Beside Still Waters Ministries

In my prayer time, I felt that God wanted us to look at His grace, and those that responded to it with hymn texts that continue to be powerful today. First, let’s look at John Newton, who wrote “Amazing Grace”, probably the most well-known hymn around the world. John’s mother was an early, strong spiritual [...]

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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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Christmas From the Realms of Glory by Bebo Norman – the first song is just awesome Christmas Songs by Jars of Clay It’s a Wonderful Christmas by Michael W. Smith Let It Snow by Michael Buble (sorry I don’t know how to do the little accent thingy in html) A great late edition to my [...]

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