Send Out Your Light: The Illuminating Power of Scripture and Song

by Sandra McCracken

Overview

In the middle of Psalm 43, God offers us a dynamic invitation: Send out your light.Prolific singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken believes we each have the opportunity to hear and answer this invitation.
 
This book is written in three parts: part one is the becoming, the creation, how God makes us and gives us an identity. Part two is the disorientation of loss, displacement, and the dark night of the soul. Part three is reorientation, how God brings us through the darkness and illuminates our path with Scripture, sending us out to take his light to others.

This has been the shape of Sandra McCracken’s life. Through it all, songs and Scripture have been there to light the way, helping her respond to God’s call.

How will you respond to God’s call to send out his light?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781087729671
Publisher:	B&H Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	1,045,739
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.10(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Sandra McCracken is a prolific songwriter, modern-day hymn writer, and record producer. She is a dynamic performer whose captivating, soulful sound invites audiences to sing along, and moves listeners at the deepest levels. Many of her songs, like “We Will Feast In The House Of Zion” and “Thy Mercy My God,” have settled into regular rotation in Christian worship services internationally, and she has also written songs for All Sons And Daughters, Keith and Kristyn Getty, The Porter's Gate, Ellie Holcomb, The Faithful Project, Rain for Roots, Indelible Grace, Nashville Indie Spotlight, Citizens, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, and more. Sandra has also been a guest writer for Art House America, She Reads Truth, The Gospel Coalition, Christianity Today, RELEVANT Magazine and more.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Letter of Light 1

Part 1

Chapter 1 The Scribbled Songs of Childhood (I Am From) 19

Chapter 2 Where Are You Now? 31

Chapter 3 Wake Me Up, Send Me Out 39

Chapter 4 The Songs that Shape Us 53

Chapter 5 My Sister's Piano 61

Chapter 6 Hymns and Hers 69

Chapter 7 Solitude and Self-Portraits 79

Chapter 8 Light through Winter Branches 93

Chapter 9 Chasing Beauty 101

Part 2

Chapter 10 Light through the Shoebox 111

Chapter 11 New Beginnings at Cracker Barrel 121

Chapter 12 The Practice of Lament 127

Chapter 13 Soul Shape and Sad Songs 139

Chapter 14 The Long Way Home 147

Chapter 15 Liturgy and Invitation 159

Chapter 16 A Change in Landscapes and the Unchanging Covenant 167

Chapter 17 Crossing Thresholds and Finding the Way Forward 171

Part 3

Chapter 18 Transfigure Me 185

Chapter 19 Detours 195

Chapter 20 Skies and Infants in Wordless Praise 207

Chapter 21 Praise in Pain 213

Chapter 22 Trinity and Collaboration 225

Chapter 23 Chatterbox Falls and the Power of the Spirit 231

Chapter 24 Justice and God's Abundance 237

Chapter 25 Singing Somebody Else's Song 247

Chapter 26 The Whole of Love Returned 255

Notes 271