The song “ Jesus Take the Wheel” sang by Carrie Underwood comes from a conversation she and her friend had about how his girlfriend (now his wife) almost got into a car crash. In hopes that making this song would help her recover from the shock of almost crashing, they create “Jesus Take the Wheel” which has now won a Grammy Award. The song explains how the girlfriend isn’t going down the path she hopes to go down and how she is asking Jesus to “take the wheel,” meaning she is asking him to help her make the right choices and help her get back on track.
The main message behind “Jesus Take the Wheel” (Carrie Underwood) is no matter how bad or hard your life gets, you can always turn to Jesus for help. The plot of the story is this women is on her way to visit her parent’s house for Christmas with her newborn son. She had so much on her mind that she didn’t realize how fast she was going until
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Carrie Underwood uses literary devices to help the listeners interpret the main idea of the story. For example, she uses symbolism in the the lyrics “ the wheel” (Carrie Underwood). The wheel stands for her life and how she is asking Jesus to help her “drive.” Carrie Underwood also uses a metaphor in the lyrics “Save me from this road I’m on.” because the road is a metaphor for her path and decisions she has made in the past and will make in the future. Listeners can find out the plot of this song when Carrie Underwood opens her song with the lyrics “She was driving last Friday on her way to Cincinnati on a snow white Christmas Eve. Going home to see her Momma and Daddy with the baby in the backseat. Fifty miles to go and she was running low, on faith and gasoline, it’d been a long hard year. She had a lot on her mind and she wasn’t paying attention, she was going way too fast, before she knew it, she was spinning on a thin black sheet of glass” (Carrie Underwood). Since these lyrics are so well written, we can find the story behind the
N.T. Wright: During my first semester at Northwestern College, I was assigned the book, “The Challenge of Jesus” by N.T. Wright for one of my Biblical Studies courses. This book and every other book Tom Wright has written has dramatically impacted my Christian faith. Dr. Wright has not only defended the basic tenants of the Christian faith, but also has shown how an academically-minded pastor ought to love and care for his or her congregants. N.T. Wright was previously the Bishop of Durham and pastored some of the poorest in the United Kingdom. His pastoral ministry has helped shape his understanding of God’s kingdom-vision which he is diagramming within his magnum opus “Christian Origins and the Question of God”. This series has instructed myself and countless other pastors to be for God’s kingdom as we eagerly await Christ’s return. Additionally, I have had the privilege of meeting with N.T. Wright one-on-one on numerous occasions to discuss faith, the Church, and his research. I firmly believe Tom Wright is the greatest New Testament scholar of our generation and he is the primary reason why I feel called into ministry.
In this first chapter of Jesus and the Disinherited , the author Howard Thurman describes
Gerhard Lohfink, in his book, “Jesus of Nazareth” believes that Jesus’ person and ministry are intertwined, or actually one and of the same. After Lohfink clarifies the difference between the "reign of God" as distinct from the “Kingdom of God,” he asserts that in Jesus, there is this active, ongoing reign which is not only revealed, but is manifested in all He says and does. Lohfink states, that Jesus is “not just preaching about the reign of God, but He is announcing it,” going on to indicating that Jesus is manifesting this reign in His own self disclosure and the actions of His ministry. Jesus ways of teaching and interactions with others, is shown as compassionate, gentle, direct and personal, as well as definitive and bold. As we also find in Ch. 3, “All that is happening before everyone’s eyes. The reign of God is breaking forth in the midst of the world and not only within people.” (51) And for Lohfink, this is taking place in the actual preaching, actions and life of Jesus Christ. Simply, we are personally and collectively and actively a part of establishing this “reign” right here, right now. A “reign” of mercy, compassion, forgiveness, self-giving, sacrificial love, as well as of justice and peace.
This is a very emotional song because it is a tribute to the late Paul Walker. It is especially emotional if you have seen the movies or are a fan of Paul. However it is still evocative even if you have never seen Paul Walker before because of how the video is formatted. The director uses cars as an rhetorical tool in the video because Paul was most known for his role in the Fast and Furious series, and he was killed in a car crash because he was speeding. The cars in the video help remind us that he died doing what he loved and that even though he left this world to early he was most likely enjoying himself in the moments before his death.
In The Meaning of Jesus N.T. Wright and Marcus Borg present different views on issues relating to how Jesus is viewed. While Borg and Wright do agree on central ideals of Christianity, Borg tends to have more liberal views, whereas Wright holds more conservative views.
Life always seems to have a few bumps in the road. Luke Combs son “ When it rains it pours” is about enjoying the good things in life. Many country artist, like Luke Combs have been through rough times and use their music to teach a lesson. You have to enjoy the little things in life, because life is about how much you can get hit and keep moving forward.In many ways life is like a country song it's taking what life gives you and making what you can out of it.
Simplism and poeticism are beautifully combined, creating a relatable yet symbolic book delivering a message about women’s equality. Kingsolver utilizes family, relatable characters, stories, and symbolism of the land as she attempts to make the reader think about tough issues in a humorous way. Where most would be serious about issues such as women equality and immigration, Kingsolver prevents the serious and sad tone thereby delivering her messages in a delightful way for the reader.
In “The Crossing” McCarthy uses biblical allusions, symbolism, and tonal shifts in order to describe the experience of the protagonist.
In the song, “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” the singer talks about her mother passing away and going to heaven. She is missing her mother, but she knows that her mother is in a
Songs and poems have a lot of great and powerful words, but sometimes nobody realizes the true meaning of the words. The song, “Wanted,” written by Hunter Hayes and his co-writer, Troy Verges, performed by Hunter Hayes, is about making the one you love feel loved and wanted. This country pop song produced by Dann Huff and Hunter Hayes was released on March 5, 2012. Hunter told Taste of Country about writing the song: "At the time, I was trying to tell somebody something, but I couldn't figure out how to say it. So I wanted to say it in music because I knew it would be a little more impactful. I wanted to say we are great in this relationship together, and I feel like it could even get better." The three literary devices used in this poem to get the theme across are hyperbole, simile, and indirect characterization.
The song depicts the energy and the adrenaline the main character gets from racing, but it also shows how it affects his girlfriend. This song depicts a choice the man has to make. Live the life a racecar driver or set aside his dream and give his girlfriend the ability to have the American Dream. The racecar life was not ideal to the girlfriend and Springsteen sings about her sadness and desperation of living the life of a racecar divers girlfriend. The girl craves to live a normal life, or the American Dream, but her boyfriend ultimately has to decide if he wants to sacrifice his dream to give his girlfriend hers. Springsteen sings, “But all of her pretty dreams are torn,” clearly show how concerned and broken this girl is because she craves a different lifestyle (“Racing Streets”). The main character in this song must sacrifice something in order to keep his girlfriend happy, or the girlfriend has to sacrifice a normal life to assure happiness of her boyfriend. Overall, someone must sacrifice his or her
The lead singer of the band Train, Pat Monahan revealed in an interview that this song is about the death of his mother. In the interview Monahan stated, “ Loss of the most important person in my life was heavy on my mind, and
American Pie is a song that is a very slow and deliberate song with a lot of thought put into it. This is a song that has over 850 lyrics that play for 8:30, the longest song ever to be listed as the Number one song on top hits charts. All these lyrics don’t just have the meaning of the individual words themselves, they paint a picture for the audience listening about what life was like and the events that transpired in the 1950-70’s, along with how Don McLean interpreted them. The lyrics of this song appeal to the youth of that timeframe in rhetorical ways of Pathos, Ethos, Doxa. Pathos is shown to try and emotionally connect with the audience; Ethos is used to show he knows what he is talking about by relating his real life stories and knowledge back into the essay, and lastly, Doxa is used very often in this in the aspect that Don was a huge Buddy Holly fan and he felt a deep connection to him.
Drugs are known to be the shortcut to nefarious and decadent life. Jesus’ Son is a collection of stories containing vivid narrative about life as a drug addict. These stories are all told in first person narrative, which is perhaps one person who is suffering from poverty and drug addiction. They are seemingly disconnected but are all about the experience of drug addiction, working together under the theme of drug addiction and how it fragments people mentally and physically. “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” and “Work” both convey this theme by using abrupt tone and unique figurative language. However, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” characterizes the protagonist more directly to reveal the fall of protagonist because of drug.
The narrator chose to take one road and will claim in his later years that the one he took was the one less traveled by because he had never traveled it until then and it sets up a story to tell everyone if he says he took the road less traveled by.