Category: Music

  • Dan

    Songs for my birthday

    In the past few weeks I’ve noticed a few people post lists of songs for their birthdays. Things like “40 songs for 40 years.” I liked that thought so I compiled my own list. I won’t turn 60 for another year, so this is “59 songs for 59.”

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    The aching remains

    There’s a statue of JesusOn a monastery knollIn the hills of KentuckyAll quiet and coldHe’s kneeling in the gardenAs silent as a stoneAll his friends are sleepingAnd He’s weeping all aloneAnd the man of all sorrowsHe never forgotWhat sorrow is carriedBy the hearts that he boughtSo when the questions dissolveInto the silence of GodThe aching may remainBut the breaking does…

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    Back to Egypt

    Our Old Testament text for Sunday will be Numbers 11. Numbers 11:1-6 remind me of the old Keith Green song, “So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt.” So… enjoy.

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    The CCM Mixtape experiment

    “Christian Contemporary Music.” When I was growing up in a very fundamentalist church, it was the hot controversy. Amy Grant was good, until she wasn’t. Michael W Smith was fine, until he liked Amy Grant too much. So, I don’t have a long history with songs I remember. I want to do a MIX TAPE experiment with you. Put on…

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    Jesus Loves You… and I’m trying

    A new song from Jason Gray, and it’s perfect for me. The last six years (and especially 2016 to 2020, so do the math and figure it out), I’ve had to walk through so many emotions and deep issues as I’ve watched tectonic shifts all around me. Here is to a hopefully better 2024 cycle.

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    Get Moving Friday

    Kirk Franklin music. You’re welcome.

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    A hymn of thanksgiving

    We Gather Together Hymn We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; He chastens and hastens His will to make known. The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing. Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own. Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining, Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine; So from the beginning the fight we…

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    Musician You Need to Know

    If you don’t know the music of Jason Gray, I invite you to get to know this guy. His music is amazing.    

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    An Artist You Need to Know

    If you are not familiar with the music of Jason Gray, do yourself a favor and get to know him! He is a tremendous singer, songwriter, poet, and singing theologian. Let his music feed more than your sense of rhythm.

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    Worship and Remember — Saturday Before Resurrection Sunday