Thought Quotient

Salvation is a work of God’s grace, not the product of man’s effort. When we respond to the Spirit’s prompting, believe in Jesus, and are born again as God’s children (John 3:3), we can be assured of our place in heaven. How sure are you? - In Touch Ministries

Ephesians 2:1-10

From The Message…

1-6 It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

7-10 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Here’s an early Friday free music download. FREEDEREKWEBB.com has a 192 kb encoded download of Mockingbird - legally - for free! The site is encouraging you to donate to some worthy mission endeavours after saving you seventeen dollars for the album.

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You can learn more about Derek Webb at the interview posted at Music Quotient.

If you’re on ‘the myspace’, check out Brock Gill’s page at www.myspace.com\brockgill. His official website is www.brockgill.com (blog included).

He’s an excellent illusionist who’s using his platform to talk about his faith.

And, if you’re at the WalMart, Target, Best Buy, check out his “Miracles Of Jesus” DVD. It hits the street today.

Be encouraged by God’s word…

From Psalm 145…

14 The LORD upholds all who are falling
and raises up all who are bowed down.
15 The eyes of all look to you,
and you give them their food in due season.
16 You open your hand;
you satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways
and kind in all his works.
18 The LORD is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
19 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he also hears their cry and saves them.

Matthew 11:28…

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records’ lead-worshiper and GMA Artist of the Year, Chris Tomlin, releases his fourth studio album, See The Morning, Sept. 26 amidst wide critical acclaim and radio support.

As millions of people around the world sing the songs of Chris Tomlin every week at collegiate gatherings, worship services and concert settings, millions more are hearing his songs on the radio. The first single from See The Morning, “Made To Worship,” has become Tomlin’s fourth No. 1 radio hit landing the top spot this week on Christian AC radio (R&R, CRW). The multi-format hit is also No. 10 and No. 16 on the R&R INSP and CHR charts, and takes the top spot on CRW’s Comprehensive and Monitored 1 charts garnering more than 17 million impressions this week alone.

See the Morning is the much-anticipated follow-up to Tomlin’s Gold-selling Arriving and is meant to be a “record of hope.” Here is how the critics are already responding to the album:

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The new album from Jars of Clay is entitled “Good Monsters” and is one of the most talked about albums of recent memory. Here’s some audio from the group talking about what it’s about…

The ‘good monster’ philosophy… (MP3 audio)