Twelve Enough

Jonathan is joined again by Eric Carlson! Eric is a teacher at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, RI and one of the hosts of the podcast Cut X Cut.

On the last episode with Eric, they talked about spirituality and the band Mountain Goats. But now, it is a bit of a shift to Punk music! Often people consider Punk as something that is counter to institution, to mainstream, and especially to religion. And yet there is something deeply spiritual about the protest. Punk is not about protest for the sake of protesting, but more because something has been lost, something has been skewed from what could have been great. Punk offers a criticism that comes from the heart, that comes from a place of deep love and a pain for something lost. As Christians we have, in many ways, lost our way from what it is that Christ calls us to do and the ways Christ calls us to walk. We need the criticism of Punk!

The bands and songs discussed in the episode are:

“God Save the Queen” - Sex Pistols

“Don’t Pray on Me” and “God Song” - Bad Religion

“Do Not Consider Yourself Free” - Embrace

“Attitude” - Bad Brains

“Jesus was a Communist” - Reagan Youth

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Jonathan' discusses his call to the ministry

An evening devotional with pastors Charley Eastman and Jonathan Malone. The discussion this week - Charley’s call to ministry.

Here is the prayer from this devotional:

I am no longer my own, but yours.

Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will.

Put me to doing, put me to suffering. 

Let me be employed by you or laid aside for you,

exalted for you or brought low for you.

Let me be full, let me be empty.

Let me have all things, let me have nothing.

I freely and willingly yield all things to your pleasure and disposal.

And now, O glorious and blessed God,

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,

you are mine, and I am yours.

So be it.

And the covenant which I have made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven.

Amen.

John Wesley – 1703-1791

An evening devotional with pastors Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman. Tonight’s conversation - Death and Dying in a COVID time.

Here are the prayers that Jonathan read:

“IN THE RISING of the sun, and in it's going down, we remember them. From the moment I wake till I fall asleep, all that I do is remember them. In the blowing of the wind and the chill of winter, we remember them. On the frigid days of winter and the moments I breathe the cold air, I warm myself with their embrace and remember them.  In the opening of buds and the rebirth of spring, we remember them. As the days grow longer and the outside becomes warmer, I am more awake and I remember them.”

"Those who are worn out and crushed by this mourning, let your hearts consider this. This is the path that has existed from the time of creation and will exist forever. Many have drunk from it and many will yet drink. As was the first meal, so shall be the last. May the master of comfort you. Blessed are those who comfort the mourners."

An evening devotional with pastors Jonathan Malone and Charlie Eastman. This week’s topic: finding faith in popular cultural.

Instead of a prayer, Jonathan read from Leonard Cohen’s song Anthem:

The birds they sang

At the break of day

Start again

I heard them say

Don't dwell on what

Has passed away

Or what is yet to be

Yeah the wars they will

Be fought again

The holy dove

She will be caught again

Bought and sold

And bought again

The dove is never free

Ring the bells (ring the bells) that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything (there is a crack in everything)

That's how the light gets in

We asked for signs

The signs were sent

The birth betrayed

The marriage spent

Yeah the widowhood

Of every government

Signs for all to see

I can't run no more

With that lawless crowd

While the killers in high places

Say their prayers out loud

But they've summoned, they've summoned up

A thundercloud

And they're going to hear from me

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything (there is a crack in everything)

That's how the light gets in

You can add up the parts

You won't have the sum

You can strike up the march

There is no drum

Every heart, every heart to love will come

But like a refugee

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything (there is a crack in everything)

That's how the light gets in

Ring the bells that still can ring (ring the bells that still can ring)

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything (there is a crack in everything)

That's how the light gets in

That's how the light gets in

That's how the light gets in

Pastors Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman offer this evening devotional. This week’s topic: Sin.

Here is the poem Jonathan read at the beginning of the episode:

Original Sin – Wendell Berry

Well, anyhow, it preserves us from the pride

of thinking we invented sin ourselves

by our originality, that famous modern power.

In fact, we have it from the beginning

of the world by the errors of being born,

being young, being old, causing pain

to ourselves, to others, to the world, to God

by ignorance, by knowledge, by intention,

by accident. Something is bad the matter

here, informing us of itself, handing down

its old instruction. We know it

when we see it, don’t we? Innocence

would never recognize it. We need it

too, for without it we would not know

forgiveness, goodness, gratitude,

that fund of grace by which alone we live.

And here is the prayer by John Wesley:

O merciful Father,

do not consider what we have done against You;

but what our blessed Savior has done for us.

Don’t consider what we have made of ourselves,

but what He is making of us for You our God.

O that Christ may be “wisdom and righteousness,

sanctification and redemption”

to every one of our souls.

That His precious blood may cleanse us from all our sins,

and that Your Holy Spirit may renew and sanctify our souls.

May He crucify our flesh with its passion and lusts,

and cleanse all our brothers and sisters in Christ across the earth.

O let not “sin reign in our mortal bodies,

that we should obey it in its lusts.”

But, “being made free from sin,

let us be the servants of righteousness.”

Let us commend our hearts to you,

and let all our ways be pleasing in your sight.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord,

who live and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

– John Wesley (1703-1791)

An evening devotional - Jonathan and Charley finish their discussion on Thomas Merton’s book Thoughts in Solitude

Here is the prayer that Jonathan read:

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. – Martin Luther (1483-1546)

An evening devotional with pastors Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman. Our continued conversation on Thomas Merton’s Thoughts in Solitude. The penultimate discussion!

Here is the prayer that Jonathan read:

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

– Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

An evening devotional with pastors Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman.

We are continuing the discussion of Thomas Merton’s book Thoughts in Solitude

An evening devotional.

The second part of our four-episode dive into Thomas Merton’s book Thoughts in Solitude. Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman discuss the first 16 chapters.

Here is the prayer that Jonathan read

O my heavenly Father,

God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

God of all comfort,

I thank you for revealing to me

your dear Son, Jesus Christ,

in whom I believe,

whom I have preached and confessed,

whom I have loved and praised.

I pray, my Lord Jesus Christ,

take my soul into your hands.

Heavenly Father,

I know that

although I will live this body

and be taken from this life,

I will live with you forever,

and that no one can pluck me

out of your hands.

God so loved the world

that he gave his only-begotten Son,

that whoever believes in him shall not perish,

but have eternal life.

Our God is the God of salvation,

and the Lord delivers from death.

Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.

You have redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

Martin Luther – 1483 - 1546

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