Remember this? Noozies got all bent out of shape because a Harlem church congregation didn’t go for heresy in the pulpit. Yeahbut, yeahbut! I was Democrat preaching! Don’t these miserable peasants know that’s better than the Bible?
One thing they do know: the only rescuer we have is Jesus Christ. Without Him we’re stuck in this fornication theme park run by moral imbeciles.
From which the Lord deliver us!
In The Robe (1953), Richard Burton played the Roman officer in charge of crucifying Jesus Christ; and he wins Christ’s robe with a roll of the dice. Victor Mature is the slave who takes the robe away from him.
We do have to be careful about using “Bible movies” to teach us the truth that is in the Bible; but this scene from The Robe packs a wallop, emotionally–and I’m pretty sure we need that.
Some hymn requests have piled up, and I’m going to post them one by one–starting with this request from Erlene, He Still Has the Scars, by Carroll Roberson.
We are in the Lent season now. Among the hardest duties of a Christian is to contemplate the crucifixion of our Savior
That was for our sakes.
This is another hymn you don’t want to miss–Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted. Requested by SlimJim, sung by Fernando Ortega. Scripture per Isaiah, Peter, and Paul.
We do well to remember by whom we are saved, and how He had to do it.
I first heard this hymn as background music in a Civil War documentary, fell in love with it, and had to wait 20 years or so before I found out the title–Jesus Saves. Here it is, as it was sung at the United Reformed Churches’ 2012 Synod at Nyack College, New York; and that’s the gorgeous Hudson River in the background.
Jesus Christ will save us.
I wonder if I ought to post Christmas carols now and then throughout the year.
This is an instrumental piece by Quadriga Consort, Sing We Now of Christmas, French and English traditional.
Christ must conquer.
Requested by Joshua, Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne. I couldn’t find the name of the artist performing it, but I went with this version anyhow. It’s nice and soothing, and it found me in the middle of collecting nooze–which was not doing my blood pressure any good.
We have the Good News of the gospel, and we’re still in the Christmas season: cling to Christ’s throne. Cling to His cross.
No one got around to entering this carol in the carol contest: a medieval Christmas carol, Gaudete–whose lyrics tell us, in Latin, to rejoice, for Jesus Christ is born of Mary.
Performed by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and the London Cello Orchestra.
In case anyone out there is wondering where we’re coming from…
We proclaim the lordship and crown rights of Jesus Christ the Son of God, our Savior and our King, who alone has the right to rule His Father’s creation. All who rule, but not under God, are nothing but usurpers. The Lord has only set them up, for a little while, to cast them down.
We proclaim Christ’s Kingdom now and forever, world without end, Amen.
Mark Rushdoony has an answer for those who look at the state of the world, despair of the gospel, and say “Just look around you.”
https://chalcedon.edu/blog/be-encouraged
All right: look. “Yet what do we see each Christmas? The world must stop and recognize the impact of Jesus Christ on history.”
It’s a short little essay, brief but to the point. For me to say more would spoil it.