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Passing: Scattered thoughts on “Crossing the Jordan”
Written from north GA while preparing for Gram’s funeral. By the way, funeral is set for Sat at 2pm. Coart’s doing all the speaking. I’m doing the music. Traveling home. Crossing over. Passing on. Death is a doorway, a waystop on the journey of life and our terminology reflects it. ****** I like that people…
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Narrow is the Way
So on Sunday during the Lord’s Table we (the worship team) introduced the congregation to this song (mp3) by Mo Leverett: Narrow Little Road I believe in the love of God It is an orphan’s wildest dream It is a narrow little road It is an ever-widening desert stream Oh I, and I, I will leave this…
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Love: The Fine Print
The “perfect storm” of thinking hit this afternoon, thanks to Blue Like Jazz, Coart’s Sunday School lesson on doing good works, and just some random stuff that’s been simmering on the back burner for a while…. Getting a grip on the concept that God loves us unconditionally seems to mystify a lot of Christians (including me).…
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Blue. Jazz. Grace.
Been reading Blue Like Jazz these past few days. Picked it up because a couple friends recommended it to me, other people say it’s the devil incarnate, and someone who doesn’t like it told me we can have a discussion about it once I read it. Since I happen to think highly of said friend,…
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Either way, we’re screwed.
Been thinking again. You’d better duck. Unconditional love is striking for a number of reasons (not the least of which is its divine origin, for I am convinced that the selfish human heart is incapable of truly loving apart from an infusion of Grace, common or otherwise). But this particular aspect of “agape” (unconditional) love…
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