New Hymn, "A Cavern of the Sheep"

The hymn for today is a carol of the King!

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Into a cavern of the sheep
I have seen our salvation sweep!
In a baby wrapped in birth rags
I have seen the King!
Laying within that manger scene
I have seen coming our great King,
With His mercy in salvation,
Come to make us clean!

Come rejoicing before our King
Into this quiet manger scene!
Bring your faith in heaven blessing
Us by our True King!
There, in Jesus, salvation rests,
That His children be heaven blessed!
By the coming of salvation
We are heaven blessed!

Seek, ye, now, heaven's Savior King,
Now I have told you of the scene,
There outside King David's city,
Lowly Bethlehem!
Do you not hear the angels sing
At the coming of our great King
With the Feast of Tabernacles?
Jesus Christ, the King!

"I will tabernacle with you
And My Spirit won't abhor you."
"My King, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
I shall bring through you!"
"Unto us is a baby born!"
"To the virgin a son is born"
With the name, "Yahweh's Salvation!"
Jesus Christ is born!

Lift your voice to the Savior King
And listen to salvation ring!
Bring the angels down from heaven
To announce the King!
Let ye not my appearance fright
On this most glorious of nights
But bring ye to the cavern of
Jesus Christ, the King!
©William F. Maddock

New Hymn, "To the Cross!"

The hymn for today is a prayer for peace in times of wrath.

Hear me, almighty God!
Shower me in Your peace!
Wash me clean from all rebellion!
Grant me your sure release!
Shield me beneath Your wings!
Into my suff'ring sing
Divine grace and all Your mercy;
Shower me in Your peace!

When the unrighteous rail,
Almighty God, be hale!
Let no sting from their afflictions
Turn me unto despair!
Flash that almighty sword
Of the undying Word
Deep into their sore rebellion!
Oh, let my prayer be heard!

Let not my day see dark
Rages within my heart!
Let all sin flee from within me,
Gathered unto Thy cross
Where Jesus paid my cost!
Let not His blood be lost!
But undo me and renew me,
Gathered unto Thy cross!

Praise the almighty King,
Master of everything;
Pain and suff'ring shall not e'er sing
Over me at the cross,
For heaven's sacrifice,
Our Savior, Jesus Christ
Has released me from my sin and
Gathered me to the cross!
©2014 William F. Maddock

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The Cavern and the Bulb

Is God hiding from us, or has He made His presence obvious?

A Chat, with Mike Humphrys, on matters of design.

Listen on Podomatic and comment here.

New Hymn, "We, in the Lord, are Won!"

The hymn for today is a call to seek after the Lord and be saved.

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Christian Judgment

At the link below, you will find a paper (in a booklet-like format) that was assigned to me by the then President of International Theological Education Ministries. After turning it in to him, he approved it. I hope that it helps you in your own struggles.

Christian Judgment PDF file

Truth Claims

What follows was written some six or seven months ago. Having come across it today, it is still current, it is still relevant, it is still Scriptural, and it is still true.

This will probably seem obvious to some, but in light of some of what has been written regarding the recently vetoed Arizona bill that would allow people to stand by their faith without fear of government reprisal, I think it needs to be said:

Those who seek, for whatever motives, using whatever means, speaking whatever words, by whatever methods, to silence someone who is speaking truth, are not walking in truth, but standing against it.

In the Hebrew Scriptures certain physical relations were commanded against, and no matter the efforts to which they go, the practitioners of those relations can find no passage anywhere in the Christian Scriptures where Jesus said that those relations were not a violation of the commands of God.

No one who insistently clings to and practices what God has commanded against can fail to be in open rebellion against God.

How, then, is it that some these days claim to be walking in faith with Jesus Christ, God the Son, even as they openly and insistently practice what the commands of God say is deserving of death (in other words, deserving of hell)?

Scripture tells us that we shall know them by the living of their lives, not by the spouting of their lips.

Those people, therefore, cannot be what they claim. They are liars, and no liar shall see the Kingdom of God.

Even though they seek, by whatever means, to shout you down, you must strive to call them to repentance.

New Hymn, "King of Heaven!"

Praise the Lord, King of heaven!

Praise our Lord God on high!

Lift your voices unto Him!

Praise Him with all your might!

Blow the trumpets before Him!

Set the cymbals alight,

Crashing thunder around Him

Who brings day out of night!

Lift your praises to Jesus,

God and Lord of the cross,

Who came, faithful, from heaven

Wretches to free from cost!

Pouring out His precious blood

Over our rebellion,

He has cast our sin from us!

Our redemption is won!

One with Jesus in heaven,

We shall share in His joy;

As in His persecution,

We shall share in His joy!

Ring, ye, out all your praises

To the Lord of your life

Who is faithfully turning

Wretches, we, into Light!

Sound the thundering tymp’ni!

Raise the brass o’er the sky

To His palace in heaven,

Shedding tears from your eye!

Feel the joy of the Savior!

Let it run through your veins,

Coursing you unto heaven

By Christ, the only Way!

©2014 William F. Maddock

In the face of wicked, evil, vicious persecution for your faith in Jesus Christ, the Lord God of all that begins to exist, let this be your military march of joyful praise!

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