Let the water and the blood... Words from Rock of ages, written by the wonderfully named Reverend Augustus Montague Toplady. The song takes it's imagery from a gorge in Southern England, where Toplady sheltered from a storm, from the rock that was struck in the desert and from which water flowed during the Israelites' Exodus from …
Tag: Wounds of Jesus
…and round his piercèd feet
...and round his piercèd feet fair flowers of paradise extend... The words are from the hymn Crown him with many crowns by Matthew Bridges. Then there's this from Psalm 110:1 The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” The footstool is where the king puts …
Whipped and stripped
They whipped and they stripped Not a sequel to 50 shades of grey, but my reflections from memory of the Lent course from Holy Trinity Huddersfield, based of the wounds of Christ. The first of which took its title from the song Lord of the dance. Before Jesus was whipped he would have been beaten, …
Making an ass of myself 