Easter // Week 11 // April 28 - May 4
Ten years old, lying in bed, round and round they go, thoughts race through my head
Grand Prix, green, yellow, and red, checkered flags ain’t slowing or quelling my dread
Peeling out at the boom of the starting gun.
Was that a boom in my room? Ok, now the party’s done
But the race is on, covers over my head until the dawn
‘Cuz I can’t turn it off in the night, no, can’t turn it off in the night, no sleeping
Can’t stop my thoughts in the night, so
The lanes of my brain are filled with the beeping
Of a hundred thousand thoughts in a traffic jam
Hear sirens whine, now I’m imagining
Police chase, fire, or an ambulance
Getting back to sleep, man, I don’t stand a chance
Heart pounding, feel it in my ears
Cry out, “momma, please!” and she always hears and
Draws me near, whispers, “my child, there’s nothing to fear”
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear
Perfect love casts out fear
Simon Peter was an apostle
Peter was a leader, read about him in the Gospels
Started out as a fisherman,
Jesus called him out, be a fisher of men
Jesus called him out on the water, Peter want to follow
Then he got afraid, faith smaller, he start to falter, sea start to swallow,
Even though Jesus like the Rock of Gibraltar
Steady, sturdy, never-changing love
Peter knew Jesus like a hand knows a glove
But even though it fit, Peter couldn’t quit fear
Remember in the garden, that bit with the ear?
Lashed out, then afraid for his life
He denied Christ, not one, not twice,
But three times, before the rooster crowed
Then he wept bitterly, because he said he didn’t know Jesus,
Still God’s perfect love is strong enough
To take Simon Peter from the waterfront
And—even with his flaws and all—
make him a rock
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear
Perfect love casts out fear
“4:12 No one has ever seen God;
if we love one another, God lives in us,
and his love is perfected in us.
4:13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us,
because he has given us of his Spirit.”
“4:19 We love because he first loved us.”
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear
Perfect love casts out fear
Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2023, with direct quotation of 1 John 4:12-13, 18a, 19 (NRSV)
Music: Greg Yoder, 2023
Vocals: Greg Yoder, Nicolas Melas, Ebony Nicole, Nichole Barrows, Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder, Mitchell Yoder