St Georges Day

I thought I’d do a little search on good old St George, I found the info below in Wikipedia,


In the year AD 302, Diocletian (influenced by Galerius) issued an edict that every Christian soldier in the army should be arrested and every other soldier should offer a sacrifice to the Pagan gods. But George objected and with the courage of his faith approached the Emperor and ruler. Diocletian was upset, not wanting to lose his best Tribune and the son of his best official, Geronzio. George loudly renounced the Emperor's edict, and in front of his fellow soldiers and Tribunes he claimed himself to be a Christian and declared his worship of Jesus Christ. Diocletian attempted to convert George, even offering gifts of land, money and slaves if he made a sacrifice to the Pagan gods. The Emperor made many offers, but George never accepted.
Recognizing the futility of his efforts, Diocletian was left with no choice but to have him executed for his refusal. Before the execution George gave his wealth to the poor and prepared himself. After various torture sessions, including laceration on a wheel of swords in which he was resuscitated three times, George was executed by decapitation before Nicomedia's city wall, on April 23, 303. A witness of his suffering convinced Empress Alexandra and Athanasius, a pagan priest, to become Christians as well, and so they joined George in martyrdom.

NEW SONG: We are righteous (Demo)

Hey!

I’ve uploaded a rough demo version of a new song “We are righteous” to my worship journal profile and MySpace (SEE LINKS ON RIGHT)

I’ve been using this song a lot @ church and at some of the events I’ve been leading at

I wrote this song in Australia in Jan this year. I was reading an awesome book by Joseph Prince called “designed to reign” at the time.

For me I’ve always known that God loved me and in the last few years I’ve really been getting to know who I am in Christ. After reading this awesome teaching it took this to another level for me.

I really felt that we need to sing these truths over ourselves.

We need to declare the awesome truth that we are righteous.

In the natural most of us are far from righteous but through what Jesus done at the cross God sees us righteous! There is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. I think a lot of the time we don’t realise who we are. We are forever blessed, we are chosen, accepted, forgiven we are designed to reign. Satan doesn’t want us to believe these awesome truths because he knows when we fully believe them and start living in this we will become unstoppable

The other thing I feel we need to believe is that it’s not about what we do. If it is we fail miserably but it’s all about what Jesus has done! He paid the debt! He paid it ALL! He who knew no sin became sin, He became our Substitute, our Advocate, he took ALL our punishment. I’m still trying to get this to sink in fully, in truth the good news is SO GOOD! So good that I think we sometimes think it’s too good to be true! But the truth is that Jesus paid it all in full!

The words are below:

The Chord sheet is @:

http://www.worshipjournal.com/en_GB/profile/Ian%20Yates.html

We Are Righteous

Romans 5:17, Romans 10:1-12, Romans 8:1, Isaiah 53, Heb 10:12-14, 1 John 2:1

We are righteous

Through the blood of Christ

We are righteous

Because of what he’s done

No condemnation, no guilt no shame

New creations, born again

Forgiven, accepted, chosen by the king

Forever blessed, destined to reign

It’s all because of Jesus

Because of what he’s done

We are righteous

Through the blood of Christ

We are righteous

Because of what he’s done

Our Substitute, Our Advocate, he took our punishment

Our Rescuer, what sacrifice, he has paid the highest price

I am righteous

Through the blood of Christ

I am righteous

Because of what he’s done

A top weekend and Radio

All is well!
Had a great Easter weekend!
Sunday morning was awesome at church! V powerful!
Then in the afternoon I went to 7 waves 92.1FM radio station (not flame, as the previous blog says)
As you can tell I didn't really know much about it all. I ended up on the cafe Sunday live show from 5-7 with Chris Youngman. My mate Ian came along for support only to be asked to share his testimony and share his thoughts on a few things. We we're joined by another guy called Chris from whitchurch who had a similar story to Ian. The show was really great! We all felt that is was defo a God thing. I played a couple of new songs live "Carry me" and " We are Righteous" (may do a blog on this song soon) and they also played "Father of Compassion" I tried to answer the questions, some better than others! Ian and Chris shared about there lives and how God had freed them from various things and how God is the God of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc chances!
We came away buzzing! The whole show fitted together!
Hopefully I'll be going back to play a few songs again!
We have no idea how it came across on the radio, but we had a good time in the studio.

Monday was mostly spent in Wales with Kate her bro Josh and finished up watching the pursuit of happyness! Top film!

Last FM and other cool stuff

Hey Folks

Now set up on last FM, if you feel like listening to some beautiful sounds head over there. www.last.fm

Tomorrow I'm going to be on Flame FM around 5ish, not sure if it's live or a recorded program. www.flameccr.org.uk

And if your in need of a chuckle, I had a bad moment at our good friday service. We went from "amazing grace" to "when i survey" which became very comical when I couldn't remeber the tune,
My Dad (the pastor) then tried to help and ended up singing when i survey to the tune of amazing grace.
Every one joined in, then realised!
Everyone laughed! - (can we do that in church?)
Well we did! lol! Was very funny!