Immigration
A Hymn for Immigration
I was really convicted this week when I came across these lines from an old-fashion hymn: "Thy voice calls me home, saying, 'There is room. There is room at my side for thee!'”
intertextual
8 Stations toward the Humility to See
"For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are." —C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew chapter X on Uncle Andrew's misperception 💡"For what you see and hear
Prayer
Prayers for Easter Sunday
Let us pray like we actually want the resurrected Messiah's reign and agenda -- which of course is submitted to God the Father's kingdom and will.
Hebrew
Yahweh & Yeshua in Psalm 118
Reading both Yahweh (or Yah where the abbreviated form is used) when the Divine name appears in Hebrew, and Yeshua where this Hebrew word for salvation appears brings Palm 118 alive for Palm Sunday and Easter Resurrection Sunday. Verse 25 hits us with new impact when we hear the opening
Translation
Opposite Version of Philippians 3.8–15
8 Knowing Messiah Jesus as my Lord is worth far less than everything else put together! In fact because of the Messiah, I’ve suffered the loss of everything. And I now calculate that loss as something worth grieving over. The Messiah is my loss. 9 And I would be
intertextual
Prodigal Texts: Psalm 34 & 2 Corinthians 5
The lens of Jesus's wisdom story about the Lost Son in Luke 15 illuminates Psalm 34 and 2 Corinthians 5 — these three scriptures are assigned readings in for Year C Lent 4 lectionary of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Here are two reinterpretations of Psalm 34
More Like Jesus
Crossing: Apologetics of the King
From Rose (the anonymous anointer in the Pharisee’s home) to a choir from first-century Philippi to John Donne's iambic pentameter — does making the sign-of-the-cross mean anything?
music
Ne Irascaris Domine & Civitas Sancti Tui
-my rough translation
Lyrics
Jordan River Is Flowing By — a new hymn
In the old-fashioned style of the camp meeting revival songs in the late 1800s and early 1900s, here's my adaptation of a 1910 lyric by Ada Blenkhorn — find out a bit more about her here: https://hymnary.org/person/Blenkhorn_Ada. Ada's text followed a meter
Theological Politics
Narcissism + Power = Autocracy
When you give a narcissist power . . . you get autocracy. Narcissism + Power = Autocracy. Autocracy is the institutionalized manifestation of narcissism. The more narcissistic and the more power, the worse the autocracy. Narcissists care about only one thing: the Self. Self-actualization is the name of the game. The unfettered desires of the
Confession
A Confession from the Seoul Statement
Despite our claim to be followers of our crucified Lord . . .
Aligning with God's Truth
Lausanne's Seoul Statement — a creed
Here's a 275-word abridgment of Section V of The Seoul Statement from the Fourth Lausanne Congress convened in Korea in 2024 which is over 1,100 words long (see lausanne.org/statement/the-seoul-statement), intended for use as a creed or affirmation of faith in a worship service: We