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• Praise the Lord and Pass the Collection Plate
  by Helen Bascom

  Reach deep into your Christian heart / Pass that collection plate / Then drop a couple dollars in / God’s Kingdom can not wait

  Laying up treasures / MCN:C6F8B-EEDEF-0E5E1

• Heaven Enough
  by Daniel Rarela

  Am I such a monster / For keeping in my heart the wild hope / That one day… / An unexpected someone / Might just see enough of Your Son thr…

• He is Risen
  by girlinthestars

  When I woke up today / Such lovely words in my head / “He is Risen” / And oh the joy I feel / To know that I’m forgiven / As sun shines in …

• Radio God Is On the Air
  by lightsmith

  Radio God is on the air, / Beamed direct to hearts and minds, / A silver thread the soul laid bare, / A shining Christ in love divine.

  It’s Pentecost, and this is a small ode which I penned last time.

• Dear Pharisee...
  by Daniel Rarela

  You think you’d never be a casualty / Of Matthew chapter 26, verse 33? Or that Jesus wouldn’t roll His eyes at you / That perhaps He’d r…

• Battle cries, a triumphant goodbye, and one letter Home...
  by Daniel Rarela

  B A T T L E . C R Y (to Satan) You couldn’t successfully tempt me after my salvation So instead you secretly nailed all these red…

• Body of Christ
  by Daniel Rarela

  I love how Your arms are always wide open / Never closed or clenched tightly til’ I’m inside them / I love how warm Your chest always feels…

  Jesus wept. / ~ John 11:35 Jesus wept for Lazarus. Grieved over Jerusalem. Agonized in Gethsemane. Cried out to God on the cross before He died… It just made me wonder why, after all that, none of the disciples thought it was important to point out the times when Jesus was happy, or when He smiled, joked around, or laughed. Did He ever? DOES He ever? I hope so… among countless other things, He’s done that much for me. I wouldn’t want a Father who knows sadness better than joy.

• Paradox
  by Daniel Rarela

  I’d like to thank You for breaking me in half / Grateful for the pain as I fall on my face / Maybe I’m a latent masochist / But even this / Y…

  I had this crazy idea that Heaven was full of very imperfect people, and that God is so good that Hell might be a whole lot emptier than most pastors suggest… stupid of me to think that God might actually love us that much, eh? No matter what we do / No matter what we say / We’re the song inside the tune / Full of beautiful mistakes / And everywhere we go / The Son will always shine… / ~ Christina Aguilera/ Linda Perry I’m so sane it’s driving me crazy / I’m so thrilled to finally be failing / It feels just like I’m falling for the first time / ~ Barenaked Ladies At the end of myself, at the end of the day / I can find little else but the courage to say / “I need You” – that’s all! / “I need You!” / I never could be good enough to measure up / But You wanna take me as I come / You’re the only one who can / Take me as I am / ~ Nichole Nordeman The Christian has absolutely no grounds for self-pride or “boasting” as long as he worships God. For he will know that only God is God, and that his own relationship to God is created and sustained ENTIRELY by God Himself. Man’s own belief in his own “free will,” his autocracy, is nothing more or less than the most common and pernicious form of self-righteousness/ self worship… As a Christian, “I” can never be humble; “I” can only be humbled. No one who seriously believes that HE has done justly, can walk humbly with his God. The self righteousness of “free-will” should never be considered a minor defect of the Christian. The Christian’s righteousness belongs ENTIRELY to Christ or he is no Christian. / ~ Robert L. Short, The Parables of Peanuts For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made us understand that this light is the brightness of the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. But this precious treasure – this light and power that now shines within us – is held in perishable containers, that is, our weak bodies. So everyone can see that our glorious power is from God and not our own… Through suffering, these bodies of ours constantly share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies. / 2 Corinthians 4:6-7, 10 Because he is human, he is able to bear patiently with the ignorant and erring, since he too is beset by weakness. / Hebrews 5:2 “Why do you eat with such scum?” they asked. Jesus replied, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor – sick people do. Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to be merciful; I don’t want your sacrifices.’ For I have come to call sinners, not those who think they are already good enough.” / Matthew 9:11-13

• You
  by Daniel Rarela

  War isn’t strong enough for us to remember / So we forget the consequences / As if we’re in love with bloodshed / The cycle is endless / But …

  Inspired by three things – Elisa’s cover of “Almeno Tu Nell’universo,” the state of humanity in general, and God.

• unworthy, unfaithful, but not unaware (a prayer)
  by Daniel Rarela

  Please… Don’t let me leave You…

  because when you finally enter a relationship with God… the one who’s prone to lose heart, give up, and let go, is not God… it’s you.

• Lucky Late Bloomer
  by Daniel Rarela

  Could I still focus / If Stomach was empty? / Would I still love / If Heart’s feeling heavy? / Should I still walk / When the miles are plenty?

  Funny how the answers that are questions, the answers that come from left field… the SIMPLEST answers… are the ones that always make the most sense.

• Steady Through the Middle
  by Daniel Rarela

  NSFW

• An Addicts Plea (another old poem I wrote)
  by Butterflies And Bullets

  A cry in the dark that no one will hear / To afraid to sleep, into my dreams she so often will creep / My life, my hopes and my dreams she …

• I hear the wind in the dead of night
  by lightsmith

  I hear the wind in the dead of night, and on it a million voices ride, / A world is crying out for help – vainly crying out for help, / B…

  It formed the basis of a prayer of intervention that I used last year. Since it’s pentecost, it might be useful for some.

• conversation
  by Daniel Rarela

  Why doesn’t He just come back? Come back? Are you sure that’s what you really want? For it to all end right now? Well things ha…

• Reluctantly, I Endure
  by Daniel Rarela

  To know easy joy was never a choice/ Makes it harder to love You at times, I confess/ What was the purpose of healing my eyes/ If the one…

  Inspired, in part, by Kimberlolly’s response to my various postings on Living Christianity. I still have yet to thank her for being so open and honest with me as I was to her, even though she (whether consciously or not, I do not know) dodged the main question I asked her – “I already know that it’s the lust the Bible condemns. But when the emotion is love – real, true, devotional LOVE – what do you say about it then? Is it so impossible for you to believe that what I might feel towards another man actually transcends sex, and instead, is something not unlike what you feel towards your husband or wife?” And it should be noted that virtually everyone else on LC pretends not to hear me when I ask that question as well… I mean, I thought I made my point clear enough when I wrote Verdict, If You Please but even then, nobody really addressed the issue But here was the main part of her response: “Here’s what I think. I believe homosexuality is a sin. I don’t think it’s like people using the bible to condone racism because the verses such as the curse of Ham and such that they use to “prove” themselves in the right, don’t make any sense at all. That is just complete verse warping which I have no patience for at all. It’s quite obvious to anyone who has read their bible that God most certainly isn’t for rasicm but the complete opposite. On another note, I’m sure you’ve encountered a lot of unkind words and a type of rasicm yourself, and God doesn’t condone that either. We all sin and sin isn’t measured. It is sin, and none is worse than the other, some of it just seems to have much worse consequences in our lives than others… … I don’t think you should be miserable. I think if you are able to strengthen yourself mentally (and this is not easy at all!) you can find happiness apart from those desires, and I truly believe the desires will weaken as they are ignored and put aside. But I don’t, however, think they will ever go away… … You just have to fight the hardest fight, the inner fight, that typically only God sees. Nobody will give you the credit you deserve for fighting this difficult battle, you may die spending your whole life fighting this and nobody will know what you went through or care, but what’s important is what God thinks and what God knows. He will give you your reward when you get to Him. And imagine how proud he’ll be to know how hard you fought for Him, even when nobody else knew or cared. He is all that matters… … Just as Esther was appointed queen before Haman tried to extinguish her people, and her uncle said to her, “Maybe that is why you became queen, for such a time as this”… So maybe that is why God gave you this struggle. Because He knew you were strong enough to fight it. And if you can, there is many many more people out there just as confused as you are, and maybe God needs your strength as an example for others. That just may be your purpose on this short walk we call life.” Had I known that, the stronger God makes you, the harder he makes your trials, I would have been a little bit more careful about praying for Him to strengthen me…

• Music, Please Drown The Noise
  by Daniel Rarela

  My desire, God? The day that I will no longer need to lie to myself / In order to live in the Truth

  I don’t have all the answers. What I do know is that God knows your heart.
 So many people spout words here and words there without always thinking.
 God does not listen to our words but listens to what is in our hearts. Our genuine desire to follow Him and do His will. I pray that God will help you to find peace and strength to know His will for your life.
 A scripture comes to mind. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will grant you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4. When we delight in Him, immerse ourselves in His Word and continually have fellowship with Him in prayer and worship, he moulds us into the people he wants us to be and needs us to be. 
He will not take away our desires, but as we follow Him and delight in Him He will grant us the desires of our hearts. That so? Here’s mine, then.

• The Teapot and The Kettle
  by Daniel Rarela

  You say Christ healed your eyes, but I say you’re still blind/ / If, when you see me, you don’t see a mirror

  Inspired in part by: / Luke 7:47/ John 9:25/ John 9:39-41 And also inspired by all the hatred, ignorance, prejudice, and heartlessness birthed from the misinterpretations of / Leviticus 18:22/ Romans 1:26-27 It’s easy to parrot talk those verses as a supposed outsider looking in… but how easy will it be for you when God knocks you off your high horse and reveals to you that someone you love dearly is gay? How differently would you look at it then? And it makes me wonder… if the Bible had verses that supposedly condemned, say, interracial marriage, would you condemn it as well without asking questions? And would you simply brush it off when everyone else accused you of being racist? “I’m not a bigot, I just think it’s an abomination if a white woman loves a black man with all her heart enough to want to spend the rest of her life with him!” It’s no mistake, and certainly no compliment, that Christ compared us to lost sheep… they may be cute, but sheep are among the stupidest creatures on the face of this planet. Those are the animals Jesus compared us to… and after seeing all the mistakes the church has made (the witch hunt, the Crusades, the Inquisition, turning a blind eye to slavery/ segregation/ racism for so long, silencing women, their heartlessness in relation to the AIDS epidemic, and now dealing with the issue of homosexuality), it’s easy to see why we are indeed very much like sheep… as opposed to being what Jesus intended us to be in Matthew 10:16 You’re not being as wise as a serpent, nor as harmless as a dove, if you are indeed foolish enough to think homosexuality is synonymous with promiscuity, or pedophilia, or materialism, or selfishness… and if you fail to consider that it’s also an issue of the HEART, not just the flesh. Your so-called “knowledge” of homosexuality is simply something you obtained by viewing the issue from a distance, believing sound bites on TV, and from one angle only… as opposed to learning about it by real life experiences from a multitude of different ways. Every biblical issue that’s turned political is a lot more complicated than you think, fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, and I can say that with certainty because I speak from the perspective of one of the people you keep pointing fingers at. It’s not so easy to fit into one particular bias when you’ve lived on both sides of the situation.

• If I Followed...
  by Daniel Rarela

  I know what it’s like / Longing to belong and fit in / And your heart aches for their friendship / But all they see is a Samaritan

  The woman is shocked when Jesus asks her for a drink of water. “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she says to Jesus (John 4:9 NKJV). A friend recently told me that this exchange would be the equivalent of a known evangelical walking into a gay bar and asking a man to buy him a beer. [And] it must have been unnerving when, to an elitist audience, Jesus later would tell the parable about a man who had been robbed and beaten, and then ignored by all but a “good Samaritan” [Luke 10:29-37]. Jesus was not afraid of controversy, of revealing the worth of those considered worthless. The modern-day equivalent might be to tell a story to a group of conservative evangelicals about a pluralist, liberal homosexual who heroically stops to help a stranded traveler after a preacher, a Republican, and a Christian writer have passed him by. ~ Searching for God Knows What, by Donald Miller Also inspired by the thought of what might happen if a Christian truly understood what it was like to be called worthless… to be on the receiving end of condemnation for once… and to be hated by the very same people who should have instead shown him love. It is that understanding which, to me, is a big determining factor in being able to tell who follows “God” and who truly understands and models their lives according to Jesus.

• Have You Been?
  by Rebecca Lee

  Have you ever been to the sanctuary? / Where tears are the only words I speak. / Where the essence of love is like incense. . .

  Psalm 141: 1-2 / “God, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears—it’s my voice you’re hearing! / Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; / my raised hands are my evening prayers.” (The Message) Romans 12:1-2 / “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” (The Message)

• Yet Another Rant
  by George Yesthal

  If you’re saying OUR god, doesn’t that, at least by inference, allow that other gods exist?

  Just another of my anal rants.

• Keep me
  by Nick Runckel

  We fake love to make love to drape our heartaches.

  Silenced at the conception of God’s grace I wrote this to express my worship for Him and all His mercy. The painting stands 53 inches by 72 inches (6ft) The Painting Me sitting with the Painting

• Is Image Everything?
  by brenwebb

  Focusing on an object I am sure 99% , at least, will recognize what I am speaking about…. ok.. 100% should be able to get it….... : )

• I Am A Child Of God
  by Stephen J. Vattimo

  To buy back the human race / From The Master of sin and slavery