"There is forgiveness with You that You may be feared."

Meditation for Christians during this time in church history:

Psalm 130.

Between heaven and earth...a cross.

Between heaven and earth there's a divide

A painful struggle between darkness and the light

In this interim

(As we wait for You.)

Between heaven and earth, here we are still

And those things that we hate we still can do

In this interim

(As we wait on You.)

We are found in this world;

We are not of this world,

We are all Yours alone

And yet here we remain.

Between heaven and earth 

We see You there

All alone and rejected by men and God

Between heaven and earth

Your arms outstretched

On the cross

Between heaven and earth

We see You there

Where wooden beams cross, Life out-poured

Where God's heaven, our earth connect in You

On the cross. 

Between heaven and earth we suffer on

Through the brokenness on our way to home

In this interim

(As we wait for You)

Between heaven and earth there is a link-

You, God, are both bridge and only Way

In this interim

(As we wait on You)

We are found in this world;

We are not of this world,

We are all Yours alone

And yet here we remain.

Between heaven and earth 

We see You there

All alone and rejected by men and God

Between heaven and earth

Your arms outstretched

On the cross

Between heaven and earth

We see You there

Where wooden beams cross, Life out-poured

Where God's heaven, our earth connect in You

On the cross. 

Between heaven and earth we find our lives

As we walk with You through the mess and lies

In this interim

(As we wait for You)

One day heaven and earth will be made new

Yet Your kingdom is right here and You are true

In this interim

(As we wait on You)

We are found in this world;

We are not of this world,

We are all Yours alone

And yet here we remain.

Between heaven and earth 

We see You there

All alone and rejected by men and God

Between heaven and earth

Your arms outstretched

On the cross

Between heaven and earth

We see You there

Where wooden beams cross, Life out-poured

Where God's heaven, our earth connect in You

On the cross. 

(x 2)

Rough (unauthorized) translation by yours truly, words originally in German, by Albert Frey, music by the same.

On God’s church

I read another of those long-winded “I voted for a president, not a pastor” excuses today and was compelled to reply. The whole explanation basically boiled down to they trusted Trump as a business-man to provide jobs/business. It boiled down ultimately to a love of money not country. So as I say, I was compelled, as a follower of the Way, a Christian-a Little Christ- to respond.  This is officially now my only response to evangelicals who continue to defend their support for Trump:

You are going to go down in history as some of the biggest traitors to America, let alone the faith. Hope those jobs were good. You wouldn’t understand greatness if it came down from heaven as a baby in a manger.

Evangelicalism stateside is vomitous in its lack of holiness and depraved attempts at power and control rather than freeing people. My God has not changed, and I continue to follow Christ.  I know several folks like me, and we encourage each other.  I am glad that God is exposing the depths of depravity and money-changing in the thing evangelicals call church in the USA, and I have hope that God will bring godly people out of this mess. This evangelicalism is Sodom. Best not to look back.  God is in the business of something fresh and new.  We are going to be ok.

For the journey:

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