Showing posts with label Peter Marshall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Marshall. Show all posts

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Freedom's Price is Steep


If only we only took time
to humbly and kindly love
If only we lived as if we believed
That what God/love gives is enough

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Until we change our ways to God's ways, 
war will not change its ways

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I have shared these excerpts from Peter Marshall's Sermon
The American Dream, a few times before
But truth is timeless!


The phrase below could just as well be read 'we in Canada' 😥🙏



Freedom’s price is steep where after-effects run deep; their loss, our gain
Freedom is never free, but a hard-fought and blood-wrought cross of pain
Love, the greatest command never fails; but kingdoms rise and fall
When leaders turn away and disobey God who is Lord of all

The Author and Authority of love is long-suff’ring and kind
Without Him we are a pathetic case of blind leading the blind

Until we love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind
Freedom will fail. Travail of war will scream, blood red, dread’s streams unwind
God’s light shines on great darkness; a darkness that does not comprehend
The love of He who sets us free; whose death purchased life without end

If only we would take to heart the wage of disobedience
And would fear God, and love His Word, not treat Him with indifference
For ‘unto us a child was born, One whose kingdom will never cease
His Name, Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace

Freedom’s price is steep where after-effects run deep; His loss, our gain
Freedom is never free; His cost, a love-wrought, blood-bought cross of pain
Love, the greatest command never fails; great nations rise and fall
And will until all fear and believe in He who is Lord of all

© Janet Martin

Isa. 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: 
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: 
and his name shall be called Wonderful, 
Counsellor, 
The mighty God, 
The everlasting Father, 
The Prince of Peace.

More timeless truth from Jeremiah 






Who is wise and understanding among you?
 Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.
  14But if you have bitter envy and [h]self-seeking in your hearts, 
do not boast and lie against the truth. 
15This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
  16For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 
17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, 
gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, 
without partiality and without hypocrisy. 
18Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace 
by those who make peace. 
James 3:13-18









Monday, November 2, 2020

A Very Relevant Reminder


The eyes of the world are on the United States of America
and the impending election.
The eyes of God are over the world.
He is sovereign!

I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.
Psalm 146:2-3

I shared this message before the last election.
I know it's a bit long for a blog-post but
it's a sermon that seems to grow ever more, not less relevant!
Canadians are deeply concerned and connected to what happens 
'south of the border'!









the above is a sermon preached by Peter Marshall  
whose later career included;
In 1937 Marshall became pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC
In 1946 he was appointed as US Senate Chaplain, 
serving from January 4, 1947 until his sudden death of a heart attack 
just over two years later, at age 46.
Click on the images to enlarge.

 It seems this message preached shortly after 
World War II is even more relevant now than then!
and not only for Americans.
This applies to all of us who value freedom!

The eyes of God are over all
The creature plots or prays
And often gets enamored by
The lie of captured gaze

Freedom's price tag is bathed in blood
The truth that sets us free
Is greater than the belly of
Fleeting mortality 

I lay a precious stone
A tested cornerstone for faith
To ever rely on

If we reject the Cornerstone
We spurn He who sustains
Lord, open up blind eyes to Truth
While mercy yet remains

The eyes of You are over all
You are Sovereign and just
Dear Lord, You see beneath flesh-shawl
Whether 'In God We Trust'
 
And as we see the Evidence
Of infidels increase
Enlarge through faith the confidence
That fills us with Your peace

© Janet Martin 

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Oh Canada, Glorious and Free (oh North America!!)

 below, yesterday's tot-craft!

Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. 
Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
Psalm 127:1

 Sharing the prayer at the close of Peter Marshall's sermon, The American Dream
(click link for the whole sermon)
Have you read it lately?
 It's truths apply to Canadians just as profoundly!
a few more excerpts (and this was preached in the1930's or 40's!!)





Ah liberty is never free; lest we forget midst common plan
To treasure with humility its prize, to serve our fellowman
And never take our eyes of He who keeps our true North strong and free
Where man’s downfall will ever be contempt for God’s supremacy

...for power-hungry greed destroys and pride always precedes the fall
And ignorance is greatest where God’s Word is treasured least of all
And then the blind, wise in their own eyes think they see and dare to lead
The flock over a precipice then bind their wounds with chains of need

...for freedom cannot long survive where godless logic takes the wheel
Ah, liberty is never freedom to forget its bloody seal
Or founding fathers full of faith; hope’s symbol raised on foreign sod
To proclaim peace and give first place to the authority of God

To pray for peace is ludicrous if we abandon its True Source
Hope without God is foolishness; a ship blown off its charted course
As wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing mingle with the loud, gullible crowd
And gloat at the prattling, pathetic prey of the godless and proud

Oh Canada, glorious and free; but oh, how certain seems thy fall
In vain we’ll stand on guard for thee if we forsake the Lord of all
Oh, Canada, the beautifully blessed because God’s grace is great
Our home and native land, oh Lord, waken before it is too late

Oh, Canada home of fine churches empty, because man neglects
The One who gave purpose to hard-working dreamers and architects
Oh Canada, glorious and free but doom looms large; thy lovely land
Of rocky heights and grassy sweeps slipping into heathen quicksand

Ah, liberty is never free; its privileges lent, not owned
Oh God, its loss is gathering momentum with each ‘prophet stoned
And unless we repent oh Lord, our true North strong and free will fall
Oh Canada, before it is too late, pray for a miracle

© Janet Martin






Friday, March 22, 2019

Timeless...


 No matter how long ago a Book was written, when it is Truth it is timeless.
I was marveling to someone how so much of what is written in the book
A Man called Peter is still as relevant today as then...
And then it hit me; because it is truth and truth is Timeless.

No wonder Jesus said, 
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Matt. 24:35

Ah, trustworthy Truth with nothing to hide
Where man can find comfort in Time's dogged tide
In a world of confusion and ignorance
Truth flies the banner of deliverance
Truth flies the banner of God's assurance!

This is a page-spread from Peter Marshall's Sermon
The American Dream preached in the late 30's to early or mid-40's
yet seems spoken for today!
 (click on image to enlarge)

Always unhindered
Through summer and winter
Tick-tock’s ready tinder
Kindles steady change
Where future-faced forces
From past-based resources
Cannot thwart the courses
Fools try to derange  

Always unflinching
Through whirling and inching
Unfurling and cinching
Where tides tug and chase
As over and under
And through us the thunder
Of moments woo wonder
New moments replace

Always unmoving
Its evidence proving
In spite of man’s ruling
The matters of fact
Where all else estranges
What all else exchanges
But all of time’s changes
Leaves the truth intact

© Janet Martin

For the Whole American Dream message click here

Friday, September 1, 2017

This Also Know....Perilous Days



This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Tim. 3:1-7

 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures through all generations.
The LORD is trustworthy in all he promises
 and faithful in all he does.
Psalm 145:13


Above prayer from Sermons and Prayers by Peter Marshall


These perilous days are here
Of Ignorance without fear
A world of youth blind to the Truth
And ears that do not hear

These perilous days have come
Of hearts haughty and numb
So cold to God, bold to applaud
 Evil’s appalling sum

These perilous days will pass
But oh, alas, alas
To those who think that they can wink
At death and die as grass

These perilous days are grim
Still, all who trust in Him
Can know for sure, Hope is secure
Though hope seems dark and dim

These perilous days are here
Of doubt, hate, godless fear
Still, God of grace will help us face
These days…He remains near

These perilous, perilous days
Cannot annul the praise
To Holy God from sky, sea, sod
Attuned to mercy’s gaze

Then pray, before the toll  
That severs skin and soul
We have believed and thus received
Through  grace, the Victor’s goal

© Janet Martin