Tag Archives: passion

Galleon

O Zion, shake thyself from the dust! O Christian, raise thyself from thy slumbers! Warrior, put on thy armor! Soldier, grasp thy sword! The captain sounds the alarm of war. O sluggard! Why sleepest thou? O heir of heaven, has not Jesus done so much for thee that thou shouldst live to him? O beloved [...]

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Into The Swell (a sound like an ocean)

“I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or [...]

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Iron Wall

The church today has become far too inwardly focused. As a whole, we have long failed to give an active account of the true gospel. Instead, it is preached as dry words from pulpits, only to fall like brown and dead leaves at the feet of people who need much, much more. People who have [...]

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Who Sing The Sun in Flight

Come, oh wonder-dark, with your wide heaven spaces and deep, waiting stars! Come, you silent evening song, sung to tell my heart. We sing the sun in flight, tonight, as he kisses horizon lines. We dream deep of the moon and fire and of the love of making life. For we are the wild men; [...]

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