We have an instrumental of this good old hymn, performed by our dear friends the Swanson Brothers, Joshua and Jeremy: Will the Circle Be Unbroken? I found it very moving, even without the lyrics.
Category: religion
‘I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing’
Am I early for Christmas, or late? But that doesn’t matter, does it?
Three hours of scanning the day’s nooze, and I’m worn out. What a load of crap. I suppose I should be deliriously happy, watching the Democrat Party self-destruct; but it’s a sorry sight, no dancing in the streets.
This hymn came into my mind about an hour ago, and doesn’t want to leave.
“Christ is born” is still The News. We have every reason to rejoice in that.
‘Until We Meet Again’
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were BIG, really BIG on TV when I was a boy, back in the 1050s. And among other things, they sang hymns. And no one tried to stop them!
Hard to imagine… but I was there to see and hear it.
‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’
It’s been a while since I posted this: What a Friend We Have in Jesus, sung by Doc Watson. This hymn used to make me cry in Sunday school. It still works on me today.
Hot Dog! A ‘Church of AI’
How about Artificial Everything?
There’s a lot of euphoria in the air these days, inspired by President Donald Trump sticking it to Far Left Crazy. But the Bad Guys–who have had decades to solidify their position–will not go without a hard fight. Either they will not survive, or the rest of us will not survive. The war has only just started.
It will be a religious war.
AI (“Artificial Intelligence”) as a god? The worship of something created by human hands? A thing which promises “salvation” managed by Far Left kooks in ivory towers.
God help us, this blather is as old as the hills! Will we never outgrow idolatry? Who asked for a “Church of AI” and “immortality through AI”? And they can take their “Techno-Utopian Gospel” and feed it to the fishes.
Take nothing for granted. We have work to do! Work to do as God’s people. And we’d better do it well.
By Request, ‘Sheltered in the Arms of God’
We have a hymn request from Erlene (Welcome back!): Sheltered in the Arms of God, sung by Carroll Roberson.
Looks like it wants to rain today. Well, the grass around here is all brown, it can use some watering.
‘We Are Not in Control’ (2015)
Michael Crichton was a wildly successful novelist–The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, just to name two of his many books. But one of those books, Prey, suggests to me that he never came to terms with his own religious impulses.
Try as he might, Crichton could not let go of the notion that human beings are destined to control their environment (“Ye shall be as gods”). We have no need of God: we will eventually learn how to iron out the rough spots.
But it was those rough spots that Crichton wrote about; and he never shook off the observable truth that people–even scientists!–make very inadequate gods. The promised utopia never gets past the breaking-the-eggs stage.
Prey made me pity Crichton. The man had too much integrity to set up phony-baloney fictional utopias. Reality kept crashing in.
He had the courage to face it, but not the wit to answer it.
‘In the Sweet By and By’
Joshua and Jeremy, you’ve outdone yourselves! This is just beautiful: an instrumental of a classic hymn, In the Sweet By and By. It brought a tear to my eye… yes, it did.
“‘Sorry, Charlie, You Ain’t Foolin’ Us'” (2020)
It doesn’t have to be true. Real Smart People are true.
Remember “Baptist News Global,” a voice of “the wider progressive movement”?
If the Church is wrong about key issues–marriage, for instance–and the Bible is wrong about it, too… does it not follow, of necessity, that God Himself is wrong?
Which is what all forms of religious “progressivism” are about: God being wrong. In fact, that’s probably the only thing you need to know about progressivism.
‘Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy’
Here’s another hymn I only heard for the first time–today, in fact. Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy, sung by the Mount Pleasant Quartet… atop a stone wall.