Archive

Posts Tagged ‘Amazing grace’

Light Reflection-James 1:17 Brilliant Blessings

August 2nd, 2023 No comments

JOHN SHIRK – Today’s Light Reflection is from James 1:17.

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”

The blessings of God are expressions of His love for us. These blessings enrich our lives in various ways and reflect God’s goodness toward us.

His good gifts consist of resources that we need to survive, the things that He provides for our enjoyment, and the precious people in our lives that we know as “Friends.”

His perfect gifts are Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and His amazing grace. Jesus is the perfect remedy for our sin. The Holy Spirit is the perfect power source for living out the Christian life. And grace is the perfect plan of redemption that God designed before the world began.

This Light Reflection inspires us to marvel at the brilliance of God’s blessings in the Year to Shine.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com

Praise & Worship Playlist

February 5th, 2023 No comments

This week’s lineup turned out to have some special mini-themes. We’re spending time focusing on Seasons & Reasons to Praise, singing our beliefs with Creeds, and digging into songs filled with gratitude for God’s Mercy. Plus, an hour of songs that weave in phrases from one of the most famous songs of all time: Amazing Grace!

 

Kristi Leigh, WJTL DJ
Podcast: Spotify & Apple Podcasts
Follow: Instagram & Facebook
Playlists: Spotify
Song Title Artist Album Year
6AM
Its Time To Worship Chris McClarney Speak To The Mountains – EP 2021
Easy To Praise Patrick Mayberry Single 2023
When Your People Sing (Live) North Point Worship Our God Will See Us Through (Live) 2022
Reason To Praise (feat. Cory Asbury & Naomi Raine) Bethel Music Homecoming (Live) 2021
Find a Reason (Joyful Joyful) [feat. Brett Stanfill] North Point Worship Find a Reason 2020
Every Season Canyon Hills Worship Single 2023
Faithful Still KingsPorch Single 2023
Plans David Leonard Plans 2023
Youre Not Done (feat. Charity Gayle) Leeland Single 2023
With Everything I Am (Live) 7 Hills Worship Single 2023
If I Could Have Anything Housefires How To Start A Housefire 2023
Nothing Else Cody Carnes Nothing Else – Single 2019
7AM
All I Want Is You Anthony Skinner Forever And A Day 2004
Right Here, Right Now (Live) Red Rocks Worship Here (Live) 2017
This I Believe (The Creed) Hillsong Worship No Other Name 2014
I Believe It (The Life of Jesus) Jon Reddick Single 2023
I Believe In Jesus Chris Tomlin Always 2022
Cornerstone (My Hope Is Built) Hillsong Live Cornerstone EP 2013
This Is Our God Phil Wickham Single 2023
Holy (feat. Kari Jobe) Martin Smith Single 2023
Wonderful, Merciful Savior Michael W. Smith Hymns 2014
Mercies (New Every Morning) Matt Redman Let There Be Wonder (Digital Deluxe) 2020
Mercy Phil Wickham The Ascension 2013
Psalm 140 (Cry for Mercy) Robbie Seay Band Psalms LP 2015
8AM (MERCY MINI-THEME)
Your Mercy Paul Baloche Your Mercy 2016
Mercy (Song Session) Ben Fuller & Essential Worship Single 2022
Mercy and Majesty Brian Johnson After All These Years 2017
His Mercy Is More Matt Boswell & Matt Papa His Mercy Is More 2019
Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly Pat Barrett Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly 2021
Mercy Taya TAYA 2022
Mercy (feat. Chris Brown) Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music Old Church Basement 2021
Mercy (Live) Matt Redman Your Grace Finds Me (Live) 2013
Forever YHWH (feat. Tiffany Hudson) Elevation Worship LION 2022
No Longer Slaves (feat. Jonathan David & Melissa Helser) Bethel Music We Will Not Be Shaken (Live) [Deluxe Edition] 2015
Homecoming (feat. Cory Asbury, Gable Price) Bethel Music Homecoming (Live) 2021
9AM (AMAZING GRACE MINI-THEME)
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) Chris Tomlin Music Inspired By The Motion Picture Amazing Grace 2007
Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) Hillsong Worship No Other Name 2014
Christ Is Risen Mack Brock Greater Things 2018
God You Are (feat. Josh Baldwin) We Are Messengers Wholehearted 2021
This Is Amazing Grace Jeremy Riddle For The Sake Of The World 2012
Miracle Michael W. Smith Sovereign 2014
Amazing Grace/Jesus Loves Me Paul Colman Bridges – Classic Hymns, Modern Worship 2005
Grace Flows Down (feat. Christy Nockels) Passion Band WOW Worship Aqua 2006
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus (Amazing Grace) Shane & Shane Hymns, Vol. 2 2019
I Am Crowder Neon Steeple 2013
This Is My Song (feat. Mac Powell & Heath Balltzglier) North Point Worship This Is My Song – Single 2022

Daily Challenge-Praise the Lord Every Day

May 20th, 2021 No comments

JOHN SHIRK – In the Year of Endurance, today’s Daily Challenge motivates us to praise the Lord every day.

This was the commitment of David, expressed in Psalm 145, verse 2. “Every day, I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever.”

Not only is God worthy of our praise for today, but He is also worthy of our praise forever.

In this Psalm, David identifies the praiseworthy qualities of God. These qualities remind us why God is most worthy of our praise.

Here are a few of them: verse 6 talks about God’s awesome works and great deeds.

Verse 7 talks about His abundant goodness.

Verse 8 tells us that the LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and rich in love.

Our worship for God is meaningful when we acknowledge His awesome greatness, abundant goodness, and amazing grace.

Take the daily challenge to praise the LORD today and every day on the journey of faith.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com

Daily Challenge-Transformation

January 27th, 2021 No comments

JOHN SHIRK – In the Year of Endurance, today’s Daily Challenge motivates us to step into the light of transformation.

This process starts with a proper view of God’s mercy. His mercy spares us from the punishment that we deserve because of our sin. John Newton, the writer of Amazing Grace, observed near the end of his life, “I remember two things clearly, ‘I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.’”

Romans 12:1 says, “In view of God’s mercy, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God-this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

Transformation happens when we respond to God’s mercy with a heart of gratitude and worship, and renew our mind to follow Gods’ will.

Take the daily challenge to walk in the transformation that embraces God’s purposes on the journey of faith.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com

Freedom Phrase-Sharing Our Story of Transformation

July 12th, 2019 No comments

JOHN SHIRK – In the Year of Redemption, today’s Freedom Phrase is based on Luke 8:39.

Jesus said to a man who was delivered from demon possession, “Return home and tell how much God has done for you.”  The man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.

The Redeemed life is not a perfect life, but it is a transformed life by the power of Jesus Christ. This man was changed by God’s grace. He was bound by evil, but Jesus freed him to have a testimony of God’s power working in his life. Our story may have a similar pattern, stained by a sinful, self-destructive past, but cleansed and set free to live for God today. That’s amazing grace, and it is a story worth telling.

Through Jesus, we are set free to share our testimony of God’s amazing grace. 

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com

Reason To Believe-Conversion of John Newton

June 15th, 2016 No comments

JOHN SHIRK – In the Year of Exploration, today’s Reason to Believe is the conversion of John Newton.

In the 1700’s, John Newton was moved by his relationship with Jesus to leave behind the slave trade and become an ordained minister of the Gospel.

His famous hymn and epitaph reflect the contrast of his life before knowing Christ and after his conversion.

The lyrics to his famous hymn begin this way: Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind, but now I see.

His epitaph reads: John Newton, Clerk, once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long labored to destroy.

Ephesians 2, verses 4 and 5 shows us how change is possible: “Because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-It is by grace you have been saved.”

The conversion of John Newton was a life-changing moment and is a reason to believe in God’s good news.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com