Music

God and Sinner Reconcile

January 16, 2012
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My friend Stephen Miller is the worship leader at The Journey in St. Louis. His new worship album comes out tomorrow, and I hope you’ll pick it up via iTunes or Amazon (links forthcoming). I’ve been listening to, and enjoying, “God and Sinner Reconcile”, for a few weeks now. It’s a gospel-driven, modern worship album [...]

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Music: Ghost Ship

November 15, 2011
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This morning I’ve been listening to, and really enjoying, Ghost Ship’s new album, “A River with No End.” Give it a listen below. A River With No End by Ghost Ship From their Bandcamp site: Ghost Ship is a roots-rock band that writes music about Jesus. They lead the worship gatherings at Mars Hill Downtown [...]

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My Song in the Night

September 20, 2011
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Bobby Gilles is the Director of Communications at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY, a songwriter (Lead Us Back, Warrior, All I Have Is Yours, Let Your Blood Plead, more) an author (Our Home Is Like A Little Church), and a good friend to me personally. When Bobby is involved in something I always know [...]

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Simplicity and Repetition Are Okay

April 4, 2011
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Worship music and gatherings that use a lot of repetition catch a lot of flack from certain quarters of the Christian world. There have certainly been occasions when I have inwardly moaned at prolonged and repetitious songs that have little to say. But, some things are certainly worth repeating. At the Maranatha Grace Fort Lee [...]

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Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed

January 30, 2011
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We sing a lot of hymns at Redeemer Fellowship. Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed? is one of them. It was written by Isaac Watts in the 18th centiry, and bears the stamp of his theology. It is a rich, beautiful, cross-centered hymn. However, a refrain was written for the hymn over 100 years later [...]

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The Music I Study To: Worship Music

January 26, 2011
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The Music I Study To: Film Scores (Part one) The Music I Study To: Jazz (Part Two) The Music I Study To: Worship Music (Part Three) The truth is I study to a lot of different kinds of music. While writing my book, Note to Self, the music in the background varied from film scores, [...]

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The Music I Study To: Jazz

January 25, 2011
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The Music I Study To: Film Scores (Part one) The Music I Study To: Jazz (Part Two) The Music I Study To: Worship Music (Part Three) I’m not even sure exactly when I got into jazz, but I know I found it through my appreciation for the more technical styles of heavy metal. If you [...]

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