Heart of mine, be still.You can play with fire,But you’ll get the billDon’t let her know,Don’t let her know that you love her.Oh, don’t be a fool, don’t be blind,Heart of mine.Heart of mine, go back home.You’ve got no reason to wander,No reason to roam.Don’t let her see,Don’t let her see that you need her.Oh, don’t push yourself over the line,Heart of mine.Heart of mine, go back where you been.The only trouble with youIs if you let her in.Don’t let her hear,Don’t let her hear where you’re goin’Oh, I’m tired of ties that bind,Heart of mine.Heart of mine, so malicious and so full of guileI give you an inchAnd you take a mile.Don’t let yourself fall,Don’t let yourself stumble.Oh, do the time, don’t do the crime,Heart of mine.
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Leona Lewis: the next big thing?
Leona Lewis is a 22 year-old English singer-songwriter and winner of the third series of The X Factor (UK version of American Idol). Lewis recently broke records as she is the third UK female artist of all time to reach #1 in the US with a debut single. She recently made her American debut at the Clive Davis Pre Grammy Awards Party, and is set to make it big in the US with her debut album “Spirit“, being released April 8. (Current singles include Bleeding Love, Better in Time, and Footprints in the Sand)Check out Leona on her YouTube video channel, or her MySpace page. (Thanks to my sister for telling me about Leona!)
2008 Clive Davis Pre-GRAMMY party Leona Lewis with Clive Davis and Carrie Underwood
Heart of Mine, Be Still
Heart of mine, be still.
You can play with fire,
But you’ll get the bill
Don’t let her know,
Don’t let her know that you love her.
Oh, don’t be a fool, don’t be blind,
Heart of mine.
Heart of mine, go back home.
You’ve got no reason to wander,
No reason to roam.
Don’t let her see,
Don’t let her see that you need her.
Oh, don’t push yourself over the line,
Heart of mine.
Heart of mine, go back where you been.
The only trouble with you
Is if you let her in.
Don’t let her hear,
Don’t let her hear where you’re goin’
Oh, I’m tired of ties that bind,
Heart of mine.
Heart of mine, so malicious and so full of guile
I give you an inch
And you take a mile.
Don’t let yourself fall,
Don’t let yourself stumble.
Oh, do the time, don’t do the crime,
Heart of mine.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
What is it about “beauty is truth”?Is it true — or is is just poetry?
It’s from a poem titled “Ode On A Grecian Urn” written by John Keats in May, 1819, when he was about 24. Keats was one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. The urn is apparently decorated with a picture of a youth playing a flute in a pastoral setting and a young man chasing a young woman around the urn. She may well wish him to catch her–but the important thing is that on the urn, the music is silent and the chase, perpetual.And of course, it’s worth remembering here that the function of an urn is to hold for eternity the ashes of the dead.The poem begins with some questions about the figures pictured on the urn, then moves to this statement: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter. . . . / Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss. . . . / Forever wilt thou love and she be fair!”The poem ends with these lines, apparently addressed to the urn itself:When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,”Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”–that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.The words in question — “beauty is truth” — appear to be uttered by the urn, as if it were some sort of oracle–or maybe in the way a shell speaks for the sea when you hold it to your ear.Unfortunately, the quotation marks appeared in the first published edition, in 1820, but not in any of five other reproductions of the poem made in that year. So no one seems to know now whether the quoted words are spoken by the urn and the rest by Keats or a persona, or whether the persona speaks all of the words. Nor is there much agreement as to whether the lines express a universal truth — or are just poetic blather.Keats himself apparently never explained his intentions. He died of tuberculosis in 1821, only about eight years after beginning his career as a poet.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats, 1795???1821
Leona Lewis: the next big thing?
Leona Lewis is a 22 year-old English singer-songwriter and winner of the third series of The X Factor (UK version of American Idol). Lewis recently broke records as she is the third UK female artist of all time to reach #1 in the US with a debut single.
She recently made her American debut at the Clive Davis Pre Grammy Awards Party, and is set to make it big in the US with her debut album “Spirit“, being released April 8. (Current singles include Bleeding Love, Better in Time, and Footprints in the Sand)
Check out Leona on her YouTube video channel, or her MySpace page. (Thanks to my sister for telling me about Leona!)
2008 Clive Davis Pre-GRAMMY party
Leona Lewis with Clive Davis and Carrie Underwood
Westminster Theological Seminary suspends OT Professor
Christianity Today reports:
Two of the hottest issues in evangelical theology right now are the New Testament???s use of the Old Testament and evangelical textual criticism. Peter Enns???s 2005 book, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, aimed to pose difficult questions about the human aspects of Scripture. It received both praise and criticism from noted evangelical scholars.And it made things difficult for Enns at his school, Philadelphia???s Westminster Theological Seminary. A battle over whether the book undermined or contradicted the Westminster Confession of Faith has been raging for some time now, and apparently came to a head Wednesday at the meeting of the school???s board, which decided to suspend Enns (at the close of the school year).
Trevin Wax summarizes the controversy nicely:
- Enns has been criticized for emphasizing the human nature of Scripture over against the divine.
- Enns has written that the first chapters of Genesis are firmly grounded in ancient myth, which he defines as ???an ancient, premodern, prescientific way of addressing questions of ultimate origins in the form of stories.???
- Enns claims that Scripture is inspired and inerrant, however the way he describes Scripture seems to counter that belief.
- Enns does not seek to harmonize seemingly-contradictory parts of Scripture because he believes the diversity of Scripture is complementary.
- Enns rejects the idea of objective unbiased historiography.
It is very unfortunate whenever any seminary faculty member is suspended or dismissed on theological grounds. Do pray for Westminster Theological Seminary (students, faculty, Board of Trustees, and families) as they go through this controversial time. May we all examine ourselves and our own theology first, and read carefully about what is actually being debated, before pointing any fingers.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
What is it about “beauty is truth”?
Is it true — or is is just poetry?
It’s from a poem titled “Ode On A Grecian Urn” written by John Keats in May, 1819, when he was about 24. Keats was one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. The urn is apparently decorated with a picture of a youth playing a flute in a pastoral setting and a young man chasing a young woman around the urn. She may well wish him to catch her–but the important thing is that on the urn, the music is silent and the chase, perpetual.
And of course, it’s worth remembering here that the function of an urn is to hold for eternity the ashes of the dead.
The poem begins with some questions about the figures pictured on the urn, then moves to this statement: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter. . . . / Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss. . . . / Forever wilt thou love and she be fair!”
The poem ends with these lines, apparently addressed to the urn itself:
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”–that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
The words in question — “beauty is truth” — appear to be uttered by the urn, as if it were some sort of oracle–or maybe in the way a shell speaks for the sea when you hold it to your ear.
Unfortunately, the quotation marks appeared in the first published edition, in 1820, but not in any of five other reproductions of the poem made in that year. So no one seems to know now whether the quoted words are spoken by the urn and the rest by Keats or a persona, or whether the persona speaks all of the words. Nor is there much agreement as to whether the lines express a universal truth — or are just poetic blather.
Keats himself apparently never explained his intentions. He died of tuberculosis in 1821, only about eight years after beginning his career as a poet.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats, 1795–1821
Westminster Theological Seminary suspends OT Professor
Christianity Today reports:
Two of the hottest issues in evangelical theology right now are the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament and evangelical textual criticism. Peter Enns’s 2005 book, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, aimed to pose difficult questions about the human aspects of Scripture. It received both praise and criticism from noted evangelical scholars.
And it made things difficult for Enns at his school, Philadelphia’s Westminster Theological Seminary. A battle over whether the book undermined or contradicted the Westminster Confession of Faith has been raging for some time now, and apparently came to a head Wednesday at the meeting of the school’s board, which decided to suspend Enns (at the close of the school year).
Trevin Wax summarizes the controversy nicely:
- Enns has been criticized for emphasizing the human nature of Scripture over against the divine.
- Enns has written that the first chapters of Genesis are firmly grounded in ancient myth, which he defines as “an ancient, premodern, prescientific way of addressing questions of ultimate origins in the form of stories.”
- Enns claims that Scripture is inspired and inerrant, however the way he describes Scripture seems to counter that belief.
- Enns does not seek to harmonize seemingly-contradictory parts of Scripture because he believes the diversity of Scripture is complementary.
- Enns rejects the idea of objective unbiased historiography.
It is very unfortunate whenever any seminary faculty member is suspended or dismissed on theological grounds. Do pray for Westminster Theological Seminary (students, faculty, Board of Trustees, and families) as they go through this controversial time. May we all examine ourselves and our own theology first, and read carefully about what is actually being debated, before pointing any fingers.
Never Lose Heart in the Power of the Gospel
“Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.”–C.H. Spurgeon
Hip Names for an Emerging Church
If I were to start a new emerging church…
(AND THIS IS A BIG IF)… …
here is a short list of names I would NOT use because they are just SOOOO hip and kool and rad… … …
and already / over- used… … … …
(list to be updated as necessary — feel free to help add to this list)
The GISTLiquidVox VenaieThe VineNew GenerationHouse of MercyApexVauxThe OozeTribal GenerationAxxessVine and BranchesBournemouthSanctus 1Revelation ChurchMatthew’s House Continue reading
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