In “The Return of the King,” during the coronation ceremony where Lord Aragorn (the Ranger formally known as Strider) is finally crowned as king, an event happens in the movie that did not happen in the book. After the crowning, Aragorn is moving through the gathered throng. And he comes upon the four hobbits who […]
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Well, we’re back from a WONDERFUL weekend. Friday evening we headed to Bird-in-Hand, PA to the annual H*VMI retreat. It was a refreshing time full of testimonies and intercessory prayer and worship and good Bible teaching.
My favorite part of the weekend was the testimonies. Various missionaries got up and told, with tears and laughter, of […]
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.”
(Leviticus 25:35 ESV)
This verse points out an amazing inconsistency the LORD saw in the nation of Israel. He commands them to treat a poverty-stricken brother […]
While reading through Leviticus last night, I came across an interesting verse. “You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD” (Leviticus 19:14 ESV).
At first, this looks like a semi-trivial law regarding actually speaking ill of someone who cannot hear […]
redeemed (the poem)
Posted in Poetry, Faith, Missional, Worship on Oct 30th, 2007
Just when it seemed
All hope was lost,
I was ransomed, redeemed,
At so high a cost.
The Lamb who was slain,
Who died in my place,
Was denounced and defamed,
Despised and disgraced.
He was nailed naked
To Golgotha’s cross,
Dying, forsaken,
For souls sick and lost.
He silently bore
The price for my sin,
So long before
I ever sought Him.
He shatters my schemes,
He restores and recovers,
He revives […]
Another cool thing about redemption is how it changes us. We are told in the scriptures that once our Lord redeems us, He willingly blots out the memory of our sin from His own mind. Psalm 103:12 tells us, “As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions […]
Recently, I have been meditating on the word “redeemed.” To me, this word has a more powerful connotation than words like “forgiven” or “saved.”
In Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary, the first definition of redeem is: a: to buy back : REPURCHASE b: to get or win back.
Words like “forgive” or “save” carry with them the sense of a […]
I feel the Lord is calling me into a new season of pressing into His heart. I want to know Him even as He knows me. Now I know that in its purest sense, I will not truly know as I am known until the perfect has come, until the noise of this life is […]
Jason Morant, one of the better singer/songwriters out there, wrote this song entitled “Open.”
It’s time for something
More real than all these words.
While the least of these are broken and dying,
We count the pearls in our purse.
It’s time to live in love.
It’s time to live in love.
So open up your doors,
Let the Son shine out into […]
Last night, we watched “March of the Penguins.” It was amazing. A lot of things stood out to me, but one fact jumped out at me.
After the mothers lay the eggs, they pass the eggs off to the father so they can go 60 miles back to sea to eat again. They do this little […]
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