searching for great music #3

“Pressing On” was always going to be a dead cert to accompany this sabbatical adventure at some point …. the only question being which version to go for?

Not everyone “gets” Dylan’s vocal style of course - but could I really countenance sacrificing his majestic original, which has been such an important personal anthem ever since its 80’s release?

In the end I have indeed swallowed hard, & gone for the recent Alicia Keys cover instead - which is almost as wonderful I think.

Especially if you haven’t come across it yet, may you & I find that this less familiar setting helps us pray the words all the more …

No text on the video this time I’m afraid, but as you listen here is the fabulous & seminal chunk of St. Paul that “his Bobness” had in mind :

Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith; that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature be thus minded; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Philippians 3 v.8-21 ……. Thanks be to God!