I just got over a cold, so I haven’t been able to record any new advent songs until today.  This is one I wrote a few years ago for the Christmas Eve service at my home church.  We pack into a freezing cold barn, sit on barrels of hay, and sing songs between the Christmas [...]

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In Luke’s telling of the Christ child’s coming there is music running throughout.  These songs are both substantially important, but also there is something to gain in recognizing that the joy of Advent is best expressed in song.  So I sat around googleing Advent hymns until I found one that I thought had the, “oh [...]

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Love and Hope are two of the themes of Advent and in this song a connection is drawn between the definitive arrival of God’s Love and Hope in Christ and the invitation for us to participate in their coming.  No better place is that made visible than the communion table.  There all may come, no [...]

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I have been working on a number of things for advent and one of them is arranging and writing some advent songs that could be used in contemporary worship gatherings or with student groups and such.  The first is a wonderful song called, “View the Present through the Promise” which I found the lyrics to [...]

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I have been sporting my “Real Men Marry Ministers” T-shirt this weekend in anticipation of Alecia’s ordination this Sunday at 4. I am pretty pumped and will be doing a couple things during the service, but what I am most excited about is playing an arrangement of the old hymn “I have decided [...]

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Tuesday May 6th we will be having our primary here in NC so decided to record and post this song. Ever since 9-11 fear has been such a key element of politics in America and has funded a good deal of violence. I have not thought the same about violence, war, and Christian [...]

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I co-wrote this tune with brother Wesley, had a little inspiration by this book, and wanted to sing a worship song that centered on the redemptive work of the God who is love in the world. It is my Youth Group’s favorite song. I even heard it on a student’s Ipod after ’solider [...]

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A few weeks ago Mike (the senior minister) asked me to play some music with his sermon on Psalm 46 and I ended up writing a rendition of the Psalm that was weaved through the sermon. A number of people have asked for the song so I recorded in the office today to share. [...]

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