Crises drive us from our comfort to the edge of vital choice, children speak the words we’ve hidden, simple words we’ve failed to voice.
Durham Street Methodist ChristChurch New Zealand (Aotearoa) January 20, 2019 service led by Rev. Bill Wallace featuring some of his hymns. Our theme today is Christian Theology and global warming.
God, you made your good creation and you hold it in your care — From each starry constellation to each forest under-layer. Tiny creatures, mountain splendor, rivers, lakes and ocean floors — You are loving, kind and tender in your care for what is yours.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
THEME: The unravelling that relates everything to each other.
Hymns words by Thomas Troeger
Praise the source of faith and learning that has sparked and stoked the mind with a passion for discerning how the world has been designed.
Word of God from Bible page, Sacred wisdom for life’s way, Framed within a distant age, Breaking forth in power today.
From a very different culture, Flowing from some ancient place, Stories in our sacred scripture Authored by a diff’rent race.
From the Boundless Life collection
An awakening is beginning, The half living now arise. All those scales which they accepted Are now falling from their eyes.
So the hymns in this collection are my attempts to express aspects of a positive progressive theology. They are not meant to give a systematic statement of that theology; there are plenty of topics unaddressed here, and there’s plenty of room for a sequel. These hymns are, in the old sense, occasional pieces. They were written for particular occasions in my spiritual journey.
These can be favoured times when life has dignity, When rule of law and human rights breed liberty; If justice is pursued, If truth is not subdued, If we decide to live in peace and harmony.
God is less tangible than a neutrino (taking a short-cut? Or faster than light?