S3E13 | Consecrating the Chaos

Music, Word, Hope & Prayer Podcast

July 13th, 2022 | Duration: 32:44

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A few weeks ago, we celebrated the 4th of July and its homage to freedom. And, yet, individually and as a nation it feels like we are living through convulsions and trauma, not unlike Luke’s story of the Garasene demoniac (Luke 8:26-39).

In this episode, we focus on how the practice of persistent incarnate love for God and for neighbor can restore us to our right minds. Jesus took on the empire and the traumatized community. Jesus also, in incarnate love, met the trauma of a man and brought healing. That man returned home to tell a story about what God has done in Christ Jesus.

This episode title is from a powerful talk Otis Moss gave recently at a conference in which he shared two images, an artful interpretation of this story in Luke, and a loving letter he wrote to his son. John and Nate play around with the two images of a life raft and a sailboat that Otis Moss provided along with what Otis Moss meant by "consecrating the chaos."

Our music director, Nate Strasser, brings us two pieces of music in this episode, an arrangement of "Be Still My Soul" and an original composition based on today's theme and scripture passage.