Given to Weeping and Laughter - a podcast by SMC preachers
from 2021-10-31T09:00
We remember our beloved saints who have passed on by reflecting on Jesus’ blessing, spoken to those who grieve: You shall laugh. And Jesus’ woe, delivered to those who laugh: You shall grieve. We are each one of us both, of course - those who laugh and those who grieve. Often all at the same time. And even when we experience a (brief) reprieve from one or the other, we are given to one another in community to bear the joys and sorrows of one another.
Sermon begins at minute 3:27
Scripture: 1 Kings 5:1-5; 8:1-13
Music: Sally Ann Morris © 1998 GIA Publications, Inc.
Text: Thomas Troeger © Oxford University Press Inc. 2002.
Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.
Resources
- This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, Lillian Daniel and Martin B. Copenhaver
- “All Saints” prayer, by Janet Morley, All Desires Known (1988), 148.
- Photo: A couple of SMC saints - Chuck & Larry
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