The Gift of Music
Music speaks when words fail. In The Gift of Music, Sarah Smith shares how worship songs provide comfort and hope through life’s struggles. What songs have sustained you?
Belonging, Like Jazz
Like Jazz musicians, church leaders need to become masterful at holding tension and refrain from resolving it prematurely. Rather than encouraging others to strictly preach victory in Jesus, perhaps we need to make space for people to find their own voices and speak their hurts or cry out to God.
Unshaken Kingdom: Disruption, Transformation, and the Accessible Church
The therapeutic response to chronic illness or disability is usually rest and pacing. However we live in a society where that is increasingly discouraged, if not impossible. Most people’s temptation is to change their circumstances or to find solutions quickly, rather than trust that God will provide what is needed. Instead, Mary conveys a sense of peace from the beginning. It is this sense of peace which comes from God, and trusting in God, that I think empowered Mary and can also empower us to respond to whatever we face thoughtfully and prayerfully.
When my body won’t hold me anymore – music and mortality
I laid in my stretcher outside the operating room listening to the metallic clink of the doctors preparing their tools and I gave my fears, hopes, and doubts over to God. I had connected with family and friends. Made sure people knew I loved them. The odds were good I would see everyone again but my health had been declining steadily for two years and I didn’t trust my body anymore.
God is So Good – Divine Plans for a Hopeful Future
Even as a young child, I knew I could call on Jesus in my distress and I knew without a doubt that he was there.
Inshallah Choir – Belonging in Lyrics
“Draw the circle wide. Draw it wider still. Let this be our song. No one sits alone. Sitting side-by-side, draw the circle wide.”
Inshallah Choir – Belonging Resonates in Rehearsals
Inshallah Choir has welcomed people of various genders, ages, races, ethnicities and musical abilities. It is now a place where at least 130 singers belong.
Worshipful Chaos – Christian Horizons Family Retreat
There God's presence was vivid to me because each of us was worshiping in spirit and truth, according to our abilities which He created.
Lucie is Light – The Gungors on Faith and Down Syndrome (Video)
When we look into the eyes of another, especially if that person is our son or daughter, it changes us. We begin to understand what it means to be created in the image of God, to be fearfully and wonderfully made.