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Forsaken Verses…Songs Without the Holy Spirit
“Come, Thou Almighty King,” which uses the Italian Hymn tune of Felice de Giardini, has long been a staple in the hymnals of Churches of Christ. But with only one or two exceptions, the earliest being WEM Hackleman’s Gloria in Excelcis of 1905, there have been no hymnals that have included the third verse. It,…
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Forsaken Verses…#1.
I love how over the years random folks, for random practical, musical, and sometimes “theological reasons” have taken it upon themselves to remove certain verses from hymns. In so many cases, what we are left with as a result is something incomplete…part of the story, the flow is missing. Composers and Lyricists, inspired by God,…
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Steve Green
Steve Green is a legend in the CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) world…He got his start as a back-up singer for the Gaither Trio in the late 70’s…among his other back-up singers were the great bass Lee Young and a young lady named Sandi Patti…not to bad of a group, I imagine. He’s got a new…
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Gaither Vocal Band
As I said yesterday, I’m still on a Southern Gospel Kick. And one of my favorite artists right now is the Gaither Vocal Band…in their many incarnations. Here’s one of my favorite songs…”Worthy is the Lamb” that they do. You can trace them in hundreds of ways on YouTube and iTunes.
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Face-tter-book-space…
Facebook…Twitter…MySpace…Blogs, Vlogs, Podcasts, Websites, Kindle, Audio Books, iPhones…the list goes on and on for ways we are communicating in this day of rapidly increasing technology. But it seems to me, at least in several circumstances I’m familiar with, that the church is letting this technology and it’s capacity to communicate to an e-world pass it…
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Spirit-ual Worship Leadership…Dr. Mark Roberts
This section is something I read in the new Worship Leader magazine I received a few days ago…Too often I just take a casual glance through these when I could be reading some really really good stuff if I’d just take a little time and slow down and become a sponge… Dr. Roberts says… “When…
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