![]() The song and the entire text may be heard and viewed at. StarSong producers requested that stanzas be added to the song. In 1990, Kirk Dearman signed a contract with StarSong, a Nashville company, to record the song. The Jeremiah passage combined with Psalm 100:4 – “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” – round out a possible biblical basis for the song. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,’ says the Lord (NKJV)** Interestingly enough, rather than the passage from Hebrews, author Lindsay Terry suggests that the first lines of the song come from a lesser known verse, Jeremiah 33:11: “the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say:įor His mercy endures forever’- and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. After two or three years, word of the song’s popularity came back to them as a total surprise. The Dearmans had no idea of the song’s recording or distribution. As a part of the school’s outreach, a recording of the students singing “We bring a sacrifice of praise” was sent to Christians around the world. The students took the song back to the Institute. In the congregation that morning were a number of students from the evangelical training center, Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas. ![]() ![]() The following Sunday, Kirk Dearman introduced the song at his church. We both liked it, but had no idea it would ever amount to much as far as being used by other people.” As we arrived at home, I said to Deby, ‘Hey! I have this neat song,’ and I played and sang it for her. Suddenly I began to hear a tune in my mind, and within five minutes I had the chorus of a song written – in my head. “As we were driving along the freeway, going home from church on Sunday morning, I began to think how I might write such a song. Kirk Dearman describes the time of the song’s composition: Elizabeth Charlotte Baker, a guest preacher at Dearman’s church, offered a sermon on “bringing a sacrifice of praise,” which served as a catalyst for the song. It was during this time that Kirk wrote many of his most popular songs. They joined the staff of Shady Grove Church in Grand Prairie, Texas, in 1980. His ministry grew after his marriage to Deby in 1973. He published his first song, “Hallelujah, Maranatha” at the age of eighteen with Crescendo Music in Garland, Texas. 1953), a native-born Texan, studied classical piano for eight years as a child and teenager, and je attended Dallas Baptist University. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart-These, O God, You will not despise” (NKJV).**īefore examining a song with this theme, the singer should understand that a “sacrifice of praise” has, in addition to the praise of God, an ethical dimension in how we treat our neighbor, and it demands humility on our part. In Psalm 51:16-17, the writer says, “For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it You do not delight in burnt offering. ” The following verse adds an ethical dimension to this petition: “Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God” (GNT).* Once again, we are reminded of the balance of the twin commandments: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these” (Mark 12:30-31, NRSV see also Matthew 22: 37-40 and Luke 10:27).Īnother familiar passage speaks to the nature of the one offering the sacrifice. Then we reach the central verse of the song: “therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. are burned.” Christ was our sacrifice, and we do not continue this former practice. In verse eleven, the epistle writer reminds us that the altar we have is not one upon which “the bodies of beasts. These verses are followed by a series of admonitions related to faithfulness in marriage, covetousness, and honoring our rulers, avoiding “diviners and strange doctrines.” Then we are to remember those in prison and those who suffer (verse 3). ![]() As examples of this, we are entreated to “entertain strangers” followed by the famous phrase, “for thereby some have entertained angels unawares ” (Hebrews 13:2, KJV). The chapter begins with an invitation to “Let brotherly love continue” (KJV). It appears in the last chapter of Hebrews. It may be helpful to look at the fuller context of this passage. I appreciate the phrase, “sacrifice of praise,” perhaps a paradoxical or even enigmatic reference. “By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name” (Hebrews 13:15, KJV)
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