Wounded, Bleeding, Still Proceeding Update – June 1
(Original posting 6/1/2017) Progress, yes! First draft of the crucifixion setting (Wounded, Bleeding, Still Proceeding) is complete. Some of it I really like and some I’m not so sure about. […]
It’s almost summer, and you know what that means, right?
(Original posting 5/25/2017) Well, here comes Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial beginning of summer, and a long, long, summer it will be here in Texas. It’s time for bare feet, […]
Wounded, Bleeding, Still Proceeding Update
(Original posting 5/21/2017) Well, with the finale (He Became Like Me) completed it’s time to move back to the two remaining unwritten movements in my Easter cantata. These will be […]
On the Nature of Worship
(Original posting 5/18/2017) Just what is worship? Experience? Intense emotion? Exuberant physical expression? Eh, . . . not so much, at least not according to how the Bible portrays it, […]
He Became Like Me
(Original posting 5/17/2017) In my last post I had just begun work on the final movement of my Easter cantata, which is a traditional choir anthem about substitutionary atonement and […]
Easter Cantata still progressing . . . (more Wounded, Bleeding, Still Proceeding)
(Original posting 4/17/2017) Well, March was the target date for completing my thesis project (an Easter cantata) to qualify for Spring graduation, but it’s not going to happen, . . . […]
Seeking the Face of God: Evangelical Worship Reconceived
(Original posting 4/10-2017) Today brought a complete surprise. In my music ministry philosophy class last Spring one of our assignments was to write a review of a recently published book on […]
Wounded, Bleeding, Still Proceeding – An Easter Cantata
(Original posting 3/13/2017) “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished” (ESV). So Luke quotes […]