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Author Archives: Victoria Emily Jones
Tee Time: Dirt Bike Jesus
Found at cafepress.com.
“Good Friday” by Christina Rossetti (1896)
“Am I a stone, and not a sheep, That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss, And yet not weep? Not so those women loved Who with exceeding grief lamented … Continue reading
Tee Time: Got Jesus? It’s hell without him.
Found at choiceshirts.com.
“Hallelujah to Jesus, who died on the tree, to raise up this ladder of mercy for me”: Jacob’s vision as a prefigurement of Christ
I love this song from Dave Eggar’s 2010 album Kingston Morning. Featuring the vocals of Dr. Ralph Stanley and with Eggar on cello, “Jacob’s Vision” is a hymn that praises Jesus for his mediation between God and humanity. It interprets … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Theology
Tagged jacob's dream, jacob's ladder, jacob's vision eggar, jacob's vision skaggs, jacob's vision stanley
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Tee Time: Let me turn my Jesus on
Found at virtuousplanet.com.
A prayer for Losar, and a Tibetan Christian thangka
For those of you who don’t know, I work for a Tibetan Buddhist publisher. That means that tomorrow I have off of work for Losar (the Tibetan New Year—Happy Year of the Water Snake!). The president of the company encouraged … Continue reading
Posted in Non-Western Art
Tagged fruit of the spirit, jesus thangka, losar prayer, tibetan christian art
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J. I. Packer on putting God in a box
In this excerpt from his 1987 essay “Theism for Our Time,” J. I. Packer urges Christians to acknowledge God’s ultimate incomprehensibility on this side of eternity and the limitations of human language to describe him. As valuable as theology is, … Continue reading
Tee Time: Don’t croak without Jesus
Found at ainttheycute.com.
“These Things Did Thomas Count as Real” by Thomas H. Troeger (1983)
“These things did Thomas count as real: The warmth of blood, the chill of steel, The grain of wood, the heft of stone, The last frail twitch of flesh and bone. The vision of his skeptic mind Was keen enough … Continue reading
Tee Time: Jesus is a Cracker
Found here.
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