Come and Stand in Awe

Condescended, came to earth

King of kings, now babe at birth.

Creator God, now helpless child.

Come and stand in awe.

He Who needs not a thing

Came to need everything

From His earthly parents’ arms.

Come and stand in awe. 

He came to live a perfect life,

To learn and grow as a child,

And grow into a righteous man.

Come and stand in awe.

He came to live and to die

Both for us, to pay our price

And rose triumphant from the grave.

Come and stand in awe.

Come and stand, come and bow, 

Come and worship Jesus now.

He has come to earth to save.

Come and live in awe. 

Merry Christmas 2024

Jesus Christ is His Name

Jesus Christ is His Name

 

Covenant-keeping, gracious God

Sent Christ to earth; let’s bring Him laud.

He came to live a perfect life,

To break the bonds of sin and strife.

 

Jesus Christ is His name.

The angels sang when He came.

“Glory to God Who lives on high,

Peace on earth” was their cry.

 

He lived a perfect righteous life

Though tempted just like you and I.

And then on Calvary’s cross He died.

“It is finished” was His cry.

 

He’d paid the price for rebel hearts.

We all have missed God’s perfect mark.

But so unfailing is His love

That by His grace, He shed His blood.

 

Up from the grave He did arise,

And now He calls for us to die,

To die to self and live for Christ,

Be forgiven and filled with life.

 

What shall we do with this great news?

If we have the Spirit and the truth?

Tell the world the Savior’s call

Come to Jesus one and all.

 

And live each day to bring Him laud,

This Prophet, Priest, and King, our God.

Jesus Christ is His name.

Forever we’ll sing because He came.

 

 

Merry Christmas 2023

Love, the McLennan

June 16

Tomorrow is June 16, a big day of celebration for our family.

My baby boy’s cheerful “Happy birthday, Pappy!” runs through my head and makes me smile and make me cry.

My little boy loves sharing a birthday with his Pappy.

Pappy said I’d never top that birthday present. 

And now the day has come to celebrate that little boy, and his Pappy isn’t here with us.

But oh how Pappy is in a place of celebration!
We cannot fathom the joy, the peace, the happiness.

So while we are sad, and that’s okay, we can turn our hearts to Heaven and praise God for eternity.

We can keep celebrating birthdays on earth and thank God for every day we have here and also remember that this earth is not our home and we are looking for the one to come, our forever home purchased with the blood of Christ.

“For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the one to come.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭13‬:‭14‬ ‭

Grief

Grief is such a fickle feeling,   

Waning and waxing like the moon, 

And sometimes sitting still like fog, 

Hovering, hindering sight. 

Sometimes it trickles down upon you; 

Sometimes it rains down hard, 

Flooding, drowning, carrying you 

To where it seems so dark. 

Then the sun shines through the rain 

And memories resurface, 

Those puffy clouds of happiness 

That turn your countenance. 

Yes grief is such a fickle feeling, 

But Jesus is the same today

And yesterday and tomorrow.

He changes not. I’ll rest in Him.

Pappy

Gone from us but not gone forever.

Though we mourn today, we’ll rejoice forever,

For earthly death is not the end of his story. 

He has a Savior that gives life eternal.

He loved his life with his wife and children.

His grandchildren were truly his crown of glory.

United in love because our God is love,

We will treasure this life and the one to come.

Roger Kevin McLennan

June 16, 1955-January 29, 2023

“Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,”

‭‭John‬ ‭11‬:‭25‬ 

Incarnation: Glorious Manifestation (Christmas 2022)

Oh think of the blessed Incarnation;

Ponder the great majesty of Christ’s birth,

Oh that glorious Manifestation,

God’s love in human form brought down to earth.

The Prophecies told how Jesus would come.

The shadows and pictures were drawn of Him,

On David’s throne and over his kingdom

The Lord of hosts, glorious diadem.

But humbly He came as a baby boy,

And meekly that child grew into a man.

That man laid down His life for the joy

Set before Him and according to plan.

The sovereign King died that we would receive

Eternal life and calls us to believe.

He Came to Save (Christmas 2021)

Our Sovereign Savior came to earth.

Glorious ones announced His birth.

They came to shepherds keeping sheep.

The message made them run and leap

To see the Babe, to see the King,

The One Who came to save.

They beheld the Lamb of God.

These lowly shepherds gave Him laud.

He came to do what man could not,

To walk our road, to take our lot.

To keep the law, to die our death,

The One Who came to save.

The invitation: come believe,

Come by faith and come receive

Salvation from Christ our Lord

Jesus the One by shepherds adored.

Because He loved, because He paid,

Because He came to save.