Scripture: Judges 5
“Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God.”
Eugene Peterson
“Words and music did for me what solid, even rigorous religious argument could never do, they introduced me to God, not belief in God, more an experiential sense of God.”
Bono
“Hymns are not only powerful, they sneak into our soul. As William Cowper sings, ‘Sometimes a light surprises the Christian while he sings; it is the Lord who rises with healing in His wings.’ William Cowper was well aware of the power of hymns, as he wrote in a letter to a friend, ‘It is a noble thing to be a poet. It makes all the world so lively. I might have preached more sermons than even Tillotson did and better, and the world would have been still fast asleep. But a volume of verse is a fiddle that puts the universe in motion.’ Hymns have this ability to sneak in undetected and surprise us! And we desperately need the truth of the mercy of God to break through, to reform us, to restore our sanity, to open our eyes to help us see Jesus as beautiful and believable—in short, to shape us as a people of God.”
Kevin Twit
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