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Jesus Invites His Saints

By and others ⋅ May 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-075 (Devotional) JESUS INVITES HIS SAINTS (Maundy Thursday) Jesus invites His saints To meet around His board; Here pardon’d rebels sit and hold Communion with their Lord. For food He give His flesh, He bids us drink His blood; Amazing favor! matchless grace Of our descending God! This holy bread and wine […]

A (Rare) Modern Song About Justice!

By and others ⋅ May 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN CHORUS Let justice roll down like a mighty river Let righteousness roll on and on Till the desert becomes like the Garden of Eden Where the nations will come and be healed And the glory of God is revealed Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord Acknowledge the depths of […]

Pennies from Heaven

By and others ⋅ April 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Found a penny today Just laying on the ground, But it’s not just a pennyThis little coin I’ve found. Found pennies come from Heaven That’s what my Grandpa told me, He said Angels toss them down Oh, how I loved that story. He said when an Angel misses you They toss a penny down, Sometimes […]

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

By and others ⋅ April 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Many of you are familiar with the childhood prayer “Now I lay me down to sleep,” but I was little surprised to learn that it is a shortened version of an Old English prayer, which goes like this: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, bless the bed that I lie on. Before I lay me down […]

30 Pieces

By and others ⋅ April 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

SOLD, FOR 30 PIECES Still as of old Men by themselves are priced — For thirty pieces Judas sold Himself, not Christ. – Hester H. Cholmondeley

Nature’s Gold

By and others ⋅ April 14, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf’s a flower But only so an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. by Robert Frost

Perfect Front Door

By and others ⋅ February 24, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

always the sense of the futility of maintenance yet I feel the cool night air from the open door capital crosses the border at will why not labor. Steve Malmude The Bundle: Selected Poems Subpress/Goodbye http://www.poems.com/perfemal.htm

Bob Dylan – Saving Grace

By and others ⋅ February 18, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The song you mention from the Dylan concert is “Saving Grace” from the 1980 album “Saved.” If you don’t own this album, rush out NOW and buy it as it is one of the greatest gospel albums of all time (though the critics canned it because it was too uncompromisingly Christian). This song was a […]

Space Shuttle Memorial

By and others ⋅ February 12, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

A touching tribute… In Memoriam of the crew of STS-107 High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and […]

Out Of The Harbour

By and others ⋅ February 9, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

(A Poem by Kim Thoday) While most within the harbour groan, gripped by the fever of ocean blue deep you set sail with One who comes unknown beyond the gulfs of the throngs that sleep Tips of waves lit by an eternal light how you have given yourself to love, others cling to their anchors […]

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