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Beyond “Why Me?”: Finding Trust in the Midst of the Storm

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Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind. He said: “Who is this who obscures My counsel with ignorant words? Get ready to answer Me like a man; when I question you, you will inform Me.” — Job 38:1–3

Job was a righteous man who, from a human perspective, did nothing to deserve his hardship. He lived a blameless life, honored God, and walked uprightly. Yet, when devastating tragedy struck, Job cried out in grief and questioned why God was allowing such agony.

The moment the Lord spoke, Job realized the weight of who he was addressing. God responded to Job’s questioning with a series of sobering, awe-inspiring questions of His own:
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Where were you when I set the boundaries for the sea? Where were you when I hung the stars in the heavens?”
God’s response humbled Job instantly. It reminded him that finite human understanding cannot begin to grasp the depth of infinite divine wisdom.
It is easy for us to fall into the trap of thinking we have everything figured out—until God steps in and reveals just how vast He is and how small we are. As the Psalmist writes, only a fool says in his heart there is no God. When faced with His divine presence, all self-importance vanishes, leaving us speechless.
We aren’t as wise or in control as we like to imagine. True strength begins when we humble ourselves before God, submit to His sovereign wisdom, and choose to trust and praise Him—even when the answers don’t come in the way we expect.

THE HIGH COST OF DISCONTENT

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There is a quiet, metastasizing plague sweeping through the modern soul, and its chief symptom is a relentless, suffocating thirst for more. We live in a culture explicitly engineered to manufacture desire—a world where every advertisement, social feed, and economic metric is designed to convince us that our present existence is fundamentally deficient. We are told that peace is always one purchase, one promotion, or one lifestyle upgrade away. Yet human nature continues to cling to an ancient delusion: the persistent myth that financial abundance, physical accumulation, and worldly wealth equal genuine happiness. When we weigh the true cost of this insatiable appetite against eternity, we discover that discontentment is one of the most bankrupting habits a human soul can acquire.

The Great Delusion of Worldly Gain

The Scriptures expose this tragedy with piercing clarity. The Apostle Paul offers a radical, counter-cultural diagnosis: “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.” — [1 Timothy 6:6–8 (KJV)]

The world measures “great gain” by the expansion of personal portfolios, the prestige of titles, or the acquisition of physical comfort. Scripture flips this earthly hierarchy entirely on its head: true wealth is not the accumulation of perishable possessions, but the quiet, unshakable satisfaction of a spirit anchored in God.

When we reject this sacred satisfaction, the financial, emotional, and spiritual toll begins to compound immediately. Discontentment is not a harmless character flaw or a minor personality trait; it is a self-inflicted wound. It drives individuals to trade their time, their physical well-being, their family stability, and ultimately their spiritual integrity for items destined to decay. Paul explicitly warns, “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” — [1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV)]

In the ancient wisdom literature, King Solomon—a ruler who possessed virtually unlimited resources—tested the promise of earthly riches to its absolute limit, only to reach this sobering conclusion:
“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.” — [Ecclesiastes 5:10 (KJV)]

The tragic paradox of human greed is that it can never be quenched by the very things it craves. Money can purchase physical comfort, but it cannot buy spiritual rest. It can secure a house, but never a home. It can buy admiration, but never love. When we succumb to the lie that material gain guarantees happiness, we become like travelers drinking saltwater to quench our thirst—the more we consume, the more desperate we become.

The Roots in Eden: The Origin of Human Desire

To fully comprehend why human nature is so easily trapped by this cycle, we must look beyond modern consumer culture and examine the very root of our desires, which was exposed in the Garden of Eden. The original deception did not begin with a financial crisis or physical poverty; it began in an environment of absolute paradise and total abundance. Scripture introduces the encounter this way:
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.” — [Genesis 3:1–3 (KJV)]

The serpent then contradicted God’s warning and recast disobedience as a path to elevation rather than death:
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” — [Genesis 3:4–6 (KJV)]

In that pivotal moment, the enemy induced a selective spiritual blindness. The vast, unhindered freedom to enjoy every other tree in the garden was instantly eclipsed by a fixation on the single boundary God had set. God’s original command makes both His abundant provision and that one protective restriction unmistakably clear:
“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” — [Genesis 2:16–17 (KJV)]

This Edenic crisis exposes the underlying mechanism of all human discontentment: it routinely makes the tiny fraction of what we lack seem infinitely more desirable than the vast abundance we already possess. Discontent magnifies the absent while trivializing the present. It whispers that God is holding out on us, that His boundaries are restrictive rather than protective, and that true wisdom and happiness lie just beyond the fence of His command.

The Harvest of Discontent: Consequences of the Fall

The moment humanity chose wanton desire over holy contentment, the disastrous cost was immediately realized. Genesis 3:7 records the first consequence in the words of the King James Version:
“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.” — [Genesis 3:7 (KJV)]

The fall brought direct, agonizing consequences upon every dimension of human life. The King James Version states them plainly:

  • The Perversion of Joy into Pain: The judgment upon the woman joined the joy of new life with sorrow and anguish:
    “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” — [Genesis 3:16 (KJV)]
  • Friction and Futility in Labor: The ground itself was cursed, and provision would henceforth come through painful toil:
    “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;” — [Genesis 3:17 (KJV)]
  • Opposing Forces: Human effort would be met with resistance in a creation now marked by thorns and thistles:
    “Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;” — [Genesis 3:18 (KJV)]
  • Burdensome Toil and Death: Work would now be attended by sweat, and mortal life would end in a return to the dust:
    “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” — [Genesis 3:19 (KJV)]

Wanton desire promised freedom and elevation, but it delivered a soul-crushing burden of exhausting labor, physical distress, spiritual alienation, and death.

The Antidote: Unburdened Divine Provision and Redemption in Christ

Yet, God does not leave humanity abandoned to the curse of perpetual wanting and painful toil. Through Jesus Christ, God initiates the total reversal of the Edenic fall. Where Adam’s discontent brought a curse upon the ground, Christ wore the very crown of thorns to redeem us from the futility of our striving:
“And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,” — [John 19:2 (KJV)]

Against the devastating toll of worldly ambition, Scripture sets the promise of unburdened divine provision. Writing to the believers at Philippi, Paul articulates this grand assurance:

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” — [Philippians 4:19 (KJV)]

Unlike the wealth of this world—which demands exhausting labor, anxiety, and moral compromise—the provisions of the Almighty carry no corrupting burden. Proverbs states this truth plainly:
“The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” — [Proverbs 10:22 (KJV)]

In Christ, work is restored from a soul-crushing struggle for survival into a purposeful act of service, because our ultimate security rests in Him. Earthly ambition forces us to strive, protect, and fret over what we have accumulated, but divine provision arrives as an unearned gift of grace. God does not dole out His mercy with a begrudging hand; He gives all things freely for His children to enjoy within the safe guardrails of His will.

Learning the Discipline of Contentment

Living in biblical contentment, therefore, is not passivity, nor does it require a lack of diligence. True contentment is an act of profound spiritual defiance against a broken world order. It is the deep, unwavering conviction that God’s presence and provision are entirely sufficient.

When Paul wrote from imprisonment, he testified that contentment was something he had learned through every circumstance:
“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” — [Philippians 4:11–13 (KJV)]

Jesus warned His followers against defining life by possessions:
“And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” — [Luke 12:15 (KJV)]

The writer of Hebrews ties this freedom directly to God’s abiding presence:
“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” — [Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)]

The ultimate cost of discontentment is that it blinds us to the immediate, present grace of God. It convinces us that God is withholding His best, driving us to reach perpetually for the world’s cheap, fragile substitutes. But when we find our ultimate contentment in Christ, the curse of Eden loses its grip on our hearts. The soul that rests securely in God’s sufficiency discovers a freedom that no amount of money can buy—a quiet, unshakable confidence expressed in David’s words:
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.” — [Psalm 23:1 (KJV)]
In a world bankrupt by its own cravings, the spirit that rests in divine provision proves that godliness with contentment is, indeed, supreme and eternal gain.

SING UNTO THE LORD A NEW SONG

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Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs — Why Worship Must Be Alive, Not Archived

Introduction

There is a growing belief in some circles that only the old hymns — especially those found in the Red‑Back Hymnal — are truly biblical, spiritual, or worthy of worship. The same logic is often used to defend the King James Bible as the only language God speaks, as though He prefers Elizabethan English over the common tongue of everyday people. But this mindset collapses the moment we examine Scripture.

The Bible does not command us to preserve a museum of worship. It commands us to sing new songs — fresh expressions of praise that rise from a living relationship with a living God. The psalmist declares, “Sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord, all the earth.” (Psalm 96:1). He repeats it again: “O sing unto the Lord a new song; for He hath done marvelous things.” (Psalm 98:1). And again: “He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.” (Psalm 40:3).

These are not suggestions. They are commands. And if we only sing the old songs, we cannot obey them.

The Old Songs: A Gift, Not a Cage

The psalms are the oldest worship songs we possess — Spirit‑breathed, Christ‑centered, eternally relevant. The hymns of the early church were poetic declarations of Christ’s incarnation, humility, death, resurrection, and exaltation. The Red‑Back Hymnal carries echoes of this heritage. It preserves the voices of past generations who sang their faith with conviction. These songs matter. They carry memory, heritage, and testimony.

But they are not the whole story. The New Testament never limits worship to one era, one style, or one book. Paul speaks of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, weaving together Scripture, Christ‑centered poetry, and Spirit‑breathed expression. Worship was never meant to be frozen in time. It was meant to be alive.

The New Songs: Spirit‑Breathed Worship for Today

Paul instructs the church to sing spiritual songs — songs birthed from the Spirit’s present work, not merely inherited from the past. These are the songs that rise from fresh encounters with God, from new mercies, from present grace, from today’s deliverance, and from the testimonies God is still writing.

Modern worship often lives in this lane. Songs that declare God’s goodness, faithfulness, mercy, and presence resonate because they speak to what God is doing now. And Scripture commands this: “Sing unto the Lord a new song.”

Not because the old songs are bad.
Not because tradition is wrong.
But because God is still moving, still speaking, still revealing Himself.

A God who is alive deserves worship that is alive.

Even heaven sings new songs. John writes, “And they sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy… for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood.” (Revelation 5:9). If heaven sings new songs, the church on earth cannot cling only to the old ones.

Why “New Song” Matters

You cannot obey the command to sing a new song if you only sing the old ones. You cannot honor the Spirit’s present work if you only honor the Spirit’s past work. You cannot grow in worship if you only repeat what previous generations wrote.

The Red‑Back Hymnal is a blessing. Modern worship is a blessing. But neither is the whole blessing. The old songs remind us where we came from. The new songs remind us where God is taking us. Worship must hold both — the roots of the old and the fruit of the new — because God is the God of both memory and movement.

The New Testament Pattern: Worship Must Be Alive

Paul gives the church a worship blueprint: “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:19). He echoes it again: “Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” (Colossians 3:16).

This is not a hierarchy. This is not a limitation. This is not a tradition. It is a three‑fold expression of worship — Scripture, Christ‑centered poetry, and Spirit‑given expression — all flowing from a heart making melody to the Lord.

Worship is healthiest when it sings all three.

Mechanical Worship vs Living Worship

Many churches today sing songs — but they do not worship. People sing without engaging their hearts. They read lyrics without absorbing truth. They recite hymns without encountering God. They listen to sermons without pondering them. Worship becomes mechanical, predictable, and routine.

But Jesus did not come to preserve ritual. He came to open a new and living way. The writer of Hebrews says, “By a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us…” (Hebrews 10:20). Worship is not a performance, not a ritual, not a tradition, not a projection on a screen. Worship is attention, affection, surrender, awe, gratitude, revelation, and encounter. Singing is not worship. Worship is worship. Singing becomes worship only when the heart is engaged.

A Living Way, Not a Liturgical Museum

Some believers defend the old songs because they are familiar. Others defend the new songs because they are fresh. But Scripture defends neither. Scripture defends worship that is alive.

The old way was stone tablets, but the new way is Spirit‑written hearts. The old way was ritual, but the new way is relationship. The old way was temple worship, but the new way is Spirit and truth. The old way was law, but the new way is grace. The old way was tradition, but the new way is transformation.

We cannot cling to the old at the expense of the new. We cannot cling to tradition at the expense of truth. We cannot cling to hymns at the expense of the Spirit.

Podcast Episode: America’s Crisis Is Not Biblical Illiteracy — It Is the Absence of the Living Go

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Pip: A View from the Nest is a blog that looks at faith, culture, and the American moment — and this week, Allen Frederick is asking a question that cuts against the grain of most religious commentary right now.

Mara: The post challenges a widespread diagnosis — that what America is missing is biblical literacy — and argues the real crisis runs deeper than that. Let’s start with what that argument actually looks like.

Mara: The post opens by acknowledging what most commentators say: that America’s cultural collapse traces back to losing the vocabulary of Scripture. Then it pivots — the real problem isn’t that we’ve forgotten the words, it’s that we’ve abandoned the God the words point to.

Pip: And the case doesn’t rest on opinion. The anchor is Hosea, where God tells Israel their destruction came from rejected relationship, not missing information. The post puts it plainly: “The issue was not literacy but lordship.”

Mara: That framing matters because the post immediately applies it to the present: “The United States has more access to Scripture than any nation in history. Bibles fill our shelves, apps fill our phones, sermons fill our feeds, and theological resources are available at the tap of a screen.”

Pip: So if information were the cure, we’d already be cured. The argument is that abundance of text without encounter with the Author produces exactly the condition Jesus diagnosed in the Pharisees — the most biblically literate people of their time, and yet He told them they were missing life entirely.

Mara: The post quotes that confrontation directly: “Ye search the Scriptures… and they are they which testify of Me. And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.” The crisis was spiritual, not interpretive.

Pip: Then comes the Saul of Tarsus example, which is the sharpest move in the piece. Trained under Gamaliel, fluent in every theological category — and he used all of it to persecute the Church. Literacy without encounter produced the opposite of faithfulness.

Mara: The post’s diagnosis of the Church follows from that: “We have built churches that teach principles but do not produce disciples.” The concern is that religious environments can inform the mind without transforming the heart.

Pip: Which is, admittedly, a much harder problem to solve than opening a Bible app.

Mara: The post closes with John Adams and Proverbs 14:34 — “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” The argument is that what sustains liberty isn’t institutional religion or even literacy, but hearts genuinely transformed by God.

Pip: The stakes the post names are worth sitting with — a nation can be religious and still be corrupt, biblically literate and still spiritually dead.

Pip: The distinction between knowing the text and knowing the Author — that’s a tension that doesn’t resolve easily, and it’s the kind of question this site keeps returning to.

Mara: More of that territory next time. Worth watching.

TRUMPET SOUNDS: PENTECOST AND THE KINGDOM WE DIVIDED

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A TRUMPET IN ZION: A CALL TO RETURN

There are seasons when God whispers and seasons when He raises His voice like a trumpet. As Pentecost approaches, the Spirit is not whispering. He is sounding an alarm across the Body of Christ, calling His people to awaken from the divisions we have inherited and the fractures we have normalized. The trumpet does not sound for comfort; it sounds for alignment. It summons the people of God to gather, to listen, and to return to the unity that reflects His heart.

From Genesis to Revelation, God’s intention has always been one people, one covenant, one Body, one Spirit, and one Kingdom. Yet humanity has repeatedly taken what God made one and divided it into many. The Spirit is calling His church to recognize this pattern and return to the unity birthed in fire at Pentecost.

ONE PEOPLE, ONE COVENANT — AND THE FRACTURE THAT FOLLOWED

God formed Israel as one nation under one covenant, one identity, and one purpose. But after Solomon, the kingdom fractured into two competing nations: Judah in the south and Israel in the north. Each developed its own kings, its own altars, its own doctrines, and its own loyalties. Jeroboam even created his own religious calendar, as Scripture records:
“Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that was in Judah.” (1 Kings 12:32)

He did not deny God; he simply reshaped worship according to his own preferences. This was the first denominational split — a kingdom divided by human ambition rather than divine instruction. What God established as one people became two kingdoms, two priesthoods, two cultures, and two competing visions of worship.

This ancient fracture mirrors the denominational landscape of the modern church. Though we confess one Lord, one faith, and one baptism, we have multiplied ourselves into tribes, traditions, and theological camps. We have created our own calendars, our own doctrines, our own cultures, and our own identities. We have not denied God, but we have often rebranded Him according to our preferences.

BABEL: THE ROOT OF EVERY DIVISION

Long before Israel fractured, humanity fractured at Babel. United in language and purpose, they declared,
“Let us make a name for ourselves.” (Genesis 11:4)

Their unity was not surrendered to God; it was leveraged against Him. In response, God confused their language and scattered them across the earth. The unity they possessed was broken because it was unity without submission. Babel is the spiritual ancestor of every division that followed — tribes, sects, kingdoms, and denominations. When unity is built on human ambition rather than divine purpose, God Himself dismantles it.

CORINTH: THE NEW TESTAMENT TRIBES

The early church was not immune to this spirit of division. In Corinth, believers aligned themselves with their favorite leaders:
“I am of Paul,” “I am of Apollos,” “I am of Cephas,” “I am of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 1:12)

Paul’s response was a trumpet blast:
“Is Christ divided?” (1 Corinthians 1:13)

He was not asking a question; he was issuing a rebuke. The Body of Christ cannot be divided without wounding the One who is its Head. The tribalism of Corinth mirrors the denominationalism of today — loyalty to leaders, doctrines, and traditions rather than loyalty to the unity of the Spirit.

PENTECOST: THE FIRE THAT HEALS WHAT BABEL BROKE

Then came the day when heaven descended. On Pentecost, the Spirit fell upon the disciples, and something miraculous occurred:
“Each one heard them speak in his own language.” (Acts 2:6)

What Babel scattered, Pentecost gathered.
What Babel confused, Pentecost clarified.
What Babel divided, Pentecost united.

Many languages became one message, nations became one Body, many cultures became one Kingdom.

Pentecost is not merely the birth of the church; it is the healing of humanity’s oldest wound. It is the moment when God declares that unity is not achieved by human effort but by divine indwelling. The Spirit does not erase diversity; He harmonizes it. He does not silence distinct voices; He tunes them to the same pitch. He does not demand uniformity; He produces unity.

THE MODERN CHURCH: LITTLE KINGDOMS IN A GREAT KINGDOM

Today the church stands like ancient Israel — divided, tribal, branded, and fractured. We have created our own calendars, doctrines, cultures, and identities. We have built our own towers and our own kingdoms in the name of the One who prayed for unity. Jesus prayed,
“That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You.” (John 17:21)

This unity is not optional; it is essential. It is not sentimental; it is spiritual. It is not organizational; it is supernatural. The Spirit is calling the church to lay down denominational pride and return to the unity that reflects the heart of Christ.

DIVISION IS THE WORK OF THE ENEMY, NOT THE WORK OF GOD

Jesus declared,
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.” (Matthew 12:25)

He spoke this as a spiritual law. A divided house collapses. A divided kingdom crumbles. A divided body cannot function. And a divided church cannot stand in the power of God.

Jesus continued,
“If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?” (Matthew 12:26)

Satan understands unity better than many believers do. His kingdom does not divide itself. His strategy is to divide ours.

God unifies; the enemy divides. God gathers; the enemy scatters. God harmonizes; the enemy fractures. God builds one Body; the enemy multiplies factions.

Denominational rivalry is not a harmless difference of opinion. It is spiritual warfare. When one group elevates its catechism above another, when one tradition condemns another’s baptismal practice, when one worship style mocks another, when one doctrinal camp refuses fellowship with another, the enemy’s work is being accomplished inside the house of God.

Pentecost stands as God’s answer to this ancient strategy. The same Spirit who healed division then is calling the church to let Him heal division now. The Kingdom of God cannot stand in its fullness until the people of God stand as one.

THE PENTECOST SUMMONS: RETURN TO THE UPPER ROOM

Pentecost is not merely a date on the calendar; it is a summons. It calls the church to return to the upper room, to the fire that unites, to the voice that gathers, and to the Spirit who restores. It calls us to lay down our tribal identities and embrace the identity given to us by Christ. It calls us to repent of the divisions we have normalized and to seek the unity that testifies to the world that Jesus is Lord.

The trumpet is sounding across the earth, calling the people of God to gather, to listen, and to return.

A PRAYER FOR UNITY BEFORE PENTECOST

Lord Jesus, You prayed for Your people, saying,
“That they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one.” (John 17:22–23)

We stand before You as a divided Body, scattered into tribes, traditions, and denominations. We confess that our divisions have wounded Your heart and weakened our witness. We acknowledge that unity is not something we can manufacture; it is something only Your Spirit can produce.

Unite Your people again.
Heal what Babel broke.
Restore what pride fractured.
Silence the voice of the enemy who divides.
Bring us back to the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace.
Make us one Body under one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one Spirit.

Let this Pentecost be a fresh outpouring of unity.
Let the fire that fell in the upper room fall again upon Your church.
Let the nations hear one message through many voices.
Let the world see Your glory in our oneness.

For Christ is not divided.
And we refuse to be a divided Body any longer.

Amen.