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Resolve to Sing Pt. 5 – Final Encouragement!

Throughout this five-part series, I have sought to convince you that singing more is a worthy resolution. We’ve examined singing as an activity that uniquely unites other spiritual disciplines such as prayer, Bible study, and fellowship. We have considered our creation as singing creatures and Christianity as a singing faith. We’ve consider singing as not Continue reading
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Resolve to Sing: Part 3 – The Satisfaction of Singing

In the first post in this series, I challenged you to consider adding a new resolution to your list: sing more! In the second post, we considered human beings as singing creatures and Christianity as a singing faith. Consider giving those a skim if you haven’t already! A Discipline and Delight Now look, we are Continue reading
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Rejoicing in Repetition

My current favorite song—“Shape of Love” by Passenger—keeps popping up in my Spotify playlists and I never skip it. Its opening chords make me smile no matter how many times it has played today already. Similarly, as I said in a previous post, I eat the same breakfast every day and have not yet grown Continue reading
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Consumption

I fear we are dying of consumption… It’s 2019 and it seems that everyone seems has some sort of food sensitivity. (Someone recently suggested that I cut gluten, which nearly made me cry as I reached for another slice of bread.) Our nutritional awareness is becoming more and more acute and, on the whole, I’d Continue reading
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Preeminent Performance

In my “Redeeming Culture through Music” class, we were asked the following question: “Which is most important in music: the composer, the performer, or the listener?” The class more or less unanimously expressed that the three persons are equally important. After all, if there is no composer, there is nothing to perform and if there Continue reading
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