Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.”  He also said, “I am the resurrection and the life.”  In Jesus, we do find life, abundant life, life that truly matters.  And it is because of the gift of new life we have already been given in Jesus that we come together to worship on Sunday mornings.  Otherwise, there really is no reason to gather together.  So, as we worship and share the good news of this new life we have been given, music is the accompanying counterpoint to that life-giving message.  Theologian, Karl Barth, has said, “All history is point and counterpoint – two melodies running side by side – God’s and that of humanity.  Alone, one of them is always incomplete, even God’s.  God preferred to die rather than be without us.”  Taken together there is meaning and beauty in the rise and fall of these two melodies.  And, in Jesus, their temporal dissonance, the discord that we often see and experience, is already resolved into final harmony.  It is a done deal, folks.  And, we live our daily l