{"id":723,"date":"2011-04-18T23:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/tajohnson\/?p=723"},"modified":"2011-04-19T08:39:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T23:39:37","slug":"once-in-royal-davids-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/tajohnson\/2011\/04\/18\/once-in-royal-davids-city\/","title":{"rendered":"All Glory, Laud, And Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Palm Sunday I was at a large international church with my kids. As the regal cadence of strings playing\u00a0 \u201cAll Glory, Laud, and Honor\u201d to the tune of St. Theodulph filled the air, my chest tightened with memories of people and places who have entered the presence of the Holy through this hymn. As the children\u2019s choir waved homemade palm branches and sang their well-rehearsed parts, my nine-year-old intently peered at the faces of the young singers and whispered quite seriously to me, \u201cWhat language are they singing, Mommy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My son, raised in a missionary home with regular family devotions and frequent church participation, had no idea what the song was about. Neither <em>glory<\/em>, <em>laud<\/em>, nor <em>honor<\/em> mean much to him, and even the word <em>king<\/em> is far from his daily life. He understands<em> president <\/em>and\u00a0<em>emporer<\/em>, but king\u00a0sounds like something out of a long ago fairy tale. Fortunately for us and no doubt a few others, the children\u2019s story which followed pulled us into the feelings of the Jerusalem crowd-\u00a0 eagerly cheering for Jesus and begging him to help us in our troubles. Somehow with this as the experiential starting point, we were all given opportunity to ponder our own fickleness, our own eagerness to see Jesus \u00a0do what we want him to do&#8230;and the cross.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the song speaks. For my son, it was curious noise. How many of our attempts to communicate the living Word strike our hearers as curious noise? Next Sunday is Easter. What do our music, our worship services, our pancake breakfasts and Easter egg hunts communicate to those around us? For those totally unchurched around you, what would communicate LOVE CONQUERS DEATH! THANK YOU, CREATOR GOD! this week? 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