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Thank the Lord we didn't have a rapture on Saturday because I don't want to live through the tribulation.
When I was a kid, my church showed the "A Thief in the Night" series of movies. These movies scared the hell out of me and stained my pre-adolescent faith with a terror beyond biblical proportion.
God be praised?
The last thing I wanted was to see the water turn to blood and have a huge locust-like creature sting me in the chest thereby paralyzing me.
God believes in "tough love".
I have no idea why the book of Revelations is in the New Testament. Its vision of God seems completely out of step with the gospels and the epistles of Peter, Paul, and John.
Revelations fits neatly with the Old Testament.
Mahler's Second Symphony is called The Resurrection Symphony because of the text it uses in the finale section.
The text is from Das Knaben Wunderhorn, The Boy's Magic Horn, a collection of German folk poetry.
Das Knaben Wunderhorn was a favorite of Mahler's. He used it in over and over in song cycles and in three of his symphonies.
The Resurrection Symphony is a piece of music that dominated me for a time. I listened to numerous recordings trying to find the perfect jewel.
It wasn't until I saw the video of Bernstein conducting the London Philharmonic that my search came to an end.
The closing text of the symphony contains a "me versus myself" sentiment that almost all of us can recognize.
"With wings which I have won for myself, In love’s fierce striving, I shall soar upwards To the light which no eye has penetrated! Its wing that I won is expanded, and I fly up. Die shall I in order to live. Rise again, yes, rise again, Will you, my heart, in an instant! That for which you suffered, To God will it lead you!"
I understand that we are supposed to "let go and let God" and that Jesus saves. However, the New Testament also says to, "...Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."
This passage from Das Knaben Wunderhorn favors neither Protestant or Catholic, Jew or Gentile, Hindu or Muslim, Euro, Dollar, Yen, or Pound.
There is truth in this music that is impervious to prophecies of doom and the petty egos that wield them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rECVyN5D60I
Thank the Lord we didn't have a rapture on Saturday because I don't want to live through the tribulation.
When I was a kid, my church showed the "A Thief in the Night" series of movies. These movies scared the hell out of me and stained my pre-adolescent faith with a terror beyond biblical proportion.
God be praised?
The last thing I wanted was to see the water turn to blood and have a huge locust-like creature sting me in the chest thereby paralyzing me.
God believes in "tough love".
I have no idea why the book of Revelations is in the New Testament. Its vision of God seems completely out of step with the gospels and the epistles of Peter, Paul, and John.
Revelations fits neatly with the Old Testament.
Mahler's Second Symphony is called The Resurrection Symphony because of the text it uses in the finale section.
The text is from Das Knaben Wunderhorn, The Boy's Magic Horn, a collection of German folk poetry.
Das Knaben Wunderhorn was a favorite of Mahler's. He used it in over and over in song cycles and in three of his symphonies.
The Resurrection Symphony is a piece of music that dominated me for a time. I listened to numerous recordings trying to find the perfect jewel.
It wasn't until I saw the video of Bernstein conducting the London Philharmonic that my search came to an end.
The closing text of the symphony contains a "me versus myself" sentiment that almost all of us can recognize.
"With wings which I have won for myself, In love’s fierce striving, I shall soar upwards To the light which no eye has penetrated! Its wing that I won is expanded, and I fly up. Die shall I in order to live. Rise again, yes, rise again, Will you, my heart, in an instant! That for which you suffered, To God will it lead you!"
I understand that we are supposed to "let go and let God" and that Jesus saves. However, the New Testament also says to, "...Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."
This passage from Das Knaben Wunderhorn favors neither Protestant or Catholic, Jew or Gentile, Hindu or Muslim, Euro, Dollar, Yen, or Pound.
There is truth in this music that is impervious to prophecies of doom and the petty egos that wield them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rECVyN5D60I