I’m preaching this Sunday, May 12, with the good people of Washington City CoB, via Zoom. That will be a legit sermon, with lots more words. But spending these last few weeks in John’s gospel got me intrigued about how much Jesus, in his conversation with his friends, talks about JOY. And there is so much good music about JOY. So I made you a mixtape.
Maybe you are too young or too old to know what a mixtape is. There was a particular sweet spot in the ‘90s and the early 2000s, when mp3s were readily available but mp3 *players* were not. So we’d winamp/napster the songs we liked and arrange them in a very particular order and then burn our list onto a CD and share it with a friend. I recently found my old CD folder, filled with mixtapes that have names like “See You In a Few Months,” from my friend Russell when he left town to work at camp for the summer, “DELIGHTFUL,” from Beth, which lived up to its name, “Some Songs for Sara,” which I made for Sara but liked so much that I burnt myself a copy, too, and “Hot Brian’s Mix,” the origin or importance of which I cannot for the life of me remember. That one is mostly filled with Carbon Leaf and Guster.
A good mixtape takes seriously the order of songs. A great mixtape tells a story. So here’s a mixtape sermon on John 17:6-19, for your listening pleasure.
Those of us who are a little older recorded songs off the radio, or copied songs from cassettes and created mixtapes. Thank you for the joy you shared with us!