I’m too old for dogma

 As I write You fill me, Your heart is for my good

Why You have trials and tests to send 

While You’re never-changing, You’re often rearranging 

Jesus lives and dogma dies my friend 

Life is full of Color, also full of gray 

We can’t say all life is black and white 

One thing that is sure, Jesus is the cure 

He’s my aim, my Prize for which I fight 

If  life was stagnant, we’d all be the same 

Be no need for color or diversity 

As it is we’re hands and feet, eyes and ears in Him we meet

Our many parts veer us through adversity 

Life is full of Color, also full of gray 

We can’t say all life is black and white 

One thing that is sure, Jesus is the cure 

He’s my aim, my Prize for which I fight 

Life is full of Color, also full of gray 

We can’t say all life is black and white 

One thing that is sure, Jesus is the cure 

He’s my aim, my Prize for which I fight.

1 Corinthians 9:26-27

Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

1 Corinthians 12:15-20

Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

I, sin

 I’m not sharp, I’m a sinner like everyone else 

No need to put a finer point on it 

Even I lead folks to Jesus , who heals us when He sees us 

He’s the whole point of the sonnet

Sin ain’t all I am , He’s opened my eyes and ears 

Like the deaf man, my mouth was mute mainly 

Upon meeting Christ, I’m highly priced

My tongue loose now I  speak plainly

Can I please be some people, bring others straight to Christ 

I’m begging Jesus daily for the ones 

He made her, He sought her, she’s His dear daughter

He heals her and He touches sick sons 

Sin ain’t all I am , He’s opened my eyes and ears 

Like the deaf man, my mouth was mute mainly 

Upon meeting Christ, I’m highly priced

My tongue loose now I speak plainly

Sin ain’t all I am , He’s opened my eyes and ears 

Like the deaf man, my mouth was mute mainly 

Upon meeting Christ, I’m  highly priced

My tongue loose now I speak plainly.

Mark 7:31-35

Jesus Heals a Deaf and Mute Man

Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.

After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”). At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.

Glory

 Glory is a verb, it’s an action word 

Seek His face, look 

Give praise and sing, focus on The  King

We know all His acts from His book

Glory in His holy name 

Rejoice, I say, rejoice 

Look to the Lord and His strength 

You’re sure to hear His voice 

Glory is a hearty act

Our hearts are what are His

All are seeking, hearts are speaking 

He is who He is 

Glory in His holy name 

Rejoice, I say, rejoice 

Look to the Lord and His strength 

You’re sure to hear His voice 

Glory in His holy name 

Rejoice, I say, rejoice 

Look to the Lord and His strength 

You’re sure to hear His voice.

1 Chronicles 16:8-11

Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name;

make known among the nations what he has done.

Sing to him, sing praise to him;

tell of all his wonderful acts.

Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Look to the LORD and his strength;

seek his face always.

The look

 The whole world wept, bitter tears 

Some say Peter's first pope 

Christ looks at us all, before and after The Fall

What He does next gives us hope 

Christ could've right then 

Said, “Peter, Supreme sin

You've cast your own fate to Sheol"

Jesus, instead, restored his head 

Showed Peter, and us, our goal.

Luke 22:60-62 (KJV)

60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. 61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. 62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

John 21:15-18 (ESV)

Jesus and Peter

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. 18 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”

Stretch

 Glorify Your Name in the heavens

You’re the Founder of earth 

Power, Wisdom, Understanding 

You stretched all out from birth 

What is man You are mindful of him

Stubborn, sinful, wretch

You made it all, Your constant call 

Our one task is stretch 

We’re all Herodians, we’re all a Pharisee 

If it weren’t for Grace we’d just be wretches

Thank God You’re there to heal, You created a great deal 

Even through our wills Jesus stretches 

What is man You are mindful of him

Stubborn, sinful, wretch

You made it all, Your constant call 

Our one task is stretch 

What is man You are mindful of him

Stubborn, sinful, wretch

You made it all, Your constant call 

Our one task is stretch.

Jeremiah 51:15

“He made the earth by his power;

he founded the world by his wisdom

and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Mark 3:5-6

He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

Certainty

 History proves God is real 

He does what He says He’ll do

Judah fell, Jeremiah well

It’s certain His Word will come true 

Heaven and earth will pass away but My Words will never pass 

Few things are certain, Christ cut the curtain 

His story is all that’ll last 

Look up at the stars, now down at your hand 

It’s matter, real and not libel 

If it happens today, Jesus will say 

You read it before in your Bible

Heaven and earth will pass away but My Words will never pass 

Few things are certain, Christ cut the curtain 

His story is all that’ll last 

Heaven and earth will pass away but My Words will never pass 

Few things are certain, Christ cut the curtain 

His story is all that’ll last.

Jeremiah 38:3

And this is what the LORD says: ‘This city will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it.’”

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Jericho blind

 Sometimes we’re blind, We want our sight 

We think we’re in the wrong place 

Christ comes by, we don’t know why 

Shout loud to be face to Face 

His mercy is strong

Lasting long 

He’s healing, let’s not wallow 

Many and much receive His touch 

Our gift: we get to follow 

What they then see, for you and me 

Greatest tale ever told 

His Son then died, all sins to hide

Jesus lives, He’s already old 

His mercy is strong

Lasting long 

He’s healing, let’s not wallow 

Many and much receive His touch 

Our gift: we get to follow 

His mercy is strong

Lasting long 

He’s healing, let’s not wallow 

Many and much receive His touch 

Our gift: we get to follow.

Matthew 20:29-34

Two Blind Men Receive Sight

As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.

“Lord,” they answered, “we want our sight.”

Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

God still acts immediately

 Holy Spirit rain down, 

on my cheeks You fall 

You lit the bush, was Moses’ push

You’re all our constant call

God’s above time and space, created time and space 

When He decides to act and heal 

He decides the pace 

Let’s not be the old fig tree 

Bear fruit whatever it takes 

Healed Canaan’s daughter, He walked there and bought her 

He sustains that which He makes 

God’s above time and space, created time and space 

When He decides to act and heal 

He decides the pace 

God’s above time and space, created time and space 

When He decides to act and heal 

He decides the pace.

Exodus 3:1-6

Moses and the Burning Bush

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”

And Moses said, “Here I am.”

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

Matthew 15:28

Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

Matthew 21:19

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.

Let me be wise

 It starts and ends with You Lord Jesus

Your Love and not our deeds 

Use the voice, see, rejoice 

Wise is one who heeds 

Lift the needy from affliction

Increase the family flock

Walk like Jesus, pray He sees us 

Speak, and stand on Rock

We tend to ask Him what to do 

What deeds will earn my due 

Jesus swaps it, Triune tops it 

Swap all your what’s for Who

Lift the needy from affliction

Increase the family flock

Walk like Jesus, pray He sees us 

Speak, and stand on Rock

Lift the needy from affliction

Increase the family flock

Walk like Jesus, pray He sees us 

Speak, and stand on Rock.

Psalms 107:43

Let the one who is wise heed these things

and ponder the loving deeds of the LORD.

Matthew 19:16-17

Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life ?” 

“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

What’s my meth?

 Drugs make the brain crave more 

Want with whole being

Attention may be drug I crave 

Certainly not what I’m seeing 

Introspection, search me God

Test me, know my heart 

Help me know the Way to go 

Plan to play my part 

Part is all, not the whole 

A member of the band 

Backing  sound, solid ground 

With Christ, my King, I stand

Introspection, search me God

Test me, know my heart 

Help me know the Way to go 

Plan to play my part 

Introspection, search me God

Test me, know my heart 

Help me know the Way to go 

Plan to play my part.

Psalms 139:23-24

Search me, God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Hail

 I don't want to be here when plague of hail starts

I pray I'm already there 

100 pounds, dwarfed by the sounds

Cursing, some folks can't care 

It's hailing, it may be too late 

It's hailing, don't curse and don't hate 

Avoid intoxication 

Don't drink the wine of nation 

Babylon, the beast still exists 

It's hailing even now in His domain 

Christ sits on His throne, He's saving those He's known 

Patient, He forgives again.

Revelation 16:21 - 17:2

21 From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast

1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”

Redemption

 Redemption narrative makes us Secure, starting point for Stable

Lamb who was slain, His Book of Life

Rests upon this table 

Redeeming people, saving us 

He’s been doing it for ages 

Why He’s saving, beyond behaving 

All written in its pages 

All people guess, we make choices 

Some outside The Book

If you doubt what awesome’s about 

Outside, at night, just look 

Redeeming people, saving us 

He’s been doing it for ages 

Why He’s saving, beyond behaving 

All written in its pages 

Redeeming people, saving us 

He’s been doing it for ages 

Why He’s saving, beyond behaving 

All written in its pages.

Psalms 111:9

He provided redemption for his people;

he ordained his covenant forever—

holy and awesome is his name.

Revelation 13:8

All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

Tribalism is learned

 We’re born into beauty, we see it all around

How do others step on different dirt

Surely we’re the chosen, outside our frame is frozen

Teach the children why and who to hurt 

This  tribe is important, keep decrees and laws 

Others are just Cretans and creeps 

Stay within the tribe, if asked just don’t imbibe 

Pride and hate are two things this tribe keeps 

Who are other people, let’s just call them ‘they’

They don’t matter, they’re outside our gang

We’ve held on so long, oh wait, Dear God, we’re wrong 

Broken both all Law and prophets hang

This  tribe is important, keep decrees and laws 

Others are just Cretans and creeps 

Stay within the tribe, if asked just don’t imbibe 

Pride and hate are two things this tribe keeps 

This  tribe is important, keep decrees and laws 

Others are just Cretans and creeps 

Stay within the tribe, if asked just don’t imbibe 

Pride and hate are two things this tribe keeps.

1 Kings 11:31-33

Then he said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and give you ten tribes. But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe. I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon’s father, did.

Matthew 22:37-40

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Drugs with whores

 College in the 80’s, What a blurry blast 

Reagans in the house doing his act 

16 in ‘81, by the time the decades done 

I’m now the whore’s the natural fact 

80’s almost killed me, in fact the old guys dead

I was way worse than tax collector

Jesus tracked me down, clemency for a clown 

From ‘65 on He’s my protector 

What to do with new guy, no more drugs and whores 

I’m in the Book and have a mapped out plan 

Help me to be humble, You’re Light so I don’t stumble 

Walk me home with You hand in Hand.

Luke 18:13-14

“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”