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The Terms of Your Covenant
“With trembling fear and a boldness that matches,
I dare hold Your name to all terms of Your covenant
And ask You to rise and to bare Your right arm.
But Father, I ask it would turn out to be
Your left arm instead, surprising us all.”
21 Prayers, p. 4
A Wide Range
“Some Jewish groups would be as far away from Christianity as the Sufi Muslims would be, and are kind of out there, while others have inched back toward the Christian center, and are just Unitarians with yarmulkes.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 66
How Boomers Rule
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What Dragnets Do
“I ask that the dragnet of Your holy kingdom
Would sweep through our towns, hauling everything in—
Good fish and bad fish, beer bottles and weeds.”
21 Prayers, p. 3
The Church as Israel Reborn
“After the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, all they had left were their erroneous traditions. This is why modern Judaism is best considered a heresy of the Old Testament faith, and not a representation of it. To be a Christian is to maintain that the fulfillment of the Old Testament is in the Christ of the New Testament, and not in rabbinic Judaism.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 64-65
Old School
A Gibbeted Christ
“He was killed, though the coming and faith one,
He died on a stake, a gibbeted Christ.
Distorted and bent on a twisted cross,
And by left-handed dealings, by subtle turns,
He turned all pious and correct expectations
Up on their heads; He tumbled them down.”
21 Prayers, pp. 1-2
One or the Other
“If the Jews are right and Jesus did not rise from the dead, then we Christians of all men are most to be pitied (1 Cor. 15:19). And if He did rise from the dead, then modern Judaism is an attempt to have a Messiah-based religion while leaving the Messiah out of it. But that is like, as the old illustration goes, putting on a production of Hamlet, and leaving out the prince of Denmark.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 64
On a WIld Stretch of Coast
“I pray that Your preachers would come down like fire,
Consuming the forests of deadwood and sin.
I pray that Your preachers would come like a storm,
Hitting the people on a wild stretch of coast.
I ask pulpit fervor, I seek pulpit fire—
The Word blazing forth, consuming the people,
The Word marching forth, eager to conquer.”
21 Prayers, p. 128