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09/06/2019
Miserere mei, Deus - Allegri - Tenebrae

Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin... Psalm 51
https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0

Gregorio Allegri's Miserere mei, Deus Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short Filmed at St Bartholomew the Great, London www.tenebrae-choir.com アレグリMISERERE 알레 Mi...

09/10/2018

New Book Release! "For a Better Worldliness: Abraham Kuyper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Discipleship for the Common Good" by Dr. Brant Himes, Managing Editor of Resonance. Learn more and order today at: https://betterworldliness.org/

06/09/2018
Be Happy

Resonant Points Update:

An evaluation of the sentiment to "be happy"--why this is simply not adequate for human beings.

01/09/2018
A Christian Assessment of Islam, Part 2

Resonant Points Update:

To argue for a Christian assessment of Islam, in the sense which I elaborated in the prior post (A Christian Assessment of Islam, Part 1), may strike some of the readers as contrary to Christian principles and even the command to love one’s neighbor.

24/08/2018

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19/08/2018
The Abolitionists Legacy, Part 2

Resonant Points Update:

Justice is not a periphery subject in Scripture or to God—the abolitionists legacy demonstrates this.

15/08/2018
The Abolitionists Legacy, Part 1

Resonant Points Update:

We modern Americans tend to assume that the abolitionists legacy is right not only in the sense of their cause being just but also in their arguments and methods.

11/08/2018
Fish Tanks

Resonant Points Update:

Fish tanks are interesting and especially useful to explain what human experience in culture is like. Let me explain.

05/08/2018
What Culture? What culture?

Resonant Points Update:

Cultures vary but leadership is necessary. Christians can say "what culture" and criticially engage their own times as faithful witnesses in the Lord.

30/07/2018
Sacrosanct, Part 2

Resonant Points Update:

Modern culture is not sacrosanct anymore than any other culture. Yet we modern people Westerners (including Christians) have bought into this idolatry.

23/07/2018
Sacrosanct, Part 1

Resonant Points Update:

One of the ironies in Western countries is that people cannot escape a sense of the sacred. One sign of this yearning is weighing culture as sacrosanct.

16/07/2018
A Psalm of Hope

Resonant Points Update:

Psalm 62 (61) (Palm by David; English arranged by Sean Killehua) For God my soul waits silently and still. And all my expectation is from Him. For He alone salvation is, my sure defense, my Rock. With Him my soul is steady and unmoved. Would you assail a man and not relent, like trampling on …

12/07/2018
Grappling with Contemporary Issues

Resonant Points Update:

Stott's book is essential reading for anyone who identifies him or herself as a disciple of Jesus the Christ. He modeled grappling with contemporary issues.

06/07/2018
The Heresy of Racism, Part 2

Resonant Points Update:

I am well aware that the phrase “the heresy of racism” my strike readers as odd or even incorrect. The phrase was chosen purposely because how we think of ourselves as human beings is inherently theological (or ideological if one does not acknowledge Deity). We draw conclusions about what it mea...

02/07/2018
The Heresy of Racism, Part 1

Resonant Points Update:

I have never understood racism and have often thought of how extraordinary stupid it is. But I think it can properly be classified as the heresy of racism.

19/06/2018
What's the Trouble

Resonant Points Update:

When you reflect on your situation—home, relationships, work—the easiest things to report are the troublesome things, or the extraordinarily good things. Both strike your awareness with more immediacy than the majority of things that just work. The adequacy of their “working” manifests by go...

13/06/2018
Dodging Reality and Embracing Fiction

Resonant Points Update:

Augustine of Hippo is always interesting to read because he wrote on such a variety of subjects. One passage from the Confessions is instructive for the human tendency for dodging reality and embracing fiction.

08/06/2018

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08/06/2018
Likeness of His death

Resonant Points Update:

“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection…” [NKJV Romans 6:5] Although this text refers to our baptism, I found, just for a moment, another angle on it while at a funeral wake. The deceased was Catholic and...

02/06/2018
Padre Kino

Resonant Points Update:

Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino was born August 10th, 1645 in the town of Segno in Northern Italy (close to Trent). Padre Kino, as he became known, studied Science and Literature and Religion at a school in Trent run by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a monastic order of the Roman Catholic Church. At t...

27/05/2018
Wading into God's Restoring Work, Part 2

Resonant Points Update:

God's redeemed are wading into God's restoring work when they serve the living God in every aspect of life on the earth. All rightfully belongs to the Almighty and all things fall under righteous human stewardship. This a form of witness.

21/05/2018
Wading into God's Restoring Work, Part 1

Resonant Points Update:

God's purpose is to completely restore his creation so he can take joy and delight in what he made. This is why disciples find themselves wading into God's restoring work.

08/05/2018
The Evangel as Resistance

Resonant Points Update:

The impact of our current modern age is that people do not perceive the evangel as resistance. Indeed, the most important form of resistance to evil we make.

01/05/2018
Encounter Paul, the Movie

Resonant Points Update:

Suppose you encounter a friend who says, “I just saw a ghost?” Would you believe him? Or another friend, childless, reports, “My late grandma came to me in a dream, and told me the Lord would grant me a child.” Would you believe that she will have a child? But these are mostly localized exam...

25/04/2018
The Shape of the Gospel, Part 2

Resonant Points Update:

The shape of the Gospel, as I argued in the prior essay, is real and rooted in the Person of Christ Jesus. The Christians did not invent the Gospel but sought to understand the depths and dimensions of the divine mystery of God’s Presence in Jesus and the power of the Spirit working in him …

20/04/2018
The Shape of the Gospel, Part 1

Resonant Points Update:

The Gospel message is meaningful and thus we can assert that shape of the Gospel can be discerned and articulated. However, asserting this does not mean there are not diverse expressions of the Gospel in the NT.

13/04/2018
The Embrace of Affection

Resonant Points Update:

I am re-reading for at least the 4th time The Four Loves, by C. S. Lewis. Once again I met the chapter on Affection, bathing in the warm embrace of this love’s character, happily recalling times in my past where Affection held me close, but sometimes aching from memories when Affection seemed sore...

02/04/2018
The New in the Old

Resonant Points Update:

Faith in the Lord Jesus is paradoxical because it takes back to Scripture. Particularly because one finds in the Person of Christ the new in the old.

29/03/2018
Reform and Re-form

Resonant Points Update:

The Spring issue, What is Evangelical? aroused in me so many useful thoughts about faith and practice, both personal and societal. Every author brought something to bear on my perspective, some more surprising than others. In sorting these out, one impression outsized all the others. A line from Dr....

21/03/2018
Evangelical Knot

Resonant Points Update:

The living God's work on earth is akin to the skillful tying of a knot. Thus work of God among people has been like and evangelical knot to secure us to God through Christ.

07/03/2018
Determinism and Free Will

Resonant Points Update:

How many times must you make a choice before you have chosen? That question is the answer to the riddle of free will versus determinism. To the theologically inclined, this problem arises in controversies of predestination, one of the most famous being Martin Luther and Erasmus. Epithets such as “...

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