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At the behest of Lady Monica Marusek I join your community of reformed hearts and revived minds. I am not a seminarian nor am I on my way to seminary, I join you as a fellow, lets say…redeemed worm. Whose end is that with all faculties: mind, heart, and soul and limbs alike, I may come to know, touch, taste and see, as grace allows, the depths of and implications of the good news. What I am is an artist, in a sense, more specifically a writer, so I confess, at first sight I believed this was a site for academia. Not as if there is a divorcing of the two, knowledge and art, but while perusing the archives of your former posts I found this posted by Paul, as he writes about the change of one’s state of being that is the basis of Reformed Theology,
But this has implications far beyond the theology of salvation. It means that Christians must have a passion that spills over from this change of being. It means that we must appeal to the whole man to increase their delight in God. It means this site must move from posts on the “Knowledge” of the Holy, to sweeping prose, poetry and musings. From deep theology that reveals who God is to soul-stirring poetry and meditations flowing from men and women forever impacted by their encounters with this revealed God.
..and my mind shouts Exactly!
This is what I have ascribed to, this is what then I will join you to do, to write prose and poetry that extols yet grapples with and stirs heart and mind for one end,
seeing Christ more clearly,
that he may be rightly treasured,
and duly glorified.
Pray it be done .
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rachel, I love it- and you of course! welcome!
Rachel,
I am so glad that you desire to glory God in beauty and in truth. May He give you clarity of mind for this. I, too, look for excellent texts to set to music for my children’s choir. Perhaps I’ll see some of your work in days to come.
Marilyn
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There is No One Like You (Adv, Days 23/24; HelloGoodBye 09/10) [REPOST]
by David Schrott
“I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer.”
–I Timothy 2.8, NIV
There are these days, when it is so difficult to find words that wrap around concepts, that, no matter how …
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Explaining Health Care Reform & “Christian” Reflections Thereof [REPOST]
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[Editor’s Note: This …
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Come out from among them. Run for your life. Because this is about your life. This is not just about an opposing viewpoint or conflicting theology; this is about your life.
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