Comments on: How He Loves Us

By: mrs k

mrs k — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:46:38 +0000

#9
Chris, what a memory! I think we might have used the same hymnal!

By: mrs k

mrs k — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:41:03 +0000

#6
This is a comment for serious pondering. It’s just that lately I’ve been thinking that loving my enemies and loving my brothers and sisters in Christ have come down to the same thing. Or am I just being crotchety?

By: Chris L

Chris L — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:57:44 +0000

Mrs. K -

I’m a fan of Old Rugged Cross, as well! I believe it was #33 in the hymnal in the church I grew up in (still remembering Sunday night services where folks called out song #’s to sing…)

By: mrs k

mrs k — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:58:00 +0000

Thanks, Chris L, for an inspirational post and music uplifting even for a crone like me whose music tastes lean toward oldie goldies like “The Old Rugged Cross.”

By: Pastorboy

Pastorboy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:11:08 +0000

even more confounding than that is that he reached out and saved me….

I am indeed the wretch the song refers to.

By: Rick Frueh

Rick Frueh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:07:54 +0000

Who would have thought that the most complete revelation of His love is a battered and bruised and bloody human frame hanging dead, impaled upon a Roman instrument of death? The understanding of God’s redemptive love is not something that can be understood; it is something that can be experienced on a level that words have not found.

God’s unfathomable love reached out and saved Ingrid Schlueter. The only thought that is more confounding and amazing is that God reached out and saved me.

And I mean that sincerely.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:16 +0000

Thanks Chris for the post. Crowder is awesome.

He’s so Emergent.

By: Phil Miller

Phil Miller — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:09 +0000

I like and have played this song a lot. I like the John Mark McMillan version better…if simply for the reason he left the line “sloppy wet kiss” in and didn’t replace it with “unforeseen kiss”. Also, there’s another verse where he talks about his friend’s death:

Well, I thought about You the day Stephen died
and You met me between my breaking
I know that I still love You, God,
despite the agony
…they want to tell me You’re cruel
But if Stephen could sing,
he’d say it’s not true, cause…

On the CD, JMM barely makes it through this verse.

By: Pastorboy

Pastorboy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:55:23 +0000

#2 I am simply contrasting the Prince of Peace, the God who loves us and died for us, thus purchasing our salvation- based on repentance and faith in His finished work- and assuring us of the Kingdom of God now and into the future, the glorious Gospel- to the works- based, hate filled ‘religion of peace’.

Oh, how the true God loves us!

By: Chris L

Chris L — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:48:10 +0000

PB - please see YMNBTSI #6. This is not a thread on Islam.