Recommended Christian Music and Starving Dogs

Hey,

Just want to recommend some random Christian tracks to you all!

They'll come thick and fast and in a variety of different styles and differing levels of cheesiness. So here we go!

Amy Grant - Lead Me On
Sounds very 90's ish, but it's a real fun track!

Newsboys - He Reigns
I had to have a friend tell me that this was quite cheesy, and I suppose "From the African plains" is quite a naff line. Nevertheless it is saved by the uplifting chorus and pre and post choruses. Best part of the song:

And all the powers of darkness,
Tremble at what they've just heard,
'cause all the powers of darkness,
Can't drown out a single word...

When all God's children sing out:
Glory glory!
Hallelujah!
He reigns! He reigns!

Kathryn Scott - Hungry
This is probably the best personal worship song made, it's so frank and heartfelt. Makes a tear or two form everytime. Best line:

Jesus, You’re all this heart is living for

Rebecca St. James - Omega

May the grace of our Lord be with you,
now and always may you stay,
blameless till he comes

May the love of our Lord be with you,
now and always may you stay,
blameless till he comes

I don't know why that's so amazing, but it just is.

Starfield - How Great Thou Art / Great Is The Lord
Good guitar hook (very simple but effective). I like how they used one of their own song's (Great Is The Lord) tune to put some lyrics to How Great Thou Art. I think it works rather well but was surprised when I thought that I wasn't getting the CD I paid for! (That's a whole different story, which I will probably go into on my geek profile

The Kry - Beautiful
Good guitar work in this; I say good, it sounds good but I can't play so I don't know if it's really simple to play or not. Anyway, it's a lot like a love song, but loses normal secularism when they sing:

No one
No one else in all the Heavens
Can love me like you do
No one else can give to me
The gift of life
When I am so undeserving
You moved the world for me
Now I can see
That it's clear when I look in your eyes

Hillsong: United - Most High
Gotta have Hillsongs in any list of Christian songs. Just straight out praise. Woo yeah! Main lyrics include:

Put a new song in my mouth,
Of praise to You,
And the world will see and fear Your name...

Worthy...
Worthy is the Lord,
Worthy...
Worthy is the Lord, Most High!

Steven Curtis Chapman - Dive
Another fun song, probably quite cheesy too! Good lyrics set to a bouncy 90's tune. Awesome.

I'm diving in I'm going deep in over my head I want to be
Caught in the rush lost in the flow in over my head I want to go
The rivers deep the rivers wide the rivers water is alive
So sink or swim I'm diving in

I can't imagine anyone has found this remotely useful... Oh well! I felt like wasting some time and diverting attention away from other, less beneficial activities.


Which reminds me! There was a good talk at my Christian Union this evening (didn't get to play the drums... bah!), and it basically boils down to this. There are kind of two natures inside you, like two dogs fighting each other all of the time; which one wins is ultimately down to us. "But which one will win?". The one we feed the most...

So! Feed the holy dog and starve out the sinful dog inside of you, so that we actually half-deserve the holy person that God is preparing in and for you.

I'm sorry about my awful grammar,overzealous full stop usage and incorrect semicolon usage; but it's just how my thoughts have come out

Monotheism and Tritheism equal?

I've been mulling this over and over in my mind, and just can't seem to get it. God is beyond my understanding (obviously) and I will never be able to work Him out. But yet I still try.

Anyway, my previous position seems wrong, I wish it wasn't because it kind of makes sense to me; but it just doesn't stand up to Biblical exegesis.

Basically, the Bible proves beyond doubt that Jesus is God. Not just in the New Testament either but in the Old too. You can dodge past most of the verses, saying that it addresses God in Jesus, not God Jesus; but some are unavoidable.

Isaiah 9:6-7
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this."

Acts 3:14-15
"But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses."

Besides loads of other references.

So where does this leave me? Lost and confused that's where. Jesus is God. Jesus prays to the Father. The Father is God. The Father sends the Spirit down to Earth. The Spirit is God.

Blatent Tritheism if you ask me, but if that's what the Bible says exists, then to logically be a Christian I'd have to accept this. It's very hard. It sounds too close to Tritheism to seem "right". The Trinity is stupidly easy to prove, once you know where to look. It just seems so opposite to Monotheism to be actually real... A funny thing which comes out of this is that we can address God as Them, since He uses the word "us" to reference Himself numerous times in Genesis if we assume that the us isn't referring to God and His angels.

I've heard the "buzzphrase" about the "One God in Three Persons". I don't have an issue with the existence of God, the existence of Jesus and the presence of God's spirit. It's just how they all fit together that's the puzzle.

No wonder theologians have been battling about this for literally centuries, both sides are equally provable, equally defensible and equally believable. Obviously for various different people. Who am I to step into this and try and set things right? I need to go to Bible college.

I'm sure it'll be all right in the end as long as we have faith in God, His life changing effects and following His and Jesus' will and fully trusting Him for salvation.