By Taylor Schmidt
As traditional and confessional Lutherans,
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we sing. It’s what we do. This has been made even more real to me through my attendance at four Higher Things Conferences as well as my stint as a College Conference Volunteer (CCV) in Iowa this summer. Worship is a key component of the time we spend there, and there’s a reason for that: Singing has a way of feeding our faith. We sing the Divine Liturgy. We sing the Psalms. We sing theology-packed hymns. We sing the Word of God. If we go back to the creation of man, we read: “then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature” (Genesis 2:7). This is God down in the dirt, forming and breathing into man life! Man became a living creature. This means that the man breathed back! From God,
