Mine Eyes is a raw and transparent view of my sinful condition and the Gospel that redeems it. The story of the Gospel is only complete when it doesn’t merely give the good news, but precedes that good news with the bad news. That’s the whole story. I am utterly and completely sinful. Jesus lived a perfect life, yet he took my sin upon him and the punishment that comes with it. We must fully concede our desperate condition. Only then will the Gospel be exercised in our lives (Isaiah 6:5, Psalm 36:3-5, Romans 7:24-25).

Mine Eyes

At the end of 2020, I won’t be surprised at all if the word “unprecedented” is chosen by Merriam-Webster as the word of the year. No one living has seen a year quite like this one, and it’s not over yet. At best, it’s been an unsettling season. At worst, it's been downright panic-inducing. But, as believers, we are instructed to trust in the Lord with all our hearts and lean not on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). One of the ways we can begin to do that in the midst of all of this chaos and strife is to remind ourselves who God is and what he is like. 

God is infinite. He is eternal. He is self-existent. 

God is The Alpha & Omega, The Sovereign Creator. Our King and Our Savior. He is the Lord. 

God has no beginning. His love has no ending. He is the only thing in all of time and space that is unquestionably Unprecedented.

Unprecedented

I was just messing around with this Fever Ray song from a few years ago. The original is very synth based and gothic. I wondered what it would be like to do an acoustic blues version so I picked up my guitar and put down a little rough track for fun.    

If I Had A Heart - Fever Ray

One of my favorite old hymns. It's a bit obscure but sometimes those are the best ones.

Jesus Savior Pilot Me

Written and recorded in 1998. 
Inspired by Jeremiah 6:16 and  1 Samuel 15:22.

Rest For Our Souls

Written and recorded in 1999. Inspired by Job 38.

Job 38

Some friends of mine were having some difficulties comprehending and reconciling some things that the bible says that seem to contradict each other. I've been in that place for a long time but I've learned to live in that tension.   

This Tozer quote blessed me immensely in my confusion and this song came later.

"If all this appears to be self-contradictory---Amen, be it so. The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known. Then truth which now appears to be in conflict with itself will arise in shining unity and it will be seen that the conflict has not been in the truth but in our sin-damaged minds."

'Til our hearts and minds have been mended

Our Father in Heaven/The Lord's Prayer

Written and recorded in 2000. Inspired by Psalm 93:3-4 and Psalm 91:1

Don Shreffler

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