Who is this indelible grace

We want to be a voice calling our generation back to something rich and solid and beyond the fluff and the trendy. We want to remind God's people that thinking and worship are not mutually exclusive, and that not everything worth knowing happened in the last three years. We want to invite the Church to appreciate her heritage without idolizing it. We want to open up a world of passion and truth and make it more that just an archaic curiosity for the religiously sentimental.

We believe worship is formative, and that it does matter what we think. So, we hope this site will prove helpful in encouraging and nurturing a growing movement. We want to provide resources such as chord charts, CDs, and useful links. But we also want to share with you the stories behind the authors of the hymns, and in many cases the stories behind the writing of the hymns themselves, as well as theological reflections upon the hymns.

We believe that this theological poetry is supremely suited for expressing the seeming paradoxes of the faith that drive us to worship. Our prayer is that Jesus would be made more beautiful and believable, and we have found few things better suited for this than hymns. Skip to main content. Indelible Grace. Todd Pruitt. October 12, This Sunday October 15 Indelible Grace will be leading worship in all three morning services at Church of the Saviour. Share on Facebook Tweet Widget.

Have you ever wondered if God has forgotten or forsaken you? My cause is disregarded by my God. I understand for that is where I am as I write. We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him.

He never fails; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapor; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert.

Francis Havergal. Ed: Not usually, but some have. Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. I have inscribed engraved you on the palms of My hands. Your walls are continually before Me. See the fullness of this! I have graven thy person, thine image, thy case, thy circumstances, thy sins, thy temptations, thy weaknesses, thy wants, thy works; I have graven thee, everything about thee, all that concerns thee; I have put thee altogether there.

Wilt thou ever say again that thy God hath forsaken thee when he has graven thee upon His own palms? Here is security for time and eternity. The palm of the hand is a well-protected place and that hand can fold into a fist if threatened!

Not only ourselves but our times, all our circumstances, the day in which we live, the happenings of our lives—all these are under His control. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One Who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters cf Mt For the feelings are just that-feelings.

Feelings that are very real, feelings that you must deal with. But remember reality. Reality is the fact that a covenant has been cut on your behalf.

Put on the music … the hymns of the faith … the choruses of trust. Sing whether you feel like it or not. Sing whether you can sing or not. Sing until your feelings conform to reality. My name from the palms of His hands Eternity will not erase Impressed on His heart it remains In marks of indelible grace Yes, I to the end shall endure As sure as the earnest is given More happy, but not more secure The glorified spirits in heaven. Charles Wesley applied this Scripture to Christ, writing,. Arise, my soul, arise, shake off thy guilty fears The bleeding Sacrifice in my behalf appears Before the Throne my Surety stands My name is written on His hands.

What shall man do to me? For God to forget us or abandon us, the scars inscribed in the palm of His hands must disappear! Perish all thy doubting thoughts!