I don't know how to explain it
But I know that words will hardly do
Miracles with signs and wonders
Aren't enough for me to prove to you

CHORUS

Don't you know I've always loved you
Even before there was time
Though you turn away
I'll tell you still
Don't you know I've always loved you
And I always will

Greater love has not a man
Than the one who gives his life to prove
That he would do anything
And that's what I'm going to do for you

(Mac Powell, Third Day)
© New Spring Publishing, Inc. /Vandura 2500 Songs/Gray Dot Songs, a Div. Of Gray Dot Inc. /ASCAP

God bless Texas and Deacon Shackleford
He read the bible seven times and he believed every word
That ol’ beat up leather book had been through it all
He sat on the back pew so he could chew him a chaw singing
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me

He carried candy for the kids in his Sunday dress coat
He’d take me fishing after church, he taught me things I needed to know
No Deacon didn’t have a family, Lord knows he wished he did
He told the whole congregation that I was his grandkid

And today he joined up with Jesus wearing shiny pearl snaps
We sang a few gospel hymns and then the soldier played taps
I bet he’s walking with Pete down a street paved with gold
Showing off his brand spanking new wings and his barbed wire halo

He married sweet Emma Grace before the war was through
She held his right arm next to his anchor tattoo
He was on a ship off at sea, when she died in child birth
He lost his whole world from the far side of the earth

He lost the will to love, he lost the will to live
Until he met a man who taught him to forgive
Yeah life took him to hell and back, to hell and back a time or two
But in the end he beat the devil until he was black and blue

Singing I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind but now I see…

CHORUS

Before he went he made me promise him that I wouldn’t cry
And though I told him that I wouldn’t you know I couldn’t help but lie

Cause today he joined up with Jesus wearing shiny pearl snaps
We sang a few gospel hymns and then the soldier played taps
I bet he’s walking with Pete down a street paved with gold
As sure as the old church bell still rings
He always said he had country in his soul
He’s showing off his brand spanking new wings and barbed wire halo

Sweet chariot coming forth to carry me home
Swing low sweet chariot coming forth to carry me home

(Aaron Watson/Neal Lowry)
© 2008 Sonnet Publishing LLC (Aaron Watson Songs BMI)

CHORUS

I met Jesus in a bar
I guess you just can't fall too far
I was pourin' whiskey in an empty heart
When I met Jesus in a bar

Man or angel, son of God he did not tell me who he was, but I knew
In that least expected place I saw heaven in His face and couldn't move
We sat there for hours, I could feel His grace and power
and I said things I'd never told a soul
I asked for forgiveness, he said I've already done this don't you know?

CHORUS

I started cryin' in my hands when I looked up again, He was gone
Then I walked the whole way home for the first time knowin' I was not alone
Some meet Him on the highway, some meet Him on a Sunday on the back row of the church
But I can only tell you my way was in a place where people go to hurt

CHORUS

I was pourin' whiskey in an empty heart
When I met Jesus in a bar

(Jim Lauderdale, Leslie Satcher)
© 2006 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing/Leslie Satcher Music (BMI), Admin. by Sony ATV Music Publishing/Wudang Mountain Songs (SESAC) Admin. by Bug Music.  All Rights reserved.  Used by permission.

 12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Reading by Billy Joe Shaver
NIV © The International Bible Society

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! 

Reading by Billy Joe Shaver
NIV © The International Bible Society

Tempted and tried, we’re oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long,
While there are others living about us,
Never molested, though in the wrong.

CHORUS

Farther along we’ll know all about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.

When we see Jesus, coming in glory,
When He comes from His home in the sky,
Then we shall meet Him in that bright mansion,
We’ll understand it all by and by.
CHORUS

(J.R. Baxter, W.B. Stevens)
© 1937 Stamps-Baxter Music

What can wash away my sin
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again
Nothing but the blood of Jesus

For my pardon, this I see,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
For my cleansing this my plea,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
CHORUS

Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

(Robert Lowry)