The Kingdom Is Here

Hell Took a Body and Discovered God

SCRIPTURE 1 Corinthians 15:55 (NIV) "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" REFRAIN Christ descends to where I am and brings me up. QUOTE John Chrysostom, from Paschal Homily "Let those who have fasted and those who have not fasted rejoice today. The table is fully laden; feast sumptuously. Let no one grieve poverty, for the universal Kingdom has been revealed. Let no one fear death, for the Savior's death has set us free. Hell took a body, and discovered God. It took earth, and encountered Heaven. It took what it saw, and was overcome by what it did not see. Christ is Risen, and the demons are fallen. Christ is Risen, and life is freed. Christ is Risen, and the tomb is emptied of its dead." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Announcing Your Place

SCRIPTURE 1 Corinthians 15:51 (NIV) Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed. REFRAIN I have a place in the family of things. QUOTE Mary Oliver, from Wild Geese "Meanwhile the world goes on... meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Ubiquitous Light

SCRIPTURE John 12:36 (NIV) "Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light." REFRAIN Christ is the light in whom I live and move. QUOTE Athanasius "God in Christ became the bearer of flesh for a time, so that humanity could become the bearer of Spirit forever." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Wedding Banquet

SCRIPTURE Matthew 22:10 (NIV) So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. REFRAIN There is room for everyone at this table. QUOTE Maximus the Confessor "God made all beings to this end, to enjoy the same union of humanity and divinity that was united in Christ." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Pattern of Change

SCRIPTURE Romans 4:17 (NIV) As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed — the God who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. REFRAIN I am always becoming, never ending. QUOTE Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself "All goes onward and outward... and nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.