You can hear my latest sermon, preached at Karori Baptist Church, on Confession and Commission: The Kingdom of God in the Story of Scripture at http://www.lesterbrook.co.nz/kbc/sermons/2007/07-06-17.mp3Â
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We started quacking like ducks. It really was the best way to sing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the Choral Movement. It is perhaps one of the most famous works of music ever written. Ode to Joy, as it’s popularly known, is forced upon young pianists learning to play the keys. It’s played in department stores by pianists inspired by Richard Clayderman, that man who has the ability to take reasonably good music and turn it into something that, frankly, isn’t reasonably good music. It’s even played while you’re waiting on the telephone to speak to someone who put you on hold over an hour ago. But none of those performances, however meaningful they might be to you, hold a candle to singing like ducks.
I was fairly sure this was going to be a waste of both my time and my money. I got a little card in the post telling me it was time for my eyes to be checked. The card looks just like the card I get from my mechanic telling me it’s time for my car to be checked, so when I rang to make the appointment I had to make sure I rang the right place, just in case I turned up at the mechanics and they asked me to stand on a platform so they could shine a light up my undercarriage. I’ve had quite enough of that sort of thing already this year.
