Tag: Jesus

  • Nostalgia

    Nostalgia

    Do you remember this?  I had a little record player with a lid for my 45’s.  I loved to listen to music when I was growing up.

    My parents gave me a record player for 33 1/3 albums for my 16th birthday (1966).  I still have some of the old 45’s, albums and a box set of classical music I used to listen to as I went to sleep.

    Like many young men and women I wrote various journals (diaries), poetry, and essays of things on my mind. As a music lover I also wrote lyrics and composed and arranged music as well.

    Most of the old letters, journals and writing is long past pitched in the trash.  Some arrangements and writing remain in my files as nostalgia for occasional memory of days past or as orphaned children never seen or heard by the audience for which they were created.

    My favorite orphaned instrumental work is an orchestration of “Piano Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra” for symphonic band.  I could not convince my few friends directing bands with the ability level for the technique this work requires to give it a listen.  The only time I heard it in part was in draft stage by the Gainesville High School Band, but its director at the time was dying of cancer.  Another favorite is an orchestration for symphonic band of the Widor Organ Toccata.

    My favorite orphaned lyric of my own is “Pray,” set to Erik Satie Gymnopedie No. 2, I first heard performed by Blood, Sweat, & Tears.  (Yes, I think I still have the album & a disconnected turntable backed away in boxes.)

    The opening lyric is:

    “Help me when I don’t know what to do…  Pray.

    My favorite orphaned poem was “The Little Orange Man,” written about the AAA crossing guard.

    “On a corner in Canton stands a little orange man,

    With a little orange cap and a little orange vest…”

    I don’t remember the rest.  This orphan is lost.

    I write many short essays, commentaries and especially witness of Biblical exposition, most which receives little notice.  Earlier this year I wrote and read a serial short story of 14 episodes that I have had in mind for a serial post on my blog. (Stay tuned. It’s titled: A Picture of Heaven.)

    I have not written anything of the magnitude of my current book manuscript.  God planted a story in my heart last year which must be retold. God willing, you will hear much more about it in 2014.

    It seems that authors need a platform for marketing our books… therefore; this site of witness for Christ Jesus came about in the form of http://talkofJesus.com for a voice from the pew.

    As part of my witness for Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, I include my personal blog with occasional thoughts; but it’s not about me, it’s about Jesus.  Look for most of my writing outside of my personal blog.

    May the Lord bless you as a reader and follower. I embrace your comments and posts.  Pray also for me, especially for the salvation and return to Christ by many of my own beloved family.

    Roger Harned, a voice from the pew

     

  • #Share  Follow Me – Jesus

    #Share Follow Me – Jesus

    FOLLOW ME – The Social Networking of Jesus

    Luke 5:

    10 His partners, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, were also amazed.

    Jesus replied to Simon, “Don’t be afraid! From now on you’ll be fishing for people!” 11 And as soon as they landed, they left everything and followed Jesus.

    27 Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth.“Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. 28 So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.

    “Jesus followed no man.  Yet in just three years our Lord connected to thousands and convinced many followers.

    I’ve been giving much thought and listening to considerable advice recently about how to reach readers who also follow Christ.  This is crucial for Christian authors.

    IF we seek followers of Christ to read our book (or our blog), where will our journey take us in three years?

    (Jesus must have had a plan and strategy for Jews and gentiles to receive the gospel of the Cross before the sacrifice of the Cross.)

    How did He do it?  What was His strategy?

    Although Jesus followed only God, our Lord pursued faithfully those who sought to follow him.  Matthew, Zacchaeus, Mary Magdalene, a Samaritan woman at the well and Nicodemus are just a few examples.

    Jesus was connected to a Mentor Circle.  (You know the other Two.)

    His Followers, Apostles, Paul, Timothy and others all built their churches in the same way – Mentors from the One original AND Followers of each new closely connected group of believers.

    His followers he then added and pursued any who followed with love for their souls.

    Therefore my intent is to follow some of your wise counsel from our inner circle of Christian authors. Yet my advice to us:

    “Walk among the circles of our READERS.  Show them Christ.  See who will follow.

    Do you have any specific directions for us?

    Please comment. AND please… #SHARE on http://talkofJesus.com AND share our community of Christian Social Witness for Jesus Christ. #FOLLOW us on your SOCIAL PAGES.   May our Lord bless you.

     

  • Foundation of Truth

    Foundation of Truth

    “Trust requires a foundation of Truth seasoned by integrity. Build your Heavenly home with Christ Jesus.

    John 14: excerpt

    “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2 There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. … 3 When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.”

    5 “No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

    6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

    The Church’s one foundation
    Is Jesus Christ her Lord,
    She is His new creation
    By water and the Word.Hymn: Samuel Wesley, Lyric: Samuel Stone

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