Ouch
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
No, "poop" doesn't happen
I am here in this fallen world where things can go terribly wrong,
and as a Christian I am in a covenanted and personal relationship
with God of this fallen world. And when something in my life is
going off the rails, like the psalmist, I would talk to God about it,
and if I have learned to speak to Him as a Christian, I will speak
to Him as one who has the power to do something about that
problem, no matter how great it is -- tsunamis, hurricanes,
volcanoes, wars, genocides, or all of them together. This means
I must speak to Him in such a way as to prevail upon Him to
exercise that power and deliver me, or in such a way as to
reconcile myself to my role in this difficult part of the story He
is telling, trusting the later outcome to Him. There are no other
biblical options. My prayers will either move God to act, or will
move me to rest. They will never move Him to remove His
signature from the title page of the story He is writing. Excuse
me, but I don't want to live in that book.
Doug Wilson
and as a Christian I am in a covenanted and personal relationship
with God of this fallen world. And when something in my life is
going off the rails, like the psalmist, I would talk to God about it,
and if I have learned to speak to Him as a Christian, I will speak
to Him as one who has the power to do something about that
problem, no matter how great it is -- tsunamis, hurricanes,
volcanoes, wars, genocides, or all of them together. This means
I must speak to Him in such a way as to prevail upon Him to
exercise that power and deliver me, or in such a way as to
reconcile myself to my role in this difficult part of the story He
is telling, trusting the later outcome to Him. There are no other
biblical options. My prayers will either move God to act, or will
move me to rest. They will never move Him to remove His
signature from the title page of the story He is writing. Excuse
me, but I don't want to live in that book.
Doug Wilson
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Hope this is Real
Supposedly, a son of a top Hamas leader
has converted to Christianity. God
protect his life and witness.
ofs
has converted to Christianity. God
protect his life and witness.
ofs
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Sole Man Back at It
Jamie Soles' has a new album:
Pure Words is a collection of songs from the early Psalms.
Several of them have been around for at least a couple years,
and most of them are being used in our church. When I
gathered my thoughts for this project, I had probably 8 or
9 of them written already, and I set out to finish the remainder
of the first 16 Psalms. I did not succeed as I wished; you
will notice the absence of Psalm 9. Perhaps one day I will
be man enough to write a song for Psalm 9, but that day is
not yet.
It seems to me that the Church should be singing the
Psalms, her ancient songbook. In a number of places in
the New Testament the psalms are spoken of or quoted
as though they had been uttered by the Messiah. If this is
the case, and I believe it is, and if the believer‚s task in life
is to grow more into the image of Jesus, then mastering the
Psalms would be a wise way to learn the mind of Christ. Do
you want to be like Jesus? Well, here is a treasure trove of
the way that Jesus thinks and expresses Himself in song.
Learn to sing them well. Jesus is pleased when His people
know how He thinks.
Most of these songs are taken word for word from the ESV
Bible. I have taken artistic license in a few places, particularly
in older songs, but I have found that the ESV makes doing so
unnecessary. There is something very musical about this
translation, something which accommodates it to contemporary
song without need of revision. This is a very good thing,
because today's churches need to be singing the Psalms, and
doing so in a fashion which makes sense to the modern ear.
To the Church of Jesus Christ the King; may these songs be
useful for you, and helpful in your pursuit of Him.
Jamie Soles
July 30/2008
Grande Prairie, AB.
Pure Words is a collection of songs from the early Psalms.
Several of them have been around for at least a couple years,
and most of them are being used in our church. When I
gathered my thoughts for this project, I had probably 8 or
9 of them written already, and I set out to finish the remainder
of the first 16 Psalms. I did not succeed as I wished; you
will notice the absence of Psalm 9. Perhaps one day I will
be man enough to write a song for Psalm 9, but that day is
not yet.
It seems to me that the Church should be singing the
Psalms, her ancient songbook. In a number of places in
the New Testament the psalms are spoken of or quoted
as though they had been uttered by the Messiah. If this is
the case, and I believe it is, and if the believer‚s task in life
is to grow more into the image of Jesus, then mastering the
Psalms would be a wise way to learn the mind of Christ. Do
you want to be like Jesus? Well, here is a treasure trove of
the way that Jesus thinks and expresses Himself in song.
Learn to sing them well. Jesus is pleased when His people
know how He thinks.
Most of these songs are taken word for word from the ESV
Bible. I have taken artistic license in a few places, particularly
in older songs, but I have found that the ESV makes doing so
unnecessary. There is something very musical about this
translation, something which accommodates it to contemporary
song without need of revision. This is a very good thing,
because today's churches need to be singing the Psalms, and
doing so in a fashion which makes sense to the modern ear.
To the Church of Jesus Christ the King; may these songs be
useful for you, and helpful in your pursuit of Him.
Jamie Soles
July 30/2008
Grande Prairie, AB.
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