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New Wineskins…Old Hymns & New Tunes
Randy Gill is a master craftsman when it comes to song writing and arranging. Period. One of my favorites of his is a setting of John Newton’s “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds.” He’s written new music & added a new chorus and paired it with a time-honored text. How sweet the Name of…
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The Renewed Mind is the Key…(To Why CofC’s are A Cappella!)
There are some unspoken reasons to why Churches of Christ are a cappella. Take this video for example…This is what would happen if we went instrumental and started incorporating “planned choreography” into our worship! (Thanks Mike for the link!)
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Love That Never Lets Go
Today I need a big dose of Dr. George Matheson. Matheson, a preacher who would in mid life lose his sight, as well as his fiancee upon learning of his impending blindness, wrote these lyrics out of the midst of pain, hurt and sorrow. Yet it speaks of an eternal love that never lets go…a…
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Forgotten Verses…#5
I once heard Dr. Jerry Rushford tell a story about the origins of the hymn, “Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing.” Somewhere along in the annals of history in 20th century Churches of Christ, someone decided to change the title to “O Thou Fount of Every Blessing…” Not for any real reason, other than they…
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Forgotten Verses…#4
One of the most beautiful hymns of all time is “Fairest Lord Jesus.” And while it achieved a prominent place in American hymnody over the last 150+ years, in my estimation it achieved an even greater place of prominence in the Choral Repertoire under a different title, “Beautiful Savior,” thanks to the work of F.…
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Forsaken Verses…#3
I’m sitting in a meeting in Irving this morning (as I was all day yesterday) and I remembered I failed to post yesterday. So, I’ll drop a short post here on a song where we’ve deleted a whole phrase that completely impacts the entire song’s message… The song is Holy, Holy, Holy. All evidence, without…
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