Song of the Redeemed

Our faith looks up to you

Sovereign o'er all we do 

King of our souls 

You are all blessedness 

Lord, your name we confess 

Make us your righteousness 

Come, take control 

No merit of our own 

We trust in Christ alone 

Your Grace impart

Lord be our solid ground 

In you our hope is found 

Now may your peace abound 

Within our hearts 

Lord, now for us, you stand 

Showing your wounded hands 

You intercede 

Before your Father’s throne 

You name us as your own 

We trust your blood alone 

Will meet our need 

Lord, hear us when we pray 

Take all our sins away 

And make us clean 

All of our needs we bring 

This we are offering 

This be the song we sing 

We the redeemed.

October 26, 2025

Anthony Foster

The Fall, the Wall, and the All in All

You are the Lord, infinite and mercy the first and last 

You know all things before they ever come to pass 

Your eyes see all things before they come to be 

Yet your creation will desert you in an effort to be free 

From the glory of your presence and the fellowship of light 

They will prefer the darkness of a long eternal night 

Man seeks to be sufficient as if he were enough

He will call his God a liar and disregard True love

In rebellion, he’ll serve other gods and the Lord he will deny 

He’ll come to eat forbidden fruit, and on that day he shall die 

Now man becomes a slave to Sin, the truth he will exchange

For the lie of the serpent and in sin he will remain 

A broken image of God’s likeness bound in his mortal flesh 

No longer shall he be able to mirror holiness 

A great wall he’ll build and soon it becomes his tomb 

A God shaped void none else can fill- for God there is no room 

So withered now and hopeless in bondage to sin’s embrace

For all his work and all his plans, he failed to seek God’s grace

Then vanity of vanities, his creations become his king 

He lives beneath his privilege and dreams of mundane things

October 25,2025

Anthony Foster

I Call Out Your Name

What a masterpiece of mercy God’s creation remains

Though it has been polluted and defaced

The stewards of this world have fallen short at taking pains

Yet everywhere you  still can see the marks of Grace

In the heavens in the oceans and on the dry land

The beauty of this world still shows forth

The Earth and wind and fire are still controlled by God‘s hand 

And Deep calls unto Deep to show it’s worth 

The heavens still  declare glory.

The Earth springs forth with praise 

Creation tells the story 

And we still stand amazed

And I call out your Name

And I call out your Name

The designer of creation embeds His Evidence

Of a music and a beauty beyond time

We  are all without excuse before his Providence 

Left tangled here longing for the divine

Joy turns to mourning Love turns to lust

When the author of all faith and hope is scorned

For none other has the words of life in which to trust

There’s only one way you can be reborn

The heavens still  declare glory.

The Earth springs forth with praise 

Creation tells the story 

And we still stand amazed

And I call out your Name

And I call out your Name

John 6:68; Romans 1:20

Psalm 19:1,148:8

Romans10:13;Acts 4:12

October 26, 2025

Anthony Foster

Look to Jesus

From the beginning to the end 

And from morning unto night

On this charge, I will contend: 

On Christ to ever set my sights

Yesterday and today 

To tomorrow and beyond 

To forevermore, I pray 

It’s Christ  I’ll turn my eyes upon

I’ll look to Jesus look to Jesus

Oh, the glory of his name

I’ll look to Jesus look to Jesus

And I will never be the same

Thoughts of Christ I will pursue 

Above all things I will regard 

That seeking him is what I’ll do 

And from this world, my heart He’ll guard 

So I will study Jesus Christ

Consider him as above all 

For he is life and he is light

By Christ my heart shall be enthralled

I’ll look to Jesus look to Jesus

Oh, the glory of his name

I’ll look to Jesus look to Jesus

And I will never be the same

So up on Christ I’ll set my eyes

Eyes of my heart shall surely see

And in my soul, I’ll realize

I am in Christ and Christ’s in me

I’ll look by faith and not by sight

And I shall seek to apprehend

The beauty of the living light

This is my joy and my chief end

I’ll look to Jesus look to Jesus

Oh, the glory of his name

I’ll look to Jesus look to Jesus

And I will never be the same

Hebrews 12:2; 2 Corinthians 5:7

October 23, 2025

Anthony Foster

To Live Is Christ, To Die is Gain

There is a faith that largely goes unchallenged 

Yet the laying down of life is still in view 

To willingly pay the price 

Of daily sacrifice 

Depending wholly upon Grace to see it through 

There is a faith that overcomes temptation 

And knowing God is all of its pursuit

A faith that conquers fear 

And to the Lord draws near 

And losing life to find it is its Truth

To live is Christ and to die is gain 

These are words that resound clear and plain 

A faith that fears not death 

And with the final breath, it proclaims

To live is Christ and to die is gain 

There is a faith that wrestles with the challenge 

Of what believing might truly cost 

When worship might result 

In more than mere insult

Called to face death in the midst of holocaust 

There is a faith that fuels the voice of martyrs 

Where deep persecution is reality 

This life it loosely holds 

Against the world stands bold

And knows that death will only set one free 

To live is Christ and to die is gain 

These are words that resound clear and plain 

A faith that fears not death 

And with the final breath, it proclaims

To live is Christ and to die is gain 

October 21,2025

Anthony Foster

Nothing

Nothing fascinates me like you Jesus

No one draws me into joy like you

Lord you mesmerize my soul

To be like you is my goal

There’s no other one I give allegiance to 

I will never comprehend you Jesus

But I’ll ever seek to apprehend your ways

For if I would be transformed 

I will pray to be conformed 

To your likeness and to ever give you praise 

You’re the power that holds the world together, Jesus

All the universe would crumble but for you

For all creation exists

And by your Word consists

For you made it and sustain it too

I will live and move and have my being in you, Jesus

You are all in all and so I worship you 

For there is no substitute 

For the Way and Life and Truth

I pray to bring you glory in all I do

Hebrews 1; Colossians 1:15-17

October 21, 2025

Anthony Foster