Today I want to begin with a simple question. When the Bible uses the word remnant, what does it actually mean? Before it became a theological term or a Seventh-day Adventist fundamental belief #13, remnant was first a pattern in Scripture. From Genesis onward, God often moved His purposes forward through a smaller group of…

Dr. Weaver ended our last session by asking two deceptively simple questions: How do we share our faith? And what does it mean to share faith after everything we’ve been saying about beauty, music, fear, silence, and sensory experiences of God? I want to begin by saying that I think those questions are exactly right—and…

As I reviewed our comments and thoughts over the last two weeks, I’ve tried to bridge the conversation between music and beauty. A few takeaways stood out. Beauty can point toward God, but it does not define God’s presence. Music often feels immediately accessible, whereas the visual arts frequently require learning and sustained attention; they’re…

This morning I want to do something a little differently from what we’ve done before. Rather than introducing an entirely new topic, I want to continue the conversation we began last week. What I plan to present today is a reflection on grandeur and simplicity—how God speaks through both. Before doing that, however, I want…

Don: We’ve been looking at grace, and one of the things that has struck us is that grace is often a highly sensory experience. If you look at the biblical experiences that involve grace, you almost always see a distinctive sensory element. David has taken us through that in terms of vibration and sound, and…

Introduction (Kiran) Over the past five weeks, we’ve been listening to a rich and stimulating conversation led by David, who traced a profound path through the Western musical imagination, starting from Greek roots and Christian chant, through Bach and Beethoven, to Wagner, Messiaen, Cage, and Pärt. Along the way, David kept returning to a searching…