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“Bilbo's Song” | SONG of the week

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Text source: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 3 Song album: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King - The Complete Recordings I sit beside the fire and think    of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies    in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer    in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun    and wind upon my hair. I sit beside the fire and think    of how the world will be when winter comes without a spring    that I shall never see. For still there are so many things    that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring    there is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think    of people long ago, and people who will see a world    that I shall never know. But all the while I sit and think    of times there were before, I listen for returning feet    and voices at the door. "Much experience is the crow

Isaiah 6 | BIBLE PASSAGE of the week

"In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.  Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall

quotes from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life | QUOTES of the week

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Book: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Author: William Law (1686-1761) Year published: 1728 People influenced by the book: John Wesley, Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, Samuel Johnson, William Wilberforce, C.S. Lewis, John Piper "He . . . is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of the common life parts of piety, by doing everything in the Name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory." "if you will here stop, and ask yourselves, why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it." "As there is but one God and Father of us all, whose glory gives light and life to everything that lives, whose presence fi

The Medieval Presidential Debate | COMEDY SKETCH of the week

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Show: Studio C Director: Jared Shores Producer: Jared Shores and Diane Mayne Writer: Jason Gray Editor: Yurii Hydrick Date published: April 8, 2016 "In all Debates, let Truth be thy Aim, not Victory" William Penn