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CCLI Song Number 7119315 Author(s): Jonathan David HelserMelissa HelserMolly SkaggsJake Stevens Recorded by: The Martin Family

After Mark Lashey’s job moved him to Delaware, he had no desire to stay. He had been raised in the south and disliked being a long way from family. He loved being an accountant and Lashey also loved singing, so he and his wife formed a music group and traveled on weekends for about ten years. Lashey…

For the last 55 years, University of Illinois students have given of their time during the holidays to sing a holiday song for anyone who calls. The students in the Snyder Hall dorm host their “Dial-a-carol” program every year as a way to help students relive stress and blow off steam between finals…

Musician speaker, and author Shaun Groves says he has the opportunity to lead worship at many different churches. After the services, he takes time to sit down with the musicians of that church for some one-on-one time. Groves says the musicians will often ask him about the music program at his home…

A new NASA spacecraft has recorded and sent back a song sung by our planet. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes are spacecraft designed to study the Van Allen Belts around the Earth, and are currently orbiting in the area where the song is produced. The song is known as chorus and is an electromagnetic phenomenon…

Linguists from around the world are rushing to get a recording of Gyani Sen. The seventy-five-year-old woman is the last fluent native speaker of a language that could soon disappear. Sen speaks Kusunda, a unique tongue spoken only in Nepal. The language is known as a language isolate because linguists…

Not long ago Andrew Lunsford was an unemployed countertop maker in the process of declaring bankruptcy. When the economy went bad, Lunsford lost his business, cars and house. He said he was desperate and miserable and could not find solace anywhere. In the middle of his despair Lunsford found a classical…

Over 100 years ago, doctors first noticed that people, who could not speak after an injury to the speech center in the left side of their brains, could still sing. In the 1970s, researcher in Boston started using what they termed “singing therapy” to help stroke survivors regain the power to speak. The…

Pollstar, a publication covering the concert industry says the Winter Jam 2011 Tour beat out tours by big name artists such as Bon Jovi, U2, Brad Paisley, and Justin Bieber. The 46-city tour created by NewSong included Christian artists such as the David Crowder Band, The Newsboys, and Kutless and reached…

Do you have a verse to the “somebody done me wrong song?” Most of us do. Most of us know the pain of being treated wrong and rehearsing the wrong in our mind. However, as the years go by, I wonder how accurate our memory is? In Caring Enough to Confront, David Augsberger writes, “Most of the pictures…

Mervyn Salmon, a choir member at St Cuthbert’s Church in Wells, Somerset, may hold the record for longest continuous service. When he joined the choir, 70 years ago, “King George VI was on the throne, Winston Churchill was prime minister, and Adolf Hitler stood towering over Europe.” Today, at age 78,…

In the Book, God Stories, author Andrew Wilson shares a unique view of what is like to Confronted with the reality of our spiritual state. Quoting Evangelist Phil Moore, Wilson says the moment might best be described as a Simon Cowell moment, drawing on the television success of the American Idol program.…

STEWARDSHIP We often hear it said, “You can’t take it with you.” Some folks, while they cannot take their wealth with them, continue to produce them for those left behind. This year the top earners among the already departed were fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent, songwriters, Rodgers and Hammerstein,…

WORSHIP Have you ever not felt like coming to a worship service? Some would argue that there is no point in attending if you are not in the right attitude. However, sometimes the only way to break through the resistance to worship is to be among worshippers. In his book Invitation to a Journey, Robert…

MUSIC During the stress filled days leading up to Christmas, British farmers are playing recordings to keep their turkeys calm, and hopefully increase profits. Farmers have long believed that covering up the sounds of farmyard life is good for the birds. There is already some evidence that turkeys and…

Harmony Paul gives us a key to getting along with others in Romans 12:16. I particularly like the New Living Translation rendering of the verse, "Live in harmony with each other. Don't try to act important, but enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don't think you know it all!" Paul didn't tell us…

SINGING My Dad bought my Mom a piano for her birthday. A few weeks later, I asked how she was doing with it. “Oh,” said my dad, “I persuaded her to switch to a clarinet.” “How come?” I asked. “Well,” he answered, “because with a clarinet, she can't sing.”

MARKETPLACE EVANGELISM A new music-and-worship tour is making its way across the country. Though the tour features Michael W. Smith, Third Day, and minister/author Max Lucado, it is getting mixed reviews. The concern is not over the artists or personalities involved, rather it centers on the fact that…

Kindness In ancient times, philosophers were in the marketplace exchanging ideas. But where do philosophers ply their trades today? The only place I can think of is Country Music. It is, perhaps, one of the last bastions of pop philosophy in our day. I recently ran across a list of quirky titles that…

SINGING New research suggests drivers who enjoy a sing-a-long while on the road concentrate more and fall asleep less than drivers who remain silent behind the wheel. The study conducted for a British insurance company found 63 percent of safe drivers—those who had not been in an accident for four years…

A boy told his daddy he was bored with the songs used in church. His daddy told him if he didn’t like the songs they had, he should write some himself. He did: “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross,” “Joy To The World” – Isaac Watts.

I read a fascinating study a few years ago that suggested that we stop thinking about the lyrics of a song after hearing it thirty times. That has profound implications when it comes to worship. If we aren’t careful, we stop worshiping in spirit and in truth and start lip syncing. Maybe that’s why the…

Under the Old Covenant, the Levites were distinguished by God from the rest of the people and set apart with special privileges of drawing near to Him in worship (Num. 8:14-16, 16:8-9; Deut. 8:10). It was based upon this distinction that they were later used for singing and the playing of musical instruments…

In this chapter we will see that God has always regulated His public worship even in regard to the specific musical instruments used. There is no record in Scripture of a musical instrument every being used in public worship without an explicit divine command. We will then establish the following three…

The meaning of psallo must ultimately be determined from its usage in the New Testament. When we consider how this verb is used in other passages in the New Testament, it becomes clear that its meaning must be “to sing” and not “to play on a stringed instrument.” If we take the earlier meaning of psallo,”…