Episode 4: The Start of an Age

Join us as we “Speak Now” about Jesus’ “Speak Now” Era and how both he and Taylor Swift find and use their voices to speak up for themselves and others.

Show Notes

• Speak Now Era
  • Color: Purple
  • Years: 2010-2012
  • No Co-Writers
  • “Clap Back”
  • Confessional
  • Finding her voice
• Our Eras:
  • When did we first listen to this album
  • How we each defined “Speak Now”
• The Stories
  • @Megan
    • Women at the well (John 4:1-30)
    • Sending the 12 (Matthew 28:16-20)
  • @Paige
    • Preaching at home- try to throw off a cliff (Luke 4:14-30)
    • When did Jesus stand up for people? The women caught in adultery (John 8:1-11)

Songs That Go with the Stories:

• Let the children come – never grow up Mark 10:13-16; Matthew 19:13-15; Luke 18:15-17
• Response Jesus sermon at Nazareth (mean) (Luke 4:14-30)
• Long Live- Sending the 12
• Women at the Well- Enchanted (Paige: Innocent) (John 4:1-30
• Mean -Women adultery 
• Last Kiss – Playing with language. How did Jesus use grammar and dual meanings to make a point? Matthew 5 – sermon on the mount – beatitudes (blessed are the WHO??)

Both of Us:

• Who do you say I am? Matthew 16:13-20

Speak Now Verses- from when we 1st listened and from our re-listen now

@Megan

• 1st Listen
  • Enchanted 9:4-6, 35-37
    • Walls of insincerity, shifting eyes and vacancy/Vanished when I saw your face
  • Long Live 14: 32-33
    • Long live all the mountains we moved/I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you
• Rerelease listen
  • Never Grow Up 8:35
    • Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home/Remember the footsteps, remember the words said
• @Paige
  • First Listen
    • Back to December 3:20
      • “when your birthday passed and I didn’t call”
    • Mean 6:12
      • You have pointed out my flaws again, as if I don’t already see them
  • Re-Release Listen
    • Innocent 11:10, 27
      • who you are is not where you’ve been…Who you are is not what you did
• Where is God?
  • Timeless
    • And prayed to God you’d be comin’ home all right
  • Enchanted
    • This is me praying that this was the very first page
  • Long Live
    • But if God forbid fate should step in…
  • Speak Now
    • Church… “Speak now” isn’t in the liturgy any more
• What would Jesus’s track 5 story be?
  • Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/) 
• Lyric changes to “Better Than Revenge” how Jesus changes who he ministers too? “You’ve heard it said… but I say….” Interpretation Matthew 5:38-39
• What’s Next?
  • Red
• Sunday Question
  • Speak Now Jesus Story
  • Track Five Jesus Story
• Thank you! 
• PS
  • Prayer- @Megan
    • Dear God, help us to Speak Now and to not be Mean to those we meet out in this word. For our words matter. And even though we Never Want to Grow Up, let us be Timeless in our love for you. For The Story of Us is just beginning and will Long Live in all that we do. In your son’s most holy and precious name, we pray. Amen. 
  • Benediction- @Paige