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Special Music: Be Still My Soul... Psalm 46:10

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THIS OLE HOUSE Composer/songwriter : Stuart Hamblen Publishers : Duchess Music Ltd. Highest Position : #1. Weeks on chart : 23 Recorded : May 22, 1954 Flip side of her "Hey There" which also hit # 1 This ole house once knew his children This ole house once knew his wife This ole house was home and comfort…

Getting into fights A young couple drove several miles down a country road, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument, and neither wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules and pigs, the husband sarcastically asked, "Are they relatives of yours?" "Yes,"…

5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…

If you have been in a piano factory, did you go there for the sake of music? Go into the tuning room, and you will say, “This is a dreadful place to be in; I cannot bear it; I thought you made music here.” They say, “No, we do not produce music here. We make the instruments, and tune them here, and in…

When the prodigal is received and forgiven, he is not put at the end of the table, below the salt, or sent into the kitchen with the servants, as if his faults were forgiven but yet remembered. He is invited to the table, and he feasts there upon the best the house affords. The fatted calf is killed,…

While some found the emergence of billions of cicadas in the spring and summer of 2021 annoying, David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, used the opportunity for man and nature to work together. While the insects swarmed all around, Rothenberg…

Billy Joe Shaver wrote country music for the superstars, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Elvis Presley, and Willie Nelson. All was not well with Billy Joe though. For years he struggled with his addiction to drugs and alcohols. By his own testimony, that addiction ended after he found Jesus Christ.…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “AIVA Technologies, a Luxembourg start-up, has created AI software that composes jazz, pop, and classical music that is being used in soundtracks for films, video…

Though the audience was limited due to pandemic restrictions, hundreds gathered at St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt to hear the organ change chords on September 5, 2020. The organ in playing an experimental piece of music called Organ/ASLSP written by John Cage in the 1980s. The organ had been playing…

When Nate Mercereau heard about neighbors of the Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, CA) complain about the humming noise made by wind passing through the slats in the bridge he found it “remarkably musical,” and decided to build music around it. Following the bridge’s lead, he plays a melody line that…

A group of musicians and scientists sent a message into space, hoping to communicate with intelligent life on a distant planet. The project, known as Sonar Calling GJ 273b was aimed at a nearby exoplanet named GJ 273b. Scientists believe the planet is a “Super Earth” and may be the home of intelligent…

The music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra has put together a playlist to help animals at a local shelter. Yannick Nezet-Seguin said he was inspired watching the reactions of his cats, and wanted to use music to create a soothing atmosphere for the animals at the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention…

As part of a multi-million-dollar roof restoration project at an English Manor house, workers lifted had to remove the floorboard of the attic for the first time in centuries. Archaeologists expected to find a few coins, bits of paper, and other debris that had fallen through the cracks. Instead, they…

In response to Taylor Swift’s contribution of over $30,000.00 to 18-year-old Vitoria Mario’s GoFundMe page, the grateful recipient said, "My goal is to create a charity that helps people like me.” https://people.com/music/taylor-swift-donates-tuition-18-year-old-university-dream/ 2 Corinthians 9:6 (CSB)…

A museum in Germany used the free time created by the pandemic to create a display that set a new Guinness World record. Frederik Braun and his team used the mandated shut down at the museum to set up a display with a model train and nearly 3000 glasses filled with varying amounts of water. They attached…