When Shadows Fall On Us

This song has been running through my mind a lot lately. The link below is the audio of it if you want to follow along. I miss you, Nick.

Shadows


Life is full of light and shadow
O the joy and O the sorrow
O the sorrow

And yet will He bring
Dark to light
And yet will He bring
Day from night

When shadows fall on us
We will not fear
We will remember

When darkness falls on us
We will not fear
We will remember

When all seems lost
When we're thrown and we're tossed
We'll remember the cost
We're resting in the
Shadow of the cross

With every breath I take, every heart beat
Sunrise and the moon lights in the dark street
Every glance, every dance, every note of a song
All a gift undeserved that I shouldn't have known
Every moment I lie, Every moment I covet
I'm deserving to die, I'm earning your judgment
I, without the cross there's only condemnation
If Jesus wasn't executed there's no celebration
So in times that are good, in times that are bad
For any time I've had it all I will be glad
And I will boast in the cross, I boast in His name
I will boast in the sunshine, boast in His reign (rain)
What's my life if it's not praising You
Another dollar in my bank account of vain pursuit, I do
That count my life as any value or precious at all
Let me finish my race, let me answer Your call

How strict is too strict?

So I attempted to have an interesting conversation with a co-worker today after overhearing part of his convo with another co-worker about God and Jesus and stuff. Anyways, this part of the convo was directed towards Church Music, more specifically, using instruments during our music times at church. Now, he was saying that there is no biblical basis for using musical instruments; therefore, he believes (and I think his church as well) that when worshiping through music that we should not use instruments because the Bible does not say to do so. Sadly, we could not elevate the conversation today because of time constraints, guests, work stuff, and him not directly answering questions I was asking him. The way he said it made it sound like he believed it was wrong to do these things, even though he would not strictly say that. But he brings up an interesting point, even though I don't agree with him fully on what he is saying. Should our churches/us do things that are not specifically laid out in the Bible during our services/lives? Is it wrong to use musical instruments/do whatever it is just because the Bible doesn't explicitly tell us to do so?

Now I have a completely different opinion and an entirely different response to these comments that I couldn't express today because of time and I'll share later after yall discuss some. So, Ready, Set, Discuss!