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Music Monday: Still calls me son

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Here is “Still calls me son” by John Waller:

VERSE 1
I drug his name through godless places
And I’ve known shame that no child of his should know
I’ve seen pain on broken faces
Beyond all thought of hope
I was just too far from home
Still I always wondered when I closed my eyes

CHORUS
After all I’ve done
Could he run to me?
Would he kiss my face?
Could he even look at me?
After where I’ve been
should he take me back?
I would understand
I’ve disgraced him
But it would be amazing
If he still calls me son

VERSE 2
With nothing left for me to bring him
I left my pride and turned my heart toward home
I saw my home on the horizon
And from a distance
I saw my Father
Watching for his own with forgiving eyes

BRIDGE
One day as I breathe my last
And I know my days on earth have ended
When every hour is spent
I will close my eyes in amazement
And I’ll hear angels
They’ll be singing Amazing Grace

Cause he will run to me
And he will kiss my face
He will not let go of me
After where I’ve been
He will welcome me
I won’t understand
How he’ll put his robe on me
It will be amazing
That he’ll still call me son

Amazing grace how sweet the sound
When he calls me son
I once was lost but now I’m found
Cause he calls me Son

Music Monday: I come by the blood

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I first came across “I come by the blood” when I visited an Evangelical congregation in London. It’s really difficult to play on the guitar, but the chord changes are just superb!

You are the perfect and righteous God
Whose presence bears no sin
You bid me come to Your holy place
How can I enter in
When Your presence bears no sin?
Through Him, who poured out His life for me
The atoning Lamb of God
Through Him, and His work alone
I boldly come

I come by the blood, I come by the cross
Where Your mercy flows
From hands pierced for me
For I dare not stand on my righteousness
My every hope rests on what Christ has done
And I come by the blood

You are the high and exalted King
The One the angels fear
So far above me in every way
Lord, how can I draw near
To the One the angels fear?
Through Him who laid down His life for me
And ascended to Your side
Through Him, through Jesus alone
I boldly come

Music Monday: Maeve Heaney

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Today’s Music Monday is going to be a little be a little different… Those of you who know me or who have read my testimony will have heard me mention the name “Maeve”. Maeve is a member of the Verbum Dei community who really helped ignite my faith while I was at university in Southampton. I recently found out that, not only does she have a website, she also has just released a new album, neither of which I had heard about!

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I looked around for a video of Maeve singing “Woman of God”, possibly my favourite song of hers, but I couldn’t find it 🙁 So instead, here’s a compilation video of Maeve singing and speaking Italian… 🙂

Music Monday: This is Our God

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I haven’t listened to Hillsong in ages! Time to change that! Here’s “This is our God”…

VERSE 1
Your grace is enough
More than I need
And Your word I will believe
I wait for You
Draw near again
And Your spirit make me new
And I will fall at Your feet
I will fall at Your feet
And i will worship You here

VERSE 2
Your presence in me
Jesus light the way
By the power of Your word
I am restored
I am redeemed
By Your spirit I am free
And I will fall at Your feet
I will fall at Your feet
And I will worship You here

CHORUS
Freely You gave it all for us
Surrendered Your life upon that cross
Great is Your love
Poured out for all
This is our God
Lifted on high from death to life
Forever our God is glorified
Sovereign King
Rescued the world
This is our God

And I will fall at Your feet…

Music Monday: Break the shell

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This isn’t a Christian song, but India Arie’s song “Break the shell” is still one of my favourite spiritual songs…

VERSE 1
I met a prophet dark as the night
She could see into my soul
Said she’d been watching and had some advice
She said shadows make you whole
A life without pain is a wolf in sheep’s clothes
Cause if you listen to the lessons that it holds
You’ll find the gold

CHORUS
Child it’s time to break the shell
Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
You cannot fly until you break the shell

VERSE 2
I can remember when I was a child
How the grown folks seemed so crazy
Why are they so angry, why are they so loud?
And when I grow up that’s never ever gonna be me
That was the moment that I decide
That I would build a wall just shy of six feet tall
Too strong to fall

BRIDGE
Courage is not being hard
It’s time to peel back all of the layers
You put between who You’re meant to be
And who You are
And go be who You are

VERSE 3
So much disappointment to finally understand
That there is no such thing as perfect
Were all simply doing the best that we can
And we have a choice to live or truly be alive

(This is your life)

VERSE 4
Do with these words what you will
It’s time for us to be for real
You’ll be stuck on the ground until
You finally break the shell

Music Monday: Let your kingdom come

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I’ve been pretty much listening to this on a constant loop all weekend :-). This is “Let Your Kingdom come” by Sovereign Grace:

VERSE 1
Your glorious cause, O God
Engages our hearts
May Jesus Christ be known
Wherever we are
We ask not for ourselves, but for Your renown
The cross has saved us so we pray
Your kingdom come

CHORUS
Let Your kingdom come
Let Your will be done
So that everyone might know Your Name
Let Your song be heard everywhere on earth
Till Your sovereign work on earth is done
Let Your kingdom come

VERSE 2
Give us Your strength, O God
And courage to speak
Perform Your wondrous deeds
Through those who are weak
Lord use us as You want, whatever the test
By grace we’ll preach Your gospel
Till our dying breath

Music Monday: Hallelujah

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Yesterday we finished the series on abortion and so it’s back to the regularly-scheduled posts. So, for today’s “Music Monday”, here is Peter Hollens and Jackie Evancho singing “Hallelujah”…

VERSE 1
I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
You don’t really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

CHORUS
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

VERSE 2
Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
Well she tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and cut your hair
And from your lips she drew Hallelujah

VERSE 3
Baby I’ve been here before
I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked the floor
used to live alone before I knew ya
But I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
Our love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

VERSE 4
Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
It’s not a cry that you hear at night
It’s not someone who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and broken Hallelujah

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