{"id":1443,"date":"2013-10-02T16:56:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T21:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2013-10-02T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T23:08:17","slug":"songs-we-sing-10613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/songs-we-sing-10613\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Sing (10\/6\/13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple quick notes on our songs for this week. I want to plot a road map of sorts in your mind so as we sing through these you can hopefully have a better idea of where we are and where we are going and that it would help you to worship better.<\/p>\n

We are going to start with\u00a0Did You Feel The\u00a0Mountains\u00a0Tremble.\u00a0<\/em>I really like this song mainly because it is a confession\u2014a prayer that longs to see what some would call revival or reformation break into God’s world. Especially notice that this song isn’t just pleading for God to do something in “them.” No. This song is a prayer for you, individually to bring to and with those around you, asking God to “open” you (and us). To “prepare” you (and us), the way(s) the Lord breaks into the lost. To be the singers and the dancers whose lives are the rhymes and rhythms and stories of hope and joy to the nations.<\/p>\n

Then we are going to sing about this breaking in of\u00a0Joy To The World<\/i>. We are going to sing and remember that this breaking in is coming, and we know this because it has already happened\u2014it has already started. The leaven is working. The kingdom is rising. No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground! He comes to make His blessing flow far as the curse is found! He rules the world!<\/p>\n

But “joy” doesn’t equal “short-cut.” Joy isn’t a hall pass that gets us out of class and out of the tests. Joy, as Tim Keller says, is buoyancy. Joy doesn’t mean we get to skip to the other side, to the other shore. No. Joy ensures that though the storms come and rage, though the journey will probably be long and hard and full of thorns and loss and death, we will make it to the other side. Christ our Brother has gone before us as have many brothers and sisters since. We will make it to the far shore. And so then, we will sing a song called\u00a0Beautiful Lord.<\/em> This song should remind us of and point us to the faithful, merciful, beautiful God we serve.<\/p>\n

Next we will sing\u00a0Be Still My Soul.\u00a0<\/em>The lyrics of this hymn speak for themselves. Read them. Meditate on them.\u00a0<\/em>According to cyberhymnal.org, this hymn\u00a0was supposed to be the fav\u00ador\u00adite of Er\u00adic Lid\u00addell, the ath\u00adlete who be\u00adcame fa\u00admous in the 1924 Olym\u00adpics for re\u00adfus\u00ading to run on the Sab\u00adbath. Lid\u00addell lat\u00ader be\u00adcame a mis\u00adsion\u00adary in Chi\u00adna, and was im\u00adpris\u00adoned dur\u00ading World War II. He is said to have taught this hymn to others in the pri\u00adson camp, where he event\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly died of a brain tu\u00admor.<\/p>\n

Finally we will sing\u00a0House Of God Forever.<\/em> This is truly a prayer. It should obviously remind us of Psalm 23. If you haven’t ever read that Psalm, you should. If you haven’t read it lately, you should read it again soon. The truth here is precious and comforting and yet it guards us against pretense and apathy.<\/p>\n

I hope this map will help you to sing well from the first to the final words. I hope your God would stir you and stir us this Lord’s day in transforming ways. That we would say enough with the pathetic church games we play with our Sovereign God. As if all He wants is a weekly preformance from us. No, let us sing well as we worship the Lord our Maker.<\/p>\n

Here are our songs:<\/p>\n

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  1. Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble<\/li>\n
  2. Joy To The World<\/li>\n
  3. Beautiful Lord<\/li>\n
  4. Be Still My Soul<\/li>\n
  5. House Of God Forever<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/p>\n

    \"Did<\/a>\"Joy<\/a>\"Beautiful<\/a>\"Be<\/a>\"House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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