{"id":5617,"date":"2015-05-30T09:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2015-05-30T09:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:39:17","slug":"new-song-we-will-feast-in-the-house-of-zion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/new-song-we-will-feast-in-the-house-of-zion\/","title":{"rendered":"New Song: “We Will Feast in The House of Zion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been singing a new song lately, titled, “We Will Feast in The House of Zion<\/a>.” Actually, we’ve called it, “We Will Feast,” for short. Sandra McCracken authored this song as part of her reflective new album, Psalms<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(Amazon<\/a>, iTunes<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0Bandcamp<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In his article at The Gospel Coalition, “Sandra McCracken on Life, Loss, and Longing in the Psalms<\/a>,” Ivan Mesa introduces the album this way:<\/p>\n

Delight. Fear. Anger. Joy. Grief. Gladness. Loneliness. Love. Loss.<\/p>\n

This is a small sampling of the range of emotions in life, ones that the Psalms fully describe. While the Psalms allow us to express our emotions they seek to shape them into righteous ones. With the Psalms we can approach God with brutal honesty, seeking to be rooted in truth and ready to submit to him.<\/p>\n

Sandra McCracken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest album, Psalms, seeks to recast some of these ancient psalms and hymn texts for our day. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 As McCracken writes,<\/p>\n

These are sacred, borrowed words, with new melodies to help draw the longing and joy up out of our hearts and onto our lips, as we watch and wait to see his story come in it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fullness.<\/p>\n

Much like the Psalms, she helps us enter into both the pain of living in a broken world and the joyful hope we have as children of a sovereign God. In this interview we learn how the Psalms give us words when we have none, how lament should be part of our worship, and much more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> for the whole article, which includes an extended interview with Sandra and an explanation of several songs.<\/p>\n

Circling back to the song we’ve been singing together,\u00c2\u00a0here are the lyrics to, “We Will Feast”:<\/p>\n

We Will Feast in The House of Zion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chorus
\nWe will feast in the house of Zion
\nWe will sing with our hearts restored
\nHe has done great things, we will say together
\nWe will feast and weep no more<\/p>\n

We will not be burned by the fire
\nHe is the LORD our God
\nWe are not consumed, by the flood
\nUpheld, protected, gathered up (Chorus)<\/p>\n

In the dark of night, before the dawn
\nMy soul, be not afraid
\nFor the promised morning, oh how long?
\nOh God of Jacob, be my strength (Chorus)<\/p>\n

Every vow we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve broken and betrayed
\nYou are the Faithful one
\nAnd from the garden to the grave
\nBind us together, bring shalom. (Chorus)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been singing a new song lately, titled, “We Will Feast in The House of Zion.” Actually, we’ve… Continue Reading ›<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5620,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}