We have flowers from a Friday funeral staying for church on Sunday. They feature arrangements in genuine milk cans from the farm.
We have flowers from a Friday funeral staying for church on Sunday. They feature arrangements in genuine milk cans from the farm.
At some stage I’m looking forward to securing a copy of Warner Archive’s restoration blu-ray of Mario Lanza’s The Great Caruso.
It’s his tour de force role.
Matt Merker writes about the character of corporate public worship as a combination of gravity, gladness, and gratitude; and explains why the presence of all three in balanced measure are used to grow the people of God into the image of his son.
From the article at Crossway:
… the right combination of gravity, gladness, and gratitude will look different in different cultures. Yet these marks should all show up on Sundays. Some churches excel in demonstrating gravity, but a concern about becoming “over-emotional” keeps them from much feeling at all. Other churches excel in practicing gladness and gratitude. The music starts and enthusiasm flows fast. But the service lacks depth and seriousness. It feels more like youth group for grown-ups.
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The connection between health and God’s glory goes in the other direction, too. Corporate worship should mold a congregation into a people more and more ravished by the beauty of God. Each Sunday meeting reorients a congregation’s spiritual compass. We gather, and God sets our wayward course back to where it needs to be: toward himself.
Bourbon, Bluegrass, And The Bible – all best when shared.
By The Hillbilly Thomists, from their newly released second album Living For The Other Side.
This album sounds more rustic and idiosyncratic than their first release; and all the better for it.
Death’s in the world and it’s gone viral
Everybody’s talking ’bout a new revival
When it’s a question of love and survival
Bourbon, bluegrass and the Bible
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