Yesterday was the fourth Sunday after Pentecost, as well as Father's Day. Our songs were gathered with this in mind. Below, you’ll find the list of the songs and artists. Clicking the song titles will take you to the lyrics. Below the songs, you can find a brief example of one way you might think of these songs. If you want to talk about any of these, feel free to comment at the bottom of this page or email me at jamie@ubcwaco.org.
Songs:
Your Love Is Strong by Jon Foreman
Death In His Grave by John Mark McMillan
Rise Up by BiFrost Arts
Inbreaking by Jameson McGregor
How They Fit In:
There are many ways to think about the significance of songs and the way they fit together–-this is simply one way you can look at these songs in light of this week’s theme.
Your Love Is Strong: We sang this song to begin our time by proclaiming God as our Father whose love is the strength that binds us together in life.
Death In His Grave: This song allows us to rehearse the story of Jesus' death and resurrection, the embodied expression of God's love for us.
Rise Up: We sang this song as a way of grasp for words to ask God to come to the defense of the families and children who are being separated by our government at the border.
Inbreaking: This song is a plea for God to enter into the brokenness of our time and place and set about redeeming it.
Be Thou My Vision: We sang this song to look over our shoulder at last week's songs. Here's what we said about Be Thou My Vision then: This song is a plea for God to be our vision, wisdom, security, and hope in the whole of our lives.
Doxology: We close our time together each week with this proclamation that God is worthy of praise from every inch of the cosmos.
-JM