Singing Our Holy Holy Holies

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

What does it mean to sing “Holy holy holy is God” NOT to God, but to one another? Might Isaiah’s magnificent and poetic imagery of the seraphim singing their praise of God’s holiness TO one another be received as an invitation to do the same?
Sermon begins at minute marker 4:11
Scripture: ​​​​Isaiah 6.1-8

Resources

• BibleWorm podcast: Episode 612 – Here I Am Send Me!, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.
• “Before I Was a Gazan,” Naomi Shihab Nye, from Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems (2020), 100.
• “A Few Rules For Predicting the Future,” Octavia E. Butler (2000), 7-15.
• “Schrödinger’s Seraphim,” Vija Merrill.
• Releasing friend of SMC met through the One Parish One Prisoner program of Underground Ministries.
• Image: Seraphim in Hagia Sofia, in Istanbul Türkiye, photo by Pastor Megan Ramer.
• Hymn: Voices Together 156 - There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy. Text: Frederick W. Faber (England), Hymns, 1861. Music: Lizzie S. Tourjee (USA), Hymnal of the Methodist Church with Tunes, 1878. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.