I heard Paul Jones lecture this fall and was pleasantly surprised at his detailed and conservative approach to church music. Jones is music minister at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia where he ministered under Dr. James M. Boice for a number of years before his death. Jones is admittedly Presbyterian in his style of church […]
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Preaching and Singing the Gospel
I just read an online article by a young man (by his own description) who went out of his way to criticize most gospel preaching and singing for the last two or three hundred years. He believes that once preaching and singing left the Puritan and/or Reformation tradition, it was down hill from there. Interestingly, […]
Messiah: the Story of George Frideric Ha...
It was a delight to be loaned this book for the Christmas holidays. I had never read the biography of this great composer who blessed us with The Messiah. This was a story as well of how that composition came into being, uniquely following only biblical wording. Worthwhile!
Repeat His Mercies In Your Song
Give to our God immortal praise; Mercy and Truth are all His ways; Wonders of Grace to God belong, Repeat His mercies in your song. Isaac Watts I have never been a musician in any technical sense of the word. I can play C, G & F on a guitar and sometimes D, A & […]