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Where ya been?
4/15/2009
If you're wondering why I haven't posted a blog entry here in a while, here's the reason: I'm now only posting at my blogspot site here Until we get it worked out to where it will take you directly to that site by clicking on "Doxology" on this music page, you'll have to go to the blogspot site. Thanks for your patience!
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True And False
3/25/2009
I’m in the middle of reading Arnold Dallimore’s biography of George Whitefield who was one of the preeminent preachers of the Great Awakening of the 18th century.
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Great Quote
3/23/2009
"Moreover, in speaking now of music, I understand two parts: namely the letter, or subject and matter; secondly, the song, or the melody.
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Selfless Excellence Pt. 2
3/19/2009
I intentionally avoided specific points in my last entry regarding selfless excellence so as to not make it sound like a formula to follow to achieve it.
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Selfless Excellence
3/17/2009
In my list of top 5 CD’s included on brother who, to me, is the epitome of presenting Christian music in a biblical way.
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The New Calvinism From Time Mag
3/13/2009
Check out this article from Time magazine as this is number three on the "Ten Ideas Changing The World Right Now"
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My Top Five
3/11/2009
A few entries ago, I asked for your top five CDs/projects that you just can’t “live without”, so-to-speak. I also gave my word that I would share with you my top five.
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New Web Site
3/6/2009
We are announcing the humble launch of a site dedicated to Grace Life Music.
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Going A Capella
3/5/2009
Our plans are to do a song service this Sunday night without instruments. Are we going Church of Christ?
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Correction
3/4/2009
This is the second entry in a row that deals with Steven Curtis Chapman.
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Does God Believe In Us?
3/2/2009
I was walking my pasture the other day listening to a Steve Curtis Chapman song on my ipod called “I Believe In You”.
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2009 True Church Conference Thoughts
2/25/2009
I’ve completed giving the entire song list from the conference over the past three entries. Now for some random thoughts on the conference:
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2009 True Church Conference Pt. 3
2/24/2009
This is my final installment on giving the song list from the conference.
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2009 True Church Conference Pt. 2
2/23/2009
As I type this, we have just finished the True Church Conference yesterday.
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2009 True Church Conference Pt. 1
2/21/2009
Every time we do a conference, I have a number of requests for information on the songs that we sang.
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God Of Grace God Of Love
2/17/2009
At my blogspot blog here you can view a video (third one down, the one showing me holding the guitar) of a song that I arranged and composed.
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Good News!
2/14/2009
As I told you a few posts ago, we're having a Q & A session at the True Church Conference dedicated to church music topics.
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You Can Choose Only Five...
2/11/2009
Let's say you're starting your music library from scratch and you can only choose five recording projects.
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Kauflin On Songwriting
2/9/2009
I found this entry at Bob Kauflin’s blog a while back and thought it worth sharing here.
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IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE!
2/3/2009
Hey, it don't take us no 365 days to get a CD produced! Wow...I thought we'd never get it done.
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TCC Music Q & A
1/28/2009
At last year's True Church Conference, we tried something new: a Q & A session devoted to music topics.
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Feelings...whoa...whoa...whoa...feelings....
1/26/2009
I found this quote from a Life Action quarterly that I receive and thought it worth sharing.
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Follow Up
1/22/2009
Since I ran long in my last entry, I stopped short of giving some additional items regarding preparing a choir to go without holding sheet music.
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Going Without Sheet Music
1/20/2009
Today, I've got a great question from a brother Music Minister.
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Huw Priday
1/16/2009
One of my holiday traditions is to watch the Christmas program from First Baptist Church of Paducah, KY on Christmas Eve which comes on immediately after the 10 o’clock evening news.
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2008 TCC CD Update
1/14/2009
For those of you who are aware that we’ve been working on our first release from Grace Life Music, I’ve got some news for you!
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Go To My Blogspot site
1/6/2009
If you only read my blog here at Grace Life's site, you need to go over to my parallel site here (is that like a parallel universe?) and watch a video in an entry that I just added. I can't get the video to download at this site. :-(
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Aniol Review
1/5/2009
This is the first time that I’ve been invited to do a recording project review. I have to admit that I’m a little nervous in doing so.
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Top 5 For 2008
12/22/2008
I give my thanks to all of you for participating in the blog this year. This will be my last post for the year as I will be away from the computer (pretty much) until 2009.
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Presentation vs. Performance
12/18/2008
We refer to the Shoals Christmas Praise as a presentation.
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2008 Shoals Christmas Praise
12/16/2008
We presented our annual program, the Shoals Christmas Praise last Sunday night.
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New Video
12/12/2008
I’ve added a new video to YouTube, called “Dead To Sin”.
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A Question
12/9/2008
I received this question a while back and thought it worth sharing with you:
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Are We Saying Enough?
12/4/2008
We were in a discussion as a staff the other day about James and how it also serves as a great test of true conversion much like 1 John is often used.
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Building Bridges?
12/1/2008
This post has little to do with church music. It has to do with the timbre of the debate over the doctrines of grace.
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Something For Everybody?
11/25/2008
As I look and listen to more churches, I see a prevailing mindset of song services trying to please as many people as possible.
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Another One...
11/18/2008
In spite of seeming to be on a rant about song lyrics, I’m going to share another problematic song today.
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True Church Conference CD
11/12/2008
Well, we're working on mixing the last song of the True Church Conference CD.
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What Kind Of Grace Is This?
11/10/2008
I was watching TV the other night and saw a very talented trio called “Hope’s Call” in concert. I suppose they would be in the Southern Gospel genre but much of their music is somewhat different for that classification.
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Changing Lyrics
11/5/2008
We occasionally change lyrics around here at GLC….I realize that I may be in danger of messing with copyrights. I realize that I am altering a songwriter’s intent.
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The Nature Of Worship
10/28/2008
Harold Best, in his book “Music Through The Eyes Of Faith”, says the following about the nature of worship:
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Why Men Won't Preach Sovereign Grace
10/23/2008
Here's a poem I found recently. I think it sums it up quite well....
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Under The Weather
10/21/2008
Well, I’ve had to do something that I’ve only had to do one other time in my 20 years of ministry.
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"My" Jesus
10/16/2008
We do the song “Shout To The Lord” here at Grace Life Church periodically. The first two words of the song are “My Jesus…”.
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Repetition
10/14/2008
I received this question not long ago concerning repetition in song services:
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The Asymmetry Of The Gospel
10/8/2008
This entry doesn’t really have anything to do directly with church music. I’ve just finished the book “Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue” which was produced from the Building Bridges Conference.
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What Will You Do Then?
10/6/2008
You may have noticed a new feature at my blogspot site
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Joyful Expression In Worship
10/3/2008
Last Sunday, Bro. Matt Fowler preached on Phil. 4:4 “Rejoice in the Lord always, and again, I will say, rejoice”. Every Tuesday morning, our staff meets together to discuss the previous Sunday morning’s sermon.
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Wesley On Congregational Singing
10/1/2008
Bob Kauflin quoted a portion of this list in his message at the Desiring God Conference last week. I thought it would be great to share the entire list.
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Sending Out Pt. 2
9/25/2008
I had written a post a few weeks ago about our sending Wes Voorhees, one of our Music Ministers-in-training, to Grace Baptist Church in Selmer, TN.
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Jesus-less Church Music?
9/24/2008
I found this post over at Church Matters. I can’t say I’m surprised that there are gatherings calling themselves “churches” that have gone to these measures, but I am still sickened by it….
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Repertoire Selection Criterion
9/22/2008
Sorry that it’s been a while since I posted. The comments received in response to my post on Ray Boltz were pretty much right on target. I’m sure many churches will possibly over-react to the news about Boltz by pulling every one of his songs from their repertoire.
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Ray Boltz
9/15/2008
I have some disturbing news to share today. It turns out, based on the information in this article, that Ray Boltz has made public his homosexual sin. The article does not call it sin but the scripture does.
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Fireproof
9/9/2008
My wife and I got to go to a free preview of the new movie “Fireproof” last night. It is a movie that was written and produced entirely by the congregation of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, GA (the same church that produced "Facing The Giants".
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Matthew Henry Quote
9/4/2008
I lead a staff devotion for our church staff every Thursday morning, both Grace Life’s and HeartCry’s
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I Don't Get It
9/3/2008
If you haven’t seen the latest “praise” product out there, you’re not missing much.
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Local Newspaper Article
8/31/2008
Our local paper, The Times Daily, just did a feature article about all the folks moving to the Shoals to be a part of our church. I thought the writer did a relatively good job in her portrayal of what's going on.
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Point Of Diminishing Returns
8/27/2008
Wikipedia says that the definition of my title is: …beyond some point, each additional unit of variable input yields less and less additional output. Brother Music Minister, you better know that there is also a point of diminishing returns in rehearsals.
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Balancing Apples And Oranges
8/25/2008
In my last post I made this comment (minus the parenthetical phrase):The balance between musical excellence and biblical worship is a delicate one.
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Does Size And Style Matter?
8/21/2008
Have you ever been to visit a church where so much careful attention was given to making the music at such a high, grandiose level that worship of Christ was hindered? Where, because of their exquisite musical tastes, they believed their worship to be acceptable?
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New Baptist Hymnal
8/19/2008
I just received my first copy of the new 2008 Baptist Hymnal a few days ago. I’ve got just a few random questions regarding it:
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Clarifications On God's Presence
8/13/2008
In my last blog entry, I tried to deal with a complex area. The idea of “coming into God’s presence” or “being in God’s presence” or “ushered into God’s presence” has had much promotion in the contemporary evangelical church.
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In God's Presence
8/11/2008
I touched on a concept in my last blog entry that probably needs further explanation. Grudem expresses what he believes is one of the highest priorities in the church. In summarizing the divisive issue of cessationism/continuationism he appeals to churches to look to unifying desires.
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Thoughts By Grudem
8/7/2008
I just finished reading a book published by Zondervan in an interesting format. Wayne Grudem (as editor) selected four men to write and debate the subject of cessationism/continuationism in the book “Are Miraculous Gifts For Today?”.
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Sending Out
8/5/2008
There is a brother here at Grace Life Church named Wes Voorhees. He was here when I got to AL 3 ½ years ago, leading a small group and playing bass guitar in the orchestra.
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Survival Instinct
7/31/2008
I have been taking a few vacation days in the past week. During that time, we went up to Southern Illinois where our families still live.
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TCC CD Update
7/30/2008
We have received numerous inquiries as to the availability of our first release on Grace Life Music, a CD called Music From The 2008 True Church Conference.
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Dever On Church Music (Disagreement?)
7/22/2008
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Dever On Church Music (Agreements) Pt. 2
7/17/2008
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Dever On Church Music (Agreements)
7/15/2008
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