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Make God's Praise Glorious!: Cross Country Hearts

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Saturday, January 24, 2015. Until I saw these hearts. Has soared in beauty over many people's ears and hearts in places all across the country. The current chapter in Marti and Jerry's life includes a hard challenge. In the past year, Marti has sung a new, difficult song as she bravely fights the battle of cancer. Her faith and honesty throughout this journey has inspired so many, many people. Here is a...

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Make God's Praise Glorious!: Brief Bio

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Creed in worship along with other Christians and we get to the phrase, "I believe in the communion of saints," I am always reminded of this great parade of church musicians through all the ages and the continuity, legacy, and ever growing, enlarging repository of their works the church has for keeping worship rich, vibrant, truthful and more. What does it mean to be a 21st century Christian musician?

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Make God's Praise Glorious!: Here She Comes!

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Friday, January 23, 2015. On the Horizon - Katharine Micks. Mrs Dunn, happily married for many years, lived more than a decade after her husband’s death. She selected the following poem to include on the last page of the printed Order of Worship for her own funeral. Gone From My Sight. By Henry van Dyke. I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,. Spreads her white sails. To the moving breeze.

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Make God's Praise Glorious!: Table Prayers

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Saturday, August 9, 2014. What a joy it was recently to have our dinner host ask us to stand at table and hold hands, asking my husband to pray before our shared meal “as is our custom.” I woke with that scene shining in my mind in the wee hours of this morning. How profoundly simple prayers said in peace at meal time shape our lives. Bless us O Lord, and these thy gifts. Which we are about to receive.

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Make God's Praise Glorious!: Against the Darkness

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. Here is a line in a hymn by Ronald Klug, “Rise, Shine, You People” that plays often in my mind since I first heard this stirring 20. Century hymn. In recent months, it has become a constant reflexive refrain for me to the disturbing news-of-the-day . . . 8220;Your songs and prayers against the darkness hurling.”. Just one person living on a quiet street in Your Town USA? Looks ...

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Make God's Praise Glorious!: May 2015

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Heaven's Books of Prayers. Are one of life’s fine companions, aren’t they? How many pleasant hours in childhood are spent nestled in these corners exploring the world through the pages of books? How many paths to adulthood and discovery are spent perusing and devouring a gamut of subjects? Links to this post. Saturday, May 9, 2015. From Our Mother's Arms. Everyone has a mother!

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Make God's Praise Glorious!: July 2015

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Friday, July 31, 2015. Catching the Holy Whisper. As the sound of words. In golden tones of Graceful song. Yet nestled soft as down. In my heart’s sacristy. Is God‑love this warm? Is Christ‑joy this knowing? Is Spirit‑hope this near? Does that which is far beyond. Find its way to these light‑dappled chambers. Of personal cloistered space. Soar high and low? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Make God's Praise Glorious!: From Our Mother's Arms

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Saturday, May 9, 2015. From Our Mother's Arms. Everyone has a mother! Regardless of how one perceives their mother's successes or failures as a mom, everyone can be thankful for the gift of life in the same manner that this hymnist writes . . . Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,. Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;. Martin Rinkart, 1636. The three stanzas o...

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Make God's Praise Glorious!: Catching the Holy Whisper

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Make God's Praise Glorious! Thoughts on music, worship, family and life from a church musician's view. Friday, July 31, 2015. Catching the Holy Whisper. As the sound of words. In golden tones of Graceful song. Yet nestled soft as down. In my heart’s sacristy. Is God‑love this warm? Is Christ‑joy this knowing? Is Spirit‑hope this near? Does that which is far beyond. Find its way to these light‑dappled chambers. Of personal cloistered space. Soar high and low? Charioteer that swoops low. Thanks be to God!