Monday, August 29, 2005

I’ve been relistening to Fernando Ortega‘s Hymns of Worship CD. Today’s Song of the Day is from that collection, Children of the Living God. Click over to his page and you can listen to the song.

Children of the Living God

Children of the living God
Come and sing, sing out loud
Children of the living God
Sing to the living God.

Sing of the wonders he has made
But in flight, falling rain
Sing of the wonders He has made
Sing to the living God.

Chorus:
How He loves us with great love
He who sits enthroned above
For our lives He spilled His blood
Sent His Spirit like a flood
Children of the living God
Sing to the living God.

Sing of His gentle, healing hands
How they found the lowliest man
Sing of His gentle, healing hands
Sing to the living God.

Sing of the mercy that He gives
Though we sin, He forgives,
Sing of the mercy that He gives
Sing to the living God.

How He loves us with great love
He who sits enthroned above
For our lives He spilled His blood
Sent His Spirit like a flood
Children of the living God
Sing to the living God.

Sing for the morning star when He comes
In the clouds, glorious Son
Sing for the morning when He comes
Sing to the living God.

How He loves us with great love
He who sits enthroned above
For our lives He spilled His blood
Sent His Spirit like a flood
Children of the living God
Sing to the living God.

Also, today’s verse is from this morning reading in Acts, chapter 10, verses 34-43:

34Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. 36You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. 37You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached— 38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

39"We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, 40but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. 41He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. 43All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Good news!