57 – Is Jesus Lower Still?
Psalm
Welcome
What have we been listening to… since February
Bryan
(old hats)
(really old hats)
(new hats)
Spencer
- Psallos (Philippians and Hebrews) on 2 road trips
- New upcoming Psallos tracks for Patreon members!
- PBH (Psalms, Golgotha)
- Sarah Sparks (Ways and Means, All I Have)
- Brian Sauve (Even Dragons Shall Him Praise)
- Jadon Lavik (Roots Run Deep)
- Classical Music (Bach, Handel’s Messiah)
- Ventured into a little Skillet (Dominion)
- Instrumental EDM
- Proverbs 10, Vol. 2: The Foolish Man Will Fall
- All Good Things
- Recommendation for Spencer: Handel: Messiah | Voces8 and Academy of Ancient Music [Full Concert]
Grant
- Crown & Covenant (Ps 42D, Ps 1A, Ps 143b, Ps 78f)
- Jared Kraft (Revival: The Work of God soundtrack)
- The Corner Room (Matthew 11:28-30, John 17:1-11, John 3:16-17, Movement II (V.4-10))
- Colony House (One of Those Days, Landlocked Surf Rock, Cannonballers, Would Ya Could Ya)
- The National Parks (As We Ran, Chance, Sunshine, 8th Wonder, Rodeo, Summer of Memories)
- The Beach Boys (Surf Jam, Surfin’ Safari, Surfin’ U.S.A., California Girls, Fun, Fun, Fun)
- Owl City (Deer in the Headlights, Vitamin Sea, Learn How to Surf, Embers, Fireflies, Kelly Time)
- Voces8 (The Luckiest, Shenandoah, Maria, Gabriel’s Message)
- Ola W. Jansson (The Good Life, At Last, For Keith Jarrett, Sunset Bird)
- Holly Dutton (Shorter Catechism songs)
Special Mention: Spencer Parsons (Forget Not All His Benefits, A Wise Son, A Wise Son (Instrumental, Piano Version), You’re My Joy)
Ice Breaker
State of Christian Music according to John Cooper and Alisa Childers:
- Progressive Christianity is more pervasive
- Identifying with fallenness over Christ
- Flamy Grant
- Avoiding Bethel and Hillsong
Note the importance of more influential voices speaking especially to the idea of blanket rule rejecting Bethel and Hillsong
Song V Song
“Christ Is Lower Still”
The Porter’s Gate
V1
Breathe in, reach out
Touch the hem of your garment now
Help me, heal me
My mind, my body, and soul
Chorus
Let the king descend, living word made flesh
Lift this heavy heart to your throne o god
In his wounds I find room for all of mine
When from grace I fell, Christ was lower still
V2
Humbly, lowly
Jesus waits in the valley
My Savior suffers with me
With Him, I’ll rise again
Chorus x2
Til the earth is filled, Christ is lower still
Bridge
We lift it all up to you Lord
We lift our heads we lift our hands
We lift our dreams we lift our plans
We lift our sorrow and our pain
We cast our cares on you again
We lift it all up to you Lord
Chorus x2
Til the earth is filled, Christ is lower still
Some notes on this song
“Fell from grace” – Galatians 5:4 and some commentary from Got Questions.
“Nothing Either Great or Small”
You Me & The Bread
V1
Nothing either great or small
Nothing sinner, no
Jesus died to pay it all
Ever long ago
When he from his lofty throne
Stooped to do and die
Everything was fully done
Hearken to his cry
Chorus
And rest in the hands of the Savior
Rest in him
Rest in the grace of his labor
Rest in him
V2
Weary working burdened one
Wherefore toil you so?
Cease your doing, all was done
Ever long ago
‘Til to Jesus’ work you cling
By a simple faith
Doing is a deadly thing
But by His work, we’re saved
Chorus
V3
It is finished, yes indeed
Finished we were bought
Sinners, this is all we need
Tell me, is it not?
We cast our deadly doing down
Down at Jesus’ feet
Stand in him and him alone
Gloriously complete
Chorus
(oddly enough, the hymn that inspired this song also inspired It Is Finished by Bifrost Arts–the same people that later formed The Porter’s Gate–so we could have done a Pre-Deconstruction V Post-Deconstruction comparison)
How Can We Take the Lord’s Supper in a Worthy Manner? | Monergism
“So, the best and only worthiness which we can bring to God, is to offer him our own vileness, and unworthiness, that his mercy may make us worthy:
John Calvin
- to despond in ourselves, that we may be consoled in him
- to humble ourselves, that we may be elevated by him
- to accuse ourselves, that we may be justified by him”
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