2022年2月22日火曜日

O God Beyond All Praising, 御名をほめたたえる歌声より



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1 O God beyond all praising,
we worship you today
and sing the love amazing
that songs cannot repay;
for we can only wonder
at every gift you send,
at blessings without number
and mercies without end:
we lift our hearts before you
and wait upon your word,
we honour and adore you,
our great and mighty Lord.

2 Then hear, O gracious Saviour,
accept the love we bring,
that we who know your favour
may serve you as our king;
and whether our tomorrows
be filled with good or ill,
we'll triumph through our sorrows
and rise to bless you still:
to marvel at your beauty
and glory in your ways,
and make a joyful duty
our sacrifice of praise.

Michael Perry


1、御名をほめたたえる 
歌声より
高くいます神に
感謝します
驚くばかりの
主のたまものと
かぞえきれない
その御恵み
心高くあげて
御声を聞き
あなたをあがめます
大いなる主よ

2,救いと愛の主よ 
お聞きください
御恵みに応える
この思いを
どんな人生に
出会うとしても
勝利をのぞみ
しのび耐えて
あなたの御栄えと
うるわしさを
喜びあおぎつつ
讃美します

マイケル・ペリー

2022年2月3日木曜日

『信仰義認と永遠の刑罰』

 



If the living person Jesus continues to remain the center


"It is rare for any movement of God to continue in its fervor for more than 3 generations. If the living person Jesus continues to remain the center you have a fighting chance that everything you’ve righteously worked hard to build may continue for many generations. The foundation is secure. This will require, however, constant reformation on your part. This is why the reformers of the 16th century believed in semper reformanda (always reforming). We continually need to make adjustments to keep Jesus the center of our sermons, church, and our very lives. Thankfully, we do not have a far away God, we have a near God with a living Savior." 


Tim Kimberly, Preaching Morality vs. Preaching Christ | Parchment and Pen


1 Corinthians 1:23, But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to the Gentiles.


2022年1月22日土曜日

If I Have Not Compassion, Amy Carmichael


IF I HAVE NOT compassion on my fellowservant, even as my Lord had pity on me, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; if I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I can write an unkind letter, speak an unkind word, think an unkind thought without grief and shame, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I am afraid to speak the truth, lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand," or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve around myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I do not give a friend "the benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I take offense easily; if I am content to continue in a cool unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted. If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forget," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Flame Of God 

From prayer that asks that I may be sheltered from winds that beat on Thee, From fearing when I should aspire, From faltering when I should climb higher. From silken self, O Captain, free. Thy soldier who would follow Thee. From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not thus are spirits fortified, Not this way went the Crucified).

From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay. The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod; Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.

2022年1月20日木曜日

「初めに、神が天と地を創造した。」

 

ある科学者が、太陽系の模型を作りました。手で廻すと、惑星がぐるぐると太陽のまわりを廻るようにできていました。。。 ある日、友人が訪ねてきて、その模型を見て尋ねました。「これはよくできているね。誰が作ったんだい?」「それは自然にできたんだよ」と、科学者は答えました。「そんなことはないだろう。こんなにうまくできているものが自然にできるはずはない」と友人は言いました。しかし科学者は「いや、自然にできたのだ」と、言いはります。「おい、怒るぞ。自然にできるはずはないだろう。君が作ったのかい?」と言う友人に向かって最後に科学者が答えました。「そうさ、それは僕が作った太陽系の模型だ。模型ですら自然にはできないのに、本物の宇宙が自然にできると皆、思っている。おかしいと思わないかい。。。?」堀越暢治 

「初めに、神が天と地を創造した。」聖書・創世記1:1