{"id":2959,"date":"2013-10-03T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2014-09-04T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:30:40","slug":"do-what-you-love-and-please-god-ken-medema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2013\/10\/03\/do-what-you-love-and-please-god-ken-medema\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDo What You Love and Please God\u201d \u2013 Ken Medema"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/10.03.13--SLWKenMedemaSemChap.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p>The Seminary Community and others gather to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/studentlife\/campus-ministries\/spiritual-life-week\/\">ÌÇÐÄVlog Spiritual Life Week<\/a> guest <a href=\"http:\/\/kenmedema.com\/about-us.aspx\">Ken Medema<\/a> focus on the theme \u201cDo What You Love and Please God.\u201d How do we imagine God\u2019s will for our lives?<\/p>\n<p>Though blind from birth, Ken sees and hears with heart and mind, custom-designing every musical moment of his performance with brilliant improvisation that defies description. Ken\u2019s artistry and imagination have reached audiences of 50 to 50,000 people in 49 states and in more than 15 countries on four continents.<\/p>\n<p>Ken\u2019s lyrics generally provide social commentary on themes such as justice, hunger, poverty, homelessness, and Christian charity as it pertains to them. Performances regularly include songs improvised both musically and lyrically by accepting audience recommendations, sermon topics, or guest speaker stories as their basis. He performs in national and worldwide congregations, campuses, youth gatherings, and annual assemblies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">The entire campus community is invited to every chapel service on campus. Eastern Mennonite Seminary hosts chapel gatherings in Martin Chapel every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 11:00.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*NOTE* Due to equipment issues, a large portion of the earlier part of this chapel is not available on this podcast.\u00a0 Ken&#8217;s first comments may seem out of place and out of context because they were not truly his opening comments at the chapel service.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/10.03.13--SLWKenMedemaSemChap.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>The Seminary Community and others gather to hear ÌÇÐÄVlog Spiritual Life Week guest Ken Medema focus on the theme \u201cDo What You Love and Please God.\u201d How do we imagine God\u2019s will for our lives? Though blind from birth, Ken sees and hears with heart and mind, custom-designing every musical moment of his performance with....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3995,141,29],"tags":[4103],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-one-another","category-seminary-chapels","category-spiritual-life-week","tag-ken-medema","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}