A Song for Troubled Hearts
Join us as we celebrate God’s gift of music in our lives. The scripture reading is John 14:18-29 and Pastor Teresa’s sermon is entitled “A Song for Troubled Hearts.”
“Psalm 136 asks how to sing God’s holy song in a strange land, but the psalm emerges in exile just the same. I remember the traditions of songs sung in protest, as lament, and as resistance by those whose voices the powers seek to hush, ignore, or extinguish. When we fear losing our voices, the antidote is to know our songs and keep singing.”
– Stephanie Perdew, affiliate professor of Christian history
at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Look graciously, O God, upon this land.
Where it is in pride, subdue it.
Where it is in need, supply it.
Where it is in error, rectify it.
Where it is in default, restore it.
And where it holds to that which is just and compassionate, support it. Amen.
– Prayer from the Church of Pakistanstan,
from The UMC Book of Worship”
