Hi, and welcome back to
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This is one of my favorite
portions of the program.
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When we invite a
friend to call in
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and he is going to
tell us his favorite song.
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This is Pastor John Lomacang
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from Thompsonville
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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John, are you there?
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I'm here, Tim. How
are you doing today?
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I'm doing great.
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It's great to see
you a friendly face.
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Good, good.
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We're singing some
wonderful songs today.
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And I know how
important music is to you.
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So tell me a
little bit about that?
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Well, you know, music is
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more than just an opportunity
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for me to
minister to other people.
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Sometimes music is
my own personal outlet,
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you know, sometimes,
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like life sometimes
life is like a journey
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on a two lane road.
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And sometimes you
get behind a driver
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that's going so
slow and you just wish
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is there any outlet,
is there any hope for me.
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And all of a sudden
you see a sign that says,
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"A lane, second
lane one mile ahead."
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When you get to that lane,
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it opens up and
you're able to get away
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from the slow
moving traffic of life.
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You are able to breathe.
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And music allows me
to breathe personally,
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sometimes at home
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I'll sit down at the
keyboard and play not like you,
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just to sing and
minister to my own soul.
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And one of the songs
that's really good to me,
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a favorite of mine
is the song "He Lives".
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Oh, yeah.
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And you asked me the
question, "How I know He lives?"
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He lives within my heart.
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Nice. That's
one of my favorites.
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Oh, great.
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Well, let's sing that,
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and do you mind singing
that in the key of A-flat?
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Sure.
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I don't mind. Great. Okay.
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I serve a risen Savior
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He's in the world today
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I know that He is living
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Whatever men may say
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I see His hand of mercy
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I hear His voice of cheer
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And just the time I need Him
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He's always near
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He lives, He lives
Christ Jesus lives today
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He walks with me
and talks with me
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Along life's narrow way
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He lives, He
lives, salvation to impart
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You ask me how I know He lives?
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He lives within
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My heart
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Thank you, John.
That's a great song.
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You're welcome. You're welcome.
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And here's another great song
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that I remember
learning as a child.
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You will love this song
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if you don't know it already.
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Every day with Jesus
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Is sweeter than the day before
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Every day with Jesus
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I love Him more and more
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Jesus saves and keeps me
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And He's the one I'm waiting for
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Every day with Jesus
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Is sweeter than the day before
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Sing it with me now.
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Every day with Jesus
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Is sweeter than the day before
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Every day with Jesus
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I love Him more and more
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Jesus saves and keeps me
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And He's the one I'm waiting for
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Every day with Jesus
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Is sweeter than the day before
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There are so many songs,
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over the years have been written
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hundreds of thousands of songs,
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and still people
are writing songs today.
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And I thought it would be
fun just to pick a random song.
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You know, I have
a list of requests
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that have come in,
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but if I go over here
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and just open the
hymnal to a random song,
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I don't claim to know
every song in this book,
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but maybe if I just open it
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and we'll do one that
will surprise both of us,
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all right so.
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Oh, this is a
great song "At Calvary".
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This is beautiful.
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If you know it too,
sing along, all right.
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I'll sing that chorus again.
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O mercy there was great,
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And grace was free
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Pardon there
was multiplied to me
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There my burdened
soul found liberty
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At Calvary
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At Calvary
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A song that I learned,
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another one just
when I was very young
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is a song I used to
play as a piano solo.
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And I thought that it
would be nice to end the song
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in the program,
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into this program
with this song every week.
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So I hope you
don't get tired of it,
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we'll just sing the
chorus in others programs,
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but on this one,
let's sing all the verses.
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There is some good
stuff in this, all right.
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"He Keeps Me Singing".
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There's within my heart a melody
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Jesus whispers sweet and low
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Fear not, I am with
thee, peace, be still
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In all of life's ebb and flow
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
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Sweetest name I know
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Fills my every longing
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Keeps me singing as I go
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All my life was
wrecked by sin and strife
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Discord filled
my heart with pain
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Jesus swept
across the broken strings
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Stirred the
slumbering chords again
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I'm singing Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
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Sweetest name I know
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Fills my every longing
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Keeps me singing as I go
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Though sometimes He
leads through waters deep
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Trials fall across the way
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Though sometimes the
path seems rough and steep
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See His footprints all the way
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I'm singing Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
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Sweetest name I know
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Fills my every longing
keeps me singing as I go
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Sing that chorus again.
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Feasting on the
riches of His grace
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Resting 'neath
His sheltering wing
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Always looking
on His smiling face
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That is why I shout and sing
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
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Sweetest name I know
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Fills my every longing
keeps me singing as I go
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And we've got one more verse.
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I like it the best.
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O soon He's
coming back to welcome me
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Far beyond the starry sky
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I shall wing my
flight to worlds unknown
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I shall reign with Him on high
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O Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
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Sweetest name I know
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Fills my every longing
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Keeps me singing as I go
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He keeps me singing
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As I go
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That's my prayer for you
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that Christ stirs
up a song within you
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that you can't
keep from singing.
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I want to thank you so much
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for spending the
time with me today.
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I hope that I've played a song
that has maybe struck a chord
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in your memory
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or struck a chord in your heart.
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Songs, we can't
live without songs,
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music is such a
vital part of our lives,
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and I hope that
you will be singing
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these songs and others.
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In fact, when you sing
a song you think of it,
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please email me at
tim.parton@3abn.org.
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That's 3abn.org.
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And send it to me,
I'll try to get in it,
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I'll learn it and
we'll sing it together.
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And also if you don't mind,
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maybe recording
you singing that song,
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your favorite song on a phone
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and send me the
video, I'd love to hear it.
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