Music Monday
Today’s Music Monday features the 2007 Campus Challenge Promotional Video! Herman Lam is the guy behind the video this year, so be sure to thank him for the great work=D
The song that is played during the 2minute video is the Urbana06 Worship Team singing “Unify Us“. Check out the streaming video below (download also available)… take note of the person on-screen for the first 10seconds!
My Sins, My Sins, MySavior
Wow, I love hymns. I never really knew how much I miss singing them and speaking the gospel-saturated truth that is in most hymns until I was deprived of hymns at Urbana06. Thankfully, during the same convention, I attended the “Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs” workshop during the last seminar session–it was an amazing 2 hours of worship through classic hymns. The pastor/worship leader only led with his voice and the grand piano, but most of the time, it felt like the Spirit himself leading us in confession and praise… giving us words to speak when we had not sufficient words to express what we felt in light of the greatness of glory of God’s grace.
During that time of intercession, I learned of the following old hymn. I led my church in reading these lyrics during this past Winter Retreat–honest truths that we can never know too much.
My sins, my sins, my Savior!
They take such hold on me,
I am not able to look up,
Save only, Christ, on Thee;
In Thee is all forgiveness,
In Thee abundant grace,
My shadow and my sunshine
The brightness of Thy face.My sins, my sins, my Savior!
How sad on Thee they fall;
Seen through Thy gentle patience,
I tenfold feel them all;
I know they are forgiven,
But still, their pain to me
Is all the grief and anguish
They laid, my Lord, on Thee.My sins, my sins, my Savior!
Their guilt I never knew
Till with Thee in the desert
I near Thy passion drew;
Till with Thee in the garden
I heard Thy pleading prayer,
And saw the sweat-drops bloody
That told Thy sorrow there.Therefore my songs, my Savior,
E’en in this time of woe,
Shall tell of all Thy goodness
To suff’ring man below;
Thy goodness and Thy favor,
Whose presence from above
Rejoice those hearts, my Savior,
That live in Thee and love.
(Words: John S. B. Monsell, Hymns of Love and Praise, 1863)
What happened at Urbana06
Many have already blogged about Urbana, including a few friends here, here, and here. There have been many different opinions about how Urbana went, some feeling it was great, another feeling it was a lot of work, and others feeling they like they learned so much.
For myself, to put it briefly: Urbana was enlightening!
First, me & my church groupies arrived late for the first session because the restaurant we were at was majorly slow in service & it took forever to get our over-priced food.
The main sessions were an interesting blend of drama and a short exposition of a part of Ephesians. The exposition speaker (”expositor”) Ajith was… brown, which I kinda felt it hindered my own “relating” to what he was trying to contextualize; from as far as I could tell he dosen’t serve much of the college generation directly. His jokes and extravagant body language was good to see in a preacher, and also funny enough that many laughed or clapped along with him (albeit some were a little, out of the ordinary).
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Urbana06 photos & MP3s
“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” (Ephesians 4:1)
“Through the study and exposition of Ephesians, men and women of God presenting challenging messages, and in depth seminars, we believe that God’s heart for the world and how we can be part of that will be revealed. It is our prayer that God will use these pages to call you ever more into his kingdom.”
-Jim Tebbe, on the Urbana06 webcast
MP3s from all the sessions are available here for download.
Here are all my photos from Urbana06 (Dec.27-31) @ the America Center & Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO.
