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Artist: Mumford & Sons

Album: Sigh No More

So if you listen to The Current, you've probably heard most of this album already. It contains elements of country music, and what sounds to me like strong Christian imagery. From the song Roll Away Your Stone, the lyrics:

“It seems that all my bridges have been burned
But you say 'That's exactly how this grace thing works’
It's not the long walk home that will change this heart
But the welcome I receive with the restart”

All the Lutheran pastors I've talked to about this song agree that this description of grace is consonant with ours, and it seems to fall into the realm of "translating Lutheran theology to normal-people talk" that I'm always on about.

For a lengthier theological exposition of this song, see here:

http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/03/the-mumford-and-sons-communion-liturgy.html

I'm certainly not one to use some made-up-by-random-people eucharistic liturgy, but I would consider using this song to shape a prayer or worship or sermon experience, I think.

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