We Are Thankful

We Are Thankful 

Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1

For goodness and for mercy that has surely followed us

And every blessing we could never earn

For all the gifts we cherish that are pictures of Your love

What could we ever offer in return? 

CHORUS

Thank You, thank You, Father, thank You 

You are always good 

Thank You, thank You, Father, thank You

You are always faithful and we are thankful 

VERSE 2

For sorrows and for trials that You send to shape our hearts 

And pain that keeps us clinging to Your grace  

For faith within the fire or Your presence in the dark 

What can we sing no matter what we face?

VERSE 3

For pardon and forgiveness through our Savior’s sacrifice 

And death that’s swallowed up in victory

For love that’s never failed us and Your everlasting life 

What will we say for all eternity?

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly...

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. -Colossians 3:16

The music of the gospel must precede the words of the gospel and prepare the context in which there will be a hunger for those words. What is the music of the gospel? The music of the gospel is the beauty of the indwelling Christ as lived out in the everyday relationships of life. -Joseph C. Aldrich

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Iran Opens Fire on Tanker Near Oman After Re-Closing the Strait of Hormuz  Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has once again demonstrated its willingness to turn a vital international waterway into a theater of aggression. On Saturday, IRGC gunboats approached a tanker roughly 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman and opened fire without provocation. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization confirmed the unprovoked assault occurred shortly after Tehran reimposed restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz, accusing the United States of violating an agreement to keep the passage open.

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The Nuns Fighting New York to Serve Dying Cancer Patients  A small group of Catholic nuns is taking on one of the most powerful governors in the country. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne are in a striking David-and-Goliath clash with Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the full weight of New York state. What’s at stake is not just religious liberty, but also whether the kind of quiet charity the Sisters exercise is still welcome in American public life.

   Earlier this month, the Sisters filed suit against Hochul in U.S. District Court, challenging a 2024 New York law that requires long-term care facilities to use a patient’s preferred pronouns and to assign rooms and regulate restroom access according to gender identity rather than biological sex. The Sisters can’t comply without violating their Catholic faith. They formally asked the state for a religious exemption in March, but the state did not respond. Penalties for defiance include fines, license revocation, and jail time.

Tennessee has officially declared June to be “Nuclear Family Month” in what has been taken as a war on LGBTQ Pride  Christians are fed up with traditional beliefs being treated like a disease, and rightfully so.

   That’s ultimately what started turning people off, along with the twisted displays of debauchery at Pride parades. Tennessee is now saying what a lot of Americans have been muttering about for quite a while now.

   Enough is enough.

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Britain’s Grooming Gang Nightmare: Media and State Complicity in the Industrial-Scale Rape and Sexual Slavery of Young British Girls by Muslim Migrants  Britain needs no more inquiries, no more platitudes, no more “far-right backlash” hysteria. It needs the unvarnished truth followed by ruthless action: deport the foreign grooming gang members and rapists, end small-boat arrivals, scrap the asylum scam, and put British girls first.

Michigan Muslim Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Blames US For ‘Creating’ Terrorism, Accuses Americans Of Being ‘High And Mighty’ 

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The Week In Pictures:  Swalwell Meets the Pope Edition 

Beloved, let us love one another...

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. -1 John 4:7-11

How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t. Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds his holy love into our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him. He is the One who takes the initiative to restore our souls. Without Him we can do nothing of righteousness. Without Him we would be doomed to everlasting alienation from His holiness. We can only love Him because He first loved us.   -R.C. Sproul

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Despite Constant Media Lies, Trump Is Winning the War with Iran  Consider the significance of this admission: one of the most influential foreign policy experts in the U.S. media openly confessed that he wants the Iranian regime to lose, but not if this means a win for President Trump. A radical Islamist regime that murdered tens of thousands of its own citizens, killed thousands of American troops, armed terrorist groups, fired thousands of missiles at its neighbors, and is pursuing nuclear weapons is less objectionable to the media elite than the political success of a Republican president. For The New York Times, CNN, and MS NOW, America’s real enemy is not the murderous regime in Tehran. It’s President Trump.

JD Vance Suspends 447 More Hospices in L.A. in Ongoing Battle Against Fraud 

OPEC for Americas? Iran Conflict Solidifies U.S. Focus On Western Hemisphere Oil  American companies have already begun ramping up investments in Latin America, closing new deals with a freshly compliant Venezuela and friendly Argentina in recent days that promise new capacity in the hemisphere.

US Army Trials Unmanned Hunter Wolf Robot With Gun, Radar In Combat Drills  The U.S. Army is quietly putting armed robots through their paces alongside real soldiers - and new footage suggests these machines could soon be a regular sight on tomorrow’s battlefields.

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The Pope, Iran, and My Being Sentenced to Death as a Christian in Iran The Pope also recently stated that God does not hear the prayers of those who make war. Forget that this is biblically unfounded, that God Himself designated people who lead and fought wars to be some of the greatest Biblical role models; sometimes, war is necessary. In the case of Iran, it is. If the Islamic Regime is not eliminated and Iran is not freed from the darkness of Islam, it will continue to infiltrate Western society, erode our Judeo-Christian values, and see many more victims inside and outside Iran who will not be as lucky as I was. Image

Christians, Muslims, and the Truth About ‘Interfaith Dialogue’ Pope Leo and his ilk seem unable or unwilling to grasp that “interfaith dialogue” between Christians and Muslims is always, in reality, a monologue in which we are expected to listen and accommodate the latter accordingly. Sayyid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, argued that interfaith dialogue with the West should be undertaken only to draw infidels over to Islam, bringing concessions with them.

Buried Monasteries, Buried Truths...How Islam Strangled Christianity in the Middle East 

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ICE Does a Triple Pick-Up of Illegals in Minnesota...and Their Crimes Are Henious  

Secret Service Targets Thieves Stealing SNAP Benefits In Texas 

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It’s Friday!! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/fZtR6rGnF3

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) April 17, 2026

For I am not ashamed of the gospel...

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”  -Romans 1:16-17

Faith is a living, unshakeable confidence in God’s grace; it is so certain, that someone would die a thousand times for it. This kind of trust in and knowledge of God’s grace makes a person joyful, confident, and happy with regard to God and all creatures. This is what the Holy Spirit does by faith. Through faith, a person will do good to everyone without coercion, willingly and happily; he will serve everyone, suffer everything for the love and praise of God, who has shown him such grace. It is as impossible to separate works from faith as burning and shining from fire. -Martin Luther

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Kidnapped Priests and Christian Civilians Still Held by Islamists in Nigeria Currently, more Christians are being systematically murdered in Nigeria than in all other countries of concern combined.

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax kills wife, then himself, police say  Couple’s teenage son called 911 after midnight from Annandale home to report the incident, which came as divorce proceedings were underway, authorities say.

California Giving Free Sex Changes to Homeless Illegal Aliens 

Debanking is Another Way to Get Illegal Aliens Out...Cut off the cash and they'll leave 

School Agrees to Pay Up After Counselor Was Fired for Objecting to Transgender Policy  “Our client, Kathy McCord, was fired after expressing her personal beliefs — speaking on her own time in her personal capacity out of concern for her students — based on her unwillingness to lie to parents,” he said.

Report: China Could Be Spying on You Through Your Smart Home Devices 

Former Pfizer exec estimates 20,000 to 60,000 deaths from COVID shot in Germany 

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Online classes..🐈🐾🐭😅 pic.twitter.com/eZGehkaZNa

— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) April 16, 2026

Be Still, Be Still, My Soul...

 

Be Still, Be Still, My Soul 

Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1

Should mountains melt into the roaring oceans

The earth give way or heaven’s lights grow cold

O mighty God, You are my strong defender

Be still, be still, my soul

 

VERSE 2

When all I see are enemies before me

When unbelief and doubt have taken hold

O Lord of hosts, You promise to defeat them

Be still, be still, my soul

 

CHORUS 1

For You are God, I need not fear

You’re sovereign over all

For You are good and always near

I’ll rest in You alone

Be still, my soul

 

VERSE 3

Though all around the wicked seem to prosper

They mock Your name and rise against Your throne

O righteous Judge, their deeds You will remember

Be still, be still, my soul

 

CHORUS 2

For You are God, I need not fear

You’re sovereign over all

For You are good and always near

I’ll rest in You alone

For You are God, I need not fear

You’re sovereign over all

For You are good and always near

I’ll rest in You alone

Be still, my soul

 

VERSE 4

Though wars erupt, You will not leave us orphans

Though nations rage, You guard us as Your own

O, Prince of Peace, we will not be abandoned

Be still, be still, my soul

Be still, be still, my soul

The risen life of Jesus...

The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself. -Alexander MacLaren

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America’s Birth Rate Has Declined 23% Since 2007 as Abortions Decimate Population 

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The Week in Pictures: Peace-Fire Edition? 

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Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/JHs7eblKDp

— Fenway Park (@fenwaypark) April 3, 2026

To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul...

To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

 O my God, in you I trust;

    let me not be put to shame;

    let not my enemies exult over me.

 Indeed, none who wait for you 

shall be put to shame;

    they shall be ashamed 

who are wantonly treacherous.

 Make me to know your ways, O Lord;

    teach me your paths.

 Lead me in your truth and teach me,

    for you are the God of my salvation;

    for you I wait all the day long.

 Remember your mercy, O Lord, 

and your steadfast love,

    for they have been from of old.

 Remember not the sins of my youth

 or my transgressions;

    according to your steadfast love remember me,

    for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

-Psalm 25:1-7

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed...

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;

 save me, and I shall be saved,

for you are my praise.

-Jeremiah 17:14