Every week, on this page, you will be able to find a SUMMER PLAYLIST for your week corresponding with Dr. Powers' sermon for the upcoming Sundays! Click the links now to listen and reflect throughout your week, as we dive into faith and the ups and downs of life with God through different genres of music, and the stories of authenticity they tell. Music brings out a new lens with which we can view the Psalmists' humanity and vulnerability, in praise, lament, and thanksgiving, and see ourselves. In your own worship throughout the rhythms of your week, listen & enjoy!

SERMON SONG OF THE WEEK: "The Thrill is Gone" by B.B. King

...The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away from me
Thrill is gone, baby
The thrill is gone away from me
Although, I'll still live on baby
But so lonely I'll be...

The thrill is gone, the lament is deep, so the Psalmist cries out to God. Psalm 13 says:

"How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
    How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
    and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
    How long will my enemy triumph over me?
3 Look on me and answer, Lord my God.
    Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
    and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
    my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing the Lord’s praise,
    for he has been good to me."

But hear the good news: God is there in our lament, just as much as God is there in our joy. In every season, God is there.

If you want to begin listening and reflecting on this Psalm through music before Sunday, give the playlists above a listen!

~Rev. Mackenzie Smith