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well, Tumblr is better for a few things.
Posting audio files is one of those things.
So if you're feeling click-adventurous and interested, then
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on Tim Gillespie's "Jesus and the Church."
love and power and continents
made me think thoughts.
"love is the answer, that's what they say, but look how they treat us, make us believers, we fight their battles, then they deceive us, try to control us..."
what misguided love we give sometimes, what false love we give sometimes.
I read a book about a year ago with the very boring title "
" The title is boring and the book kind of was too, but the authors are Christian social scientists and the paradigm they outlined of the family-under-grace was one of empowerment. They said that people struggling in their families are often struggling for power, as if when I have more you have less and if you have more then I have less. No, no: Instead, they said, the family-under-grace knows that when someone with power gives power to another member, both are more empowered.
I wish all the continents and islands could come together as one family-under-grace, giving power and real love to each other.
And even as I voice that wish, it occurs to me that that's exactly what Jesus has promised will happen when He comes back:
"My righteousness draws near speedily,
My salvation is on the way,
and My arm will bring justice to the nations.
The islands will look to Me
and wait in hope for My arm"
[isaiah 51:5]
a leaky valve
my heart has had
a hole inside
and from it drips
my fear and
that fear falls
into my legs
and makes them
weak.
but I worry that
if I should try
to mend my heart
then perhaps
without a valve
to leak it,
the fear would
fill my heart
and sink it.
How much is He worth?
Now the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to deviously arrest Him, that they might kill Him. For they were saying, “Not during the feast, lest there be a riot by the people.”
And while He was reclining in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, there came a woman having an alabaster vase of oil-- pure and expensive nard. Breaking the alabaster vase, she poured out the oil on His head. But some were indignant, saying to each other, “Why has this ointment been wasted? For this ointment could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor.” And they criticized her harshly.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone! Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. For you always have the poor among you and whenever you wish you can do good to them, but you do not always have me. She did what she could; she poured oil on my body as the preparation for
my
burial. Truly I say to you, wherever the Gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she did will be spoken of in memory of her.”
Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests in order that he might betray Him. And when they heard this, they rejoiced and promised to give him silver. Then he began seeking for an opportune time to betray Him.
[mark14.1-11]