34 min
February 25, 2024 - Of Gold And Glass Eternity Church PodCast
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- Christianity
A Sunday service by Pastor Brett Deal.When I was in middle school, my older brother had just started university. A friend of his loaned him a couple CDs and encouraged him to give them a listen. I’m not sure if he ever did, but I know I did. At that age, I was always looking for new music.Do you remember being like that? When life felt like the dawn, light casting out in every direction across a new horizon. Life itself encouraged us to explore and discover. Growing up on an island off the coast of Africa, I knew of only four distinct types of music. There was the strong Congolese rumba that infused the worship in our church and set my feet dancing. Then there were the R&B soundtracks local bars played outside my window that lulled me to sleep. And at home there was my parents' music: Dad’s country music and Mom’s southern gospel. Those were the four corners of my musical world.Then I learned there were other kinds of music! That day I set out like a sonic Stanley in search of my own melodic Livingstone.One of the CDs loaned to my brother was Stevie Ray Vaughn’s The Sky is Crying. I was floored. Literally, no sooner had I pushed play and the music started, I had to sit down. I sat there in a daze as I was moved up and down his guitar’s frets by that one-of-a-kind blues man.This is how hearing the tracks of Isaiah’s Servant Songs should make us feel. It’s the album we’ve been waiting to drop. It’s the new music we’ve been waiting to hear.We’ve heard the Law of Moses. We’ve been introduced to the histories of the ancients. But wanting to go deeper, we turned our ears toward Isaiah seeking to explore the prophets and discover God’s newest revelation. This quest has led us to the Servant of God, and this changes everything!In Isaiah 42, the prophet introduced us to the Servant of God; now on the second track we hear Him sing! His song is full of themes and imagery, of calling and purpose, of suffering and strength. His song reveals to us a hope beyond our wildest imagination, a light for all people dawning and of salvation that reaches to the farthest reaches of our spinning earth.Take a minute. Listen to the song of Isaiah 49.1-6. Hear it with fresh ears and a renewed passion to see Jesus with clear eyes.
A Sunday service by Pastor Brett Deal.When I was in middle school, my older brother had just started university. A friend of his loaned him a couple CDs and encouraged him to give them a listen. I’m not sure if he ever did, but I know I did. At that age, I was always looking for new music.Do you remember being like that? When life felt like the dawn, light casting out in every direction across a new horizon. Life itself encouraged us to explore and discover. Growing up on an island off the coast of Africa, I knew of only four distinct types of music. There was the strong Congolese rumba that infused the worship in our church and set my feet dancing. Then there were the R&B soundtracks local bars played outside my window that lulled me to sleep. And at home there was my parents' music: Dad’s country music and Mom’s southern gospel. Those were the four corners of my musical world.Then I learned there were other kinds of music! That day I set out like a sonic Stanley in search of my own melodic Livingstone.One of the CDs loaned to my brother was Stevie Ray Vaughn’s The Sky is Crying. I was floored. Literally, no sooner had I pushed play and the music started, I had to sit down. I sat there in a daze as I was moved up and down his guitar’s frets by that one-of-a-kind blues man.This is how hearing the tracks of Isaiah’s Servant Songs should make us feel. It’s the album we’ve been waiting to drop. It’s the new music we’ve been waiting to hear.We’ve heard the Law of Moses. We’ve been introduced to the histories of the ancients. But wanting to go deeper, we turned our ears toward Isaiah seeking to explore the prophets and discover God’s newest revelation. This quest has led us to the Servant of God, and this changes everything!In Isaiah 42, the prophet introduced us to the Servant of God; now on the second track we hear Him sing! His song is full of themes and imagery, of calling and purpose, of suffering and strength. His song reveals to us a hope beyond our wildest imagination, a light for all people dawning and of salvation that reaches to the farthest reaches of our spinning earth.Take a minute. Listen to the song of Isaiah 49.1-6. Hear it with fresh ears and a renewed passion to see Jesus with clear eyes.
34 min