Monday is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, as one of my Facebook friends posted, “Because Canada always has to be first!” The Canadian national anthem got a wonderful makeover by Canadian retailer Lululemon in 2015 that helps to illustrate the metaphor that we’ve been...
Last week I encouraged you to think about immersion: being so engaged, enveloped, and engulfed in the song of Jesus-God-Spirit that everything you know and do echoes with the song of eternity. Immersion is our reality. We are already embraced into the joyful, loving...
iˈmərZHən, noun: the act of being so completely involved in something that you forget what it’s like to be outside of it. You have heard the quip that a fish doesn’t know that it’s immersed in water, because it has never known anything else. This is often applied to...
Last week we considered the fact that Jesus is always surround sound. The foundational reason for this truth is because the Trinity is never a two-channel, dual sound, static experience. The continual movement, giving and receiving, and interaction of the Trinity...
You might be surprised to know that as early as the 1940’s, movie producers were talking about surround sound. The first feature-length movie to specifically use this “surround” technique was Walt Disney’s Fantasia, which used three speakers in front and two in the...
I’ve been thinking about the key of Jesus since I wrote about it here. If there is a “key of Jesus,” what does it sound like, and how do we listen for it? The music that flows from the Trinity and holds all creation together has many melodies: countless phrases and...
