Month: March 2016

No rest yet [Heb 4, Rom 8]

Posted on By Chris Gale
We are in this world for a time. During that time, we are to be witnesses and to do good. The greatest witness we can have is to love our brothers and sisters in Christ. There is no retirement. We can rest when we are dead. And at that point there is… Read More

Poem of the day.

Posted on By Chris Gale
Ecce Homo A man of sorrows and with grief acquainted, He bowed His beauteous head to the rude hands Of Pilate’s hireling bands; And while beneath their cruel scourge He fainted, Forgave them, yearning through His shameful smart Even with… Read More

Mutterings.

Posted on By Chris Gale
From Glenn (instapundit) Reynolds. We are now being censored by the activists.
IF YOU’RE TRYING TO ACCESS INSTAPUNDIT OR PJ MEDIA and not getting anywhere, it’s because both sites have been under a two-day DDOS attack. Requests from most…
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It is a season [I Peter 1]

Posted on By Chris Gale
It is the beginning of Easter. This is not a time to take risks with liturgy, to add to the gospel. For Jesus died, was buried, and rose. He suffered for us. Lamentations is a prophecy and teaching and messianic. We have details of how Joseph of… Read More

From the Wasteland.

Posted on By Chris Gale
This was set reading at high school when I was kid. No, not an elite school.
From the Wasteland. What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish. Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know…
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Not feelings.

Posted on By Chris Gale
I have no time for egalitarian marriage. For it does not work. I know: I had one. I was taught that one had to respect the complementary giftedness and be a servant leader. This functionally meant that you had to agree with whatever your spouse said.… Read More

The church universal. [Mk 14]

Posted on By Chris Gale
We get what we need, not what we want. And that takes us to the table. Not the hot cross buns and coffee after the coming service in Friday morning, but to something more serious. For today is the day before Friday, and thus the texts set reflect… Read More