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“My Heart Shall Sing” Playlist

Not sure how a particular song is supposed to sound? Looking for some sermon-inspiration music? We’ve compiled solid versions of each song in this Advent series. Happy YouTubing!

Posted bylinneaclarkSeptember 8, 2021Posted inHymn Commentary, My Heart Shall SingTags:advent, advent 2021, advent music, advent songs, advent year c, playlistLeave a comment on “My Heart Shall Sing” Playlist

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This season, we’ve built many questions into our Sunday Liturgy. If you explore the words traditionally used for worship in your tradition, you might not find many questions at all. It can feel challenging and uncertain to ask questions during worship, especially if you’re not used to doing it! Our Gathering Words acknowledge the vulnerability of the experience by grounding worship in God’s love. God can even use the haze of our uncertainty to foster wisdom, connection, and love.
Planning for NEXT WEEK'S Midweek service? We gotcha. In its final installment before Holy Week, our Midweek Worship invites participants to consider the deep, challenging, intense questions exchanged between Jesus and Martha as they grieve the death of Lazarus. Jesus brings Martha and her sister Mary to consider the most painful questions about God and their relationship to Jesus. What question do you face that you lack the courage to face alone?
Looking for some last-minute hymn suggestions for this Sunday? Look no further: these three hymns are chosen with Ask's themes and this week's texts in mind.
Preaching this Sunday? This week, the lectionary brings us to the threshold of Lazarus’ tomb and Jesus’ conversation with Lazarus’ sister Martha. As Martha grieves for her brother, Jesus asks her limit questions, which metaphorically kick her to the very edges of her faith. In the midst of her uncertainty, not waiting for Martha to be absolutely sure, Jesus raises Lazarus. Our faith is not as self-sufficient as we imagine it to be, and that’s good news for us all.
For some denominations, reciting an affirmation of faith, such as the Apostles’ Creed, is an important part of worship. Others are more comfortable exploring alternate statements of belief beyond the three ecumenical creeds. Still others find the idea of speaking an affirmation of faith together in worship to be challenging or problematic. In our Affirmation of Faith, the traditional words of the Apostles’ Creed form the assembly’s statement of belief, but we imagine each article of the creed as a response to a faithful question. We’d love to know how this helps your worshipers think differently about such familiar words. (If you’re from a non-creedal tradition, try them out in Bible study or devotional reflection instead!)
Are you prepping for next week's Midweek Worship service? Following the fourth Sunday in Lent, Midweek Worship offers three different ways to approach the story about the man born blind. In one of them, worshipers are invited to consider when their questions might have led them down the wrong path. When was a time that God defied your expectations? What do you think we obsess about at church, and what better question would you like us to ask?
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