Friday, May 27, 2011

Singing Psalms, Understanding Structure

Singing Psalms, Understanding Structure


Re: Psalms.


I'd like to see some music for Psalms that chants a Psalm as written (English for now, I suppose), and then writes something that shows the structure, as JBJ does in his monthly Psalm writings.


And then back to the Psalm as written, chanted, for greater appreciation.


Off the top of my head, if there are 7 uses of a word, singing them 1234567 would be a showing of the structure.


Also, a chiastic Psalms could have the two A portions sung consecutively, with a SHOUT or other emphasis on the chiasmizing words or phrases.


Love in King Jesus,


Chuck

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Christian Court TV and Ottoman Empire

Still waiting for Christian Court TV--could be done as a ministry on local public access, or narrowcast on Web. Famous trials in Scripture, a la 'You Are There' could be interspersed. Compare arbitration for some disputes. Read that Ottoman Empire had provision for 'millet,' a form of local self-governing communities in much of the law (I'm sure the Emperor would have been involved in trying those in insureection, e. g.) Chuck

Monday, May 23, 2011

Who IS Demented?

We can, we must, learn from 'the demented'.

We are to be 'poor in Spirit'.

I listened to my mother (not enough!) and wrote down what she was saying. Some art there. (I like science fiction, and mysteries).

I sent some to a rhetorics professor, and he said that every speaker must have an audience, and that I was a good audience.

Of course, the great saying of Moses is 'Listen, Israel'. Hearken, listen so as to act. The Shema. I am a Christian.

The other side of the coin of 'A decent respect for the opinions of mankind....'. Love in King Jesus, Chuck

PS: The autistic, the idiot savants, the man who is blind but who echolocates, navigates by clicking (Book of Ele, AND in real life)...each is one of God's children, for a purpose. Perhaps I am blinder than they, as my siblings were more demented than my mother.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Example of Additional Commissioning in Worship Service

Example of Additional Commissioning in Worship Service

And now, we are commissioned!
Having been called into the Lord’s presence, having been cleansed by confession and authoritative forgiveness, having been consecrated by the sermon, and having been communed by the Lord’s Supper, and having been to the mountain of mountains, to worship with angels and archangels and all the company of Heaven, we cannot stay there. We are to be sent out, to say and do that which will bring about the full realization of the feast.

P: We are commissioned.
C: We are commissioned indeed!

It’s like it was on the Mount of Transfiguration. They could not stay there, for there was someone at the foot of the mountain to be helped.

Who is at the foot of our mountain?
How goes the battle?
What do we see, as we look at the battlefield from the mountain?
Soon, we will pray for those fighting on fronts that we have commissioned previously.
But today, we begin fighting on two new and very important fronts. We begin by praying for our research team, who will be investigating these two fronts: (1) Liabilities into Assets—for example, the ocean of plastic the size of Texas situated between Hawaii and Japan. (2) Long-term callings—for example, Berman says in ‘Law and Revolution’ that those building medieval cathedrals literally had budgets for a thousand years.

Our general situation—1
Christ has conquered.
We’re mopping up, by His command and in His power.
It’ll take awhile.
Let’s get to praying and working.

Our general position—2
a—The church started as a ‘tribe’ in the Roman ‘empire.’ Heir to all Israel from Adam.
As the Empire fell, King and Bishop stood side by side.
Now there are native churches in every land, and politics is becoming more
tribal. [For more on this see ‘Who Rules the Land?’ and ‘Crisis, Opportunity
and the Christian Future’.]

b—There are major changes every 500 years. @ A. D. 1000 is was the investiture
controversy. @ 1500 came the Reformation. Now, it is proposed, the move is
toward Metropolitanism. Similar to ‘the church in Ephesus’. See Bledsoe, and
such works as ‘From the New Middle Ages to the New Dark Ages…’ here:
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=867 and
Jane Jacobs.

c—There have been four social orders. Tribes, Empires, Israel, Greece. After He
Reversed the Trend (Jesus Christ), these were glorified in reverse order, each
glorification eliminating the worst aspect of that particular social order, the
Greeks always being a companion. The Church, the new Israel, eliminated the
Exclusiveness—the first 1000 years. The nation-state, the new Empire,
eliminated slavery—the second 1000 years. And now we are entering an era of
the new tribe, aiming to eliminate the perpetual warfare of the tribe.

At the same time, these social orders are represented among us by a calendar
for each. Community calendars for tribes, business calendars for empires,
ecclesiastical calendars for Israel, and educational calendars for Greece. See
Multiformity of Man, here:
http://www.argobooks.org/rosenstock/pdf/The-Multiformity-of-Man.pdf. Also
the last few chapters of Universal History 1954, from www.argobooks.org, and
Chapter 5 of ‘Beyond Belief’ by Gardner, for the covenant structure of new
‘revolutions’. This also applies to a--, and b--, above.

Our particular situation in Carbondale—3
[In a way, the ‘world’ is one city, electronically]

Sing after me, chant what I chant first, for all are in this battle, and even the
Least among us can repeat what I chant:
P: Christ has conquered!
C; Christ has conquered!
P: We are mopping up,
C: We are mopping up,
P: by His command and in His power.
C: by His command and in His power.
P: It will take a while.
C: It will take a while.
P: Let’s all get to work.
C: Let’s all get to work.
P: One another one another.
C: One another one another.

I, a called and ordained servant of the Word, in the stead and by the command of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, have previously commissioned in Cornerstone Reformed Church, Carbondale, Illinois these actions by our warriors on the following fronts, in accordance with Matthew 28: 18-22.

18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19Go ye therefore, and [disciple] all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.


As I list them, we all sing and respond with this:

P & C: Sent out in the power of Christ.

P: We pray for Elder Jones and his work with the Fifth Word, especially the nursing home prayer action by some of his Ten, and his Fourth Time Around work to protect God’s eldsters.

P & C: Sent out in the power of Christ.

P: We also pray for the research among some of Elder Jones’ Ten on Godparents for Eldsters, James 1:27.

P & C: Sent out in the power of Christ.

P: We pray for the work of Elder Smith and his Ten in seeking out the chiefs of Carbondale, and working on the basis that history is liturgy, to put Cornerstone in the position of Commissioning Carbondale.

P & C: Sent out in the power of Christ.

P: We pray for our mission in Russia.

P & C: Sent out in the power of Christ.

P: We pray for the mission of our experienced keepers at home, in training our new keepers at home, under the leadership of Deaconess McNamara.

P & C: Sent out in the power of Christ.

P: We pray for the respective callings of each of our members, however humble or exalted they may seem, remembering Luther’s saying that one can sweep floors for the glory of God. Elder Rodriguez heads up this effort. Let each member consult with him.

P & C: Sent out in the power of Christ.

P: And let us pray for research in the new missions that turn Liabilities into Assets, and that last for decades, centuries, and longer.

P & C: Sent out in the power of Christ.

Before the blessing command and the commissioning
hymn, let us sing again, the congregation
after the pastor:


Sing after me, chant what I chant first, for all are in this battle, and even the
least among us can repeat what I chant:
P: Christ has conquered!
C; Christ has conquered!
P: We are mopping up,
C: We are mopping up,
P: by His command and in His power.
C: by His command and in His power.
P: It will take a while.
C: It will take a while.
P: Let’s all get to work.
C: Let’s all get to work.
P: One another one another.
C: One another one another.

Numbers 6: 23-27
22And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
24The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
25The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
27And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
Let us sing our commissioning hymn, ______________, as we are sent out.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

A NOTE TOWARD AN ARTICULATION OF THE IMPERATIVE FOR THIS TIME

A NOTE TOWARD AN ARTICULATION OF THE IMPERATIVE FOR THIS TIME

A GOOD MAN ASKED: Does anyone know what the below means?

‘A wise one says that all 'revolutions' start with an imperative, go through subjective, to narrative, and end with objective. You are speaking in the objective. It goes nowhere. Articulate, please, an imperative’

ANOTHER HELPED: ‘that's a tough one... is the author saying that although a fact is stating (perhaps even stating the obvious), he doesn't know how to synthesize it or what to do with it?’

A THIRD: ‘It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.’

A FOURTH: ‘anyone can state what the problem is according yo himself then argue to its conclusion but when it becomes an imperiitive then that is the plan of action that can be implemented...At least I think that is what charles means..I think he is more intelligent than I am,and he read rosenstock-hussey who I know is smarter than I am.Gary North used to say you cannot beat something with nothing..still says it I assume.’

THE ONE QUOTED IN THE FIRST QUESTION LONG-WINDEDLY ATTEMPTED TO ANSWER: Charles Howard Hartman Right, [____] . I see I must get Mr. Gardner to post his wonderful chapter 5. He lists the imperatives of each respective revolution, then the form of the subjective is the new persons and speech of each, the narrative he translates into the new institutions, and the objective into 'planetary' results. We are the heirs to all of these, and his gift is to have isolated them and to have shown how they arose. But the whole system is breaking down, as Pastor McAtee's posts tell us, and it is time for a new imperative--what will it be specifically. As each of the initiators of the previous changes spoke into a specific time and place, so must we. But what? In another context the great marketers Jay Abraham wrote the 'People are silently begging to be led'.

Charles Howard Hartman Elsewhere, ERH writes that all the significant happenings in the first millennium or the Christian Era were in the church. Creeds, Councils, conversions, etc. In the second millennium we have these nation-states (and science) as the most significant, he says. The church became inclusive, different from Israel of old. The nation-states, generally, abolished slavery. Now he says we must glorify the tribal social order, but without perpetual war, which is the problem of the tribes. Now, as I say, we are heirs to all of this and sometimes think that it has always been this way, the way it is now. But what we have now is hard-won, by people who followed the imperative necessary. What is it now? Gardner says in one place that to keep the fruits of these revolutions may be enough. Freedom of conscience (Luther), political freedom (English, American), individual enterprise (French), freedom from economic exploitation (Russian). Elsewhere he mentions Berman. In Berman's 'Law and Revolution' Berman mentions that medieval cathedrals literally had budgets for a thousand years. We need that kind of vision. It is very difficult.

Charles Howard Hartman Could it be expressed in a calendar (we are in at least 4 calendars now, community/tribal, business/empire, ecclesiastical/Israel, and educational/Greece)? Perhaps an art form? As all these calendars came about by articulation in life, perhaps we can see that the development of worship forms/liturgy was the key in the first 1000 years, and if we could see that the covenant structure (first 5 Words/Commandments) applied to 'nature'/reality minus speech is the scientific method as it has come to us, perhaps we could ask, what art form would be to the earth beneath/people, as the liturgy is to the heavens above, and as the scientific method is to the waters under the earth? (I'm working on these two--calendar and art form, as the words of ERH and others bounce around in my soul). Many remark that the institutional church seems to have lost her power. Others see that the nation-state does not seem to be able to do what it seemed it would.

Charles Howard Hartman To put this in terms of the other revolutions, what is the imperative, what are the new persons and new speech, what are the new institutions, what is the planetary service? That's what I am asking.After reading Gardner's chapter 5, and seeing how new forms of the above came AFTER the new imperative, as articulations of a response to it, we can better work on this. Note that all of these thought they were following God's Word, etc. That is too general, isn't it? Are the new type of persons bankers, or banksters--are they the ones who have the Spirit-engendered authority to make something from nothing, or at least to provide liquidity (water) for house-law/oikos-nomos/economies. Most of us would say no, that's a failure. Is it think tanks, scientific study groups, etc? Is it a hospital society, such as the Knights Templar, which ruled large portions of Europe. Is it, and I think we are getting somewhere here, economic corporations, the daughter of nation-states, who were themselves, the daughter of the church, especially Cluny monastery? Is our new type of speech electronic world-wide interaction? Is it telepathy, end-times prophecy? Is it a new language, formed of many as Afrikaans, or is it computer zeroes and ones? Some kind of haiku-like gestalt seeing? I apologize for my lack of clarity. I pray this helps. Love in King Jesus, Chuck

Charles Howard Hartman ‎'One man in all times and places' :ERH. Thus Lectionary Historical written on the 49 (Jubilee) year calendar, with all kinds of covenants 'rhymed' within it, new holidays (one for A. D. 70, e. g.), the seasons being the Beatitudes and Woes, a Psalm O Day, and Prayer O Day using ERH's Twelve Tones of the Spirit, weeks named for Bible books, the days renamed for the firmament of Ephesians 2:6, the 7 yea 8 churches in Revelation being summational of the core history of humanity's childhood (we are now in adulthood in Christ, the First Adult, as one has called him). And more. http://members.valley.net/~transnat/erh.html The short statement here is key. '...How does love become stronger than death?...' Thanks for your question, Pastor McAtee. Love in King Jesus, Chuck

Charles Howard Hartman ‎'One man in all times and places' :ERH. Thus Lectionary Historical written on the 49 (Jubilee) year calendar, with all kinds of covenants 'rhymed' within it, new holidays (one for A. D. 70, e. g.), the seasons being the Beatitudes and Woes, a Psalm O Day, and Prayer O Day using ERH's Twelve Tones of the Spirit, weeks named for Bible books, the days renamed for the firmament of Ephesians 2:6, the 7 yea 8 churches in Revelation being summational of the core history of humanity's childhood (we are now in adulthood in Christ, the First Adult, as one has called him). And more. http://members.valley.net/~transnat/erh.html The short statement here is key. '...How does love become stronger than death?...' Thanks for your question, Pastor McAtee. Love in King Jesus, Chuck

OK. Here’s a simple imperative. ThyatiraYUMM! Instead of naming days after pagan gods, and material planets in the sky, name them after the social firmament, which is the Church, as articulated in a retuning of the churches of our childhood, the 7 yea 8 in Revelation. (The books opened are the letter to the 8th church, Jerusalem of Old, in the Creation, as the letter to the church is Ephesus, etc.). Simple, I said. Tomorrow could be called Friday (after Venus, Fria in German). The last day of the school week. The last day of the work week (weekend invented @ 1925, per an intro to a reprint of a book of Chesterton), in some ecclesiastical calendars it is a day to remember a particular ‘saint’. Community-wise, see ‘weekend’ or perhaps a community is having its yearly town holiday? Tomorrow is, in a new calendar, which is a schedule for a society, as a work/school/church/community schedule is a man’s schedule, ThyatiraYUMM!, or just Thyatira. (Days were retuned in a way at the Ascension, as seen in the change in the order of the attributes of Jesus at Ascension, pictured in Rev. 5:12 (before) vs. 7:12 (after) but that is a long exegesis and application.

A joyous Thyatira to you! ‘Eat it’/YUMM (yom) and ponder the lessons and what to do in our situation that we learn from the kingdom phase of humanity’s childhood, a 4th Day write large, from Genesis 1.

I know this seems odd. Luther seemed odd, so did Cromwell, and the other English, so did Gregory VII, the French revolutionaries, and Lenin and the others. I could be a crackpot—surely I am, there’s no ‘could’ to it, but I think, following far better ones than I, that I have helped ask the question that will lead to the imperative. As Gertrude Stein is said to have asked on her death bed: ‘What’s the answer?’ Receiving none, she then asked: ‘All right then, what is the question?’

The question is: What is the particular imperative that will engender? Love in King Jesus, Chuck ThyatiraYUMM! (The exclamation point indicates imperative.) [One last thing. There are 4 consonants in the first word in the Bible, the first being Beth, which they say means ‘house,’ so, if the first of a sequence is an imperative, ‘beth’ could mean…make a house, come into the house…? The next 3 make a suggestion of a liturgy.