Saturday, August 10, 2013

ABANDON

Snippet

The Spirit does not take His pupils beyond the cross, but ever more deeply into it.

( J. Knox Chamblin Paul and the Self: Apostolic Teaching for Personal Wholeness, Baker, 1993, p. 117.)

Scripture

As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He *said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him. Matthew 9:9 NASB

Song

Live with Abandon newsboys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJR2vdJFXw

Chasing after this world makes me tired

Praising my own name leaves me dry

There's gotta be so much more to life than this

A higher calling that I missed

I want my life to count, every breath

I wanna live with abandon

Give You all that I am

Every part of my heart, Jesus

I place in Your hands

I wanna live with abandon

Give You all that I am

Every part of my heart, Jesus

I place in your hands

I wanna leave with abandon

Sentence Prayer

Jesus, Give us courage to confess your name: and go with you against the grain. Amen

(Common Prayer A Liturgy For Ordinary Radicals Zondervan pg 394 2010)

Friday, August 9, 2013

STONES

Snippet

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Scripture

Early next morning he returned to the Temple and the entire crowd came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them. But the scribes and Pharisees brought in to him a woman who had been caught in adultery. They made her stand in front, and then said to him, “Now, master, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. According to the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. Now, what do you say about her?”

They said this to test him, so that they might have some good grounds for an accusation. But Jesus stooped down and began to write with his finger in the dust on the ground. But as they persisted in their questioning, he straightened himself up and said to them, “Let the one among you who has never sinned throw the first stone at her.” Then he stooped down again and continued writing with his finger on the ground. And when they heard what he said, they were convicted by their own consciences and went out, one by one, beginning with the eldest until they had all gone.

Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing where they had put her. So he stood up and said to her, “Where are they all—did no one condemn you?”

And she said, “No one, sir.” “Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus to her. “Go home and do not sin again.” John 8:2-11 JB Phillips

Song

Hank Williams said it best Guy Clark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnhzS40qTEM

One man’s hawk is another man’s dove, one man’s hug is another man’s shove

One man’s rock is another man’s sand, one man’s fist is another man’s hand

One man’s tool is another man’s toy, one man grief is another man’s joy

One man’s squawk is another man’s sing, one man’s crutch is another man’s wing

One man’s pride is another man’s humble, one man’s step is another man’s stumble

One man’s pleasure is another man’s pain, one man’s loss is another man’s gain

One man’s can is another man’s grail, one man’s curse is another man’s sail

One man’s right is another man’s wrong, one man’s curse is another man’s song

Chorus

For every father’s daughter

For every mother’s son

The only think the same

Is that is ain’t for everyone

Hank Williams said it best

He said it a long time ago

"Unless you have made no mistakes in your life

Be careful of stones that you throw"

One man’s deuce is another man’s ace, one man’s back is another man’s face

One man’s reason is another man’s rhyme, one man’s dollar is another man’s dime

One man’s tree is another man’s post, one man’s angel is another man’s ghost

One man’s rain is another man’s drought, one man’s hope is another man’s doubt

One man’s false is another man’s fair, one man’s toup is another man’s hair

One man’s hand is another man’s stub, one man’s feast is another man’s grub

One man’s dread is another man’s dream, one man’s sigh is another man’s scream

One man’s water is another man’s wine, one man’s daughter leave another man’s cryin’

Chorus

One man’s famine is another man’s feast, one man’s pet is another man’s beast

One man’s bat is another man’s ball, one man’s art is another man’s scrawl

One man’s friend is another man’s foe, one man’s Joesph is another man’s Joe

One man’s hammer is another man’s nail, one man’s freedom is another man’s jail

One man’s road is another man’s rut, one man’s if is another man’s but

One man’s treasure is another man’s trash, one man’s landin’ is another man’s crash

One man’s word is another man’s lie, one man’s dirt is another man’s sky

One man’s skin is another man’s color, one man’s killer is another man’s brother

Sentence Prayer

Father:

Open my eyes that we are all brothers and sisters.

May I treat others as your children

Jesus:

Help me to put down my throwing stones

And gather up stones to build a bridge

Holy Spirit

Help the words of Jesus be mine

Father, forgive them for they do not know

What they are doing. . .

Amen

Thursday, August 8, 2013

WE ARE ONE

Snippet

In Essentials Unity, In Non-Essentials Liberty, In All Things Charity

Scripture

I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. John 17:20,21

Song

We are One Winery Dogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpP5NxJWMU4

Deep in this fight to survive, always hurting

Alone in the dark with no light, always searching

Keep us lost in our devices

Blinded, broken, and deceived

Time has come to be the righteous

Stand up and fight the power

There's no way they can stop us now

We're the stars tonight and we are one

There's nobody that can bring us down

We're united, and they don't want us to be

Come to this day where our lives can't be broken

Now here we are with our future wide open

Time has come for us to rise

From the depths of their disease

There's no hope if we divide

Stand up and fight the power

There's no way they can stop us now

We're the stars tonight and we are one

There's nobody that can bring us down

We're united, and they don't want us to be

We are one and won't be shaken

It's our prophecy

and the light is on for the taking

Stand up and fight the power

There's no way they can stop us now

We're the stars tonight and we are one

There's nobody that can bring us down

We're united, and they don't want us to be

They wanna keep you on the ground with a foot on your neck

Make you feel like you're defeated

Sentence Prayer

Lord, for the low importance we have given to those words that came

from your Heart: “I have other sheep not from this fold. I must also

bring them; they too shall hear my voice”: