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My #1 Guitar Hero

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I started listening to Phil Keaggy in 1988 and have attended 8 concerts with one photo-op and brief discussion and guitar pick signing time. While spending time here in Nashville, for the first time, the place is filled with a century of recording artists that remind of my #1 guitar hero. Not just because he is revered as one of the best of all time, but mainly because of his love for Jesus Christ. He’s produced over 60 albums and has toured the world sharing the gospel with his God-given incredible talent. Here’s a sample of what he can do (Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN), with no one else in the recording studio playing any instruments. Below are the wonderful and encouraging lyrics.

True Believers

The true believers stand on every word You say
The true believers made alive in Christ today
This is how we survive and where we mean to stay
The true believers

You’ve had enough, all you can take
When your river of tears
Runs into an ocean of heartbreak
He’ll be your moon when your sun goes down
Fire for you if ice is all that’s on your ground
When your music has died
And silence is the sound

The true believers stand on every word You say
The true believers made alive in Christ today
This is how we survive and where we mean to stay
The true believers

So if you need to call on a friend
He’s there for you right until the very end
His love is alive forever and amen

The true believers stand on every word You say
The true believers made alive in Christ today
This is how we survive and where we mean to stay
The true believers

“All At Once”

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From one of my most favorite musicians of the Christian Faith, Phil Keaggy does his album cover song, All At Once. 

Here are the lyrics with my explanation in italics. May this song cause you to either turn to Christ for salvation, or if you already have, let these words remind you of the great hope that you already have.

when you took away the burden (of sin and its horrible consequences)

to a place that we could never go (the cross)

and when you see the pain and hurting (in the body of Jesus that was absorbed for you)

that we will never have to know (Christ has become my substitute)

how do you look at that (what will you do with the crucified Son of God?)

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all at once it breaks the heart (The Spirit opens the eyes of the heart to see your need of the Savior)

puts in back together stronger than it was (raised to walk a new life in Christ)

yea it does what it does (the gospel is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes)

all at once (to be made right with God is instant life from the dead)

 

it interrupts our situation (the gospel is a great truth to be reckoned with)

invades your point of view (the gospel crushes your hope and pride in good works)

what to do with the information (how will you respond to the gospel that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures)

oh what is happening to you (it’s the Spirit of Christ raising you up from being dead in sin)

how do you deal with that (what will you do with the Crucified Son of God?)     

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look upon the body broken (look at your Salvation hanging on the cross)

see the healing in yourself (Christ was broken so that your soul could find rest)

when at once the words are spoken (by faith in the finished work of Christ, “you’re forgiven of all your sins”)

you know you’ve been made well (like the leper, the prostitute, and the beggar)

what do you take from that (what will you do with the Crucified Son of God?)       

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