Erlene and Linda both asked for this one: For Your Name is Holy, by Paul Wilbur. The video portion is from the 2000 movie, The Apocalypse, with Richard Harris as St. John the Evangelist. Harris saved up an awful lot of good acting for his old age. But of course the real business at hand here is Revelation itself, which Paul Wilbur has celebrated in music.
I have two hymn requests this morning, and this one is from Linda–For Your Name is Holy, by Paul Wilbur. That’s Richard Harris in the video, playing St. John in the movie, Revelation: well worth seeing.
Now I have to go to the bank and work on Aunt Joan’s finances. I hope I can get it done quickly.
Before I get into dirty politics today–if I get into it!–first let’s fortify our souls with praise of God who made us and sustains us and redeems us: For Your Name is Holy, performed a capella, in wonderful harmony, by 3b4jHoy.
All I can find out about them is that their names are Heather, Dominique, and Claudette and that they hail from Florida. There is very much of the Hebrew Bible in their work. There is also very much of the Torah in the words of Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul. For those Christians who are a little fuzzy on this, it takes both Old and New Testaments to make the Christian Bible.
These girls know that!
Does anyone mind another worship song today? This is For Your Name is Holy, sung by Paul Wilbur, suggested my Linda.
The accompanying video is from a 2000 film, The Apocalypse (also presented as The Book of Revelation), starring Richard Harris as St. John the Evangelist.
Some Christians don’t approve of movies based on Scripture. That’s no idle objection: it’s so very easy for a movie to get it wrong, and that’s something you don’t want to do with the truth of God’s word.
But there’s also something to be said for a work of art that moves the viewer to see Revelation as if for the first time, and to feel something of what the old apostle must have experienced, alone and exiled to a tiny island, when he was given such a vision of Christ’s glory. Even more of a vision than the one received by the prophet in Isaiah 6. These are things very, very hard to capture in words alone–and do we not greatly desire to capture them?