The ramblings, rants, raves, and reveries of a Hippie Christian. Comments about life and the journey of faith at the intersection of the spiritual and material worlds. Welcome Home!
In the shadow of expanding Middle East conflict, we need to evaluate our stance as followers of the Prince of Peace. As the English Baptist minister Charles H. Spurgeon stated back in 1858...
"The Church of Christ is continually represented under the figure of an
army; yet its Captain is the Prince of Peace; its object is the
establishment of peace, and its soldiers are men of a peaceful
disposition. The spirit of war is at the extremely opposite point to the
spirit of the gospel"
Our job is to pray that world leaders would make decisions leading to peace rather than war...
I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone, for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. (Timothy 2:1-2)
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God"
~Jesus (Matthew 5:9)
Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)
Who Would Jesus Bomb? is my adaptation of Christus am Olberg by Josef Untersberger
Rock Mass for Sunday April 7, 2024 - Earth Day Edition
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it (Psalms 24:1) Ever since God created the
world, his invisible qualities,
both his eternal power and his divine
nature,
have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that
God has made.
So those people have no excuse at all! (Romans 1:20)
And Jehovah God took the man,
and caused him to rest in the garden of Eden,
to serve it, and to keep it. (Genesis 2:15)
We have been entrusted by the Father to be custodians of his Creation, it is our
responsibility to care for and protect the Earth. The Earth is God's primary revelation of himself, his ever present means of revealing his great creative power and his loving provision of the life giving miracle that we call home - Earth. What a powerful witness it would be if those who claim to love God and who want to evangelize the world would actually protect and care for God's Creation.
Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)
The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10". (Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)
While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” (Luke 24:4-7)
Peace, Love, and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)
The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".
(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. (1 John 3:16)
Jesus said to them, “But, whom do you say that I am?”
Then Simon Peter answered, and said,
“You are the Christ; the Son of the living God.”
And
Jesus answered, and said to him,
“Blessed are you, Simon, the son of
Jonah.
For flesh and blood has not revealed it to you,
but my Father who
is in Heaven."
(Matthew 16:15-17)
Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)
The
inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All
Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s.
On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass
which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A
live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be
called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God
or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of
these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there
was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The
Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".
(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)
To the Last Whale... / Critical Mass / Wind on the Water written by David Crosby and Graham Nash. This video is the live performance by Crosby, Stills and Nash back in 1982 at the Universal Amphitheater. My wife and I were there and it left me completely speechless.
Whaling is illegal in most countries, but Iceland, Norway, and Japan are still engaged in whaling. According to Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), over a thousand whales are killed each year for their meat and body parts to be sold for commercial gain.
"We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretence whatsoever; and this is our testimony to the whole world. The spirit of Christ, by which we are guided, is not changeable, so as once to command us from a thing as evil and again to move unto it; and we do certainly know, and so testify to the world, that the spirit of Christ, which leads us into all Truth, will never move us to fight and war against any man with outward weapons, neither for the kingdom of Christ, nor for the kingdoms of this world."
~The Quaker Peace Testimony, Declaration of Friends to King Charles II, 1660
Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)
The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".
(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)
Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
(Psalm 100)
Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)
The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".
(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)
The
inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All
Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the
first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of
traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular
rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual
phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s
there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular"
music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According
To Billboard's Top 10". (Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)
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