.
This week at band practice the two ONE ACCORD members who are still attending there were lamenting how much the church had changed, and how the music had changed with it. I looked at the drummer and said "lets play one for old times sake". We began playing a rendition of Psalm 3 that was a favorite at church, and the biggest smile broke out on our sister as she played keyboard, and I am certain she had tears in her eyes. It is a good song. A song I had not played in 6 months, and a song that felt good to play.
The enitire practice in fact was very good, and another songe we are very excited about is an original we have made available as a free download at our music store. The song is called "Trust and Believe", and all who read are welcome to it....FREE! Scroll down the list of original songs until you get to it, and if you have time listen to samples of the others.
In this time of seeking where the Lord would have our family become part of an assembly ONE ACCORD is a personal retreat that I thank God for.
"Trust and Believe" by ONE ACCORD is written by Gabriel Hoskins, and arranged by ONE ACCORD.
ONE ACCORD is a music ministry dedicated to the Gospel of Love and Peace -
the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Sure confidence
I love these words from Charles Spurgeon -
"I do not know how some people, who believe that a Christian can fall from grace, manage to be happy. It must be a very commendable thing in them to be able to get through a day without despair. If I did not believe the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints, I think I should be of all men the most miserable, because I should lack any ground of comfort. I could not say, whatever state of heart I came into, that I should be like a well-spring of water, whose stream fails not; I should rather have to take the comparison of an intermittent spring, that might stop on a sudden, or a reservoir, which I had no reason to expect would always be full.
I believe that the happiest of Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but who take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so. I bear my willing testimony that I have no reason, nor even the shadow of a reason, to doubt my Lord, and I challenge Heaven, and earth, and hell, to bring any proof that God is untrue. From the depths of hell I call the fiends, and from this earth I call the tried and afflicted believers, and to Heaven I appeal, and challenge the long experience of the blood-washed host, and there is not to be found in the three realms a single person who can bear witness to one fact which can disprove the faithfulness of God, or weaken His claim to be trusted by His servants. There are many things that may or may not happen, but this I know shall happen-
"He shall present my soul, Unblemish'd and complete, Before the glory of His face, With joys divinely great."
All the purposes of man have been defeated, but not the purposes of God. The promises of man may be broken-many of them are made to be broken-but the promises of God shall all be fulfilled. He is a promise-maker, but He never was a promise-breaker; He is a promise-keeping God, and every one of His people shall prove it to be so. This is my grateful, personal confidence,
"The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me"-unworthy me, lost and ruined me. He will yet save me;
and-
"I, among the blood-wash'd throng, Shall wave the palm, and wear the crown, And shout loud victory."
I go to a land which the plough of earth hath never upturned, where it is greener than earth's best pastures, and richer than her most abundant harvests ever saw. I go to a building of more gorgeous architecture than man hath ever builded; it is not of mortal design; it is
"a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens."
All I shall know and enjoy in Heaven, will be given to me by the Lord, and I shall say, when at last I appear before Him-
"Grace all the work shall crown Through everlasting days; It lays in Heaven the topmost stone, And well deserves the praise." "
Amen
"I do not know how some people, who believe that a Christian can fall from grace, manage to be happy. It must be a very commendable thing in them to be able to get through a day without despair. If I did not believe the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints, I think I should be of all men the most miserable, because I should lack any ground of comfort. I could not say, whatever state of heart I came into, that I should be like a well-spring of water, whose stream fails not; I should rather have to take the comparison of an intermittent spring, that might stop on a sudden, or a reservoir, which I had no reason to expect would always be full.
I believe that the happiest of Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but who take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so. I bear my willing testimony that I have no reason, nor even the shadow of a reason, to doubt my Lord, and I challenge Heaven, and earth, and hell, to bring any proof that God is untrue. From the depths of hell I call the fiends, and from this earth I call the tried and afflicted believers, and to Heaven I appeal, and challenge the long experience of the blood-washed host, and there is not to be found in the three realms a single person who can bear witness to one fact which can disprove the faithfulness of God, or weaken His claim to be trusted by His servants. There are many things that may or may not happen, but this I know shall happen-
"He shall present my soul, Unblemish'd and complete, Before the glory of His face, With joys divinely great."
All the purposes of man have been defeated, but not the purposes of God. The promises of man may be broken-many of them are made to be broken-but the promises of God shall all be fulfilled. He is a promise-maker, but He never was a promise-breaker; He is a promise-keeping God, and every one of His people shall prove it to be so. This is my grateful, personal confidence,
"The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me"-unworthy me, lost and ruined me. He will yet save me;
and-
"I, among the blood-wash'd throng, Shall wave the palm, and wear the crown, And shout loud victory."
I go to a land which the plough of earth hath never upturned, where it is greener than earth's best pastures, and richer than her most abundant harvests ever saw. I go to a building of more gorgeous architecture than man hath ever builded; it is not of mortal design; it is
"a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens."
All I shall know and enjoy in Heaven, will be given to me by the Lord, and I shall say, when at last I appear before Him-
"Grace all the work shall crown Through everlasting days; It lays in Heaven the topmost stone, And well deserves the praise." "
Amen
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