Jesus is for Losers

If the title shocks you (And I think it's meant to in part), I think that's ok. I know it's only been 3 days since my last entry, but I like this blogging thing. Here is another song lyric that's been on my mind of late. It's funny - you can now watch the video to this song on youtube. It used to be much harder to come by. Anyway, this song is buy a man named Steve Taylor and it is from 1993 I think.


Jesus is For Losers

if I was driven
driven ahead by some noble ideal
who took the wheel?
if I was given
given a glimpse of some glorious road
when was it sold?

so caught up in the chase
I keep forgetting my place
just as I am
I am stiff-necked and proud
Jesus is for losers
why do I still play to the crowd?
Just as I am pass the compass, please
Jesus is for losers
I'm off about a hundred degrees

if I was groping
groping around for some ladder to fame
I am ashamed
if I was hoping
hoping respect would make a sturdy footstool
I am a fool
bone-weary every climb
blindsided every time

just as I am
I am needy and dry
Jesus is for losers
the self-made need not apply
just as I am in a desert crawl
Lord, I'm so thirsty take me to the waterfall

and if your certain
certain that faith is some know-nothing mask
why do you still ask?
they don't grade here on the curve
we both know what we deserve

just as you are
just a wretch like me
Jesus is for losers
grace from the blood of the tree
just as we are
at a total loss
Jesus is for losers
broken at the foot of the cross

just as I am
pass the compass, please
Jesus is for losers
I'm off about a hundred degrees
just as I am
in a desert crawl
Lord, I'm so thirsty
take me to the waterfall

Hymn Thoughts

Hello friends. Lately I have been listening to a CD of hymns by from a hymnal by a man named William Gadsby who lived in the mid 1800s. This is a hymn he wrote:


Weary of earth, myself, and sin,
Dear Jesus set me free,
And to Thy glory take me in,
For there I long to be.

Let a poor laborer here below,
When from his toil set free;
To rest and peace eternal go:
For there I long to be.

Burdened, dejected, and oppressed,
Ah! Whither shall I flee,
But to Thy arms for peace and rest?
For there I long to be.

Let a poor laborer here below,
When from his toil set free;
To rest and peace eternal go:
For there I long to be.

Empty, polluted, dark and vain
Is all this world to me;
May I the better world obtain
For there I long to be.

Let a poor laborer here below,
When from his toild set free;
To rest and peace eternal go:
For there I long to be.

Greetings from a Robertson

Dearest friends,

Warm greetings.

I have for some time had thoughts of posting to this blog, and now I have been let into the circle via a simple email to the rabbi. (Did he really think this through?) I'll be honest: down in my soul I'm a luddite, and I think I always will be, and this is the first time I've ever blogged, and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. But I hereby will seek not to be frivolous. It's not all bad - there's just way too much frivolousness in the world.

I think this may really be a forum for fruitful conversation. What are everyone's thoughts on the purpose and function of the blog? Is it for prayer requests? How about praise reports? How about discussions related to our small group's plans? Sermons & small group discussions? What about side issues and questions spiritual, whimsical, ancillary, and even frivolous? Do we have clear boudaries about these things? Just wondering.

Here's a really interesting essay by an insightful heretic that I heard on NPR earlier this week:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90133974

Let me know if I'm not allowed to post heresy.


ttfn,

Hermano David