{"id":5296,"date":"2014-09-06T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:16:35","slug":"oh-how-good-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/oh-how-good-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oh How Good It Is&#8221;: A Song for the Family of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we will sing a song that is increasingly familiar to us at DSC: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Oh-How-Good-It-Is\/dp\/B009CW0VQU\/desesprichur-20\">Oh How Good It Is<\/a>.&#8221; This is a song about what it means to be the family of God written by Keith and Kristyn Getty, who will be with us in just two weekends for\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adobeformscentral.com\/?f=j8cZ5B5yQJfikTIv1TDWfg\">a concert<\/a> on Saturday, September 20. By the way, if you haven&#8217;t already, <a href=\"https:\/\/adobeformscentral.com\/?f=j8cZ5B5yQJfikTIv1TDWfg\">click here<\/a> to register.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the song followed by lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eV_hNTpKO-E?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[RSS and email readers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eV_hNTpKO-E\">click here<\/a> to view this video]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are the lyrics to this song, written by\u00c2\u00a0Keith and Kristyn Getty, Ross Holmes, and Stuart Townend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Verse 1<br \/>\nOh how good it is<br \/>\nwhen the family of God<br \/>\ndwells together in spirit,<br \/>\nin faith, and unity;<br \/>\nWhere the bonds of peace<br \/>\nof acceptance and love<br \/>\nare the fruit of His presence<br \/>\nhere among us.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus 1<br \/>\nSo with one voice we&#8217;ll sing to the Lord,<br \/>\nand with one heart we&#8217;ll live out His Word,<br \/>\ntill the whole earth sees<br \/>\nthe Redeemer has come,<br \/>\nfor He dwells in the presence of His people.<\/p>\n<p>Verse 2<br \/>\nOh how good it is<br \/>\non this journey we share<br \/>\nto rejoice with the happy<br \/>\nand weep with those who mourn;<br \/>\nFor the weak find strength,<br \/>\nthe afflicted find grace<br \/>\nwhen we offer the blessing<br \/>\nof belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Verse 3<br \/>\nOh how good it is<br \/>\nto embrace His command,<br \/>\nto prefer one another,<br \/>\nforgive as He forgives;<br \/>\nWhen we live as one<br \/>\nwe all share in the love<br \/>\nof the Son with the Father<br \/>\nand the Spirit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Oh-How-Good-It-Is\/dp\/B009CW0VQU\/desesprichur-20\">Click here<\/a> to purchase the song, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B009CW0V0G\/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp\/desesprichur-20\">here<\/a> to purchase the album, <em>Hymns for the Christian Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we will sing a song that is increasingly familiar to us at DSC: &#8220;Oh How Good&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/oh-how-good-it-is\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5301,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}