Beside Still Waters Ministries

We are just beginning to transition to a more contemporary worship style, so we don’t have a “set” of music at any point in the service, but I thought I’d put here all the songs we did for the service and how I led them for anyone else who might be trying to transition as [...]

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As I’ve been redoing the entire website as like a half static website and half blog, the hardest part is deciding what it should look like and then using my very limited HTML and CSS skills to adjust a theme to what I want.  I started out with one design that I liked, but I couldn’t [...]

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At the church where I previously served, I wrote several newsletter articles about hymns to try to educate them and enrich the congregation’s worship.  I thought I’d post them here now, to share with whoever might be interested.  I basically encompassed two main aspects with these articles – history (of a particular hymn or a [...]

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Honestly, I liked all of these about equally, but for different moods and different reasons. You might be wondering why I did a separate list for these, instead of putting them in with the rest, and honestly I’m not even totally sure why I did but here they are anyway. I, obviously, don’t listen to [...]

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I just finished recording and producing a Christmas CD called All I Have To Give At Christmas. What I tried to do with it was record some carols and Christmas songs that are not as well known from both contemporary and historical times, and are beautiful and in praise of God and His indescribable gift [...]

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