For comfort.

I caught you looking in the window at your reflection and
I could see you were unimpressed
I watch you whither like a willow at what you think are imperfections
When you compare you to all the rest
And I wish I could find a way to make you see you the way I do
So I wrote this song for you

You’re better than a Beethoven symphony
And Mona Lisa wishes she could be a masterpiece like you
More than any Michelangelo
When I look at you I know
There’s no other masterpiece like you
You are the only one and only you

There is music in your laughter the world has never heard before
You came and brought a melody
The way you say it the way you see it
When you’re sad and glad and so much more
All these gifts only you can bring
Still I know that right now everything that you feel says it’s just not true
So I’ll keep reminding you that

You’re better than a Beethoven symphony
And Mona Lisa wishes she could be a masterpiece like you
More than any Michelangelo
When I look at you I know there’s no other masterpiece like you
You are the only one and only you

Wonderfully, carefully woven together by God’s own hand

And you’re better than a Beethoven symphony
And Mona Lisa wishes she could be a masterpiece like you
More than any Michelangelo
When I look at you I know there’s no other masterpiece like you
You are the only one and only you
You are the only one and only you

Steven Curtis Chapman

Shabbat Service Jewish Ministry Gateway Church.

http://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/jewish-ministries/events/session/2018/08/03/shabbat-service

click the link to open the sermon.

A Little More Time to Love Steven Curtis Chapman

There's a little boy looking at me in the mirror
He's asking where the time has gone
Was it here just long enough to draw these lines on my face?
Well I'm not sure I'm wiser
But some things are clearer
And it's getting clear that I'm not here for long
So what am I to do with my few minutes here in this place?
And we hear the world sigh with its aches and its pains
We see the grass wither and watch flowers fade

But oh, there's a day that is coming
When everything will be new
And oh, God will dry every tear
And everything sad will be made untrue
And oh, it's gonna be a celebration
All of creation longs for
And while we're waiting for that day to come
We've got a little more time to love

There are little ones hungry for love of a family
So many hungry for bread
On the left and the right surrounded by the last and the least
And just down the street and just across the table
Hungry hearts are waiting to be fed
'Cause deep in our soul we're all longing to be at The Feast
But until we sit down where there's more than enough
Let us give as we've been given and love as we've been loved

There's a day that is coming
When all the last will be first
Every orphan will be home
And all will be filled who hunger and thirst
It's gonna be a celebration
All of creation longs for
And while we're waiting for that day to come
We've got a little more time

To do justly and love mercy
And show the love we've been shown
For we can only be the hands and feet of Jesus 'til
He leads us home
He will lead us home

There's a day that is coming
A day that never will end
There in the light of His glory
Everything broken will be whole again
And this will be the celebration
All of creation longs for
And while we're waiting for that day to come
We've got a little more time to love
Just a little more time to love
We've got just a little more time to love
Just a little more time to love

The Best Day of Your Life | A Gateway Series

http://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/life/events/the-best-day-of-your-life-a-gateway-series/session/2018/08/04/redeemed

click the link address to open the sermon.

Shawn Johnson - Sommercamp 2018 Denmark

Video 1

 

Video 2

Wonderful Grace - Lou Fellingham & Stuart Townend

Stuart Townend - My God

My God, full of mercy,
Heard our weeping,
Came to bring us home again.
My God takes the broken
And makes them whole.

My God touched the leper
Raised the lame man,
And He caused the blind to see.
My God takes the broken
And makes them whole.

My God stood for justice,
Shamed the prideful,
But He called the sinner ‘friend’.
My God takes the broken
And makes them whole.

My God felt the anguish
Of the soldier,
Made his child to live again.
My God takes the broken
And makes them whole.

My God, mocked and beaten,
Crushed and bleeding,
Yet crying ‘Father God, forgive.’
My God became broken
To make me whole.

My God, on the third day,
In the morning
Broke the shackles of the grave.
My God takes the broken
And makes them whole.

My God knows my failures,
Speaks forgiveness,
Gives me strength to try again.
My God takes the broken
And makes me whole.

Stuart Townend - There Is A Hope

There is a hope that burns within my heart,
That gives me strength for every passing day;
A glimpse of glory now revealed in meager part,
Yet drives all doubt away:
I stand in Christ, with sins forgiven;
And Christ in me, the hope of heaven!
My highest calling and my deepest joy,
To make His will my home.

There is a hope that lifts my weary head,
A consolation strong against despair,
That when the world has plunged me in its deepest pit,
I find the Saviour there!
Through present sufferings, future's fear,
He whispers 'courage' in my ear.
For I am safe in everlasting arms,
And they will lead me home.

There is a hope that stands the test of time,
That lifts my eyes beyond the beckoning grave,
To see the matchless beauty of a day divine
When I behold His face!
When sufferings cease and sorrows die,
And every longing satisfied.
Then joy unspeakable will flood my soul,
For I am truly home

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus (Look Up) Nichole Nordeman

Glorious Grace

 

 

John 11:25 

²⁵ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;

Revelation 2:10 

Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.

 

Ki El Shomreinu Ata - For You Are God Our Keeper

The difference.

 A man from Eritrea fled his country and after months of walking he ended up in Libya. He was put in prison in a huge building together with thousands of other refugees. After a few days some men arrived and they walked through this compact crowd searching for Christian men and women.  They were especially looking for people who had a cross around their neck. When they found them they took them outside and shot them.  The man who told about this had his cross in one of his shoes. This saved his life.

A woman who listened to this story said: “If it had been me I would have thrown that cross away.

After seconds of silence one person said “You don´t throw away something so important!”

A feeling of tension grew in the room and the conversation went into a different direction. The subject of the cross was closed.

You might have an opinion about why this man hid his cross in his shoe; but I leave that discussion to you. I started to ponder over the difference between Christian and Non-Christian view of life.

There is a difference between the person who confesses faith in Jesus Christ and the person who professes an atheistic view of life. There is a difference between the person who confesses faith in Jesus Christ as his or her savior, and a person who puts his or her faith in anything but Jesus Christ. Because you need not be an atheist; you just have to replace Jesus with whatever you like and you are in the same position as the atheist; dead in spirit. Any other spirit that is not the Holy Spirit is a spirit of death.

The Bible says that the person who doesn´t believe in Jesus Christ as his or her savior is dead in the spirit. A dead person doesn’t understand what life in Christ is all about. He or she has to be resurrected in the spirit and when accepting God’s offer of redemption through Jesus Christ that very thing will happen; a transformation from death to life. A transformation from a heart of stone to a heart of blood; that is; a new way of thinking; in line with the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 2

Made Alive in Christ

1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

 ² in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world

 and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air,

the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

³ All of us also lived among them at one time,

gratifying the cravings of our flesh^[a]

and following its desires and thoughts.

Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

⁴ But because of his great love for us,

God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ 

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions

—it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶ 

And God raised us up with Christ

and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ 

in order that in the coming ages

he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,

expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ 

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith

—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God

— ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast.

 ¹⁰ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus

to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ehesians 1: 13

¹³ And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴ who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

It all starts and ends with Jesus. Your new life starts in Christ; becoming a child of God and as a child of God you end this life on earth with Jesus and his saving grace the day you enter into eternity to face God. In Christ you have redemption of sin and will not be condemned.

John 3:14-17

¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^{[a] 15} that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”^[b]
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Sincerely yours, Ida