Salvation

(R)evolution

(A Palestinian liberation theology)

God is a Palestinian man
On the town square in Nablus
Selling oranges and olive oil 
To feed the family

Truth is a man from Nazareth
In him the Godhead dwells in full
This is a mystery and a shock
This is objective truth

God reigns the sea of Galilee
God is as a fisher at your door
Salvation is a free gift of grace
By faith you receive your life jacket

We live outside of Eden
Stuck in the gutter of sin
All of our friends are already dead
Without Christ we would grow old alone

I am a Palestinian man
God dwells in me
I have received salvation by grace
I am lonely but never alone

Beautiful painting by palestinian artist Ismail Shammout

Saintly flesh

Humans are candlesticks
they get hot when they carry the flame
of God within like ingnited Spirit
the children of the Lord Sebaoth
indwelled by the jet fuel of faith
in order to breath the gospel into
the dying lung of this world
hell or heaven bound
the eternal confrontation
in the backyard of Fort Europa
where the immigrant hoards are roaming like starved hyenas
for saintly flesh