Fancy, big-worded poetry

I'm reading Knowing God by JI Packer (still) and I came across this poem by Isaac Watts in the chapter 'The Grace of God' - enjoy and comment as you see fit!

But there's a voice of princely grace
Sounds from God's holy Word;
Ho! ye poor captive sinners, come,
And trust upon the Lord.

My soul obeys the sovereign call,
And runs to this relief;
I would believe thy promise, Lord,
Oh, help my unbelief.

To the blest fountain of thy blood,
Incarnate God, I fly,
To wash my soul from scarlet stains,
And sins of deepest dye.

A guilty, weak, and helpless worm,
Into thy hands I fall;
Thou art the Lord, my righteousness,
My Saviour, and my all.

I love it. You?

Ephesians 2:5!

Much love
Wayne
James 1:22

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'Knowing God' by J.I. Packer

You read it? I'm digging it, for sure. What are you reading right now? What's it teaching you? Non fiction/fiction? Would you recommend it to me?

Some thoughts on 'Knowing God':
- We can know God! Seriously, this never gets old
- Having sound doctrine matters (Matt Chandler and Packer would get along great)
- The Trinity is incredibly complex, and as much as I'd like to say I get it, I don't. (Side note: The best work of fiction on the Trinity is The Chronicles of Narnia; CS uses Aslan to paint a really great picture of all three Persons. Scratching your head? Reread 'A Horse and His Boy' for the Holy Spirit.incredible)
- God never changes. Oh thank You for that! Super comforting
- People who know their God are different than people who know about their God. And the difference is huge in life, joy, peace, strength, witness
- "To be preoccupied with getting theological knowledge as an end in itself, to approach Bible study with no higher a motive than a desire to know all the answers, is the direct route to a self-satisfied self-deception. We need to guard our hearts against such an attitude, and pray to be kept from it"

Much love
Wayne
James 1:22

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Some links and such

http://mockingbirdnyc.blogspot.com/2009/04/osteen-great-smile-crushing-theology.html - I love Mockingbird
http://relit.org/porn_again_christian/ - Driscoll's goods on the lust and porn issues
http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/faith-and-culture/unfashionable-is-in/ - Kary always has good thoughts, and is always humble about it; this is a book I think I'll be reading someday soon
http://itsmandyc.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/sunshine-cleaning-r-%E2%80%93/ - seriously, I use Mandy's movie reviews more than I use Rotten Tomatoes'
http://www.neueministry.com/ - I kind of love everything here
http://www.lala.com/ - and I definitely love this one; cheap music that's legit
http://www.patgillen.net/?p=767 - My boy Pat knows what's up; start with this one and keep following him. Totally worth it
http://40thstreetvb.blogspot.com/2009/04/truly-christian-depression.html - Ross is a friend I'm blessed to have
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/ - I'm still figuring how much I like Seth's thoughts; so far so good
http://treesclaphands.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-sermon-from-bishop-tom.html - everyone should be friends with Brez. He's the man

Much love
Wayne
James 1:22

Twitter and pancakes

I think Twitter is knocking on my top 25 most favorite things. I mean, I don't love it like I love Jesus or my mom or the Gators, but I do enjoy seeing what some of the pastors I love are thinking about and how they have resources and such to help folks like me. There's plenty of times when I get annoyed with some of the tweets (that they are called tweets is probably my least favorite part of Twitter...) from folks, but mostly I dig it. I use TweetDeck and Destroy Twitter - do you Twitter and if so, how do you use it?

Also, pancakes are really great.

And now, the real deal: God is SO great! I started meeting with Santo this morning and we're walking through the book of John and just laying the ground work for his early stages in discipleship. It's incredible! Have I mentioned lately that discipleship is what's up? Who is discipling you? Who are you discipling? Cause you should be doing both, for real, right now. So go on, do it.

Much love
Wayne
James 1:22

Cheers

I have a place that I love to spend time at called Buffalo Beach. It's a little sports bar joint where the people are super nice, the food is delicious and they have a 9' HDTV. They know my name when I come in, and even save 'my' booth when I tell them I'm coming. It's incredible. Anybody watch that old show Cheers? It was really great and you should check it out. It was based around this bar where everyone knew every knows your name (theme song is top 10 material). Buffalo Beach is my Cheers.

Do you have a Cheers?

Much love
Wayne
James 1:22

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