conversations between sisters in Christ
My family loves music and our little ones are no exception. From the time he was very small, Cedar loved to bop around to music and he had surprisingly good rhythm for a baby. As he got older and more mobile, such “dancing” evolved into assorted hops and jumps and spins. Anything with a beat [...]
I’ve been playing the piano since I was six. Like any other ordinary student, I would forget to practice all week until the night before lesson day. But after my eleventh birthday, my perspective changed with my grandparents’ generous gift of harp lessons.
For a long time I was very disillusioned with the contemporary Christian music scene. When I was younger, there were certain artists who I was big fans of and collected their CDs, but in the last ten years, I’ve been very unimpressed. It seems that so many of the songs sound the same, and in general, the lyrics are rather weak and trite. Granted, there definitely are exceptions to this, but even among the exceptions, I couldn’t find any artists that I just loved. That is, until several summers ago…
It’s been nearly a decade since anything has topped out on my list of ‘favorite albums’ that wasn’t whatever the innocence mission had just released. I don’t think I even paused to realize this until Andrew Peterson broke into the winner’s circle a few months ago with his 2005 recording, The Far Country, and spun [...]
The message in these lyrics written by a family friend conveys the Truth we are clinging to these days, as we watch the world around us. If you’re looking for a Christmas gift, the entire CD is filled with original songs that are easy on the ears and a balm to the heart. –Gretchen [...]
I sat in my seat in a big, old Church in Colorado Springs last Christmastime. As the music began, my heart soared with the notes and my mind to the many other times I had sat and listened to the music of The Messiah.Thirteen years have passed since the first time I sat in a [...]
We’ve been married just two years, but my husband and I have begun to realize we’re already falling into that “old married couple” category. We like going to bed early. We have to have our Sunday afternoon naps. And they just don’t make love songs like they did when we were young. A few months [...]
Wow. Ten minutes after my brother handed me this CD I am on here blogging about it. Wow! His Faithfulness: The Poetry of Amy Carmichael is set to music by Jim Spencer. He says that “it has been our intention to handle these songs in such a way as to allow you to reflect upon [...]
Thanksgiving is still a month away, but for some reason as the strains of Classical music came from the radio early the other morning, I thought of the CD with Thanksgiving hymns my grandmother had given my family last autumn.The CD accompanied Barbara Rainey’s book Thanksgiving: A Time to Remember, and had a delightful collection [...]
Praise You in This Storm ranks up with Held as one of the most honest and faith-filled proclamations in the last few years. We all have times we need to be able to fall down and sing this, though it hurts even to take those faltering steps of faith. Casting Crown’s Praise You in This [...]
