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REVIEW: Come Weary Saints - Sovereign Grace Music
August 26, 2008
Come Weary Saints
Sovereign Grace Music
(c)2008
IN SHORT: If “Suffering & the Sovereignty of God” edited by Piper & Taylor were made into a movie, this would be the soundtrack.
The Importance of Understanding Music Theory
July 17, 2008
We’ve all been there. It fills us with fear and stops us in our tracks. It makes us wonder why we ever got into this job in the first place. It is a question that we dread hearing. “How do you play a Cdim7?”
Becoming A Worship Songwriter: Let’s Get Started
July 5, 2008
How does one become a “worship songwriter?” On the one hand, groups like the Enter The Worship Circle musicians, say “Anyone can write a worship song.” They encourage a “just do it” method that begins with studying the Psalms, asking the Lord to show you His heart as you meditate on the passages, then playing chords as you sing the words of psalms. You keep repeating them until new thoughts come to you. You then sing these new thoughts and phrases and “let your worship carry you” into a new song.Then there are those in modern hymnody who advocate for extensive training and awareness in poetry, music and theology, such as Timothy Dudley-Smith, who tells Paul Westermeyer in Tongues of Fire: Profiles in 20th Century Hymn Writing, that what he finds alarming in modern worship songwriting is “The apparent belief that anyone with a guitar can dash off a ‘worship song’ fit to be sung by a congregation to almighty God, without effort, consultation, or revision - and often without grammar, syntax, meter, or rhythm either!” Read more
