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Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | Spirituality |
Jeremiah 6.16 "Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and
see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk
therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said,
we will not walk therein."
Today, Wednesday, July 12, 2005, I rode by my old home church,
Youmans Chapel. Seeing the church brought back many fond
memories.
The year was 1959, and I was in the second grade. The members of
Youmans Chapel Baptist church called my Daddy, the late Rev.
A.J. Rozier, to be their ...
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 | Spirituality |
Music Spotlight Interview Cousins in Christ, O Night Divine By
Lisa M. Hendey
Christmas is a time of celebration, rich spiritual tradition,
and family. With the release of their new CD O Night Divine the
Catholic music group Cousins in Christ combines these three
elements, creating a masterpiece your family will treasure for
years to come. These talented young singers, ages fourteen
through nineteen, are actually 'double cousins' sharing the same
two sets of grandparents. John Paul Rudolph(19), ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Spirituality |
The inspiration for this article comes from an Old Testament
story. In this story there is a special building project
undertaken by Solomon. The four stages explained in this article
are the exact same steps illustrated in this story. You will
find that these four concepts will dramatically help you in your
music ministry. You need to take this information and start
creating an overwhelming positive worship experience in your
church's worship service.
This is where we begin - One day as I was ...
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009 | Spirituality |
I started this ministry because I see something happening in
our churches that is a deep concern to me. There are far too
many of our members who attend worship services who are not, and
are not becoming, grounded in the word of God. I also see many
members who are drifting away from the fellowship of the church.
If their faith was strong and their love for God mature, I don't
think this would happen.
Also, the reasons people give for staying away from the
fellowship is puzzling to me. It ...
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009 | Spirituality |
Faith Fellowship Church'PO Box 1586'Broken Arrow, OK
74013'Pastor Terry Dashner
'Essence of Worship'
Is there a difference in the form of worship and the essence?
Yes, as a matter of fact, many churches today are struggling
with the proper form of worship. So widespread is this problem
that many churches have divided into two services on Sunday
mornings. In one service the form of worship is traditional
music. Only hymns, piano, and organ are used while in the other
service only contemporary ...
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | Spirituality |
B>Christian Music That Fills You With More Than Just Old Time
Rock n' Roll
Some of the earliest Christian music was about the new testament
and most were simple hymns. Some of these Christian musical
hymns can still be heard today, including "Awake, awake O
sleeper" on the occasion of someone's baptism.
Jesus and his disciples very likely would have sung psalms from
their time which by the very nature makes them
Christian music. Early Christians continued
to sing the psalms much as they were ...
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Monday, December 21st, 2009 | Spirituality |
When worship is mentioned what come to mind? It is the music? Is
it the message? Even though most of the focus regarding worship
leans toward music. It is important to remember that there is
more to a worship service that just the music portion. There are
several ways in which we express our worship to God. In this
section we will take a look at five different elements that
gives the worshipper a fuller experience in the worship service.
These items include the following: Singing, Praying, ...
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | Spirituality |
The Wonderful Christmas
Genesis 33:5: 'And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the woman and
children, and said, who are those with thee? And he said, the
children which God has graciously given thy servant.'
Children are a gift from God. He had blessed me to have two
wonderful daughters and a good son. When their mother left in
1986 I became a single parent to six, eight, and eleven year old
children. My heart grieved for them as they missed their mother.
After the Lord saved me, I began to pray ...
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009 | Spirituality |
"Listening and experiencing Randy's performance was
certainly all I had expected and more... but little did I expect
that I would be impacted by something in a more profound
way..." We had been waiting for this day for a month. Being
big Randy Travis fans, my family and I arrived at the concert
two hours before they opened the doors to let folks in... making
sure we would get primo seats. Of course we were in the first
dozen folks to get there. (This is a common Lingner practice as
we were the ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Gospel musician ' anyone like you dreams of being a gospel musician. If you are talented and can play musical instruments then I am sure that you will become a successful gospel musician. Being a professional Gospel musician is to pray god with your music, it should be the favorite to god. This article is just for you if you really want to become a successful gospel musician. It will tell you 5 easy steps that you might have not considered. It is a step by step procedure of being a ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Christian music has been said to be growing at a fast rate. Many people are now searching the web, looking to get access to the latest free christian music download tracks because of it's growing popularity. This is a good thing, considering the fact that some of the people that do not regularly attend church, or do not consider themselves to be religious in any kind of way, have actually started turning their focus away from circular music. This is a trend that the music industry did not ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Gospel ' a very popular Christian religious music all over the world is being more popular nowadays. Gospel is one of the great music available on earth Gospel is great because first it is too sweet and another, it is made for worshiping the god. Gospel music is created with heart and can feel you the heaven. It makes the environment religious by combining great singers, musicians, and instruments the gospel singers sing their prayers to the god and the gospel musician's plays music for that ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
The guitar is perhaps one of the most recognized musical instrument apart from the piano. What many people don't realize is that this symbol of rock and roll has been around for over 4,000 years, in some form or another.
Origins
The first real guitar-like item to be discovered was the tanbur. One of these was actually found in Egypt, near Queen Hatshepsut's tomb. The tanbur was built of polished cedar and had a soundboard made of leather. Though featuring just three strings, it resembles a ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
It is not that easy to play piano at the church. There are quite many things to learn at a short span of time and you have to cope with that. There may be instances where you will be requested to play along with singers on some songs that you have never heard or tried playing before. They may expect a lot from you making you play at a certain level or skill that you haven't attained yet. You will have to undergo much stress especially if you are just having a head start. The following tips can ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
This holiday season is already upon us and many people are reaching out a helping hand to those in need. One of those shining stars is none other than Amy Grant, the six-time Grammy Award winning singer, who is currently leading the "Small Changes" campaign. Through this effort, Grant is encouraging people to focus on the small changes in their diets and their lives to make an enormous difference in their family's health and wellbeing. This is especially pertinent during the holiday season, ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Recording artist Terrance Day is in the process of breaking a new record no pun intended. His goal is to sell 1,000,000 copies of the new independent CD A Simple Life. This is being done through his own popular web site MakeMusicHistory.comHe is offering free permanent web exposure to each Official Sponsor and Supporter. The site steadily receives more web site visitors each day. Terrance said, traffic is coming in from all over the world every hour.Individuals, families, businesses owners, and ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Christian music has always been popular and loved by millions of people across the world. Christian music albums have touched the souls of all the music lovers. Christian music has influenced several million minds worldwide as the music is pure that really touches everyone who hears it. In today's modern world, the Christian music album have appealed to the masses as it is not just the music for people of faith, but it has gone a way more. Christian music has been introduced as the mainstream ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
The holidays are filled with joyful emotions and honored traditions, including the playing of songs about snowmen, St. Nick, evergreen trees, and presents wrapped up with big pretty bows. No matter how you celebrate the season, you'll hear these songs on the radio, on TV, at the mall, in the office, and just about anywhere music is performed.If you think the same songs are played over and over, you're right, but if this bothers you, consider the alternative: Christmas carols were banned in ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
There are some surprising facts behind all of this glorious music.So, fire up the barbecue grill, look up at the fireworks, and strike up the band as we reveal the secrets behind the most influential nationalistic musical moments of all time."Star Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key, 1814.Schoolchildren in America all learn how Key watched the British bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 and so admired the courage of the beleaguered American forces that he wrote four stanzas of ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Most of us grew up singing Christmas carols, learning the lyrics to classics such as Jingle Bells or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, at a very young age. But believe it or not, carols have been sung for thousands of years and didn't start for the sake of Christmas. They were sang pagans who were celebrating Winter Solstice. Carols were accompanies by celebrations and people dancing around stone circles. This is why the word carol is actually has Greek roots, originally pronounced choraulein, ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 | Spirituality |
The Caral pyramids are older than the ones on Giza's Plateau
according to some academics. The mummies found in the Hebrides
and Canary Islands have similar interment procedures to those in
Peru. There are many things that show advanced technology
started in Peru and it is hard to know when it all began or what
kind of culture may have taught the white people known as the
Chachapoyas who were still the leaders of the Incas even though
history tells us they were defeated a short time before ...
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