Singing Redemption (November)

2 - 29 November. Open the Resource Pack PDF for all the information on the weekly subthemes and the daily prompts and Bible readings which shape our Daily Worship and live streams. 

Redemption — that solace we can come home to, that place we can belong, regardless of who we are or what we’ve done — is not something we can earn or buy. Rather it is something sung to us. A song as old as the universe, a cosmic lullaby that tells us that all will be well and all manner of things will be well. Just as infants begin to recognise songs long before they can grasp the meaning of words — so the work of our redemption was begun long before we could grasp it.

This month we explore the power of song to both teach us about and immerse us in our redemption — the central story of our faith — that we are found, recognised, and named and that we belong with God and one another. Through lyric, rhythm, melody, harmony, percussion, timing, and phrasing songs don’t only tell us that we are redeemed, they show us how it feels to be redeemed.

Redemption is an ongoing story we learn to live into that zigzags across the spectrum of human emotion. Songs and poetry are often uniquely able to offer us insights into what it means and what it feels like to live as a person who is being continually redeemed.

Weekly Overview 

• Live and unplugged! — Songwriting as a way of sharing authentic experience 

• Praise be! — Communal worship as a way of restoring, challenging and shaping

• Punk prophecy! — Songwriting that give us a glimpse of another world

• Vagabond Hymns! — A concept album of the hymns of a wandering, wondering people

Each week of this theme runs Sunday-Saturday and has its own subtheme, which contains daily Bible readings and prompts for thought (see the Resource Pack PDF for more information).