I am a blues guitar player and a follower of Jesus. This blog is about music, especially Blues, theology, humor, culture and anything else that rolls through my brain. "The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street"
Friday, November 28, 2014
Milt Jackson - People Make The World Go Round
One of my all time favorite songs. This has a great piano solo by Herbie Hancock
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
The Great Exchange
“This
is that mystery which is rich in divine grace to sinners: wherein by a
wonderful exchange our sins are no longer ours but Christ’s, and the
righteousness of Christ not Christ’s but ours. He has emptied himself
of his righteousness that he might clothe us with it and fill us with
it; and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us
from them."
“Learn Christ and him crucified. Learn to pray to him and, despairing of yourself, say, ‘Thou, Lord Jesus, art my righteousness, but I am thy sin. Thou hast taken upon thyself what is mine and hast given to me what is thine. Thou hast taken upon thyself what thou wast not and hast given to me what I was not.'”
Martin Luther, quoted in J. I. Packer and Mark Dever, In My Place Condemned He Stood (Wheaton, 2008), page 85
“Learn Christ and him crucified. Learn to pray to him and, despairing of yourself, say, ‘Thou, Lord Jesus, art my righteousness, but I am thy sin. Thou hast taken upon thyself what is mine and hast given to me what is thine. Thou hast taken upon thyself what thou wast not and hast given to me what I was not.'”
Martin Luther, quoted in J. I. Packer and Mark Dever, In My Place Condemned He Stood (Wheaton, 2008), page 85
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Resting On Christ Alone
“We can put it this way: the man who has faith is the man who is no
longer looking at himself and no longer looking to himself. He no longer
looks at anything he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He
does not even look at what he hopes to be as the result of his own
efforts. He looks entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished
work, and rests on that alone. He has ceased to say, "Ah yes, I used to
commit terrible sins but I have done this and that." He stops
saying that. If he goes on saying that, he has not got faith. Faith
speaks in an entirely different manner and makes a man say, "Yes I have
sinned grievously, I have lived a life of sin, yet I know that I am a
child of God because I am not resting on any righteousness of my own; my
righteousness is in Jesus Christ and God has put that to my account.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Is this truth settled in your heart? I have received the free gift of
righteousness and I have been adopted into God's family and I am
eternally secure in Christ.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
We Are Far Too Easily Pleased
“It
would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too
weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex
and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who
wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what
is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily
pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
We think just the opposite. We think our sinful desires are so strong that we can't reach for the joy God offers but that makes us like an ignorant child who is easily pleased. Instead of reaching for the joy we settle for the mud in the slum, that's why were half-hearted creatures who are content with the mud. We settle for weak desires instead of going for the higher desires to know God and to be filled with his joy.
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
We think just the opposite. We think our sinful desires are so strong that we can't reach for the joy God offers but that makes us like an ignorant child who is easily pleased. Instead of reaching for the joy we settle for the mud in the slum, that's why were half-hearted creatures who are content with the mud. We settle for weak desires instead of going for the higher desires to know God and to be filled with his joy.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
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