Let's Talk Today About Good News

Some Good News songs and a poem to kick off the week leading toThe manger, the cross and the empty tomb!Leading us from despair to hope,from darkness to Lightfrom hell to Heaven! -Michael Smith In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.John 1:4 Note of 'non-apology'!: it was really hard to reign in the Good News surge of pure joy!💖🙏 Let’s talk today about the things that bring us hope and joyThe song the angels sang still rings with truth none can destroyWhere unto us was born that day, a Saviour, Christ the LordAnd nothing in the world can sway the soundness of God’s WordAnd nothing can annul the gift that gladdens death’s dark tollTime cannot change nor tempest shift the anchor of the soulNor dim the Light of men that darkness cannot overcomeIn Him is life and that life is the Rock of ChristendomThe breath of the believer and the faith that makes us wholeThe bane of the deceiver and the beauty of love's goal The Good News of salvation is greater than headline gloomThe Author of creation did not leave us in sin’s doomBut gave His Son to save us from a debt we could not payThe precious blood of Jesus Christ washes our guilt awayAnd cleanses us from all unrighteousness when we confessGod fits us for faith’s fight with his abiding promisesHe leads us not into temptation but delivers usFrom awful condemnation for all those in Christ JesusLet’s walk the Way He taught, faith’s humble devotion to proveLet’s talk today about God and His everlasting love Let’s count with grateful gladness all the blessings grace bestowsAnd counter this world’s madness full of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothesWise in their own eyes they deny the cross that faith must bearAnd reason truth into a lie and pride into a prayerWithout repentance and belief; oh, pray they see the LightAnd weep because  joy crowns our grief, for He gave us the rightTo become His dear children, if we believe in His nameNo longer slaves of Satan but heirs of Christ's glorious claimThus faith abounds with hope and joy, through the power of HeWhose Spirit, grace and truth’s alloy, secures death’s victory Let’s talk about Emmanuel; God with us constantlyHis goodness and mercy the wellspring of eternityHis perfect peace to all whose minds and hearts are stayed on HimLet’s talk about the Good News and drink from fountains that brimWith glad tidings that bad news cannot keep from coming trueLet’s talk about God’s love and choose to love Him through and throughBecause no matter what betide, God works for our goodHe knows our need and will provide, though oft misunderstoodBecause of what faith’s testing brings while trouble has its dayAh, let’s talk about heav’nly things that never fade away © Janet Martin