I’ll always remember that first time at church camp when I learned the John Fisher spiritual song, “Have You Seen Jesus My Lord?” I was about nine. I would sometimes picture the songs we would sing. (For example, I would picture the line “to you alone does my spirit yield” in “As the deer” as (for some reason) a chalky cartoon version of me meeting Christ on a road and letting him pass ahead of me, leading me.) Then I learned to sing “Have you seen Jesus my Lord? He’s here in plain view.”
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Is Christianity a Western Religion? 15:Back to Jewish Roots
Is Christianity a Western religion? Is Judaism a Western religion?
Sometimes the phrase “Judeo-Christian” comes up, sometimes as a phrase meant to represent, in some way, Western religious values.
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The Bible in a Year—or something of the like
I’ve tried the whole “read the Bible through in a year” thing about four or five times in my life.
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