Hippie New Year!

Let's shine some light and spice things up a bit in 2024. Have a Hippie New Year!

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass - Christmas 2023 Edition

 

Rock Mass

Rock Mass - Christmas 2023 Edition

May you have a blessed Christmas

and a peaceful New Year!

Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

 

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Love, It's The Law

 Be under obligation to no one—the only obligation you have is to love one another. Whoever does this has obeyed the Law. The commandments, “Do not commit adultery; do not commit murder; do not steal; do not desire what belongs to someone else”—all these, and any others besides, are summed up in the one command, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” If you love others, you will never do them wrong; to love, then, is to obey the whole Law. (Romans 13:8-10)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 11-05-2023

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month.

Rock Mass for Sunday November 5, 2023

Blessed Are The Peacemakers Edition

"Blessed are the peacemakers,

for they shall be called the children of God."
- Jesus (Matthew 5:9)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

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Pray for peace. Salaam, Shalom, Peace!

 

Pray for peace in the Middle East.

Salaam, Shalom, Peace!

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 10-01-2023

 

  

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month

Rock Mass October 1, 2023

Why, my soul, are you downcast?

    Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

    for I will yet praise him,

    my Savior and my God.

(Psalm 42:11)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

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Rock Mass 09-03-2023

 

  

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month

Rock Mass September 3, 2023

Jesus said to them, “But, whom do you say that I am?”

Then Simon Peter answered, and said, “You are the Christ; the Son of the living God.”

And Jesus answered, and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon, the son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father Who is in Heaven."

(Matthew 16:15-17)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

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Rock Mass 08-06-2023

 

Rock Mass 08-06-2023

Rock Mass - Woodstock Edition

Rock Mass August 6, 2023

Rock Mass - Woodstock Edition with a couple of the bands that were invited to play at Woodstock but for one reason or another didn't take the stage that August weekend in 1969.

Woodstock - Joni Mitchell

Gotta Serve Somebody - Bob Dylan

I've Been Searching So Long - Chicago

Wind Up - Jethro Tull

Stairway to Heaven - (Peanuts Gang) Led Zeppelin

People Get Ready - Jeff Beck w/Rod Stewart

Jesus is Just Alright - The Byrds

“It was about spirituality, about love,

about sharing, about helping each other,

living in peace and harmony.”

 ~Richie Havens, the opening performer at Woodstock 1969

Here's a link to Rock Mass on the 50th anniversary of Woodstock:

Woodstock Rock Mass 2019 50th Anniversary Edition

Peace, Love, and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

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The Jesus People Coloring Trip

My friend Ron Hagelganz sent me a copy of The Jesus People Coloring Trip: A Swirling Psychedelic Celebration of the Jesus Movement.

Ron teamed up with Hollis Oliver to create a super cool coloring book with insightful devotionals about the Jesus Movement.

Check it out over on Amazon:

 https://a.co/d/h05c3BF

Peace, Love, and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 07-02-2023

 

Rock Mass 07-02-2023

Rock Mass

 

Rock Mass - July 2, 2023

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

(Luke 17:20-21)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

 

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".


(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

 

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Love is the Higher Law

 

Rev Kev Sez: the Law of Love is greater than the law of the land!

No matter what SCOTUS says is legal, we are held to a higher law. The commandment to love your neighbor as yourself and the principle of treating others as you wish to be treated doesn't allow any room for religiously motivated discrimination.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” ~ Jesus (John 13:34)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 06-04-2023 - African-American Music Appreciation Month Edition

Rock Mass

 

Rock Mass - June 4, 2023

African-American Music Appreciation Month Edition

 

 

 

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

 

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".


(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

 

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Blessed Are The Peacemakers

Блаженны миротворцы, так как они будут названы детьми Божьими.

От Матфея 5:9

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."

~Jesus (Matthew 5:9)

Rock Mass 05-07-2023

 

 

Rock Mass

Rock Mass - May 7, 2023

 

 

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

~Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969

"Blessed are the peacemakers,

for they shall be called the children of God."
~Jesus (Matthew 5:9)

"...Seek peace and pursue it!"
Psalm 34:14

  

 

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

 

 

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".


(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

 

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Quite Places

I haven't written much in a while, life has been particularly difficult lately and has handed us some challenges with no clear path to take. Finding the time to post has not been easy and being able to string together a few complete sentences to create a coherent paragraph has been nearly impossible for me.

Raising an autistic teenager who now refuses to take prescribed medication is turning out to be one of the most challenging experiences ever in my life and right now that responsibly is all consuming.

At this moment, I'm sitting in a church parking lot on a rainy May morning. Not because I thought that's where God would be but mostly because I needed a quiet place to think. I like it when I can be by myself and in my own head away from the noise of other's thoughts and demands and away from an un-medicated emerging mental health crisis.

But, it is in those quiet places that do I meet God. Those quiet places can be almost anywhere, most often for me it's out in nature.

I must go now and take care of some responsibilities, but I'll try to post more often. And I'll keep trying to find those quiet moments alone with myself and God.

“Be still, and know that I am God"

Psalm 46:10

Peace , Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass Easter Edition 04-02-2023

 

Rock Mass

Rock Mass - Easter Edition 2023

While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” (Luke 24:4-7)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

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Our Allegiance

Listen up Church! We're heading into a tough time right now and we need to be sure that our priorities and our focus is aligned with Jesus, not a political party or leader or nation state. Remember that love fulfills the law.

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 03-05-2023

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month.

Rock Mass for Sunday March 5, 2023

And no one can say, “Jesus is the Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:3

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

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You Say You Want A Revolution

 If you desire to experience a true "Jesus Revolution" then go back to following Jesus.

Read Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapters 5 through 7. Then read it again and again and again. You will find all that you need to know about being a true follower of Jesus in those three chapters. That is where us Jesus Freaks started, there in the simple truth of Jesus' words. No fancy theology, no complicated rituals, no conforming to what the establishment church wanted us to be. 

We wanted something more genuine than religion. We wanted something more fulfilling than empty rituals. We wanted something based on love rather than rules. That is what is contained in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' instructions on how to follow him.

Here is my condensed version of the Sermon on the Mount written as The Hippie Christian Manifesto:

The Hippie Christian Manifesto

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

The Jesus Revolution, Time Magazine June 21, 1971 - Cover art by STAN ZAGORSKI

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