Sweet music with rich content of crucial truth.

https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/ns/806


Cover while enjoying the hymn, it was when I was practicing this hymn for our class assignment. 😁
(Credits to Melodies of Lilies)
(Banner of Crystalization Study of Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.)

May we enjoy the Christ within the hymn. 😊

God's Purpose in Dealing

Unless the Grain of Wheat - John 12:24-26, 32

To Have and To Hold is not a biography, a lecture, or a historical reconstruction. It is an imagined world — one you step into to feel your way around an idea rather than to learn it.

The album takes place loosely in early-20th-century Cambridge, at the moment when Western thought was beginning to strain under its own certainty. Science had proved astonishingly powerful at breaking reality into parts, explaining mechanisms, and producing results — yet at the same time it was encountering problems it could no longer fully contain. Probability was replacing certainty. Events mattered as much as objects. Meaning no longer sat still.

Out of this tension emerged process philosophy: the idea that reality is not made of finished things, but of ongoing happenings — that love, time, marriage, and even truth itself are not states you reach, but activities you keep participating in.

The album imagines this moment through a human lens. A mathematician trying to complete a system of logic. A thinker insisting that nothing important is ever truly finished. Proofs accumulating. Years passing. A marriage understood first as a statement, then slowly revealed as a practice. Love appearing not as romance in the foreground, but as something quietly unfolding elsewhere — happening whether it is attended to or not.

Rather than explaining these ideas directly, the songs allow you to inhabit them. You hear bells ring. You feel evenings close in. You sense the weight of unfinished work and the relief of letting something continue without control. The philosophy is not taught; it is lived.

This is a soft documentary in sound — an audio quantum leap into a world. Its purpose is not accuracy, quotation, or instruction, but immersion. By the time the album ends, you may not be able to define process philosophy in a sentence — but you may feel why it arose, what problem it was answering, and why it still matters.

To Have and To Hold is an exploration of commitment not as possession, but as attention.
Of marriage not as a conclusion, but as renewal.
Of understanding not as something you arrive at — but something that keeps happening.

If you listen closely, nothing here ever quite resolves.
But something continues.

The First Line Takes All Morning

Althought youths (Isaiah 40:30-31)

1. Although youths will faint and become weary,
And young men will collapse exhausted; 
Yet those who wait on Jehovah will renew their strength; 

They will mount up with wings like an eagle; They will run and will not faint; They will walk and will not become weary. They will run and will not faint; 

2. Those who stop themselves and will wait on God,
Will experience resurrection power
They'll be transformed person and will soar in the heaven.

Although youths(Isaiah 40:30-31)

Songs recorded at the NZ High Schoolers' Training 2016.

HST2016

Consecrated one

For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will impart My laws into their mind, and on their hearts I will inscribe them; and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to Me.

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It is according to the law of life that we are a people to God and that He is God to us. God's relationship with us today is based fully on the law of life, so that today we do not need to walk according to the knowledge of the law of letters but should walk according to the consciousness of the law of life.

Water in the Word

Hebrews 8:10 - For this is the covenant

Lord, You love me so immensely;
I would love You more intensely.
Every day and every moment,
O Lord, capture me.
Let my goal and my life’s theme be,
Lord, to love You most supremely;
With all my heart, Lord Jesus,
Keep me faithful unto Thee.

Draw me, Lord, each day.
Take my veils away.
With a pure heart will I see You;
Lord I just love You.
Nothing else I seek;
No one else for me.
I would fully and absolutely
Give my whole being unto Thee.

Lord You Love Me So Immensely (with Faith Valverde and Jessi Freeman)

O Lord, I keep calling (C G Am)
Upon your precious name (F)
I can feel You are keeping (C G Am)
Safe my burning flame. (F)

O Lord, I keep feeding (C G Am)
On Your lovely Word. (F)
You've put Your seed in me, (C G Am)
A person from the world. (F)

O Lord, I keep falling (C G)
Deeper in love with You. (Dm C)
And I'm really grateful (C G)
That You love me too. (Am C)

O Lord, keep me living, (C G)
Keep my spirit burning bright. (Dm C)
O Lord, don't stop shining, (C G)
I am walking in Your light! (Am F C)

O Lord, I keep calling

Fellowship after the Crystallization Study of Numbers (1) in Anaheim, CA — 12/30/18.

"How To Go On From Here" — A Concluding Word in Anaheim (Ron Kangas)

Metroplex Conference, January 2021 / Preparing for the Lord’s Imminent Return by Persevering Unto  Unceasing Prayer as Seen in the Books of Colossians and Philippians  and in the Reality That Is in Jesus

Preparing for the Lord’s Imminent Return (1) - R.S.

A                                          E
1 For everything there is a season,
           F#m.                C#m                       D     Bm
And a time for every purpose under heaven 
             E      E7
(under heaven)
A                                                     E
A time to be born, and a time to die;
                 F#m                           C#m
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is 
D      Bm
planted;
               E      E7
(what is planted)

Chorus:
              D                 A                  E E7               D
He has made everything beautiful in its own time;
         A          E E7         D              E
also He has put eternity in their heart,
           C#m                         F#m                D
yet so that man does not find out what God has 
Bm                         E      E7             A 
done from the beginning to the end

2 A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to tear down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

3 A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to be silent, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time for war, and a time for peace.
(a time for every thing)


(Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8, 11)

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8,11 w/ N.M.

Matthew David Fritz and his wife Leslie write and produce original scripture songs from the Recovery Version of the Bible and its footnotes. They produced two full albums, Concerning His Son (2011) and Looking Away (2015). 

Since 2015 they have been working under the name "Chords of a Man," producing original song albums based on Bible books and the ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. 

https://soundcloud.com/chords-of-a-man

Unless the Grain of Wheat - John 12:24-26, 32

Matthew David Fritz

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