Preparing for Sunday, 9/29/13

Happy Autumn, folks.

Hope you're planning on being with us tomorrow morning at Grace. We have a good setup of songs ready to sing together, and we'll be taking communion together in service too, so you don't want to miss. Taking communion together is a command from Christ to be obedient to, and it's commanded for our good, to refresh and remind ourselves of who we are in Christ, rooted in Him in the Gospel.

Tomorrow, Jordan will preach on the last section of 1 Corinthians 15, verses 50-58. It's been a great few weeks spent in this section, and refreshing (or hearing for the first time), why Christ's resurrection and risen life are so important for us. We have hope that we too will rise, and we have assurance that death is defeated for good because Jesus rose from the dead, and lives now. He is our living advocate before the Father, our Substitutionary Sacrifice for sin, and the first fruits of who will rise from the dead in Him. Glorious stuff - don't miss the conclusion to this section of the book.

We'll sing the following songs tomorrow:
1. Forever
This is our call to worship for tomorrow, and our song of adoration to God for His faithfulness to His people. God will not abandon His children; He is faithful forever to those that have come to Him through Jesus.

2. Nothing But The Blood
This is our song to lead into communion. I can't think of a better, more simple song to get us into the frame of mind to take the bread and cup - "This is all my hope and peace: nothing but the blood of Jesus/This is all my righteousness: nothing but the blood of Jesus."

3. Jesus Paid It All/Never Once
This reworked hymn assures us of the pardon for sin that Jesus completed on the cross. He paid it ALL - the whole price, the full storm of God's wrath, was all poured onto Christ in our place.

4. AFTER PREACHING: The Power Of The Cross/Christ Is Risen
"Christ Is Risen," as our response to the preaching tomorrow morning, will enable us to sing the words from the passage that Jordan will preach: "O death, where is your sting?/O hell, where is your victory?"

See you tomorrow!

Preparing For Sunday, 9/15/13

Hey everybody!
It's been a little while since the last "Prep for Sunday" post. Hope you're planning on gathering with us tomorrow morning, as dive into the Gospel through singing, preaching, prayer, and fellowship. It's of utmost importance for us to meet as Christians, to remind one another by way of the actions above, of the great truths that have saved us, and define us as God's people. Again, Hebrews 10 tells us,

"Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near" (emphasis added).

Let us not neglect to meet together tomorrow, as we encourage each other in the truths of the Gospel, and as we look for that Day, when our King will return for us.

Jordan is preaching a part 3 sermon tomorrow on 1 Corinthians 15:29-34, entitled "Resurrection Reverberation: When Death Motivates." Definitely read the passage ahead of time, and come ready to dive into the significance of Christ's resurrection for the life and assurance of the Church. It's sort of a difficult passage too, so it'd pay for us to do a little homework on the front end. :)

Tomorrow we'll sing the following:
1. Indescribable
A tune that calls us to gaze on Creation with wide-eyed wonder, and see God everywhere in it. The last chorus reminds us that even in His majesty and holiness, God looks into the depths of the hearts of His people, and "loves us the same." And how is this possible? God has given us His Son, to bear our sins for us so we can draw near to Him as our Father.

2. Our Song From Age To Age
This song reminds us that our whole identity as Christians, is built on God and defined by the Gospel. That for the Church, God has been, and will be, and should be our song in every age. He is the cause and the object of our worship and praise.

3. Stronger
A song about the "Love that came for us" in Jesus Christ. As another hymn says, "From Heaven He came and sought her (His Church)." And Christ is a strong Savior, who will hold onto His people no matter what tries take us out of His hand.

4. Because Of Your Love
This one furthers our singing "into the Gospel." We'll remind one another in this song of the full payment that was made for our sin on the cross, the full cancellation of our debt to God, and the freedom and joy God calls us to live in as a result.

5. Near The Cross
Our final response in song tomorrow will be to sing "In the cross, in the cross/Be my glory ever!" That we would glory only in the cross of Christ, and in His risen life.

See you in the morning!

Josh

Remarkable and Haunting Beauty

"While there is a kind of beauty in a carefully-honed studio recording, there is another kind of beauty - an often remarkable and haunting beauty - in the sound of a congregation of mostly unmusical people singing together."  

John D. Witvliet

Repeating A New Song This Week

Hey guys,
last week we introduced a new song for congregational singing, and we'll repeat it this week to reinforce it. Hopefully it'll seem very familiar after this week. We're also adding the bridge this week, so make sure you give it a couple listens. The bridge starts at 2:38 in the YouTube video below.

This song is a reworking of the classic hymn "How Firm A Foundation," which I love as well. This particular reworking gives us the verses almost exactly like the original with a few small tweaks, but it also gives us a great chorus to sing, that drives home the theme of the song, that our foundation in Jesus' blood, and the security of our salvation that Jesus purchased for us with His blood, is all held and kept for us by God, who gave His Son to save us. 1 Peter says that in and through Jesus we have an inheritance of eternal life and joy that is "imperishable, undefiled, and unfading." This song gives us an opportunity to enjoy in and through His Son and the Gospel.

The words are right there in the YouTube video as well. Check it out, and we'll see you tomorrow morning, and hopefully tomorrow night for our last night of our RENEW series this year! Scott Nandor will be speaking, and dinner will be provided on the lawn at 5:00.

Preparing for Sunday, 7/21/13, AM and PM

Hey everyone, keep in mind that we do have RENEW this Sunday night, so carve out the time. This is a hugely important, special time for our church during the Summer months, to hear from some solid outside speakers, a chance to sing together out of the normal Sunday morning gatherings, and to share fellowship and food with each other. Let's make our best effort to be there together, and to invest in relationships. This week is a bring your own picnic dinner, which starts at 5:00 PM. We'll start our session with singing together at 6:00. Hope to see you there!

Also, Sunday morning, Danny will preach on Proverbs 3:1-12. This'll be a great opportunity for us to break up our study through 1 Corinthians by looking at a different book, and how God speaks to us about Himself in a different context, through a different writer of Scripture. As an aside, I'm also super excited to look at Proverbs together because two Summers ago I read this book by Dan Phillips, that Danny also used as a study resource for his sermon tomorrow. It was excellent, and really opened up Proverbs to me as a treasure trove for knowing God and His will for our lives. Try to read the passage before tomorrow to think ahead and be prepared for God to work on our hearts as we hear the Scripture preached.

Here are the songs we'll sing tomorrow morning, and tomorrow night at RENEW.

SUNDAY MORNING
1. Your Grace Is Enough
2. Before The Throne Of God Above (with a new chorus - give it a few listens to get it down!)
3. Never Once (new song we introduced a few weeks ago, that we're keeping in the rotation)
4. 10,000 Reasons

SUNDAY NIGHT (RENEW SERIES)
1. 10,000 Reasons
2. My Hope Is Built
3. Chorus of Nothing But The Blood

Be regular, practicing members of a church!

"[T]he New Testament does not envisage solitary religion: some kind of regular assembly for worship and instruction is everywhere taken for granted in the Epistles. So we must be regular practicing members of the Church. 

C.S. Lewis

What Should Our Corporate Worship Gatherings Do?

"Our worship should show the face of Jesus to those who have gathered and to those who need to gather to worship Him." 

Bryan Chapell, from Christ Centered Worship

Preparing for Sunday, 6/9/13

 

Hey guys!
Here's a quote for you to think about as you prepare for corporate worship tomorrow morning. We often come to church on Sunday expecting the wrong things. Ponder this:

We're prone to get this backwards: [w]e come to worship thinking that we're somehow giving to God, and we subtly expect we'll be receiving from others. We desperately need to turn that pattern on its head.

The God we worship is one not "served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything" (Acts 17:25). And when he came in the flesh, he did so "not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45). Beware coming to corporate worship to serve God. But by all means, come on the lookout to serve others. Worshiping God and building up others aren't mutually exclusive but come to their fullness together.

We give to one another as we together come to receive from God our soul's satisfaction. We kill both the vertical and horizontal of corporate worship when we come looking to give to God and receive from others.

David Mathis, from DesiringGod

We do often get this backwards - we come expecting to be fulfilled by the people at church, leaders or otherwise, in some kind of worship experience. Let's come tomorrow ready to love, encourage, and otherwise serve one another as we worship our Savior with thankfulness. See ya' tomorrow!

Preparing for Sunday, 5/26/13

Hey guys,
as we're thinking about church tomorrow, here are a few things to (hopefully) help our hearts and minds get into the right frame, so we're ready to make the most of the time together!

1. We have communion in service tomorrow, as we do almost every month on the last Sunday. As Jordan always reminds us, we are warned in Scripture not to eat the bread or drink the cup of communion if we have unconfessed sin in our life, or if we have a problem with a brother in the Church. May we examine our hearts in preparation, and benefit hugely from our time together as we celebrate and reflect and remind ourselves of Christ's blood that was shed for us.

Here's a quote to reflect on also, as we do our best to prepare to take communion tomorrow, and celebrate the glories of our Savior and our salvation:

“The blood of Christ gives us a home. The blood of Christ becomes the flag and color under which we stand. The blood of Christ takes those who were once strangers and makes them family. As the Bible says, we are ‘no longer strangers and aliens, but…fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God (Eph. 2:19). Simply put, the blood of Christ brings us near to God.” 

Anthony Carter, from Blood Work

2. Jordan will preach on 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, on Christian love, especially within the context of the life of the Church. Read the passage ahead of time if you can, and be ready to think and worship along with Jordan as he preaches.

3. Here's our song set - give the following tracks a listen ahead of time if anything looks unfamiliar, and prepare your voice to sing loud and well tomorrow! We need all our voices contributing to the one unified voice of the church, singing God's praises tomorrow.

Blessed Be Your Name

God Of Wonders

It Is Well With My Soul

Jesus Paid It All

Not for the "polished."

"When we treat the worship gathering like a performance/production, we inadvertently send the message that the gospel is for the polished."  

Jared Wilson 

 

Don't View A Worship Leader Like A Priest

"We treat our worship leaders as priests, expecting them to lead us into God's presence in a way that is inaccessible apart from their charisma, emotion, and music. Every time we credit a worship leader with 'leading us into God's presence,' we are anointing them as priests, and crediting them with doing something that only Jesus can do." (emphasis added)

Daniel Montgomery and Mike Cosper, from the book Faithmapping

This book is great by the way - I highly recommend it!

Preparing for Sunday, 4/21/13!

Hey guys, hope you'll be there with us tomorrow. Hebrews 10:23-25 says,

     "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near." (emphasis added)

Meeting to together as a local church is so important. Not because of individual benefits or what we'll get out of a church "service" (poor terminology anyway - I prefer "gathering"); but we meet together for mutual encouragement, helping each other "hold fast" to our hope in Christ's return, which is "drawing near." We should, ultimately, show up to church for the sake of that encouragement, and to hold fast to our hope without wavering. And we do all this together. And the singing and the preaching and anything else we do together in that gathering should be to help us do these things.

So again, I really hope we'll see each other tomorrow. Here are a few more things to help you prepare to make the most of our Sunday morning gathering:

Jordan will preach on 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, on "The Gifts of the Spirit: Unity in Variety." These passages from 1 Corinthians on spiritual gifts and their use in the life of the Church is controversial stuff, but hugely important for us as believers. It would do us good to read the passage ahead of time.

We'll also sing the following songs tomorrow:
 1. Open The Eyes Of My Heart
An opening call to worship, and a prayer for God to engage with His people in our time of gathered worship of Him. We need Him to sovereignly open our eyes to his glories, and to the glories of Christ tomorrow.

2.  Awesome Is The Lord Most High
We haven't done this one in a little while, and it'll be good to come back to it. This is a song that praises God for his majesty and greatness, and also includes some response for us as worshipers, in light of God's greatness and care for His people - that we will go wherever He sends us to proclaim the Gospel.

3. How Deep The Father's Love For Us
This song is a wonderful modern hymn, that's really a theology of Christ's crucifixion and the atonement that God accomplished there for His people. I love the glories communicated about what Christ accomplished at the end of Verse 2: "His dying breath has brought me life/I know that it is finished!"

4. Near The Cross
A classic hymn, that's a response to what we sang about in "How Deep The Father's Love." This song helps us pray that God will keep us near the cross - that Christ's sacrifice and atonement will forever be our theme, our hope, our joy, and our message to everyone else.

Preparing for Sunday, 3/17/13

Heya folks,
hope you have a chance to think ahead to tomorrow's church gathering. Jordan will be preaching on 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, on "Clarifying the Value of Roles." Follow the link to read the passage, and prepare to be an "expository listener" during the sermon tomorrow. Hopefully we come and sit under the preaching of God's word, expectantly that God will reveal his glory, and the glory of His Son to us as Scripture is proclaimed. We want to behold Jesus in God's Word tomorrow, and we can help the condition of our hearts be right for that by reading and studying ahead of time.

We'll sing the following songs tomorrow:
1. Mighty To Save
2. Before The Throne Of God Above
3. Behold Our God
4. You Are My King

Rather than write about all the songs like I usually do, I just want to post the track of "Behold Our God," so you can be sure to listen to it. We've done it quite a few times in church since we introduced it in the Fall, but it's been a month or two since we've sung it. Make sure it's familiar and be ready to raise your voice with us as we sing. This is a great song as we built toward our Easter Sunday gatherings in a few weeks. This song rallies us to "behold our God, seated on His throne," but also to behold the God who has "felt the nails upon His hands, bearing all the guilt of sinful man." Our God has ransomed us from the Fall, and from our sin, and we want to praise Him, and behold Him together tomorrow as a gathered church.

Give the track a few plays. Hope to see you tomorrow!

Preparing for Sunday, 3/3/13

Hi guys,
here's the low-down on tomorrow's church gathering. Jordan will preach from 1 Corinthians 10:14-22, on "Exposing Idolatry." This preaching series has been great, and continues to take us into deeper understanding of the Gospel of Jesus, and how the Gospel can and should play out in our lives as pilgrims in a broken world. Make sure you read the passage a few times before you come to church, and be ready to think through this section with Jordan as he preaches. Also, pray for Jordan that he'll speak in the Holy Spirit's power tomorrow, and that it would be exactly what our church family needs to hear, and process through for our joy in the Gospel to increase!

Tomorrow will also be a little bit of a music-heavy morning, with singing before AND after the preaching. We'll sing the following songs. Give 'em a listen to prepare.

1. Forever
2. Your Grace Is Enough
These are two songs that rejoice in God's faithfulness to His people, and that He supplies the grace we need to live in obedience to Him. We'll proclaim this tomorrow to start off our morning.

2. Christ Is Risen
As we get closer to Easter, we'll ramp up our songs that concentrate on Christ's resurrection, and the absolute victory that it was over sin and death. This song says, "Let no one caught in sin remain inside the lie of inward shame/But fix our eyes upon the cross, and run to Him who showed great love/And bled for us." Christ paid for our sin, and He gave us new life and power to turn from sin because of His finished work.

3. Amazing Grace
4. 10,000 Reasons
We'll sing these two after preaching. We'll rest in God's "amazing grace" and respond to all we've sung and heard preached by singing "Bless the Lord O my soul!" He is our Savior, rich in love toward His people. Tomorrow should be a great day meeting together to remind one another and ourselves of these truths.

See ya' tomorrow!

Sacrificing For Good Church Music

I wrote this post a couple weeks ago for my other blog  - wanted to give it a trial run, and have a few chances to read through it before I posted it here. This post took me months of thinking and processing, and talking this stuff through with several people before putting it in writing, so what you've got below is fairly refined. Good church music takes some sacrifice, and is, on some levels, a fight against the direction and temptations of our culture. Enjoy!

“Worship is so simple, yet there are always a thousand new things to learn.” 

Greg Scheer

Take this as sort of an open letter of encouragement to all aspiring musicians and potential music leaders in the Church. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and these are some thoughts that keep coming up in conversations with folks in my local church body as we strive to shepherd one another, and work to improve and train, specifically in our church music.

As the worship and music director in our local church, I’ve been thinking a lot the last couple years about training up our body of musicians and singers, as well as training up faithful guys who can lead our church to sing in a genuine, humble, biblical, skillful, and engaging way. And as I and a few others have looked for and spent time with those musicians and potential leaders, a few concerns keep cropping up. If the Church, and by “Church” I mean Christians everywhere whom God calls and ransoms out of their sin to be worshipers of Him through Jesus, is to continue her great tradition of worship through music in her local church contexts, a few things need to keep happening. And our culture threatens to shipwreck these areas too, probably more than ever. Here’s what I mean – these are things to consider that I pray for and encourage in our own local church.

1. Sacrifice, and Focus Your Time

To really be good at something, you’ve got to sacrifice time to focus on that particular skill or ability. This is a pretty good rule-of-thumb. Very few of us have enough natural gifting to be able to play a sport, build things with our hands, or play an instrument with expert skill while also failing to practice. Even folks with that extra helping of talent, in music for instance, only benefit from more practice.

And in our culture, distractions come in legions. There are so derned many things that fight for our attention, whether for entertainment or otherwise, that it’s hard to focus on a few things, and become excellent in a few areas. Don’t spread your time too thin across too many “good” things. If you have a desire and some natural inclination and ability toward music, and you’re a believer, consider really sacrificing some other things to pour your time and energy into becoming the most skilled musician you can be, with the broadest skill set you can develop. Seriously – becoming a good musician involves lots of practice time spent alone with an instrument, not to mention time you’ll hopefully spend with others playing in a group or band setting. Becoming skilled in music requires both types of practice.

2. Resist The Easy Path

I’ve heard several musicians and singers take some pride in their “self-taughtedness.” Try to talk music theory, or talk nuances of the dynamics of a song, and they might fall back on the response, “I don’t know about that stuff – I’m self taught,” or, “I just sing what sounds good. Just let me sing (or play, or whatever).” Now this might bother me a little extra because I had to work extra hard to play and sing halfway decent. And this isn’t to discount some of that natural ability that some folks are so graciously given by God – praise God that He doles out talent the way he does sometimes, freely and in great measure. But, the point is to not settle for using only what you were born with. Whatever your ability level, keep building on your skill set in humility, always recognizing areas that can be improved and sharpened.

It’s also easy to learn how to play certain instruments by shortcutting the traditional process. This is also both good and bad. Take guitar as a stark example – YouTube videos, websites, and simplified chord charts abound to help the budding guitar player learn his craft, but often at the expense of learning nuances, theory, notes on the neck, proper finger positions. But learning some of the finer, foundational elements of music and how they apply to your instrument can really help you build that broad skill set down the road. The quick and easy path to learning a song could possibly limit your ability in the long run. Resist our prevailing culture of ease and minimal effort, for the joy of a better payoff that comes after some hard work and practice time.

3. Put Your Money Toward Your Music

Again, our culture today spreads us so thin. There are a thousand-and-one things to spend our money on, in addition to our time. There are so many ways to entertain ourselves, which we like to do, and continuously putting our money toward just a couple important things seems backwards and old-fashioned to some. But, to be good at music often means a sacrifice of money too. And it’s so worth it. If you’re a musician in the church and you have some of that natural giftedness combined with a desire to grow and lend your talents and gifts to building up the Body of Christ, invest your money there along with your time. If you’re a competent guitar player still playing a “Costco special,” it might be time to invest in a nicer guitar. Guitar player without an amp? Save your dollars and get an amp. If you’ve got some natural ability and a desire to help the Church’s music, but you haven’t broken through to a higher skill level, maybe it’s time to invest in some piano or voice lessons.

I’m always surprised at how many church guitarists who’ve been playing quite a while, some even as music leaders, don’t own a pedal (floor) tuner. Granted, a nice one will run you about $80 – $100. But the return on something like that, keeping your guitar in tune at all times and sounding more consistently good, is really priceless. And helpful to your church family as you lead them in song.

I know we all have lots of expenses. I can’t spend nearly enough money on music accessories as I sometimes wish I could. Sometimes an $80 expense just won’t work out. But the encouragement is for all of us, when we can, to put our money toward fewer things, and more toward those that we care deeply about and that matter for God’s Church. Invest in your local church’s music as God gives you the opportunity.

Let’s continue to strive for more of a singleness of purpose, spending our time, energy, and resources to become more excellent in fewer areas. Wrangle with those abilities that God has already given you an inclination toward. Specifically with music, pursue it. Give yourself to it, and ultimately in worship to God through that avenue. May the Church be blessed and built up, and the Gospel treasured and proclaimed because the Church’s music-makers work exceptionally hard at their craft.

Preparing for Sunday, 2/17/13!

Hey everybody!
You can prep for our Sunday morning gathering by doing the following:

1. Read and meditate on the preaching passage, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, either in your Bible or here. Read through the passage a few times, and try to really get into what God is revealing about Himself, and about us in the passage. This will make your time all the more rich as we hear Jordan preach tomorrow. Be an active listener!
2. Look through the list of songs, and give the links a visit to familiarize yourself with what we'll sing tomorrow. Be ready to add a warmed-up voice to the gathered congregation of believers! Here's the list:  
• Happy Day
• How Great Thou Art
• Hallelujah, What A Savior
• Jesus Thank You 
3. Come ready to serve, love the brethren, lend your voice to the singing, and build up the Body of Christ. Don't come to be served and entertained, but TO serve and take an active part in the gathered worship of God's people. This is what God calls us to do - every believer is crucial to the gathering, which is never a "show" or means of entertaining people. It's an active, communal gathering of the people of God, that he bought with the blood of His Son.

Hope you'll be there with us tomorrow!

Build One Another Up In Corporate Worship

The following is from a book review I wrote for The Life of God in the Soul of the Church by Thabiti Anyabwile. Hope it's helpful. His chapter, called "Sing To One Another" is great, and talks about how the popular idea of a "personal worship experience" in a church gathering is a very wrong idea about how and why we gather.

"As a corporate worship leader in my church body, I devour chapters on church music in the books I read. Some end up being better than others, but Anyabwile’s treatment of the subject is great, and he puts church singing in just the right place in the life of the church. He rightly emphasizes the benefit to one another that we provide as we sing together, saying, “Too many Christians think the public gathering of the church is basically a couple of hundred people having their personal quiet time in the same place [...] Privatized religion destroys spiritual communion. Privatized views of the faith tear apart the body [..] When we gather with a hymn or song we do so for the benefit of the church, the entire body of Christ, the whole group of people” (169-170). What we do, even as we sing, has to be with a view to build up one another, and thus the whole group."

Again, hope that's helpful. "Preparing For Sunday" post coming soon!

Josh

Preparing for Sunday, 1/13/13

Hey folks,
well, we're officially back into the new year, and meeting as a church family as "usual." Make sure you're in service this Sunday as Jordan will be in part 3 of his sermon series on Discipleship. Very important for us, as we freshly consider, and count the COST of being a disciple of Jesus this year. We should be lifelong disciples, and always be looking to engage in the discipling process with other, younger Christians. You can listen to the last 2 parts of Jordan's preaching series here!

Here are the songs we'll sing this Sunday morning:
1. Happy Day
A proclamation of the great hope and joy and life abundant that have been given to us in Jesus Christ, as we were adopted by God through His Son, and our sins washed way for good.

2. How Great Is Our God
One of the key reasons we keep singing this great song as a church is that it's Trinitarian in its theology. So what, you say? Well, the song makes the statement, "The Godhead, three-in-one, Father, Spirit, Son/The Lion and the Lamb." It's good for us to remember that within the person of God, there is a loving but holy Father, who has paid for our sins and adopted us through His Son, also part of the triune person of God. The relationship between the Father and the Son, and the giving to us of the Holy Spirit who makes us persevere in our saving faith, is all key to our salvation. There might be a longer post on this in the future. All that to say, this is a great song to sing together. :)

3. Glorious and Mighty
A big, "mighty" song that rejoices in God's majesty, His sovereign rule of the universe, but also the great hope that we have when Christ "comes again in the clouds" for His Church.

4. Jesus Thank You
This one helps us express thankfulness for the great price that was paid by God's Son for us on the cross, and the universe-shaking event of God's wrath being satisfied for sin at the cross and life being given to God's people.

See you Sunday morning!