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A Psalm for Ukraine (and the World) While the Nations Rage

2022-02-24 by Todd 3 Comments

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Wheaton recently performed a concert featuring Leonard Bernstein and his extended choral composition Chichester Psalms. The second movement, which juxtaposes Psalm 23 “The Lord is my shepherd…” with Psalm 2 “The nations rage” has an especially powerful prophetic message for the world right now. I’ve listened to this again and again this week and it strikes me as a masterful interpretation of these Psalms. The choice of Elisabeth (who is half Slavic, half American) to sing the solo adds to the prophetic power of this interpretation. This is what art is and should do. This is how the Psalms should be read and applied to life.

I’m writing this on February 24. This morning the Russians invaded Ukraine. Right now there’s a Ukrainian family staying in our church on their way to who knows where. Twenty more Ukrainians will be staying at a campsite run by a couple from our congregation. Please pray for Ukraine and pray for wisdom and strength and willingness to help.

UPDATE: The twenty Ukrainians I mentioned above decided not to leave Ukraine because they would have to leave their husbands and fathers behind. Some estimate that up to 4 or 5 million people could end up as refugees as a result of this conflict. Since 2014 a large number of Ukrainians have emigrated and come to Slovakia. We have wonderful Russian-Ukrainian neighbors. Two of our pastors in Slovakia have wives from Ukraine and families still in Ukraine. I’ve been very encouraged by Slovakia’s attitude toward these people and would appreciate your continued prayers.

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Filed Under: ministry Tagged With: art, elisabeth, god, interpretation, invastion, prophecy, psalms, russia, sovereignty, ukraine

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Merry Christmas from the Pattersons 2021! (video)

2021-12-22 by Todd 1 Comment

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This was another tough year but in our family we can testify that “for those who love God all things work together for good” (Rom 8:28) and we hope it is the same in your family. This Christmas season we hope you can celebrate the coming of the king and anticipate his second coming. And may these two great events profoundly shape your present.

We hope you enjoy our family Christmas video again this year. Every year I say this is the last year and with Elisabeth now off to college next year’s is certainly going to be different. We’re glad she’s home now and we had the chance to go through all twelve video greetings.

Blessings to you and your family in 2022!

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Elisabeth’s Final Violin and Voice Recital

2021-06-17 by Todd 2 Comments

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Elisabeth has now finished up her final year of high school and she’s performing in her final voice and violin recitals while she gets ready to transition to college.

This summer we will be coming back to the States for our scheduled home assignment and in August just three of us will return to Slovakia. Elisabeth will remain in the States to start her college career and study voice performance at Wheaton College. I guess that makes these the last recordings of recital performances that I’ll be posting as a family update.

In the first video Elisabeth plays her final recital piece (Adagio by Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály) for her violin teacher Beata Bieliková and in the next she sings Giacomo Puccini’s O mio babbino caro, which is an Aria from his opera Gianni Schicchi.

Filed Under: family Tagged With: elisabeth, recital, video, violin

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EFCA (video)

2021-03-17 by Todd Leave a Comment

We’re proud to be missionaries with the Evangelical Free Church of America and its international mission ReachGlobal.

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Year 2020 in Review: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

2021-02-27 by Todd 2 Comments

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The year 2020 will be a milestone in history and a milestone for many people who lived through it. For me personally, it was a year of profound crisis but also a year of new ministry opportunities.

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Has Anyone Ever Read Genesis 1 Like this Before?

2020-12-28 by Todd 1 Comment

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Hasn’t the church always read the creation account in Genesis 1 as a straightfoward narrative? Haven’t Christians always believed that the earth is relatively young and that the creation days were twenty-four hour days? How do I just up and think I can read this text anyway I want to? Where has the Holy Spirit been all these years?

Todd Patterson

Filed Under: muse Tagged With: augustine, creation, filling, forming, genesis, hermeneutics, holy spirit, perspicuity, theology

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Merry Christmas 2020 from the Pattersons (video)

2020-12-12 by Todd 7 Comments

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What a year! At this time last year we had no idea what 2020 had in store and I think most of us feel like 2021 can’t possibly be worse (and, at the same time, that it very well might be!).

Despite all the trials of 2020, the social distancing for the holidays, and the uncertainties ahead, we wish you a peace that passes understanding during this holiday season and all of 2021.

Immanuel!

God is with us!

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How Can the Creation Account in Genesis 1 be Both History and Literature?

2020-10-16 by Todd Leave a Comment

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In my posts on Genesis 1 I say that the creation account is history and that it is literature. Is it possible to cross the impassable divide? At first, it seems the obvious answer is no. Historical fiction, after all, even though it’s cast in a real historical setting, is still fiction.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: bible, creation, genesis, historiography, history, literal, literalistic, literature, poetics, science

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