When we gather on Sundays, we sing several songs. Together. Out loud. That may seem like a “not normal” thing to do. I mean, people typically only sing out loud in public at sporting events or birthday parties, right? But on Sundays, music becomes an integral part of our worship time. Why? Well, we believe that music has a way of helping us express to God what we’re truly thinking and feeling. Music can be inspirational and powerful. It can be peaceful and comforting. It can be outrageously celebratory and loud. It can be poignant. It can be convicting and life-changing. Music can captivate and motivate and liberate and penetrate and…
Well, you get the idea. Music is a means of connecting with God and with our own heart’s cry to Him. We invite you to sing…make some noise…don’t be silent…let the music and words resonate deeply within your soul. Let them become real to you so that when you come into God’s presence, you’re not just singing about love and thankfulness and grace and mercy and salvation and everything else, but you’re really saying them, from the depths of your being, to the Eternal Creator who loves to hear His children’s voices!!
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