Wow! We are already 7 weeks into 2016. That means by the end of this week we will be 13.42465753% finished the year. Freaky! It also means we will have answered 35 questions on SHARE YOUR WORLD and that we are only 310 days away from Christmas. We have 44 Sundays left until Christmas Sunday!
Here are this week’s questions and my answers. Cee’s other contributors can be found by clicking the capitalized link above.
What are you a “natural” at doing?
I am a natural musician. I love music and I tend to turn every life event into a song. In high school I was voted most likely to be found singing a hymn.
Would you prefer a one floor house or multiple levels?
A one floor house and that becomes truer as I get older.
What was your favorite subject in school?
English and music were my favorite subjects in school but I also loved history. Math I wouldn’t have missed.
Complete this sentence: If only the rain..
…fell at night when I was sleeping and everyday was sunny.
So today IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN. But that is the color Jennifer has picked for us. Actually she picked it several days ago but once again I have fallen behind. So green it is. Click the capitalized link to see how many other matches there are to this simple (or not) shade.
Tehillah Tuesdays are dedicated to bringing the songs of rejoicing and praise to the Blogosphere. If you would like to add a song declaring praise to Jesus you can do so in the comments section below. Let’s build a culture of worship!
God has challenged me to begin creating a culture of worship using Lillie-Put as a tool. To that end I have created 7 recurring posts dedicated to the subject of worship and praise
SACRED SUNDAYS
MAGNIFICATION MONDAYS
TEHILLAH TUESDAYS
WORSHIP WEDNESDAYS
THANKFUL THURSDAYS
FAITHFUL FRIDAYS
AND SHOUTIN’ SATURDAYS
Magnification Mondays are based on bringing worship that magnifies or makes large the name of Jesus Christ. If you have a song that makes Jesus name great feel free to share it in the comments section.
Hello Dear Readers. This week the Daily Post has asked us to show life imitating art. Our challenge is to find a piece of art and show a reflection of it in real life.
Hey there folks! Here is a challenge for all my Sunday readers. Every Sunday I will post one quip or quote that struck me during the week. You can join along in the quipping and quoting. Here is what to do:
Publish a post of your own, using one quip or quote that grabbed you during the week. You can add a picture to it if you like or even photograph the quote from it’s source.
Link back to my post
You can include the Pastor Wrinkle’s Q& Q photo in your post if you think my mug worthy of your blog.
This week I had so many great quotes to choose from I had a hard time narrowing it down to one, but the quote that has kept resonating in my soul all week is from my lead pastor Barry Risto.
“Sometimes serving God can be a painful privilege.”
But it was the Lord ’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord ’s good plan will prosper in his hands.
Isaiah 53:10 NLT http://bible.com/116/isa.53.10.NLT
Have you considered what God’s good plan cost Jesus? What will God’s good plan cost you?
Sacred Sundays is about finding those great hymns of the faith that have resonated throughout the centuries.
If you have a sacred song you wish to share post it in the comments section. This is about creating a culture of worship.
~The Love of God (1)
Frederick M. Lehman, author and composer, wrote a pamphlet, in 1948, entitled History of the Song, The Love of God. It tells about the origin of this beloved hymn—
While at camp-meeting in a mid-western state, some fifty years ago in our early ministry, an evangelist climaxed his message by quoting the last stanza of this song. The profound depths of the line moved us to preserve the words for future generations.
Not until we had come to California did this urge find fulfillment, and that at a time when circumstances forced us to hard manual labor.
One day, during short intervals of inattention to our work, we picked up a scrap of paper and, seated upon an empty lemon box pushed against the wall, with a stub pencil, added the (first) two stanzas and chorus of the song.
Since the lines (3rd stanza from the Jewish poem) had been found penciled on the wall of a patient’s room in an insane asylum, the general opinion was that this inmate had written the epic in moments of sanity.
Actually, the key-stanza (third verse) under question as to its authorship was written nearly one thousand years ago by a Jewish songwriter, and put on the score page by F.M. Lehman, a Gentile songwriter, in 1917.
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The Love of God
(1) The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star, And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled, And pardoned from his sin.
CHORUS:
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall for evermore endure
The saints’ and angels’ song.
(2) When years of time shall pass away, And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men, who here refuse to pray, On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure, All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race-The saints’ and angels’ song.
(3) Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky.
~The Love of God (2)
The beloved hymn The Love of God had its roots in a long Jewish poem written in the eleventh century in Germany.
The Jewish poem, Hadamut, in the Aramaic language, has ninety couplets. The poem itself is in the form of an acrostic. It was composed, in the year 1096, by Rabbi Mayer, son of Isaac Nehorai, who was a cantor in the city of Worms, Germany.
The Hadamut poem also speaks of a certain miracle. There are three opinions as to the contents of this miracle.
The first opinion is that the miracle was the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Incidentally, it is for this reason that the poem is still read on the first day of the Feast of Shavuot before the reading of the Ten Commandments.
The second opinion simply states that we really cannot know with certainty, from the references, what the actual miracle was.
The third opinion believes that the miracle took place in the city of Worms, home of the rabbi-poet. It is thought that there was a medieval, German priest who once spoke evil of the Jewish community.
The king called upon the Jews of the city to produce a representative to argue and defend themselves against the priest. If the Jewish spokesman was successful, then the Jewish community would be spared mass genocide. But if the anti-Jewish priest proved successful, then all of the Jewish community of Worms would be put to death.
The story has a happy ending, as the Jewish representative was successful in the defense of their faith, and the community of Worms was spared.
Throughout the poem, the theme of God’s eternal love and concern for His people is evident. One section of this poem, from which the present third stanza of The Love of God was evidently adapted, reads as follows:
Were the sky of parchment made,
A quill each reed, each twig and blade,
Could we with ink the oceans fill,
Were every man a scribe of skill,
The marvelous story, Of God’s great glory
Would still remain untold; For He, most high
The earth and sky Created alone of old.
—Kenneth Osbeck
Shared from http://www.tanbible.com/tol_sng/sng_theloveofgod.htm
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