I love music. I am amazed by the creativity of the God who would design it. Just think, objects vibrate in such a way that they send waves through the atmosphere at all different speeds and lengths. The human ear collects, senses, processes, and organizes all of these waves, and that information has a profound effect on the way we think and feel and even behave. Who comes up with this stuff? Well God does, I suppose, and that is just more profound than we ever take the time to realize. Since I moved to Boone in August of 2020, music has become a huge part of my life. Each week, I consider the subject of the weekly sermon (a text of Scripture or a topic), and choose songs for our congregation to sing. This has been a new way of teaching that, if I'm honest, makes me quite uncomfortable. It is fluid, subjective, and subtle in ways that lecturing or preaching just aren't. And yet, it is vital. It is irreplaceable. It is God ordained. It lays truth more directly on the heart than ...
The writings and ramblings of Ben Callahan