Today at the Cafe: Because He Lives

Praying for this upcoming gathering of the Anglican archbishops with Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury.  Archbishop Foley Beach is also invited.  Let us not pray as ones who have no hope. Jesus is risen.

September 11 at the Cafe: Springsteen and The Rising

Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight


Spirits above and behind me
Faces gone, black eyes burnin' bright
May their precious blood forever bind me
Lord as I stand before your fiery light
I see you Mary in the garden
In the garden of a thousand sighs
There's holy pictures of our children
Dancin' in a sky filled with light
May I feel your arms around me
May I feel your blood mix with mine
A dream of life comes to me
Like a catfish dancin' on the end of the line


Sky of blackness and sorrow ( a dream of life)
Sky of love, sky of tears (a dream of life)
Sky of glory and sadness ( a dream of life)
Sky of mercy, sky of fear ( a dream of life)
Sky of memory and shadow ( a dream of life)
Your burnin' wind fills my arms tonight
Sky of longing and emptiness (a dream of life)
Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life ( a dream of life)


Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight

Bruce Springsteen 2002

Bruce Springsteen: Mary don't you weep

Homeward Bound

Autumn Leaves

Tonight at the Cafe: Your Grace is Enough

Today a the Cafe: Majesty

Lovely acoustic cover of the Delirious? song:

Today at the Cafe: Feeling Groovy

Tonight at the Cafe: Sunshine

A song for friends.

You are my sunshine

Heard this cover this afternoon and just had to post it.  The artist is Elizabeth Mitchell.

There's something happening here

Renewal

Don't miss this interview with Nicky Gumbel on Church Planting

I attended my first Alpha Course at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in 1994.  It was an amazing time then—it's an amazing time now.  Watch this excellent interview with HTB's vicar Nicky Gumbel on church planting, the evangelization of the world, improving theological education and other topics:

Tonight at the Cafe: Heart of God

#GC78 Still Groovy After All These Years

Watching this livestream (or this one) from General Convention—six General Conventions showed that last day, last hours are when "stuff" (remember this?) (or this?)—and spinning some tunes here at the Cafe:

Tonight at the Cafe: Blessed be the name of the Lord

Still true.

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue #GC78

May come in handy.

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin’ through
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your reindeer armies, are all going home
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who’s rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start anew
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

Bob Dylan 1965

I will change your name

This evening at the Cafe: I will rise and Bless the Lord