Baptism of the ark

After I Peter 3:18-22

The eight remained inside,

riding the waves, tending

to the animals, shut up

inside against the rain

and flood. The boat 

heaved and rocked

with the waves, as 

the eight, with only

a spiritual rudder,

sailed through day

and night. The waters

washed all away,

all the evil that had

flourished, all the sin

that had taken place.

It was perhaps

the first baptism.

 

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Some Sunday Readings

Love is patient – Kim Barnes at CDM Women’s Ministry.

The writing process: a mysterious and marvelous charisma – Michael A.G. Azad Haykin at Historia ecclesiastica: e-history. 

'Such were the works of Walsingham' - Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.

For all of us

After I Peter 3:18-22 

One might, it is said,

die for a righteous

man or woman, but

who among us would

die for an unrighteous one?

 

Would you die for

John Wilkes Booth? 

Adolf Hitler? Joseph

Stalin? Jeffrey Dahmer?

Ted Bundy? Who in

their right minds would

die for any of these?

 

Only one did. Only, one.

He died for the righteous;

He died for the unrighteous.

He died for us all.

He died to conquer death.

 

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Some Friday Readings

 

England’s Nazareth – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule..

 

Is God Having a “Cultural Moment”? – John Stonestreet and Shane Morris at Breakpoint / Colson Center.

 

Loving Colloquy – poem by Teresa of Avila at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).

 

Dumb Will Do: Why Satan Doesn’t Need Heresy – Tim Challies.

 

C.S. Lewis on the Danger of Getting Too Much News – Seth Lewis.