I wanted to follow up that last post with this one… this certainly deserves more attention and consideration.
“Hey, I’m only human.”
I hear that a lot, and I get that. We often say things like this in order to elicit a graceful response for our poor behavior.
Let me say up front, we should have grace for our own failings, or anyone else’s.
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Reading this right now, and as someone who struggled with an Identity crisis for years I certainly appreciate the clarity of this post. I have been promoting people who preach the opposite, who still consistently and depressingly say, “I’m a sinner saved by grace, I’m the worst sinner I know, etc…” and then their actions inevetibly follow the way they see themselves. What do you think?
Was Paul, the apostle, trying to identify himself as the “worst” of sinners in 1 Timothy 1:15? Did he consider himself just a “sinner saved by grace” like many evangelical Christians do today. I know I thought that for most of my Christian life.
This post is in response to comments from my last post, where I mentioned that, in Christ, we’re no longer to consider ourselves as sinners (even though we may still sin.) This is an important topic that deserves attention because it cuts to the heart of how we see ourselves in Christ.
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We are now offering both of our Hymns albums as free downloads ( Just Click on the CD cover on right), for you to enjoy! These albums contain many of the most well loved Hymns of the faith, like Amazing Grace, In the Garden, and Old Rugged Cross, etc… All we ask is that you to share this gift of music!
Our ultimate goal is to get this music to people in nursing homes everywhere to bring some encouragement to them and also to bring comfort to those in their last moments in hospice care. (See testimonies below) Will you help us
We need your help!
Here are a few ways you can help:
1.) Will you share this link on your Facebook to spread the word about what we are trying to accomplish?
Copy and paste this link from our website:
http://reflectworship.com/nursing-home-ministry/send-hymns-to-nursing-homes/
or these “noise trade” links:
Reflect Amazing Grace: http://noisetrade.com/Reflectworship/reflect-amazing-grace
or, for the Reflect Hymn: http://noisetrade.com/Reflectworship/reflect-hymn
2.) Do you have a loved one or know someone in a nursing home? Please download the music, put it on a CD, and send it to them!
Of course you can also purchase our Hymns CD’s at our online store (or at Lighthouse Christian Books in Green Bay, WI), and bring a copy to someone in a nursing home!
3.) Do you know someone who works at a nursing home? Please send this message to them!
4.) Donate to our ministry so we can continue supplying albums for free to nursing homes. Donate button at our website: www.reflectworship.com
Send a Reflect Hymn or a Reflect, Amazing Grace album to a Nursing Home or Hospice care giver today!
You can also go to www.reflect.bandcamp.com to begin downloading.
Be sure to download both albums! Enjoy!
TESTIMONIES:
Since its release, I have been sending out the “Reflect Hymn” CD to various Nursing home facilities throughout Northeast Wisconsin and recently I received back this report about how the Reflect Hymn project is being used:
“Daniel, Having a chance encounter with an old friend who works the night shift at our local nursing facility, I wanted to share with you her comments about your music.
She told me that a copy of your music on CD; Reflect Hymn, appeared at their nurses station, and that they had been playing and enjoying the music. However, she said the greatest benefit seemed to come when your music was played exclusively in the rooms of those patients who were experiencing their last days. She told how the staff all remarked that such a great sense of peace seemed to envelop the room and the people in attendance, that they have a policy of always playing this music for such times as this as it provides such comfort.
I thought you might want to know this, since I know you send out these CD’s as a sample of your work when booking concerts at various Nursing Homes. Even though this facility has never had you there in person, your music is being used and valued, which I just ‘happened’ to find out a few weeks ago during my ‘chance encounter’.
Blessings, Cindie”
I was so moved when I received this report. What an awesome blessing! I would love to see every nursing home throughout Northeast Wisconsin to receive a Reflect Hymn album for their use for the above mentioned purpose, or to use for a church service or bible study, or even just for music therapy. If this is something that you would also like to see happen please donate toward this ministry.
Here is another letter I received:
Hi Daniel…
Recently you came to Shady Lane Nursing Home here in Manitowoc to entertain the residents and I was in attendance with my mother who was a resident there at the time. She just passed away this past Thursday March 25th. I bought one of your CDs and played it for her every night when she was drifting off to sleep. This past week when she had slipped into a deep sleep on comfort care at Shady Lane I played it in her room….it was very soothing. I think the staff at Shady Lane enjoyed it as well. I plan to give these CDs away as a result. If it is alright with you I would like to play it next to her coffin at the funeral.
Thank you.
A Recent Encounter (2015):
I was about to go in and entertain at a nursing home when a lady stopped me and asked, “I am a hospice nurse and I have your Reflect Hymn CD. I use it so often that it doesn’t play anymore. Do you have another one with you?”
I was able to provide her the Reflect Hymn album and also our latest Hymn project Reflect, Amazing Grace. She was on her way to someone who was passing away that very day.
Thank you for listening,
Daniel Lovett
I am enjoying reading this mans thoughts. Perhaps you will too. Way to go Mel Wild
Why are Christians so offended by lyrics like this? What does that say about us?
We’ve sung John Mark McMillan’s song, “How He Loves” since 2007. It’s been a theme song for our church. I love its pure passion and raw poetic flair.
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“I just want to declare my love for Jesus, because he so publicly and painfully declared his love for me.”
Declare your love for Jesus!
p.s. Share this post and spread the love!
Daniel Lovett 