Music IS the food of love, God's love for us, and our love for Him

Week Of: October 3, 2022
Speaker: Pastor Will Hagenbuch
Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:8-15

Dear Congregation,

We continue to celebrate the legacy handed to us by those before us. We have heard Shirley Masters read a diary entry from Mrs. Vadakin in church on Sunday, September 25.  Charleene Martins read an entry from Miss Chapman in church on Sunday, October 2.

This Sunday, Wendy Phillips shares words from Mary R. Tyler. Mary mentions singers in her writing. Singers make all of us think of music--particularly the gift of music.

This week's vlog (here below) also speaks to music. Music (particularly hymns) continues the legacy handed us. We pass this legacy on because our singing does to us what singing did to those before us: it shares who God is and how God is.

 

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

You know this one. [Plays music.] That’s right. This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, oh Lordy…

When my brother and I were peapods, three, four, five-years-old, we shared not only a bedroom; we shared our Sunday school songs. We sang them over and over and over and over. We rocked ourselves literally to sleep with these songs, this music, these hymns.

Neither of us have really talked about this since those days, but they embedded in each of us a theology—a way of speaking about God, a way of celebrating God.

In TWELFTH NIGHT, the first line of Shakespeare’s play reads, “If music be the food of love, play on.”

Let music be the food of our love for our God who loves us. This Sunday, we will celebrate hymns, music and bringing the feelings of God into our souls through the notes that we have learned through the ages.

Join us, and until then, keep singing. And then sing more. Amen.