Monday, February 4, 2013

O For A Thousand Tongues

Psalm 56

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Tears are a Language God Understands
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    Psalm 57


Celtic Hymn Jesus Lover of My Soul ABERYSTWYTH Text: Charles Wesley, Tune: Joseph Parry

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    Psalm 58 Genevan Psalter - setting by Claude Goudimel

Published on Dec 31, 2012

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John Wesley said, "Assurance means a state of mind and heart, not so much dreamy as durable. A sense of absolute trust in God does not lift us above the fray but guides us through the fray with confidence that someone holds us by counting our sleepless nights and gathering our tears. Our palpable fear of persecution is woven with the irrepressable hope of deliverance. The faithful are not immune to dread, we cannot always know we will be safe. What we know is that come what may, we will be saved."

Be assured, children of God, no matter how deep your suffering, no matter how high the evil one seems to have risen above you, you will be redeemed. 

Paul is worried about the Galatians. He hurts for them and for us. Paul desperately wants us to  be born anew, to be set free from the bondage of the Law. He wants  us to sing the song of Christ.


Keith & Kristyn Getty "In Christ Alone"


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Jesus set out and went away. Jesus hid. Jesus could not escape. Jesus sighed. Jesus looked up to heaven. Jesus responded. Jesus puts his finger into our ears. Jesus touches your tongue. You must respond in faith. You must look up into heaven. You must understand. What was broken is healed. You are set free.




O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing - Mike Rayson


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A new version of Charles Wesley's classic Hymn. Taken from the Mike Rayson album "Even So:1" - featuring Tommy Emmanuel. For more information about this album and other's, please go to www.myspace.com/mikerayson

Monday, February 4, 2013

Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) Psalms: (Morning) 56 Denunciation of Godlessness, 57 Praise and Assurance under Persecution, 58 Prayer for Vengeance; (Evening) 64. Prayer for Protection from Enemies, 65 Thanksgiving for Earth’s Bounty

Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) The Prophets: Isaiah 51:17-23 Blessings in Store for God’s People

New Testament (Christian Bible) Epistle: Galatians 4:1-11The Purpose of the Law; Paul Reproves the Galatians

New Testament (Christian Bible) Gospel: Mark 7:24-37 The Syrophoenician Woman; Jesus Cures a Deaf Man

These Daily Scripture Readings Epiphany (January 6) and Ordinary Time until Lent, (March 8, 2013) are adapted from The Book of Common Prayer, Daily Readings for Year One. http://www.crivoice.org/epiphany1.html

My personal study bible for this Liturgical Year is The Wesley Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version, Abingdon Press, 2009

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Good Enough For Me




Psalm -  41 

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Psalm 52

Sons of Korah - Psalm 52: Why do you boast


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Psalm 44

One more step along ( with lyrics)



Published on Mar 22, 2012
One more step along the world i go
from the old things to the new keep me travelling along with you


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Psalms -  41, 52, 44
Old Testament -  Isaiah 48:1-11
Epistle – Galatians1:1-17
Gospel – Mark 5:21-43

All of today’s readings in some way focus on living in completeness, in harmony with one another, in true fellowship with God; as opposed to living in incompleteness, in disunity with one another, in self-created isolation.

God’s judgment lies on the deceitful, those who love evil more than good; lying more than truth. To live in communion with God and with the faithful, we must live a life of integrity, uncompromising adherence to the Word of God as it has been revealed to us. We must avoid deception, expediency, artificiality, or shallowness of any kind.

Even though God knows the secrets of the heart, we can trust in his mercy. Can it be that simple? What have we done to deserve mercy? Nothing.

We are a stubborn and rebellious people. Be assured that there are broken people and broken relationships that are the consequences of our actions or inactions, from what we have said or not said.

Yet, mercy is exactly what God offers us through grace. Grace, through faith. Faith is the key to healing and a restored life. Like the broken woman who, by faith, was healed. She stumbled through the crowd, fell to the ground, just to touch the hem of Jesus’ robe. Like Jairus, a leader of the synagogue, who prostrated himself before Jesus and begged that his daughter be healed.

One willing to break all the rules of the Law that placed her outside the fellowship of her people to ask for mercy. One willing to rely on mercy and grace rather than judgment and brokenness.

One willing to sacrifice personal honor and position to prostrate himself and beg for mercy and healing. Who, even when he was told his daughter was dead, believed that Jesus was the master of life and death.

Is it more important to be healed physically or to be healed from stubbornness, pride, expediency?  Is it more important to be free of pain, or free of artificiality and self-importance? Is it more important to be restored to busyness that creates broken relationships and broken people, or to be freed to live without pride and in quiet fellowship with God?

John Wesley, in his sermon on Original Sin (#44) said, “By repentance and lowliness of heart the deadly disease of pride is healed; that of self-will by resignation, and meek and thankful submission to the will of God.”

Which do I want more, our will, or God’s will? Where do I want to live, in incompleteness, disunity, and isolation or in completeness, harmony, and in fellowship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?

O Lord, at each new place of the progression of deterioration, moving from cane to walker, from walker to wheelchair, let me find within myself a new focus, zeal and passion. As one willing to rely totally on your mercy and grace regardless of the outcome, as I give up my car keys, choose to limit myself, as I become homebound and more dependent on others, let me have a renewed sense of gospel urgency. As one desiring to be always green and fruitful, no matter my circumstance, let me find ways to live in communion with the faithful. God you know the secrets and desires of my heart, I come to you in humility, begging for redemption and mercy and grace. Thank you for transforming me from weakness to wholeness. Thank you for holding me together. Thank you for never failing me, but always standing me tall in your presence so I can one day look you in the eye and know that Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah has truly paid for my sins, making me clean and pure and even now exactly as you intended and neededme to be. That is good enough for me. Amen.

Daily Readings based on the Revised Book of Common Prayer, Year A. January 29, 2013. http://www.crivoice.org/epiphany1.html

Commentary and scripture verses based on:
The Wesley Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version. Nashville: Abingdon, 2009.
Peterson, Eugene H. The Message//Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Language Colorado Springs: Navpress, 2003
Thompson, Frank Charles. The Thompson Chain-Reference® Bible, New International Version. Grand Rapids, MI: 1983

“integrity.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. Unabridged. Mierriam-Webster, 2002. http//unabridged.merriam-webster.com  (29 Jan 2013)

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Kintsugi, Kintsukuroi


Daily Readings, Friday, January 25, 2013
Psalms 31, 35 
Isaiah 45:18-25
Ephesians 6:1-9
Mark 4: 35-41


I heard a story of a master Japanese potter who asked his apprentices to bring to his studio the most perfect completed piece of pottery that came from their final kiln firing.

When the perfect piece was presented to the master, he asked the apprentice to break the piece by dropping it on the floor before the master. The master then with infinite care picked up the pieces, and using ceramic and gold dust, repaired the vessel. 

The pottery was no longer just a perfectly useable piece of pottery, but was now a useable perfect piece of art. 

Tami Travis-Groves says "The piece of pottery became more beautiful for having been broken. The true life of the bowl began the moment it was dropped. The proof of its fragility and its resilience is what makes it beautiful."*

Mended, Mended with Gold

Listen
He has called you by name
His perfect vessel formed
Before time began
Shattered
Not to be swept up and cast out
But to be carefully gathered
Shard by shard
To be reconstructed, reformed, restored to usefulness
Made more precious and of greater value
When healed and tightly secured
By molten veins of gold

Stand
Forbear and see the brokenness
As an offering of the Master Potter
Be still
So even the smallest sliver
Is not obscured or hidden
Perhaps especially the one you wish
Were not to be found
Suffer the fire that refines
That melts, that seals, that restores
Fear not the sanctification, the purification
The change of form
Made perfect in its remaking

Grow
Know the conscious need called humility
Encouraging you to be rather than to do
Gather the meekness and the hunger
This marks the birth of a renewed spirit
Clothe yourself in the mercy of the Spirit

That swaddles you with light and love
Hold tight the newly clarified heart and mind
That submits to the ingress of God’s dreams
Search for the Christ indwelling and inspiration
That calms the storms that shatter
See yourself as a holy, living sacrifice
Strengthened to reflect, to rejoice
To reach out to touch
His outstretched hand

Become
Learn that stillness contains not only the hand and voice of God
But the fallow seeds of creativity
Suppressed by doing rather than being
Embrace the journey
Fear not the desert
For it is there that winds can burnish and prepare
It is there that time stretches and bends
To reveal the shimmering mirage
That excites and reveals the Father’s great love
The Son’s great gift
The Spirit’s great power
The tomorrows that stand before you
To love, to live, to weep for joy
To be the perfect vessel He has created, broken and mended
For the new work that is within you
Begging to be born

Move
No drifting on fear’s vast ocean
No plummeting into pain’s limitless abyss
No disappearing into despair’s fierce vortex
No turning to see what is left behind
Instead
Reach out for the rope
Held by those who love you
Anchored in Him who formed you
Pull your way into lucidity and light
Praise, love, learn, create
Sparkle and shine in the light of the Son
So others might see
That brokenness is only perfection
Waiting for the Master Potter’s hand

© 2006 Jorja Davis


Psalms 31, 35 
Isaiah 45:18-25
Ephesians 6:1-9
Mark 4: 35-41
Daily Readings based on the Revised Book of Common Prayer, Year A. January 16, 2013. http://www.crivoice.org/epiphany1.html

Commentary and scripture verses based on:
The Wesley Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version. Nashville: Abingdon, 2009.
Peterson, Eugene H. The Message//Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Language Colorado Springs: Navpress, 2003
Thompson, Frank Charles. The Thompson Chain-Reference® Bible, New International Version. Grand Rapids, MI: 1983



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