As We Arise (Easter Pledge)

Christ has become our only dream
The risen reality that redeems
Bearing our cross we bear much fruit
Running the race in holy pursuit

We pledge to live what we believe
We will not live like those who grieve
We rise like an eagle when he flies
Giving you glory as we arise

Fixing our eyes upon your throne
No other God but you alone
Lifting us up on wings of grace
You transformed all the dreams we chase

Satan may scheme to take us down
But we'll respond as those who’ve found
The Hope and peace that never dies
Giving you glory as we arise

Our destination in the race
To become a people full of grace
To rule and reign with you as your own
And to finally know as we are known

And so to live is Christ and to die is gain
This is our joy as we remain-
Resurrection power that never dies
We give you the glory as we arise.

Anthony Foster
April 19, 2011

Called to the Cross

Here is God's good and perfect will
Here are His purposes fulfilled
To change us till we are transformed
Into the likeness of Christ conformed.

Called to the cross, called to suffer loss
Bid to come and die
Bid to come and self to deny
Take up your cross and follow
Take up your cross and follow
Follow the Master for He paid the cost

Enter into His sufferings
A living sacrificial offering
And in that poor and lowly place
He exalts the weak by His Grace.

Called to the cross, called to suffer loss
Bid to come and die
Bid to come and self to deny
Take up the cross and follow
Take up the cross and follow
Follow the Master for He paid the cost

For all of us sinners
Are losers or winners
For all of us fell at the fall
Though bereft and depraved
By His mercy we’re saved
Made alive now to answer His call.

Called to the cross, called to suffer loss
Bid to come and die
Bid to come and self to deny
Take up the cross and follow
Take up the cross and follow
Follow the Master for He paid the cost


Anthony Foster
April 17, 2011

Hiatus

No blogging in the month of March and most of April is gone... sorry folks but life is a happenin' thing...

You Have Set Your Throne on High

You have set Your throne on high
May Your Kingdom come on Earth
Your redemption draweth nigh
As we manifest your Worth.
In Your good and pleasing, perfect will
Revealed as a sacrifice
We live in this and so fulfill
The sufferings of Christ.

So set your throne in us
Your slaves who have become
Your children, heirs and living trust
Until your Kingdom comes
For as You died and then were raised
As your power in us attains
We live and move to see you praised
Your Sovereign grace e’re reigns.

You have set Your throne on High
And from Your mercy seat
The call of the cross bids us come and die
And to worship at Your feet.
And so we boldly enter in
Your presence shall never depart
As we leave behind what might have been,
Build Your altar within our heart.

So set your throne in us
Raise us to the heavenlies
The sanctified who were declared just
By the truth that set us free
For as You died and then were raised
This same power in us attains
We live and move to see you praised
Your Sovereign grace e’re reigns.

April 17, 2011
Anthony Foster