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| i’m robbing peter, i’m paying paul
i’m changing my name back to saul
i got to them and you know i’ll get to you
i’m turning shepherds into sheep
and leaders into celebrities
it’s holy sabotage, just look around you
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‘cause everything’s for sale in the 21st century
and the check is in the mail from the 21st century
don’t want the song i want a jingle
i love you Lord but don’t hear a single
and the truth is nearly impossible to rhyme
but i know the songs with all the hooks
and i know some lies that will sell some books
so grab ‘em fast, i’m running outta time
just keep selling truth in candy bars
on billboards and backs of cars
truth without context, my favorite of all my crimes
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what works verses what's right
hey what's the difference tonight?
take out the sign, forget the meal
we’ve got a gym and a farris wheel
i swear it's just like the country club down the block
‘cause you can make your life look good
you can do what Jesus would
but you’d be surprised what you can do with a hard heart
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i think you’ve got trouble in the 21st century
so welcome to the struggle, it’s the 21st century
i never thought i’d make it to the 21st century
Lord, i love the 21st century
i write these words from the grave
‘cause it’s the only place that i’m safe
and only the dead are permitted to speak the truth Derek Webb | | |
| "Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. "What!?" is the appropriate response, "than ten hours over your books, on your knees?" Why should you turn from God when you turn to your books, or feel that you must turn from your books in order to turn to God? If learning and devotion are as antagonistic as that, then the intellectual life is in itself accursed, and there can be no question of a religious life for a student, even of theology... There can be no "either - or" here; either a student or a man of God. You must be both." ~~Benjamin B. Warfield, "The Religious Lif of Theological Students" I actually yelled "YEAH!!!" when I read this... I had to stop to post it. that is such a great point (and I'm only on page 2!) =) back to reading! | | |
| it's way better... come find me... (Randy Turner). my profile picture is me standing beside a drawing that looks just like me. | | |
| I dont love You though I aim to, though I claim to when I call Your Name.
I dont believe You. I just deceive You and pretend sewn leaves like Eve's can hide my shame or like You are to blame.
I would love to come before You and lay my crowns down on the ground at Your feet.
But I'm afraid I'm a little too late
Because I pawned them off at the shop down the street.
For a price that cant be beat.
You dont amaze me. You dont even faze me.
All my words are just hollow phrases.
I must be crazy to think that maybe giving You all my love could leave me lazy.
Or keep me complacent.
I'm not broken and im not breaking.
My eyes are open and I stand naked.
I'm not overwhelmed. Im not consumed.
I'm not all these things that I say to You
Cause I lie to You. ~Poor Rich Folk WHO WRITES SONGS LIKE THIS??? I love it. Honesty is conspicuously lacking in so many of the songs we sing to God. "In all I do, I honor You..." "Every move I make I make in You..." I can't sing stuff like that with a clear conscience because it is so obviously untrue. So much of what I do is tainted be sin... who am I kidding when I sing those things? I've never heard such a brutally honest song about how we treat God! | | |
| "Randy, this is how funny you are [ ] from there to there." hahaha! ouch | | |
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