{"id":67903,"date":"2025-09-01T20:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=67903"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:52:41","slug":"ars-praedicandi-all-is-vanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/ars-praedicandi-all-is-vanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars Praedicandi: All Is Vanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Sally Messner, September 1, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This sermon was originally preached at the <a href=\"https:\/\/alcm.org\/\">Association of Lutheran Church Musician\u2019s <\/a>Morning Prayer on August 7, 2025 in Raleigh, NC. The conference theme, \u201cFor All That Is to Be,\u201d celebrated the beginning of the ALCM\u2019s 40th anniversary celebration.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All is vanity, pursuit is meaningless, we\u2019re all gonna die. And we say, \u201cThanks be to God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All is vanity, <em>hebel<\/em> in Hebrew\u2014breath, vapor, nothing to take hold of. \u201cWhat with care and toil we fashion, tower and temple, fall to dust.\u201d For the writer of Ecclesiastes, the impermanence of things in this world \u201cunder the sun\u201d is paramount. All the striving, all the climbing, all the running, and at the finish line is death\u2014for all of us, regardless of power, wealth, beauty, whatever has taken hold of us. We cannot fill the void ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there\u2019s another Hebrew word for breath\u2014<em>ruach<\/em>\u2014God\u2019s breath, God\u2019s spirit that created us into being, that created us in the image of Love. This breath takes hold of us. \u201cBy my own understanding or strength I cannot believe in Jesus Christ or come to him, but instead the Holy Spirit [the <em>ruach<\/em>] has called me through the gospel.\u201d Filled with the spirit, the life-giving breath of God, we can let go of that which sucks the breath out of us\u2014because we cannot fill the void, we will never live up to God\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The struggle with human autonomy and self-sufficiency is nothing new. Luther fought this despair and finally found solace in Paul\u2019s letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCreation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God, for the creation was subjected to futility [<em>hebel<\/em>] not of its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from enslavement to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.\u201d (Romans 8:19-20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decay is not our destiny. Death is not the end. And we do not fill the void ourselves. God fills the void with God\u2019s breath, God\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1924, as French composer Gabriel Faur\u00e9 lay dying, he spoke to his son: \u201cWhen I am no longer here you will hear it said that my works did not amount to much\u2026You must not let that trouble you. It\u2019s fate\u2026There is always a moment of oblivion.\u201d Even the great Faur\u00e9 knew well the wisdom of Ecclesiastes\u2014that he wouldn\u2019t be remembered. But we have been comforted by Faur\u00e9\u2019s Requiem and his other works. We\u2019ve been comforted by a great cloud of musical witnesses. And we do remember. Nothing is new\u2014pitches are constant, rhythms are universally understood\u2014and yet after hearing God\u2019s promises proclaimed, we are new. We are changed. We are different people after we encounter\u2014in the liturgy and elsewhere\u2014the God who sustains us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we gather in community to sing, pray, and eat, we are filled with God\u2019s breath, God\u2019s spirit. Our work as liturgical leaders changes people, changes us. This is why we do this day after day, week after week, even when all things have become wearisome, even when we feel like we are chasing after the wind. The liturgy will proclaim the gospel and bear God\u2019s breath as the generations go and come. We cannot fill the void ourselves. Jesus\u2014the Life of life, the Death of death\u2014sustains us, sustains all of creation. And so we grasp the promise we cannot see. We greet each day\u2019s new light with eager longing, ever singing, ever praising, as it has already been, as in the ages before us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sally Messner<\/strong>&nbsp;is director of worship for the Institute of Liturgical Studies (Valparaiso University) and director of worship and music at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis.&nbsp;She has been a contributor for worship planning resources in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and has published articles related to hymn writing, worship planning, and assembly singing. She also served as hymn editor for&nbsp;<em>Lutheran Forum<\/em>&nbsp;magazine.&nbsp;Sally is the current president of the Twin Cities chapter of Choristers Guild and is founding musical director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elmensemble.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elm Ensemble<\/a>, a liturgical project that brings together professional and amateur musicians with great sacred music and creative worship planning to help keep the church in dialogue with diverse voices from Christian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALLY MESSNER &#8212; Even the great Gabriel Faur\u00e9 knew well the wisdom of Ecclesiastes\u2014that he wouldn\u2019t be remembered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":67909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3294,11,1321,149,20],"tags":[4045,4067],"class_list":["post-67903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-praedicandi","category-conferences-workshops-meetings","category-homilies","category-lutheran-liturgy","category-music-general","tag-association-of-lutheran-church-musicians","tag-sally-messner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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