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Sing All Our Cares Away

Sing All Our Cares Away

Word of Life Church Podcast

August 28, 2015

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Show Notes

Song eight in Finding God on Your iPod 2015 is "Sing All Our Cares Away" by Damien Dempsey.

The power of song must never be underestimated. Don’t ever say, "but it’s just a song." Half the Bible is “just a song!” We’ve diminished the power of song because we’ve succumbed to empiricism. Song is not reason. Song is resistance—resistance to the totalizing of the facts. We sing to push back the “facts” and create room for hope to rise. And when hope rises, we rise with it. That’s when it becomes a Song of Ascent. The Hebrews have known this. The Irish have known this. African Americans have know this. And the church has always known this…unless we have forgotten it. The church is to be the community that sings the Jesus songs of faith, hope, and love.

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