ROBERT VAN KAMPEN: The Biblical Defense for the Prewrath Rapture of the Church

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COME THOU FOUNT: Original lyrics by Robert Robinson (1758); Page CXVI version (2009)

Come thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise

Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
I'll praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
Mount of thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by thy help I come
And I hope by thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home

Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wondering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood

O to grace how great a debtor
       daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness like a fetter,
       bind my wandering heart to thee

Prone to wander Lord I feel it,
       prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
       seal it for thy courts above

I am bound for the kingdom
       Won't you come with me

Hallelujah we sing

Leigh Nash: Give Myself to You (with lyrics)

Let your blood and mercy poured
Let your gracious body brokened
Be to me oh Lord
Be to me oh Lord

I live because you died
Precious Lord you came to save me
Oh you gave me life
Oh you gave me life

Now I give myself, I give myself to...

You are everything I need
You're the air I breathe
The melody I sing
You are all I want to see
You're my holy King
You're everything to me

Have my gift oh blessed one
All repentance I can offer
Love is surely won
Love is surely won

By the thorns that crowned your brow
I can claim your love unfailing
I'm in freedom now
I'm in freedom now

Robert Bowman Jr: Writing About Wrong Religions

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Peter Stravinskas: The "Pay Now or Pay Later" Principle of Roman Catholic Soteriology

James R. White: Thoughts on the Day After Election 2012 in the United States

"Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them"

Psalm 115:3-8

Our God is in heaven;
    he does whatever pleases him.

But their idols are silver and gold,
    made by the hands of men.

They have mouths, but cannot speak,
    eyes, but they cannot see;

they have ears, but cannot hear,
    noses, but they cannot smell;

they have hands, but cannot feel,
    feet, but they cannot walk;
    nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

Those who make them will be like them,
    and so will all who trust in them.

 

Mary's Boy (by Alathea), with lyrics

I cant't wait until Christmas! I have to post this right now :) 

  Mary's boy, humble and lowly

Mary's boy, strong and mighty
Man of sorrows
Now comes the joy
The weight of the world rides on Mary's boy

Every mountain, every sea
By the Lord they came to be
The rejoicing o'er the land
Turned to grief by Adam's hand
Said the father to the son of the world that we have made
There must be a sacrifice
A price that must be paid

Mary's boy, humble and lowly
Mary's boy, strong and mighty
Man of sorrows
Now comes the joy
The weight of the world rides on Mary's boy

A kingdom born in Bethlehem
Would redeem Jerusalem
Wise men journeyed bringing gifts
And the wrath of Herod's fist
Joseph took his baby and wife
They fled to the Nile
Out of Egypt God would call
Call his only child

Mary's boy, humble and lowly
Mary's boy, strong and mighty
Man of sorrows
Now comes the joy
The weight of the world rides on Mary's boy

Justification in three soteriological systems: Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Easy Believism (by John Gerstner)

Pastor Rolly Cayabyab's "Isang Silip sa Langit" (with lyrics)

"Boring ang Sine, Hindi ang Bibliya" (~John Piper)

R.C. Sproul's "Knowing Scripture": Eleven Lectures on Bible Interpretation

Why Study the Bible?

Private Interpretation

The Science of Interpretation

Literal Interpretation

Literary Forms (Part 1)

Literary Forms (Part 2)

Reading the Bible Existentially

The Explicit and the Implicit

Parallelisms

Scripture and Culture

Principle vs. Custom

Principle vs. Custom (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 11)

Scripture & Culture (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 10)

Parallelisms (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 9)

The Explicit and the Implicit (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 8)

Reading the Bible Existentially (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 7)

Literary Forms (Part 2) (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 6)

Literary Forms (Part 1) (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 5)

Literal Interpretation (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 4)

The Science of Interpretation (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 3)

Private Interpretation (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 2)

Why Study the Bible? (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 1)

The Admiral's Speech

"Into Jesus" then & now: DC Talk (1998), Jamie Grace (2011)

Into Jesus

DC Talk (1998)

Into Jesus

Jamie Grace (2011)

Sandra McCracken's "In Feast Or Fallow" (acoustic)

When the fields are dry, and the winter is long

Blessed are the meek, the hungry, the poor

When my soul is downcast, and my voice has no song

For mercy, for comfort, I wait on the Lord

In the harvest feast or the fallow ground,

My certain hope is in Jesus found

My lot, my cup, my portion sure

Whatever comes, we shall endure

Whatever comes, we shall endure

On a cross of wood, His blood was outpoured

He rose from the ground, like a bird to the sky

Bringing peace to our violence, and crushing death’s door

Our Maker incarnate, our God who provides.

When the earth beneath me crumbles and quakes

Not a sparrow falls, nor a hair from my head

Without His hand to guide me, my shield and my strength

In joy or in sorrow, in life or in death

Thy Way Not Mine

May mga kantang mahirap awitin, hindi dahil sa mataas ang mga nota o mahirap sabayan ang tiyempo, kundi dahil maaawit lamang ito nang may sinseridad kung ang puso'y ganap na nagpapasakop sa kalooban ng Diyos.

Thy Way Not Mine

Lyrics by Horatius Bonar

This beautiful rendition is by Stephen Gates & Melissa Yakes

On My Brother's Wedding Day, I Remember George Matheson

O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

Sandra McCracken's rendition

Many conjectures have been made regarding the cause of the mental distress which prompted the author to write this text. A very popular account, although never substantiated, is that this text was an outgrowth of Matheson's fiancee's leaving him just before their marriage when she learned of his impending total blindness. Although this story cannot be documented, there are many significant hints in this hymn reflecting a saddened heart, such as the "flickering torch" and the "borrowed ray" in the second stanza, the tracing of the "rainbow through the rain" in the third stanza, as well as the "cross" in the last verse. Fortunately, Dr. Matheson did leave an account of his writing of this hymn: 

"My hymn was composed in the manse of Innellan on the evening of the 6th of June, 1882. I was at that time alone. It was the day of my sister's marriage, and the rest of the family were staying overnight in Glasgow. Something happened to me, which was known only to myself, and which caused me the most severe mental suffering. The hymn was the fruit of that suffering. It was the quickest bit of work I ever did in my life. I had the impression rather of having it dictated to me by some inward voice than of working it out myself. I am quite sure that the whole work was completed in five minutes, and equally sure it never received at my hands any retouching or correction. I have no natural gift of rythm. All the other verses I have ever written are manufactured articles; this came like a dayspring from on high. I have never been able to gain once more the same fervor in verse."

101 Hymn Stories

Kenneth Osbeck 

Tignan Mo (Emanwel)

James R. White: Living Out Sola Fide (55:46)

My Favorite Back-to-School Song

Ligo with Me

Rene Requestas

from the movie Elvis and James

BORN THIS WAY: John Macarthur's Compassionate Yet Uncompromising Response to Chad Allen

No matter gay, straight or bi

Lesbian, transgendered life

I'm on the right track, baby

I was born to survive

I'm beautiful in my way

'Cause God makes no mistakes

I'm on the right track, baby

I was born this way

~ Lady Gaga

KING: All right, John, let me -- let me move to other members of the panel. We have four members of the panel. I want to get everyone in. John, what do you say to those who say, What about Chad and the love of his life being together? Isn't that better than, say, the heterosexual marriage where one of the partners cheats? Who is contributing more to the moral decay of the society, the adulterous husband with the female wife or the loving gay couple who don't do that?


MACARTHUR: Yes, well, you're asking me to do something I really can't do, and make a judgment on which sin is better or worse than the other. We've suffered in this country from adultery, divorce, the abuse of children, pedophilia, you name it. I'm not going to classify those in rank. They're sins, and they destroy the family. KING: And homosexuality is...


MACARTHUR: And homosexuality...


KING: ... a sin to you.


MACARTHUR: Yes. And...


KING: Therefore, it's a choice.


MACARTHUR: It's a choice you make. It's a sinful choice.


KING: Did you make a choice to be heterosexual?


MACARTHUR: I don't think I had to make a choice to be heterosexual. I think that's a natural thing.


KING: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. In other words, one is a choice and one is not?


MACARTHUR: Yes.


KING: So he was unlucky and you're...


MACARTHUR: Because -- because you're not talking about -- because it's natural to be heterosexual. That's built...


KING: What do you mean by natural?


MACARTHUR: Well, I mean, that's the way God made us. That's the normal...


KING: But if he doesn't feel that way, what is he, then? He's not a sinner. It wasn't his decision.


MACARTHUR: Yes, I think it was his decision.


ALLEN: I would love, absolutely love for the pastor to point out for me when in my life I made that decision because I have to tell you, it caused a lot of pain in my family. It caused a lot of pain to me. It's a very, very tough thing that I had to go through. I don't remember making that decision. If I did, maybe can you point it out, but that wasn't the case for me.


(CROSSTALK)


ALLEN: It's who I am. You also said that it was in the fabric of the human being that -- to understand that marriage was between a man and a woman and that's what family was. It must not be because it's not in the fabric of what who I am. It's not the way I see it. I think families come in all shapes, sizes and colors.


MACARTHUR: Well, let me respond this way, Chad, and say it had to be in the fabric of humanity or you wouldn't be here.


ALLEN: I believe that reproduction is. I'll give you that. I absolutely believe that reproduction is. However, I think family, the definition of family and the definition of reproduction are very, very different things.


KING: All right...


MACARTHUR: Well, what I said earlier is the DNA, the genetic structure of humanity, of civilization, of society is family. Everybody knows that. That's in the heart. That's how it works. You're coming along with others who are homosexual in their perspective and overturning what is natural to everyone.


KING: Could they also be asking to the privilege of something you have preached for years? Marriage is a healthy, wonderful thing, and they're saying, Let us in...


(CROSSTALK)


KING: Why would you deny it to them?


MACARTHUR: Let me respond to Chad, too, just on a personal basis, Chad, by saying, I don't think at some point you said, OK, I'm going to be a homosexual. I got two alternatives. You know, I'm going to go be a homosexual. But I do think whatever sin patterns show up in our lives -- and it may be different for us -- we can choose to continue down those paths of sin, whether it's adultery or whatever it is, or we can say, Look, this is sin, and I need to deal with this in my heart. If this is the way I'm being led, it's not right. It doesn't honor God. It's not according to his word. It's not going to ultimately bring blessing on life. I make the choice at that -- I can't make a choice to be a sinner, OK? I am. We all are. But once you start down the path of sin, if you recognize that it is that, then you look to the Lord for the remedy to that.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/24/lkl.00.html

The Valley Song (Jars of Clay)

Jesus Savior Pilot Me (Bifrost Arts)

Though the sea be smooth and bright,

Sparkling with the stars of night,

And my ship’s path be ablaze

With the light of halcyon days,

Still I know my need of Thee;

Savior, pilot me.

As a mother stills her child,

Thou canst hush the ocean wild;

Boisterous waves obey Thy will,

When Thou sayest to them, “Be still!”

Wondrous Sovereign of the sea,

Savior, pilot me.

Dungog ug Himaya (with an English Translation)

Dungog ug himaya sa langit ug sa yuta
(Honor and glory in heaven and on earth)

Ang tanan, O Dios, Kanimo lamang
(Everything, O God, is Yours alone)

puno sa gugma nga walay katapusan
(You are filled with love that's without end)

O Dios, awiton ko ang gugma Mo.
(O God, I will sing of Your love)

Ginoong Diyos mahigugmaon sa tanan

(Lord God loving to all)

Takos Kang daygon ug simbahon ug halaran

(Worthy are You to be praised and worshipped and offered unto)

Ang tanan kong gugma ginatugyan ko Kanimo

(All my love i am entrusting to You)

Ang kinabuhi ko, O Dios, Kanimo lamang.

(My life, O God is Yours alone).

Translated by Sheryll Yap

An Unplanned Creationism Debate at TBN

James R. White Sola Scriptura Debate Closing Statement (1999)