Grace Amazing - Jimmy Needham & Trip Lee

Originally Posted in 2011

According to Webster, grace is unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification. I love a good definition from Webster but I also asked my students what they thought grace was.

According to my students grace is...

...like love for others when they fall short of the standard. Grace is an undeserved favor and it comes from God.
...providing someone a way out like a warning or get-out-of-jail free card.
...being given something you don't earn and don't deserve.
...having so much love that you forgive something.
...mercy, and God's love for us.
...where Jesus forgives us even when we sin even when we don't deserve it.
...forgiving people when they make mistakes.
...having mercy on those who need it.
...what we need to get to heaven. 
...salvation, love, and what Jesus offers us. We just need to accept it. 

One of my favorite lines in this song by Jimmy Needham w/Trip Lee:

You found my heart in the tomb

Wrapped up all lifeless and bruised

I was the living dead

Couldn't even lift my head

To see You enter the room

That's how it is with us all

We weren't just damaged

We fell dead at the fall

Only the innocent

Can breathe the air again 

The Reason I Sing - Jimmy Needham

I don't think there's anything I can add to what Jimmy pens so here are the lyrics of this incredible song:


If its just to top a song chart
To feed the kids and get a bigger car
The skies already have a lot of stars
And they all sing Your name

And if I'm here to write a #1
To get a gold or maybe platinum
Make me a singer who is unsung
Cuz You won't share fame

Cuz even accolades someday will fade away
Oh just like me
Yes everything but You, yeah
And many years from now it won't matter
How I write the rhymes I do, yeah
Help me get back to the reason I sing for You

I'm always looking for the limelight
To dim my house and make the stages bright
Compared to You I'm just a night light
Against the blazing sun

I enter rooms and hope they notice me
To fill my social insecurities
I'm asking if there's any hope for me
Cuz there is room for only one

Cuz even accolades someday will fade away
Oh just like me
Yes everything but You, yeah
And many years from now it won't matter
How I write the rhymes I do, yeah
Help me get back to the reason I sing for You

Why are we so convinced a bigger audience
Is simply common sense to have?
Maybe success is measured best
By nothing less then our obedience

So if I'm destined for a small stage
The small crowds and the small pay
Then maybe even in a small way
I can bring You fame

Cuz even accolades someday will fade away
Oh just like me
Yes everything but You, yeah
And many years from now it won't matter
How I write the rhymes I do, yeah
Help me get back to the reason I sing for You

Help me get back to the reason I sing for You

Grace Amazing

According to Webster, grace is unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification. I love a good definition from Webster but I also asked my students what they thought grace was.

According to my students grace is...

...like love for others when they fall short of the standard. Grace is an undeserved favor and it comes from God.
...providing someone a way out like a warning or get-out-of-jail free card.
...being given something you don't earn and don't deserve.
...having so much love that you forgive something.
...mercy, and God's love for us.
...where Jesus forgives us even when we sin even when we don't deserve it.
...forgiving people when they make mistakes.
...having mercy on those who need it.
...what we need to get to heaven. 
...salvation, love, and what Jesus offers us. We just need to accept it. 

One of my favorite lines in this song by Jimmy Needham w/Trip Lee:

You found my heart in the tomb

Wrapped up all lifeless and bruised

I was the living dead

Couldn't even lift my head

To see You enter the room

That's how it is with us all

We weren't just damaged

We fell dead at the fall

Only the innocent

Can breathe the air again