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Name: Arron
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Jackson
Gender: Male
Interests: Talking to people, meeting new friends, keeping old ones, bands of all sorts from Anathallo to Nickel Creek to Switchfoot to Blindside, especially if they make me want to dance (which is NOT something that you would want to see...), singing, choral music, composing music, directing music, fiddle, violin, viola, string quartet music, symphony orchestras, computers, Bulgarian Women's Choirs, African music, etc., etc., etc.
Expertise: Music
Occupation: Student
Industry: Research
Message: message me
Member Since:
9/24/2005
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| http://arronpowell.blogspot.com/ .
You can find me there from now on - though I'll back-publish to Xanga if I can figure out how to set it up tonight....
-AP
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| "Peace on earth, and mercy mild,..."
What exactly should be mild about God's mercy? It needs to be severe; radical even. God's mercy needs to take broken people bent on destroying themselves, and change them by love into daughters and sons, bent on building each other up for God's glory. God's mercy is not mild, or even close to it. It looks mild sometimes, when we rest in the arms of our Father, but it is in fact rushing like a mighty river to quench our burning sin, to drown it in love so strong that it would kill us to save us. That love does kill us, in fact. And it raises us, too to a new and better life, so much fuller that we see our old life as death by comparison. Those arms we rest in are strong enough to destroy us at a touch, but they don't. They re-make us instead.
God's mercy came to us as a child about two thousand years ago now, but it has stayed with us as a man, turning over the tables of our broken lives in the temples of our hearts – temples that we profane by harlotry with other gods. God's mercy will rip a man to pieces to put him back together again the right way. It is not mild. God's mercy is scary, invasive, not "safe". Christ did not come only to hold little children and make them safe from the devil – he came to destroy the devil and all his works. He did not come just to protect the good, but to put an end to evil forever. He did this by dying. Is that mild? And He ask us – He demands us, if we are Christians, to die as well. Is that what we call mild mercy?
I think it should be more like
"Hark! the Herald angels sing,
'Glory to the newborn King!'
Peace on earth and mercy mighty,
God and sinners reconciled." (etc.)
Mighty mercy. I need it. And it is here. Thank God.
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| I think I'm going on sabbatical. It's not like I ever updated a lot anyway... And my footprints and comments have just gotten lower and lower... So, it's not that I don't care, it's that I have nothing to say... Plus my new computer filter keeps me off Xanga. So I might get a Blogger account. If I do, I'll link to it from here. See y'all folks later. -Arron | | |
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Josh Mac(TM) immediately and consult your physician. Goodnight, folks. | | |
| Two things: 1. "The heart of the Pharoah is in the Hand of God."
And that EVERY GOVERNMENT set over us is somehow ordained by Him, which should be a comforting thought. This means not that we shouldn't vote, but that once the polititians are in, WHOEVER THEY ARE, Christians should be a joy to govern (Thanks, Russ for this idea...). We should win people to our side - NOT try to make them accept our ideals without our Savior. Christians are called to give beautiful protests. ----------- Thing the second (2): " There are two great lies that I've heard:
"The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die"
And that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican.
And if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him. My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man;
My first allegiance is not to democracy or blood -
It's to a king and a kingdom. And there's nothing that unifies like a common enemy,
And we've got one, sure as hell;
He may be living in your house,
He may be raising up your kids,
He may be sleeping with your wife,
oh no, he may not look like you think. " | | |
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