10 Quotes & A Song About (Sweet) Forgiveness

"Sweet Forgiveness"

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I was surprised to see you in the store recently.  And after all this time, the tears still welled up in my eyes.  (Chorus) I do forgive you with all that that means.  Though the wounds and scars you left still bleed.  And who can say if I’ll ever forget, all those things you did without regret.  But there's still forgiveness- sweet forgiveness, yet.  You don't know this but we've talked.  I've begged you for answers with no response.  I've searched for peace. And all I want is to be free.  (Bridge)  Some people say that forgiveness is the key.  It opens the door and sets you free.  (Final Chorus)  I do forgive you with all that that means.  Though the wounds and scars you left still bleed.  And I will not live a life of regret, when I could live with love instead.  But there's still forgiveness- sweet forgiveness, yet.

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Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen. – Words of Absolution from The Book of Common Prayer

“Don't you want to be there/don't you want to cry/when you see how far you've got to go to be where forgiveness rules/instead of where you are?” -Songwriter Jackson Browne

We forgive people not because they deserve our forgiveness, but because we want to be free. – Author Mike Mason

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Author and Ethicist Lewis Smedes

“The triumph of sin, the main sign of its rule over the world, is division, opposition, separation, hatred. Therefore, the first break through this fortress of sin is forgiveness: the return to unity, solidarity, love. To forgive is to put between me and my ‘enemy’ the radiant forgiveness of God Himself. Forgiveness is truly a ‘breakthrough’ of the Kingdom into this sinful and fallen world.”  - Fr. Alexander Schmemann

When you forgive, you release yourself as well as the other person. You allow life to go on, to bypass your exaggerated sense of virtue and your worry about being offended. As long as you sit on your power to forgive, you suppress your joy in life. You also limit yourself: If you keep those you love within tight boundaries of behavior, you have to bind yourself as well lest you be a hypocrite. – Author and Psychotherapist Thomas Moore

[The Bible] does not say ‘Forgive everyone, unless they’ve said something rude about your child.’ And it doesn’t even say, ‘Just try.’ It says, If you want to be forgiven, if you want to experience that kind of love, you have to forgive everyone in your life- everyone, even the very worst boyfriend you ever had – even, for God’s sake, yourself. – Author Anne Lamott

 [Divine forgiveness] demands of me that I step over that wounded part of my heart that feels hurt and wronged and that wants to stay in control and put a few conditions between me and the one whom I am asked to forgive. This ‘stepping over’ is the authentic discipline of forgiveness. –Author and Catholic Priest Henri Nouwen

 To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend." …Our unforgivingness is among those things about us that we need to have God forgive us most. – Author Frederick Buechner

...Whoever has been forgiven little loves little. - Jesus Christ

Orthodox Christians would commend to us their annual observance and celebration of “Forgiveness Sunday,” the first service of Lent where congregant and priest alike kneel before each other during worship for to ask forgiveness one for the other. Beautiful! Alexander Schmemann has written a short piece on this Christian Orthodox tradition HERE.

Video: "I Need You" (Live)

"I Need You"

About ten years ago I was teaching through the Psalms at a local church youth group.

One of the highlights of the series, ironically, was learning together that Psalms of Lament were more numerous than any other genre (Creation Psalms, Salvation History Psalms, Royal Psalms, Thanksgiving Psalms, etc).

This was an epiphany for us! It was as if we'd been given a pass to be sad- to be realistic about Sam's parents' divorce, and Laura's recent break up, and the betrayal of Jenn by her friends.  More than this, we'd been given a pass to be sad IN WORSHIP- in the presence of God and one another!

So in an effort to represent the lament of our group, and help us remember the summer and the deep truth of the presence of sad Psalms in the Bible, I wrote a modern day Psalm of Lament called "I Need You."  (A few years later a band called "The Swift" put this on their album, releasing it as a radio single. You can hear their version here and here.)

Above is a recent performance of "I Need You."  You can also download/purchase it on iTunes.  And here is a chord chart!

“I Need You” 1. My heart is restless in me.  My wings are all worn out. I'm walking in the wilderness and I cannot get out. I need you, oh I need you.  Blessed Savoir, come. I need you, oh I need you.  You're the every longing of my soul.

(Chorus) Oh how I need You, Lord. I need your perfect word. With tearful eyes to see the sin that I afford. I need to weep and pray for, oh, the thousand ways that I have failed you just today.

2. My bed is soaked with sadness.  My sadness has no end; a downward spiral of despair, and I keep falling in. I need You, oh I need you.  To you my soul shall fly. I need You,  oh I need you.  YWHW, how I love you more than life.

(Bridge) Your silence is like death to me, so won't You hear my desperate plea!

3. Today my soul is soaring way over mountains high. And though I can see the valleys, they're all just passing by. It's not that I am stronger- look at my feeble wings; but I've been lifted higher.  YWHW's lifted me in his own strength

(Chorus 2) Oh how I love You, Lord.  I love your perfect word. With tearful eyes to see the God who always will endure. Now I will celebrate for, oh, the thousand ways that You have shown me grace, and made my heart, in grace to stay. You've made my heart in grace to stay.

Josh Bales (C)2003 Bryan Days Music (ASCAP)

What Counseling Means To Me

Mental health counseling, psychotherapy-or just counseling- whatever we call it, is so many things. My professors in graduate school taught me that counseling is science and art.  It is a white coat and a paint brush.  It is a personality assessment and a song.  Author Frederick Buechner might add that counseling is secret telling.  I like all of that.  So maybe counseling is the science and art of secret telling.

Without a doubt, though, counseling is conversation.  It is nothing if not conversation.  Counseling is as plain and simple- sometimes as mundane and meandering- as two people telling stories on a bench in Central Park.  But it is, at the same moment, as epic and life-changing as the reconciliation of warring people groups in South Africa.  Counseling is powerful precisely for this reason: it holds together the park bench and the peace talk... in one hour... on a Tuesday afternoon.  Welcome to counseling. And there's more!

Counseling is feeling.  It is corrective emotional experience, Irvin Yalom says.  It is learning to feel, learning to feel anew, or learning to feel for the first time.  It is learning to feel and then suddenly feeling every emotion at the same time.

But counseling is also thinking.  It's slowing down that instinctual, almost primal, emotional process just enough to let 2 + 2 = 4 have a say.

Counseling is learning to walk.  It's learning to use thoughts and feelings together in a fluid motion, like feet moving in tandem.  Left foot.  Right foot.  Left foot.  And suddenly we are walking, we are unstuck- unlodged.  We are FREE.

But there's still more.

Counseling is grieving the past.  It is talking while the tears keep coming and the Kleenex box is empty on the floor.

Counseling is hoping in the future.  It is dreaming out loud.  It is life-sized vision-casting.  It is redemption.

And counseling is looking into the eyes of the present- burning a hole in the terror staring back.

Counseling is growing a little more comfortable with being human, with walking the earth longing for heaven, with attending a funeral and then visiting a maternity ward.

Counseling is relational experimentation.  It is re-parenting, re-friending, re-pastoring; but most of all, it is re-selfing.

Counseling is prayer.  Counseling is listening.  Counseling is silence.  Counseling is being, and being loved while you're just being.

I love counseling.  I believe in counseling.  I believe in counseling because I believe in people.  And I believe in people because I believe in God.  And I believe in God because I believe in the counselor He sent, who died that humanity might find healing- with God, with each other, and with(in) themselves.  Hans Rookmaaker describes the goal of counseling best when he speaks of what Jesus came to do.  “Jesus didn't come to make us Christian; Jesus came to make us fully human."  This is my theory of counseling.

- Josh Bales

A Song For Hurting Marriages

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*Forewarning: This is a SAD song.  A song without much redemption- unless you count truth-telling and grieving as redemptive.  So I post it for those of you aren't in a redemptive place but want to be, and want to begin by just being sad about a marriage that deserves tears.  I hope it helps you express the sadness instead of numbing it.

I overheard her talking to a friend.  She was talking about us.  She said, "We married 20 years ago.  When we were both too young.  Now he never even talks to me.  And we're like strangers in the house."  She said "It's like I don't exist anymore. Sometimes I wanna scream out loud."

Chorus: "We're not in love. We're just living here.  Love's burning firehas cooled year after year.  We never fight or laugh or cry, and that's how I know that this love has died.  We're not inlove. We're just living here."

I've been working a lot of overtime. Now that the kids have moved away.  She's got her church, and her hobbies, and friends.  So get by from day to day.  But I can't stand that silent, empty house- just the two of us in there.  I wonder what we even talk about, because talking means you've got to care.

Bridge: There's been no scandal.  There's been no affair.  Just two hearts too tired to care.  We should want more, we said "I do."  Now we lay together alone in this room.

Books That Have Changed Me (And Why)

Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore A Life at Work, Thomas Moore The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life, Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore is a fantastic blend of monk, Jungian psychologist, artist, and thinker. His work is challenging and paradigm-shifting.

The Wisdom of The Enneagram, Don Riso and Russ Hudson Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery, Don Riso and Russ Hudson The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective, Richard Rohr

The Enneagram has impacted my life and my marriage as a tool for understanding personality and change in more ways than almost any other resource. As Rohr, Riso, and Hudson point out over and over, the Enneagram helps us embrace the strengths of our personalities and own the weaknesses of them. As a type 4 with a 3 wing, for example, I can enjoy artistically representing the emotional (and darker) side of life to the world, but I can also get caught up in that emotion, and the corresponding search for identity, in such a way that I’m paralyzed by it (and impossible to live with!).

Telling Secrets, Frederich Buechner Now and Then, Frederich Buechner The Sacred Journey, Frederich Buechner

Buechner is one of my all-time favorite authors and his autobiographical trilogy is a tribute to the art of the memoir. Reading each of these short books was life-changing for me not only because of the content of each, but also because of the way they put on display a man grappling with how to properly pour out one's life story onto the page for others. By the way, my dog is named Frederich Buechner Bales.

The Return of The Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen The Inner Voice of Love, Henri Nouwen The Genesee Diary, Henri Nouwen Sabbatical Journey, Henri Nouwen

When I was 18 years old a college professor recommended Henri Nouwen’s Genesee Diary and I never looked back. And my copy of Nouwen’s The Return of the Prodigal Son is colored in coffee stains, ink, and tears.

Abba's Child, Brennan Manning Ruthless Trust, Brennan Manning

In counseling and in concert I find myself talking more about Manning’s concepts of being the beloved vs. being the imposter more than anything else. It’s hard to describe how much this man’s rugged belief in God’s love for us has shaped me. I also read Manning in the context of his own well known alcohol addiction and role as former Catholic Priest. A few years before I read Ruthless Trust, I heard Manning speak on the topic via crackling cassette tape. His passion could’ve been heard on vinyl.

Traveling Mercies, Some Thoughts On Faith, Anne Lamott

I love Anne’s humor, honesty, and faith. And I love how she pushes past my bible-belt upbringing to help me wrestle with stories of doubt and faith.

A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis

Many Lewis books could be mentioned here but Lewis’ observations on his own process of grief are not to be missed. How lucky are we to have one of Christianity’s premier thinkers let us in on his emotional life at one of its darkest moments?

Practicing The Presence of People, Mike Mason The Mystery of Marriage, Mike Mason

One day my therapist handed me a faded photo-copied page from Mike Mason on the subject of sadness. This chapter alone is worth the price of Practicing the Presence of People, but there’s so much more.  When Mindy and I were engaged we would read aloud together The Mystery of Marriage…well actually I would try to read it aloud but Mason’s words were so moving to me that I could barely finish a single page without crying. Mindy would have to take over from there. Mason’s observations on marriage are incredible. I recommend this book to each couple I counsel.

Lament For A Son, Nicholas Wolterstorff

Wolterstorff is not only a premier theologian in the US, he is also a man and father who knows what it means to grieve and wrestle with God on the subject of loss and death. Nicholas lost his son suddenly in a climbing accident. This short book is a tear-jerker but one I return to often in times of sadness, just to read someone saying “me too.”

The Book of Common Prayer

I love the prayers and services of the BCP. When I was 18 or 19 years old, I visited an old Episcopal church in Chattanooga, TN. It was a Wednesday evening Eucharist. There may have been 4 people in the sanctuary, including the Priest. The other two attendees knew the service by heart. But I, on the other hand, had never heard the Nicene Creed until that very night. And I wept. I could barely get the words out through my tears because of the beauty, depth, reverence, and majesty of the Christian’s relationship with God, put on display by the prayers and liturgy of the BCP. Looking back, it was probably this first, formative, experience with the BCP that would lead to my own decision to pursue the priesthood in the Anglican Church.

The Lyrics, Stories, and Artwork for "Count The Stars"

COUNT THE STARS, Josh Bales | ARTWORK and LINER NOTES

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01 I Am Me (Salvation) To Fritz, Matt, Jeremiah, and Kevin 1. What I long for, what I fear, is to know and be known. But I hide. I disappear like a secret never told. In my guilt and in my shame, I begin to separate. I begin to lose myself until you call my name. Chorus: Then suddenly Iʼm me- who Iʼm meant to be. I am whole. I am home. I am seen. I am known. I am me. 2. Oh my heart begins to wake, then the chill begins to thaw. Yeah the memories start to flood and my tears begin to fall. Like a feast for a starving man, I can hardly take it in. And the saints and the angels sing when they hear you call my name. Bridge: I wonʼt be afraid. ʻCause when you call my name...

Hans Rookmaaker said “Jesus didn't come to make us Christian; Jesus came to make us fully human." And St. Irenaeus “The glory of God is man fully alive." Eastern Orthodox Christians talk about the goal of salvation as “theosis” or becoming divine. The Orthodox talk about salvation not as becoming a different person, nor as becoming God, but as becoming the truest, deepest, most redeemed versions of ourselves! In salvation, Jesus is making us who God intended us to be. This is the most personal song on the project. It reflects my theological and psychological theory of sanctification and change. I use the ideas of this song in therapy with clients, and in my own personal walk with Jesus, often reminding myself that, where as sin fragments me, Jesus wants to make me whole. He wants to make me “me.”

02 Your Kingdom Come (Kingdom) 1. The kingdom is coming. The kingdom is at hand. Through the great parade of providence, Godʼs kingdom expands. Until one day all thatʼs old will be made new. One day all thatʼs sad will be made untrue. We will lift our eyes to the King, Jesus Christ. Until then weʼll pray: Chorus: Your kingdom come. Your will be done on this earth as it is in heaven. 2. We are not abandoned. Weʼre children of the king. Redemption is our story but we havenʼt reached the ending. Our battle is not fought with the weapons of a war, but with love and justice all will be restored. The king will return. Heʼll and bring heaven to earth. Until then weʼll pray: Bridge Our tears are not lost. Our hope is not vain. One day- one day- weʼll see him at last so, Christian, hold fast. Hold fast and pray.

This song was written for my church, Lake Baldwin Church, in Orlando, on its seventh anniversary. I wanted to express the idea that praying the Lordʼs Prayer is not defeated resignation or mere wistful wishing for an easy fix to a complicated and sinful world. No, praying the Lordʼs Prayer is a bold act of faith, an action that theologians call a “speech act,” that is, a group of words that accomplish what they say. In other words, as we pray for Godʼs kingdom to be realized on earth, our prayer is answered, in part, as Godʼs kingdom is realized more fully in our own hearts and lives. The idea is that our prayer becomes our life. As we pray, so we live. I love the way the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts this: “We pray as we live, because we live as we pray (CCC, 2725, The Battle of Prayer).”

03 Count The Stars (Hope) 1. When I lay me down to sleep at night underneath a sacramental sky, I count the stars- count them if I can, then rest my dreams inside my Makerʼs hands. Oh I count the stars. 2. I count the stars for they are signs to me- pictures of a future I canʼt see. Like a mother with no child to hold, every starʼs a child I call my own. So I count the stars. (Chorus) On my darkest night a million beams of light ask me to believe that your promise is like a starlit sky- bigger than my dreams. So in my doubting dark I count the stars. 3. I count the stars when hope is hard to find, when there's no morning for my soul's dark night. And when my longing heart feels weak and thin, I lift my head and count the stars again. I count the stars. (Bridge) Oh help me see (that) your promise is bigger than my dreams.

I wrote this song for my churchʼs sixth anniversary, when we were studying the life of Abraham. Friends and members of my church were struggling with really dark life moments like infertility, existential doubt, and disappointments in careers and marriages. My pastor and a church member (the designer of this projectʼs artwork, Brandy Nicks) called the series on Abraham “Count The Stars” and I said, “Man, that would be a great song title!” I wrote the song that week and played it at church the following Sunday. As I began to play it live for other events, the song started to take on a life of its own. One couple at an event in Texas, in connection with Bryan College, my alma mater and the institution to which this recording is dedicated, offered to help pay for the recording. I contacted Ed Cash and we made the song together. After that, I used the song to help kick off my Kickstarter campaign and, after meeting the goal, we turned a one song project into a full EP. It was incredible. The message of the song was playing out in my own life! God was blowing me away with his blessings- in ways that far surpassed even my dreams.

04 Homesick (Desire) 1. Standing at the brothel door, past his lust there is so much more. For his sin, like an SOS, tells us of his soulʼs distress. See his longing. See his holy fire. See the journey of his heartʼs desire. Chorus 1: All our longings- theyʼre like sacred signs. And they point us to the God behind them all. Thatʼs why sadness, and every sweet romance- thatʼs why sunsets always make us homesick. 2. Lifeless marriage. Twenty years. Why want more, when she can disappear? But still desire calls her name, bids her cry the tears of faith. See her longing. See her holy fire. See the journey of her heartʼs desire. Chorus 2: All our longings- theyʼre like sacred signs. And they point us to the God behind them all. Thatʼs why laughter, and every moonlight kiss- thatʼs why silence always makes us homesick. Bridge: Hear the echo in the ache. Feel the longing in the pain. Itʼs the way you were made.

G.K. Chesterton wrote “Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really searching for God.” And Brent Curtis, in an article titled “Less-Wild Lovers: Standing At The Crossroads of Desire,” says “In all of our hearts lies a longing for a Sacred Romance. It will not go away in spite of our efforts over the years to anesthetize or ignore its song, or attach it to a single person or endeavor.” This is a song about what we do with our desire for God, as seen through the story of a sex- addicted man, and a woman stuck in a lifeless marriage. This is a song about how our longing is a sign that points to the creator of the longing and the thing longed for. Though an uncomfortable message at first, this song is meant to deepen our awareness of how even our sinful patterns point to the deeper truth that we are all made in Godʼs image, and thus haunted by our truest identity every day, in every experience of life, good or bad.

05 Isnʼt That Amazing Grace (Identity) To Brennan Manning and Henri Nouwen 1. Underneath the countenance of God we all try to hide. We forget how he loves us so, we forget weʼre Abbaʼs child. So when the lies are loud, let the gospel drown them out. Chorus: Come out, sinner, from those shadows, Every corner of your shame. Donʼt you know youʼre his beloved? You donʼt have to hide your face. Isnʼt that amazing grace? 2. But there are other voices in our hearts. Theyʼre imposters in disguise. And they tell us we canʼt trust his love- that on our selves we must rely. But when the lies are loud, let the gospel drown them out. Bridge: Donʼt believe the lies. Youʼre beloved, Abbaʼs child. No more guilt and shame, ʻcause isnʼt that amazing grace?

This is a song about the comfort of the gospel. As the beloved of God we donʼt have to hide in shame. Not only is our brokenness deeply accepted by God, it is that brokenness- along with the entirety of the fallen creation- that God is redeeming in Jesus Christ. The chorus “Come out, sinner” is a simple, daily invitation to rest in Godʼs grace, acceptance, and love. I believe far too many of us live the majority of our spiritual and relational lives in hiding simply because we donʼt know, trust, or feel Godʼs deep, abiding love for us. Two authors who have written extensively about Godʼs grace and our identity as Godʼs beloved, are Brennan Manning and Henri Nouwen. This song was patterned particularly after Manningʼs book “Abbaʼs Child,” where he addresses the difference in living as Godʼs beloved verses living as the imposter, or false self.

06 Sweet Forgiveness (Forgiveness) 1. I was surprised to see you in the store recently. And after all this time, the tears still welled up in my eyes. (Chorus) I do forgive you with all that that means. Though the wounds and scars you left still bleed. And who can say if Iʼll ever forget all those things you did without regret. But there's still forgiveness- sweet forgiveness, yet. 2. You don't know this but we've talked. I've begged you for answers with no response. I've searched for peace. And all I want is to be free. (Bridge) Some people say that forgiveness is the key It opens the door and sets you free. (Final Chorus) I do forgive you with all that that means. Though the wounds and scars you left still bleed. And I will not live a life of regret when I could live with love instead. ʻCause there's still forgiveness- sweet forgiveness, yet.

I wrote this song for a sermon at my church. Our pastor was preaching on the Lordʼs Prayer, specifically the phrase “forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” I began to think about the most difficult moments in my life, and the lives of others I knew- the moments where the miracle of forgiveness was most needed. And as I reflected on the power of forgiveness, the adjective “sweet” kept coming to mind. I pictured what it would mean for victims of abuse and affairs, betrayals and tragedies, to be given the gift of forgiveness for their perpetrators. And I mostly wept while writing this song. Initially I had no intention of recording the song because it seemed too dark. But as I began to play the song live in shows, the response was overwhelming as listeners came up to tell me their story of pain and forgiveness. So we recorded it in the studio with one emotional, live take on the guitar. No click track. And our hope was to keep it simple and raw.

Christian Worship Resources

Adoration Of the Lamb

Worship Resources

BOOKS

Webber, Robert, the Ancient-Future Series (Ancient Future Faith, Ancient Future Time, etc).  All of Robert Webber’s books are helpful.  

Schmemann, Alexander, For The Life of the World.  This book is a great piece on the Sacrament of the Eucharist, as well as an introduction to thinking about he world from a sacramental perspective.

Marva J. Dawn, Reaching out Without Dumbing Down, Eerdmans, 1995 and A Royal Waste of Time, Eerdmans, 1999.  If you're moving from a more free-Church worship setting to a liturgical worship setting, Dawn's work will provide a great foundation.

Galli, Mark, Beyond Bells and Smells: The Wonder and Power of Christian Liturgy.  This is a very accessible introduction to liturgy.

Keller, Tim, see TK's articles online regarding Christian worship.  Find them simply by googling the topic and Keller's name!

Smith, James K.A., Desiring the Kingdom and Imagining the Kingdom.

Chan, Simon, Liturgical Theology.

Frame, John, Contemporary Worship, P&R Publishing.  Frame's perspective on Christian worship is helpful and wise.  He approaches the subject from a Reformed/Presbyterian ethos.

White, James F., Protestant Worship: Tradition in Transition.  White's book is a bit heavy but a good introduction to a wide range of issues.

Service Helps (Liturgy, Prayers, Instructions)

The Book of Common Prayer

The Worship Sourcebook (Published by the Christian Reformed Church (CRC)).

The Book of Common Worship (1943 Presbyterian).

Prayers for All God’s People (Methodist, Upper Room Press)

The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions (ed.by Arthur Bennet).

Lutheran Book of Worship.

The 1982 Hymnal, The Episcopal Church

The Trinity Hymnal and The Trinity Psalter

“Everyday Prayers” by Pastor Scotty Smith

Online

www.ancientfaithradio.org Eastern Orthodox Lectures and Music

Cathedral Church of Saint Luke, My home church in Orlando.

www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM Cathechism of The Catholic Church

www.ntwrightpage.com Fascinating Theologian

www.sevenrivers.org Wonderful Church in Florida

www.redmountainchurch.org and www.igracemusic.com Retuned Hymns

www.bcponline.org Anglican Worship Book (Book Of Common Prayer)

www.cyberhymnal.org Hymns Online (Search by Tune, Meter, etc)

www.creeds.net  Creeds Across Christianity

www.igracemusic.com  Retuned Hymns

SONGS

Come People Of The Risen King (Getty Music)

His Love Can Never Fail (www.igracemusic.com)

Satisfied (http://www.redmountainchurch.org/rmm/alb/lyrics.html)

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (http://www.themidtownproject.com/downloads/)

Jesus, Lover of My Soul (igracemusic) Come Away From Rush and Hurry (Lyrics by Author Marva Dawn)

Thy Mercy My God (igracemusic.com)

How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds (igracemusic.com)

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go (igracemusic.com)

Psalm 73 (igracemusic.com)

God Be Merciful To Me (igracemusic.com)

Come Ye Sinners (igracemusic.com)

Jesus Everlasting King (igracemusic.com)

Lord Have Mercy (by Steve Merkyl)

I Will Glory in My Redeemer (Sovereign Grace Music)

My Hope is Built (traditional)

All Creatures of our God and King (traditional)

Be Thou My Vision (traditional)

Come Thou Fount (traditional)

Before the Throne of God Above (Cook arrangement)

In Christ Alone (Getty/Townend)

Holy, Holy, Holy  (traditional)

How Deep the Father’s Love for Us (Stuart Townend)

How Firm a Foundation (traditional)

This is My Father’s World (traditional)

It is Well (traditional)

‘Tis So Sweet (traditional)

Our God is Greater (Tomlin)

Lord, I Need You and Christ Is Risen (Matt Maher)