There is a great new website shich features beautiful songs of reformation based praise songs:

Here is a beautiful song called “The Gospel of Grace”

http://www.reformedpraise.org/index.php?p=659

There are a lot of other wonderful God glorifying songs to listen to.

Soli Deo Gloria!

Stan

Here is the story behind the song and the lyrics:

Description
The gospel, the good news of Jesus’ death for our sins and new life in Him, is sometimes regarded as a message that only unbelievers need to hear. When we preach about Jesus’ death for sinners only at “outreach” or “evangelistic” events or when we think to ourselves “I’ve heard this a hundred times… can’t we move on?” we demonstrate this kind of thinking. We tend to act as if Jesus’ death only has relevance in getting us in the doorway of the Christian faith. But scripture paints a much bigger picture than this. The gospel’s relevance stems from its inception in eternity past when God devised a plan to redeem people from the sin they would plunge themselves headlong into. The first verse of this song explores the themes of God’s sovereign plan of salvation and the death and resurrection of Jesus. The second verse remembers how the gospel arrived into our lives at conversion and goes on to remind us that even now we stand forgiven before God and do not need to get on God’s “good side” or get out from being on God’s “bad side.” Lastly, we rejoice in the fact that the gospel affords us our only true hope and comfort in death and will be the subject of our songs of worship for eternity as we sing the praises of the Lamb who was slain for our sin. May God’s glorious gospel of grace be sung and cherished in our lives and in our churches!

Lyrics
The gospel of grace: from before time began
God chose to redeem me and fashioned a plan
That holy and blameless and unto His praise
I might be adopted to show forth His grace.
The gospel of grace: in the fullness of time
God sent a redeemer who, doing no crime,
Would die for my sin and then conquer the grave
To purchase the ones He was given to save.

The gospel of grace came when dead in my sin,
It told me of Jesus and pointed to Him.
When faith and repentance invaded my heart
Forgiveness, full pardon, my God did impart.
The gospel of grace now reminds me each day
In sin and in failure His favor will stay
For not through self-loathing or deeds that I’ve done
But only in Jesus acceptance is won.

The gospel of grace when I take my last breath
Will be my one comfort to bear me through death;
And should I die peaceful or suffer great pain,
This gospel assures me that death will be gain.
The gospel of grace, for eternity long,
Will be my delight and the theme of my song;
With saints from all nations I’ll join to proclaim:
All glory to Jesus, the Lamb who was slain!

The gospel of grace, O how precious indeed,
Past, present, and future meets all of my needs;
So until the day when I look on Your face–
Lord, keep me believing the gospel of grace.
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Also it is nice to hear simple piano accompaniment instead of drums and electric guitars

Stan

Here is a beautiful hymn called “Sovereign Grace”

http://www.reformedpraise.org/index.php?p=357

Introduction

“Praise God for His sovereign grace! John Kent, the hymn writer from the late 18th century, draws our attention to several things that God’s sovereign grace accomplishes. First, he explains that it is the delivery method for God’s limitless love. He draws from Ephesiams 3:18 when he speaks of the breadth and length of God’s sovereign love that no man can know. Second, sovereign grace binds us to Christ by everlasting chains (bands) so that no one can snatch us from His hand (John 10:28). Third, God’s grace gave us status as joint heirs with Jesus even before we were born (Eph 1:3-14). Fourth, sovereign grace fills us with the question “why, O Lord, such love to me?” We are given no other answer as to why God chose us to be saved other than the “kind intention of His will” (Eph 1:5). The song helps us to properly respond to this love by answering simply “hallelujah” - Praise the Lord! The chorus was added to the historic lyrics to summarize what the song is teaching us about God’s grace and add a plea for God to pour it out even more abundantly in our lives so that we will passionately worship Him.”

Sovereign grace o’er sin abounding,
Waves of love in power swell;
‘Tis a deep that knows no sounding,
Who its breadth or length can tell?
On its glories, on its glories
Let my soul forever dwell.

Chorus:
Sovereign grace,
It reaches the depths of my sin
And kindles a fire within.
Lord, shed it anew
And fix all my passions on You
By sovereign grace.

What from Christ my soul can sever,
Bound by everlasting bands?
Once in Him, in Him forever
The eternal cov’nant stands;
None can pluck me, none can pluck me
From the Father’s mighty hands.

Heirs of God, joint heirs with Jesus,
Long ago this gift was won;
To His name eternal praises!
Oh! what wonders He has done!
One with Jesus, one with Jesus,
By eternal union one.

On such love I’ll ever ponder,
Love so great, so rich, so free;
Ever asking, lost in wonder,
Why, O Lord, such love to me?
Hallelujah, hallelujah,
Grace will reign eternally.

Ransom’d souls the tidings swell;

On its glories,

Chorus:

What from Christ my soul shall sever,

Thus th’eternal covenant stands;
None shall pluck me,
From the strength of Israel’s hands.

Long ere time its race begun;

Oh! what wonders love hath done!
One with Jesus,

On such love, my soul, still ponder,

Say, whilst lost in holy wonder,

Hallelujah,
Grace shall reign eternally.
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Soli Deo Gloria!

Stan

Here are the words of a powerful new hymn written by D.A. Carson based on Revelation 12:

The enemy is fearsome;
His fury terrifies.
His arrogance is loathsome;
His foul mouth vilifies
The Son of God in heaven,
The angels he installed,
The offspring of the woman—
The people God has called.

Our foe has been defeated;
He knows his time is short,
And far from being seated
In honor in God’s court,
His certain doom is looming
Like clouds before a squall,
And blind rage marks his booming
Attack upon us all.

He loves to foster warfare
Or peace with great deceit.
He aims to fill his death lair
With rebels; he repeats
His filthy accusations
To make us doubt the Lord;
He doles out tribulations
Of famine, plagues, and sword.

The father of all murder,
His passion is the lie;
In sin a tireless worker—
A tempter who will try
To dupe us with seduction,
Or persecute to death—
To challenge God’s election,
Deny the Spirit’s breath.

But we have overcome him by the blood of God’s own Lamb.
We silence accusations; on Christ’s death we take our stand.
The kingdom is advancing by the gospel we proclaim.
The truth to which we testify that frees from fear and shame.
We will not hide from danger, death, and other earthly loss,
For we are learning daily death, the pathway of the cross.
The devil fights with fury, with a cruel and bruising rod.
But we extol the triumph of the kingdom of our God.
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You can watch watch a video of the song writer DA Carson, of that hymn preaching a sermon on Revelation 12 at this link:

http://theologica.blogspot.com/2009/07/revelation-12-and-kingdom-of-our-god.html

Listen to samples of the beautiful hymns on this album

http://store.emumusic.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=450&category_id=12&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=15&vmcchk=1&Itemid=15

Stan

Here is a great piece of praise and poetry:

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2010/01/14/shai-linne-spread-his-fame/

SPREAD HIS FAME

All praise to the name of the savior who reigns.
He’s taken our blame, embraced all our shame,
He’s raised from the grave so his fame we proclaim.
Salvation by grace through faith in his name.

All praise to the name of the savior who reigns.
He’s taken our blame, embraced all our shame,
He’s raised from the grave so his fame we proclaim.
Salvation by grace through faith in his name.

Jesus, the beautiful and blessed Son,
Immutable, majestic one
Who was resurrected from the grave
for the depraved.
He paved the path for some
Place faith in His passion, son
Be saved from the wrath to come.

He’s fabulous, His status is immaculate
I’m lacking the vernacular to adequately capture His glory.
Incomparable, unconquerable, all powerful, unstoppable
Absolutely phenomenal.

No obstacle He can’t navigate.
He’s God and so He fascinates.
With Him it’s impossible to exaggerate.

Lord of all continents,
Source of all consciousness,
His compliments are the consequence of His accomplishments
Every sphere of life, He’s the Lord of it
And every other power is either fraudulent or subordinate.

At first we snubbed Him,
Now His vessels of mercy love Him.
Your highest thought is infinitely unworthy of Him.
Beyond vocabulary His actions vary,
His wrath is scary
All His adversaries are imaginary.

He has no competitors.
Ask Nebuchadnezzar, bro
He’ll mess you up, have you eating grass,
You can bet He’s amazing.

He takes in blatant, flagrant vagrants, breaks them, remakes them, and shapes them
to hate sin.

Jesus!
There’s no better name!
That’ll never change and He’ll forever reign while we spread His fame.

So all praise to the name of the Savior who reigns
He’s taken our blame
Embraced all our shame
He’s raised from the grave so His fame we proclaim
Salvation by grace through faith in His name!

All praise to the name of the Savior who reigns
He’s taken our blame
Embraced all our shame
He’s raised from the grave so His fame we proclaim
Salvation by grace through faith in His name!
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It is really powerful to listen to Shai Linne recite this.

Stan

Hi Stan,

I think it’s cool that you brought up Shai Linne. He is a really gifted artist who has produced several albums already. Basically, he raps about theology. It is really interesting to listen to. I am not a huge fan of the style of music in general, but to hear him praise God through his lyrics is really wonderful. His first album is called “The Solus Christus Project,” his second is called “The Atonement,” and his third is called “Storiez.” I would encourage anyone to listen to these, regardless of whether you enjoy rap.

Nate