Sunday, August 31, 2014

We Know That If Our Earthly House of This Tabernacle Were Dissolved, We Have a Building of God


O Lord, Your spirit fell
settling as
the seal, the pledge, and surety
of Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done.
Your promises,

We groan, O Lord,
(longing,
for new heav'n
the casting off

Walk my faith, O Lord,
to Canaan's edge--

like quail and manna
the dew-Christ rose--
for the milk-and-honey promise
So give us this day our daily bread:
Your providence.

we rabble-rouse
craving)
and earth--
of mortal cloth.

through wilderness
Jerusalem.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

I Came, I Psalm, I Conquered

O Lord, our Lord,
     O Lord, my God--
redundant King with name so worthy
     that your people praised it twice
with double couplets,
     double law,
     and with doubled double Gospel--
may your praises echo
     and your name resound.