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Twenty-nine years ago this month (February 1985) I was called to serve my first church as minister of music. During that first year of ministry I began writing hymns for our congregation to sing in...
View ArticleCome You Thirsty, Come to Christ
The Featured Song for August is a hymn based on Jeremiah 2:13 and Psalm 36. There is nothing more satisfying in life than coming to God, the “Fountain of Living Waters.” All other pursuits will prove...
View ArticleCome Seek the Lord
Come to Me, you weary; Come to Me and find rest. Take My Yoke upon you; Come and know peace and gentleness. For why do you still labor, Weighed down with pain and guilt and care, Oppressed and crushed...
View ArticleTornado Ride
This month marks a tragic anniversary for my home city. Forty years ago, on May 6, 1975, Omaha, Nebraska, was struck by a destructive tornado. I was thirteen then and remember the storm today,...
View ArticleO Sovereign God, How Great Your Grace
Thirty years ago I made my first endeavor writing a hymn. It was prompted by two significant events that God brought into my life in 1985. During that year I began serving God in the music ministry,...
View ArticleGathered Now We Come to Worship
Gathered now, we come to worship, Hearts united, singing praise! We would look to Jesus only, Letting none distract our gaze. May we offer music fitting For the worship of our King. Let us foremost...
View ArticleNow May the God of Peace
“Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23, ESV). A Prayer of...
View ArticleRemembering J. S. Bach
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” — J. S. Bach (March 21, 1685 to July 28, 1750) Johann Sebastian Bach represents the...
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