8/25/08 TOO MUCH INFORMATION? MOUW SAYS HE SINGS IN THE SHOWER " ...often I sing in the shower. And I frequently surprise myself at what I sing, and I try to figure out where the song came from in my psyche Recently it was a song that went like this: “Lord, I’m trampin’, trampin’/ wanna make heaven my home/ Hallelujah, Lord, I’m trampin’, trampin’/ wanna make heaven my home.” That one came from an event that I had long forgotten. I was barely a teenager when I sang those words as a member of a large choir that sang during a multi-night evangelistic crusade in Albany, New York, in the early 1950s. The evangelist was Hyman Appleman, a Messianic Jew whom I remember to be a fiery preacher After my shower I googled Appleman and found out quite a bit about his life... ... peace and justice. Maybe we can use some of that eschatological motivation in the early years of this century. It could be that Jesus is coming soon. Or it could be that he will delay his coming, and we will instead see an increase of peace and justice in the coming decades. Or maybe not, on both counts. But it would not hurt us to hold out for the truth of either one of those prophecies, and then get on with the work that they mandate! on both counts. But it would not hurt us to hold out for the truth of either one of those prophecies, and then get on with the work that they mandate..." "Pretty sure, pretty strong, pretty much," "Mixed feelings," "Or maybe not" http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/?m=200808

8/25/08 TOO MUCH INFORMATION? MOUW SAYS HE SINGS IN THE SHOWER " ...often I sing in the shower. And I frequently surprise myself at what I sing, and I try to figure out where the song came from in my psyche Recently it was a song that went like this: “Lord, I’m trampin’, trampin’/ wanna make heaven my home/ Hallelujah, Lord, I’m trampin’, trampin’/ wanna make heaven my home.” That one came from an event that I had long forgotten. I was barely a teenager when I sang those words as a member of a large choir that sang during a multi-night evangelistic crusade in Albany, New York, in the early 1950s. The evangelist was Hyman Appleman, a Messianic Jew whom I remember to be a fiery preacher After my shower I googled Appleman and found out quite a bit about his life...

... peace and justice. Maybe we can use some of  that eschatological motivation in the early years of this century. It could be that Jesus is coming soon. Or it could be that he will delay his coming, and we will instead see an increase of peace and justice in the coming decades. Or maybe not, on both counts. But it would not hurt us to hold out for the truth of either one of those prophecies, and then get on with the work that they mandate! on both counts. But it would not hurt us to hold out for the truth of either one of those prophecies, and then get on with the work that they mandate..."

"Pretty sure, pretty strong, pretty much,"
"Mixed feelings,"
"Or maybe not"
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