{"id":4736,"date":"2021-03-16T23:21:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2021-03-16T23:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T03:21:33","slug":"devotional-mar-16-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/2021\/03\/devotional-mar-16-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional &#8211; Mar 16, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maurice Sendak in Hebrew doesn't make much sense to an English-speaking child. Is our articulation of the gospel heard in the same way in 2021? A little longer today, but join me with 1 Peter 3:15-17 and my new series on Christ and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Devotional - Mar 16, 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_cGM3MmJ4t4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Devotional - Mar 16, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music today: 'His Truth is Marching On,' Michael Doughty<br \/><br \/><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViDCenk4OA4&amp;fbclid=IwAR3hSI69jUoui-yB_wjYnky4rcSKsUMDGmm0d-cC3b2ZRM0eTuDM_r-oh3g\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViDCenk4OA4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here's an example of verbalizing Christ's Lordship in a musical frame of reference that may be more understandable to someone not all that familiar with the faith. 'Let me know Your enormity and my finiteness. . . ' Doughty was an indie music darling as the lead singer for Soul Coughing for a number of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>'Sunshine,' Todd Snider<br \/><br \/><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M0Ssjspo5q0&amp;fbclid=IwAR3eUFA3B_aggxS2gIgP9YVCi2VeftSfru-poPutjiIji9YmmrxV5lTSc84\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M0Ssjspo5q0<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snider is a songwriter who's wrapped a little differently, to put it mildly. The narrator here is perched on the ledge of a skyscraper wondering about the point of it all. I don't necessarily agree with all the theology here, but joy discovered in the last place you'd expect sounds a lot like Jesus to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonus - I came across this article today which does a great job of showing Christianity as simultaneously attractive and offensive. 'Do you really want to be countercultural? Then don't abandon Christianity. Stick with it.' <br \/><br \/><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegospelcoalition.org%2Farticle%2Fdeconversion-not-countercultural%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1IPK4Bamot7M5f2WwKD9oURf28Yywg1bQUzgN3NoJf7w5yySMsUUWlQxI&amp;h=AT3u_tatSwjZkO6WtSMYYXCJLIIdOGpX8BU15j3s0dOt750rDd7d2lj2UpZ2a2-DlOUG642mvbSQ-8H0WngVe_Kj7G9sLpJwzcxFbkjcFTjXu-3xdb-suGkrL-DI6qmVAg&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT1T68dbLWhiLfD0bfKQDTsts8kgwZJB6CO_LIJweex-6AxRnwpQ6dsE4RG-fKjHAlrU-wx3ujaHVJrqj1Mv0S7sd9aduSwZ-BzjGzNUtl-ke05H-FVcMVBY-7oDo3CpfLYY5ei6fYT-FtwXO8Vg6MaaGGL-2JyfaHt46g\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/...\/deconversion-not...\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Sendak in Hebrew doesn&#8217;t make much sense to an English-speaking child. Is our articulation of the gospel heard in the same way in 2021? A little longer today, but join me with 1 Peter 3:15-17 and my new series on Christ and culture. . 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