Loss, Pain and the Healing Power of Music - Gary Wilkerson Podcast (with Matthew Ward) - 038

About this sermon

When we go through heartache and crisis, God has many different ways to reach us. He may use loving relationships, the beauty of nature or even our work. Whatever that unique space is, he can use it to show us his goodness and glory in the darkest places of our lives. Music is how he reached our guest this week, long-time Christian musician Matthew Ward, after he tragically lost two of the closest people in his life. Life can be incredibly painful at times, but God is always near to his children, and he wants to show us how he will heal and transform our grief into something glorious. As we grapple with pain, we must always know that we can go to God and he will never turn us away. View show notes: https://worldchallenge.in/gwpod38yt Key Questions from the Podcast: • Who is Matthew Ward? Who is Deanne Ward? • Why does music seem to speak and heal more powerfully sometimes than written or spoken words? • How do we respond to and process the pain of losing a parent? Notable Quotes from the Podcast: I think that's why King David wrote so many psalms and sang so much, because it was a way for him to navigate some of the things that were going on in his life that he couldn't just confront. He did it through music and I think that's powerful. – Matthew Ward As a kid, I didn't have the tools to embrace that kind of pain. There wasn't anybody around that I could pour into to get those things out of my own heart. I couldn't offload it. I was walking around with these bricks inside of me that I didn't know what to do, so I just would throw them at people. – Matthew Ward #GaryWilkerson #GaryWilkersonPodcast #MatthewWard

Topics

• Suffering & Trials
• Healing