JESUS IS ALIVE - Ron Kenoly - Hallelujah, Jesus is alive Death has lost its victory And the grave has been denied And Jesus lives forever He's alive! He's alive! He's the Alpha and Omega The first and last is He The curse of sin is broken And we have perfect liberty The lamb of God has risen He's alive! He's alive! Hallelujah, Jesus is alive Death has lost its victory And the grave has been denied Jesus lives forever He's alive! He's alive! He's the Alpha and Omega The first and last is He The curse of sin is broken And we have perfect liberty The lamb of God has risen He's alive! He's alive! Hallelujah, Jesus is alive! Hallelujah, Jesus is alive Death has lost its victory And the grave has been denied Jesus lives forever He's alive! He's alive! He's the Alpha and Omega The first and last is He The curse of sin is broken And we have perfect liberty The lamb of God has risen The lamb of God has risen He's alive! He's alive! Hallelujah, Jesus is alive! Hallelujah, Jesus is alive Death has lost its victory And the grave has been denied Jesus lives forever He's alive! He's alive! He's the Alpha and Omega The first and last is He The curse of sin is broken And we have perfect liberty The lamb of God has risen

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Jesus Is Alive

Ron Kenoly

Album   :  Jesus Is Alive

 

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lyrics

[Chorus]
Hallelujah, Jesus is alive
Death has lost its victory
And the grave has been denied
And Jesus lives forever
He's alive! He's alive!
He's the Alpha and Omega
The first and last is He
The curse of sin is broken
And we have perfect liberty
The lamb of God has risen
He's alive! He's alive!

[Chorus]
Hallelujah, Jesus is alive
Death has lost its victory
And the grave has been denied
Jesus lives forever
He's alive! He's alive!
He's the Alpha and Omega
The first and last is He
The curse of sin is broken
And we have perfect liberty
The lamb of God has risen
He's alive! He's alive!
Hallelujah, Jesus is alive!

[Interlude]

[Chorus]
Hallelujah, Jesus is alive
Death has lost its victory
And the grave has been denied
Jesus lives forever
He's alive! He's alive!
He's the Alpha and Omega
The first and last is He
The curse of sin is broken
And we have perfect liberty
The lamb of God has risen

Ron Kenoly (born December 6, 1944) is an American Christian worship leader, singer, and songwriter whose expressed mission is "to create an environment for the manifest presence of God". His musical style is one of jubilant praise and individual excellence on musical instruments. Although Kenoly himself only plays on one of his recordings, he leads comfortably with his voice and is always backed up by musicians and a large choir.

He holds several degrees, including a music degree from Alameda College, a Master of Divinity from Faith Bible College, and a Doctorate of Ministry in Sacred music from Friends International Christian University. His music career began following time spent in the United States Air Force. He was originally with a group called The Mellow Fellows, but family issues caused him to leave the group. His critical success came in 1992 when Lift Him Up became the fastest selling worship album to that point. Welcome Home produced by Tom Brooks was also critically acclaimed, becoming Billboard's Top contemporary worship music album, and winning a Gospel Music Association Dove Award for "Praise and Worship Album" in 1997. He was signed to Integrity Music, but is no longer recording for them.

He began working in full-time ministry in 1985. He started out as a worship leader at Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose, California. Not long after that, in 1987, he was ordained and installed as Music Pastor. As worship leader, his sole focus was leading worship service. When he became music pastor, he became the shepherd over the entire music department at Jubilee Christian Center. In 1993, after the two Integrity recordings, he started receiving invitations from all over the world. Churches not only wanted him to come lead praise and worship, but also to help them develop their music departments. So shortly afterwards, he was named Ambassador of Music at Jubilee Christian Center. He was sent out from the church as an ambassador to the world to help churches develop and find the balance between worship and the Word. In 1996, he received his Doctorate in Ministry of Sacred Music. In 1999, he felt the call to move from California to the East Coast. So, he relocated the ministry to Central Florida where he continues to travel, speak, sing and teach and record. He sings all over the world. Kenoly has also written a few books, one of them written with his pastor, Dick Bernal.

Kenoly states that when his mother, Edith Kenoly, was pregnant with him, she would rub her stomach, and her prayer was, "Lord let this one praise you."

After graduating from high school in his birthplace, Coffeyville, Kansas, Kenoly ventured out to Hollywood, California. When plans to make it in the big city fell through, he joined the Air Force in 1965. It was in the military that he met and married Tavita, his wife of 42 years. It was also there that the humble beginnings of his music career were launched. Kenoly joined the Mellow Fellows, a top 40 cover band that toured military bases. In 1968, he left the Air Force and the Mellows Fellows behind and shipped out to the City of Angels to go after his passion: music.

"As a child I remember seeing Sammy Davis Jr. and Nat King Cole for the first time. I was so impressed as I watched two Black men grace a national stage. I knew right then that was what I wanted." So for the next few years, Kenoly poured all of his energy into making his childhood dream a reality. He sang demos of Jimmy Webb songs, like the 70's hit "Up, Up and Away," for the Audio Arts label. The label also released Kenoly's first single, "The Glory of Your Love (Mine Eyes Have Seen)." Success in the R&B arena came after he signed with A&M Records. Under that label, he cranked out songs like, "Soul Vaccination".

Ron Kenoly and Candy were the first act signed to Semper's Inner City label. Their "Lovely Weekend" single was a massive success selling close to 200, 000 copies. "The two of them came and sang the song at my house and I knew straight away I wanted to sign them," explains Semper. "We recorded it at CBA (Clark Brown Audio) recording studio in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles in 1972.

A&M Records boosted his success with R&B. The label executives changed his name to Ron Keith. He made R&B hits such as 'I Betcha I'll Get Ya', 'Soul Vaccination', and (in 1975) 'Can't Live Without You'.

Some years later, he decided to drop R&B music and devote himself to a Christian life. He tried for four years to get a gospel record deal. In 1983, he released a custom-made album, 'You Ought to Listen to This. It was a project known around Kenoly's community (not internationally released).

Kenoly eventually started leading praise and worship for other pastors such as Jack Hayford and Lester Sumrall. This caught the attention of Mario Murillo, who introduced him to Pastor Dick Bernal, the founder of Jubilee Christian Center. Ron Kenoly became the church's music minister in 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kenoly

LOVE DIVINE ALL LOVES EXCELLING - Charles Wesley - Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation; enter every trembling heart.

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Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Charles Wesley

 

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lyrics

 Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation;
enter every trembling heart.

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 Breathe, oh, breathe thy loving Spirit
into every troubled breast;
let us all in thee inherit;
let us find the promised rest.
Take away the love of sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.

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 Come, Almighty, to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return, and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.

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 Finish, then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be;
let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee:
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love and praise.

A love song and story about God's love and care. This traditional hymn called "Love Divine All Loves Excelling" was written by Charles Wesley, and was first published in 1747. 
The tune was first used or published in 1830. Music arrangement and vocals by Julie Gaulke. 

The story behind the hymn

Rupert Christiansen

This is one of the loveliest hymns by Charles Wesley (1707-88), first published in 1747 in his brother John Wesley's collection, rather dauntingly entitled Hymns for those that seek, and those that have, Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ. But Charles Wesley must share some of the credit: he is thought to have been inspired, perhaps unconsciously, by a thoroughly pagan popular song of the day, 'Fairest isle, all isles excelling', written by John Dryden for Act 2 of Henry Purcell's opera King Arthur (1691), and the wonderful closing line turns out to be an unambiguous crib from a poem by Joseph Addison:

When all thy mercies, o my God, 
My rising soul surveys, 
Transported with the view I'm lost 
In wonder, love and praise.

Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained the meaning of 'changed from glory into glory' in the last verse, though it has been suggested that the line relates to 2 Corinthians 3:18: 'But we all, with open face beholding in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.'

Percy Dearmer points out 'how few of the earlier hymns dwell upon the thought of God as Love. The popularity in recent years of this fine hymn of Wesley's is probably due to the fact that it does address God in this way.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3668060/The-story-behind-the-hymn.html

 

 

 

 

 



 


 

ALPHA AND OMEGA - “Alpha” and “omega” are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Jesus being the “Alpha and Omega” means that He was at the beginning of all things and will be at the close. He has no beginning, nor will He have any end with respect to time, being from everlasting to everlasting.

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Alpha and the Omega?

Why is Jesus the Alpha and the Omega?

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Jesus proclaimed Himself to be the “Alpha and Omega” in: Revelation 1:8

⁸ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” English Standard Version (ESV)

Revelation 21:6  

⁶ And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. (ESV)

Revelation 22:13

¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” (ESV)

“Alpha” and “omega” are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.

Among the Jewish rabbis, it was common to use the first and the last letters of the Hebrew alphabet to denote the whole of anything, from beginning to end.

Jesus as the beginning and end of all things is a reference to no one but the true God.

This statement of eternality could apply only to God. It is seen especially in Revelation 22:13, where Jesus proclaims that He is “the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

One of the meanings of Jesus being the “Alpha and Omega” is that He was at the beginning of all things and will be at the close.

It is equivalent to saying He always existed and always will exist.

It was Christ, as second Person of the Trinity, who brought about the creation: “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” (John 1:3).

His Second Coming will be the beginning of the end of creation as we know it (2 Peter 3:10).

As God incarnate, He has no beginning, nor will He have any end with respect to time, being from everlasting to everlasting.

A second meaning of Jesus as the “Alpha and Omega” is that the phrase identifies Him as the God of the Old Testament.

Isaiah ascribes this aspect of Jesus’ nature as part of the

triune God in several places.

“I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last I am He” (Isaiah 41:4).

“I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God” (Isaiah 44:6).

“I am he; I am the first, I also am the last” (Isaiah 48:12).

These are clear indications of the eternal nature of the Godhead.

Christ, as the Alpha and Omega, is the first and last in so many ways.

He is the “author and finisher” of our faith (Hebrews 12:2), signifying that He begins it and carries it through to completion.

He is the totality, the sum and substance of the Scriptures, both of the Law and of the Gospel (John 1:1, 14).

He is the fulfilling end of the Law (Matthew 5:17).

And He is the beginning subject matter of the gospel of grace through faith, not of works (Ephesians 2:8-9).

He is found in the first verse of Genesis and in the last verse of Revelation.

He is the first and last, the all in all of salvation, from the justification before God to the final sanctification of His people.

Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the first and last, the beginning and the end.

Only God incarnate could make such a statement.

Only Jesus Christ is God incarnate.

Are you struggling with a big decision or wondering how your eternal future will play out?

Why not talk to the God of the universe and let Him work in your behalf?

He says, “I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you" (Psalm 32:8).

Ask God to show you what to do. Pray the following prayer:

“Heavenly Father,

I admit that I am a sinner and my sins have separated me from You. I now want to turn away from my past sinful life and begin a new life with You.

Please forgive me. I now receive your Son, Jesus Christ as my Savior, my Master and my Lord. I believe and confess that Jesus Christ died for my sins, was buried, and rose from the dead.

I want to receive all that Jesus Christ has provided for me as my Savior. Your Word says, ‘Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Romans 10:13).

I believe and confess that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no man comes unto the Father, but by Him.

Lord Jesus, I pray and ask You, to come into my heart and be Lord of my life. I thank You that you have given me eternal life, and according to Your Word, I am born again.

Heavenly Father, thank You for the gift of the Holy Spirit Who is in me now. I surrender my life to You. I promise to study Your Word – the Bible.

Use me for Your glory.

In Jesus’ Name. Amen.”

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