This has become a personal favorite worship song. The studio recording of this song can download through iTunes for a buck.
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Only You Satisfy by Zack Jones
Speaking of worship and idolatry, this song by Zach Jones is incredible. You can buy it for a buck here.
Only You Satisfy
So hungry, so thirsty for / That which satisfies / This world’s full of broken cisterns / That have left me dry
There’s only one place where I’ll / Find what You made me for / There’s only one true fountain / That satisfies my soul
Only You / You’re the Fountain of living water / Only You satisfy my soul / You’re the source of eternal pleasures / Only You satisfy my soul
So desperate, so needy for / You to open my eyes / To see where I’ve turned to idols / Where I’ve bought their lies
There’s only one place where I’ll / Find what I’m looking for / There’s only one true fountain / That satisfies my soul
Whom have I / In heaven but You, Lord /And the earth / Has no one / Above You, Lord / Whom have I / In heaven but You, Lord / And the earth / Has nothing I desire above You, Lord
© 2006 NAP Record
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American Idol – sermon jam by Mark Driscoll
In our makeup-for-men culture, Mark Driscoll wears combat boots. Today we feature a sermon jam off the upcoming release from our friends at 10:31. Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, challenges us to see the idols of our culture.
While there’s nothing intrinsically sinful about recreation, food, sports, and entertainment — this is a great challenge to consider the idolatry that grows from these in our culture. He reminds us that it’s so much easier to see the idols of other cultures. The jam is titled America’s Idols:
“It dawned on me that idolatry is what we often see in someone else’s culture and in our culture we just think it’s the Bass Pro Shop, the steakhouse, we just think it’s the place to get recreational sporting goods, movie theater. We just see it as entertainment and see it as a hobby. We see it as sport. We don’t see it as religion. We don’t see it as spirituality. We don’t see it as idolatry.”
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RELATED: We anticipate Driscoll’s book Vintage Jesus due out in Feb. 2008 from Crossway. His sermon series last year, Vintage Jesus, was excellent.
MAKE WAR! – Piper sermon jam
Our friends over at 10:31 Sermon Jams are getting ready to launch a new and improved Website next week and with it comes the release of their 4th volume of sermon jams. And they keep getting better! Over the coming days at TSS we’ll be giving you some exclusive access to songs from the new volume.
This first one, War, comes from John Piper’s sermon on Romans 8:10-17 (his ministry will always be equated in my mind with thunder):
“I hear so many Christians murmuring about their imperfections and their failures and their addictions and their short-comings, And I see so little war! ‘Murmur, murmur, murmur… Why am I this way?’ MAKE WAR!”
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Ed Welch: “There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Self-control is not for the timid. When we want to grow in it, not only do we nurture an exuberance for Jesus Christ, we also demand of ourselves a hatred for sin. The only possible attitude toward out-of-control desire is a declaration of all-out war. There is something about war that sharpens the senses. You hear a twig snap or the rustling of leaves and you are in attack mode. Someone coughs and you are ready to pull the trigger. Even after days of little or no sleep, war keeps us vigilant.”
Ravi Zacharias sermon jam
As you know, I love sermon jams. Sermon jams are where sermonic highlight meets background music. Sermon jams are excellent for the gym, excellent for personal devotion, excellent to share with other listeners less likely to listen to entire sermons, and overall just an excellent way to reach the lost and share the faith.
One of my favorites is by Relevant Revolution. They took a Ravi Zacharias message and created the jam, Christ as Lord. We say ‘Well done!’
“Have you ever wondered what you would do to frighten Lazarus after he’d been raised from the dead? What would you do to threaten him? Lazarus, I’m gonna’ kill you? Caligula says, ‘I’m going to kill you.’ He says, ‘Ha, ha, ha.’ He says ‘stop ha, ha, ha-ing. I’m going to kill you as I’m killing all the Christians.’ He doubles over in uncontrollable laughter, comes up for air and says, ‘Caligula haven’t you heard? Death is dead! Death is dead!’
How do you frighten somebody who has already been there and knows the one who’s going to let him out? …
Behind the debris of the fallings of our solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists lies the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom, mankind may still survive. The person of Jesus Christ.”
Download the free mp3 here.
How Great Your Name
“How Great Your Name,” a new song by Will Pavone
HT: Bob Kauflin via Tommy
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