Send us a text A house blazing with lights can make a neighborhood glow, but it can’t quiet a restless heart. We open with holiday humor and then pivot to the angels’ proclamation over Bethlehem, drawing a straight line to a frostbitten night in 1914 when British and German soldiers climbed out of the trenches and sang the same carol on no man’s land. That fragile ceasefire feels like the world’s best effort—beautiful, brief, and gone by morning. So why does peace keep slipping through our fi...
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Send us a text A house blazing with lights can make a neighborhood glow, but it can’t quiet a restless heart. We open with holiday humor and then pivot to the angels’ proclamation over Bethlehem, drawing a straight line to a frostbitten night in 1914 when British and German soldiers climbed out of the trenches and sang the same carol on no man’s land. That fragile ceasefire feels like the world’s best effort—beautiful, brief, and gone by morning. So why does peace keep slipping through our fi...
George Handel - A Statement of Faith in the Valley of Despair
Weekly Wisdom with Stephen Davey
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4 months ago
George Handel - A Statement of Faith in the Valley of Despair
Sacred music has carried the deepest truths of faith throughout history, often touching hearts when sermons alone cannot reach them. Martin Luther understood this profoundly when he revolutionized worship by creating hymns in the common language, attaching spiritual lyrics to familiar tunes that ordinary people could understand and sing. His strategy proved so effective that decades after his death, a frustrated priest complained, "Luther has stolen away more people with his hymns than with h...
Weekly Wisdom with Stephen Davey
Send us a text A house blazing with lights can make a neighborhood glow, but it can’t quiet a restless heart. We open with holiday humor and then pivot to the angels’ proclamation over Bethlehem, drawing a straight line to a frostbitten night in 1914 when British and German soldiers climbed out of the trenches and sang the same carol on no man’s land. That fragile ceasefire feels like the world’s best effort—beautiful, brief, and gone by morning. So why does peace keep slipping through our fi...
