Jesonian

featuring

Honoring the sweet tradition

As we offer our rendition

Singing songs of amazing grace

Embracing one another face to face

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing

For me and you, each one addressing

Then we find the purpose for our meeting

So much more than assigned seating

We rattle the gates of all damnation

And become the heavenly invitation.

–from “PoHymn: A Rustling in the Stagnant” by Jonathan Richard Cring

 

                                                            

A prolific writer, Jonathan Richard Cring has traveled the country with his partner, Janet Clazzy, for twenty years, crisscrossing the United States fourteen times and appearing in countless churches of all denominations, bringing the Good News via story and song. A few words from those who have experienced Cring & Clazzy–called the biggest 2-piece band in America:

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Because it’s based upon Matthew 11:16-20. the liturgy, prayers and responsive readings are geared to this focus, and are placed into the bulletin, sensitive to the church tradition. Although it will be a little different, the similarities are sufficient to provide comfortability.

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Good News and Better News is a refreshing and healing morning of celebrating the Gospel, which not only transforms people’s lives, but also fills us with the hope that we can do better. GNBN is filled with humor, insight, poetry, music, instrumentals and focus on the contemporary situations of life in America today.

“Being led of the Spirit is simply taking what you know, what you’ve learned, what you’ve created and what you dream–and making it understandable to the people that God sends your way every day.”

–Jonathan Richard Cring