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, September 30, 2016
Friday, September 23, 2016
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Otis Rush ~ ''Double Trouble''(Original Recording Electric Blues 1958)
Recorded Cobra Studios , Chicago , 1958
The song was produced by Willie Dixon and features Rush (guitar and vocal), Dixon (bass), Ike Turner (guitar), Little Brother Montgomery (piano), Harold Ashby and Jackie Brenston (saxophones), and Billy Gayles (drums). Although Rush plays the lead guitar introduction to the song, Turner plays the signature vibrato guitar parts.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Thursday, September 15, 2016
The Need To Believe
Donald Grey Barnhouse was speaking about the cross and the need to
believe on the Christ who died upon it said, “Imagine that the cross has
a door in it. All you are asked to do is to go through. On the side
facing you are the words “Whosoever will, may come”. You stand there
with the burden of your sin upon you and wonder if you should enter in
or not. Finally, you do and as you do the burden of your sin falls away,
you are safe and free. Joyfully you turn around and see written
on the other side of the cross through which you just now entered the
words, “Chosen in Him before the foundation of the world”.
Please don't make salvation any more complicated than this. There is no key to unlock the door it's already unlocked. There is no entrance fee you have to pay, it's already been paid in full. There are no gifts you are required to bring, there are no works you must preform. Walking through the door is believing as the scripture says "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved" Once you walk through the door a new world opens up to you that you never knew existed. The word Jesus speaks to you the new Christian is "Follow me"
Please don't make salvation any more complicated than this. There is no key to unlock the door it's already unlocked. There is no entrance fee you have to pay, it's already been paid in full. There are no gifts you are required to bring, there are no works you must preform. Walking through the door is believing as the scripture says "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved" Once you walk through the door a new world opens up to you that you never knew existed. The word Jesus speaks to you the new Christian is "Follow me"
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Friday, September 2, 2016
200 Proff Grace
The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because
they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole
cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace–bottle
after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would
convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the
Gospel–after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven
by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps–suddenly
turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before
they started…Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and
certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, not the flowers
that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter
into the case.”
Robert Farrar Capon, Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
To many Christians refuse to drink grace straight up they are constantly mixing it with something that comes from themselves. They have no clue how bad they are what sinners they are but they are convinced of their own self righteousness and judge others freely. But grace tells us "Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse them" (Rom. 12:14) Not easy to do which is why I drink a lot of grace.
Robert Farrar Capon, Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
To many Christians refuse to drink grace straight up they are constantly mixing it with something that comes from themselves. They have no clue how bad they are what sinners they are but they are convinced of their own self righteousness and judge others freely. But grace tells us "Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse them" (Rom. 12:14) Not easy to do which is why I drink a lot of grace.
Thursday, September 1, 2016
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