Dinner Time Thoughts, Discussion Guide Included: The Full Length Album

While the internet has solved quite a few of the world’s problems, it is not sinless. It has been the greatest human achievement in making knowledge accessible, but has also been another game of Chutes and Ladders. A good thing can unintentionally kill off other necessary thing. Using it has killed off a few things …

My Salvation Story

I grew up in a pastor’s home and came to a fundamental knowledge of the gospel at a young age, but didn’t have a saving knowledge of the gospel until I was a teenager. We moved around quite a bit which led to surface level relationships at best. This sounds like a diss on my …

Set the Time Machine to 1996…

I'm currently in my office doing some research for a project I'm working on but the music playlist (Peaceful Piano on Spotify) playing in my headphones is taking me back to the time my wife and I were dating in college. She was a music education major and her instrument was piano. Her playing at …

Saturday Sung-day

Thankfully, I don’t have a “father wound” but there are rival wounds. Needless, this song is a cry of the heart for those who have “superficial” wounds in the eyes of those who have suffered at the hands of their fathers.

Hemmed In

I remember watching a Liberty Mutual commercial back in the mid-2000s and the music in the commercial was so beautiful I googled who it was and found an artist that I have not stopped listening to since. I offer you Rabbit Songs from Hem. This album and Eveningland have sung my little boys to sleep …

One that got away

One of my favorite albums from the 2000's is James Blunt's All the Lost Souls. I bought the CD when I was working at Starbucks in Marion Ohio during a church planting attempt. You won't find a bad track but this one sticks out above all the rest in my opinion. With so much really …

The Power of a Song

While visiting my grandmother in the nursing home a few months back, my wife sat down at a piano in a waiting area and asked what to play. I said she should play the Forrest Gump theme song, but I had seriously underestimated its power. I’m a softie so it was, of course, emotional overload. …

The Music of Conversation

21 years ago this month I was in a van with seven other people that ended up becoming very dear to me. We traveled for Baptist Bible College in Springfield Missouri on a musical recruiting team. Our travel schedule lasted throughout the school year going to churches on the weekend, and also for 10 weeks …

I Started a Joke Guitar (Bee Gee’s/Wallflowers) Tutorial

A great way to connect with people in living room setting is to have a guitar and play and sing songs people know and can sing along with. Here is a video tutorial for acoustic guitar players. https://youtu.be/go6JQ2Otn_8

Lucky

I'm sitting here trying to get some work done while listening to a playlist on Spotify called Peaceful Piano.  Isn't it amazing how a simple melody from a piano can stir the heart to tears? Just me...? I'm transported back to my college years sitting in a practice room where my wife, then girlfriend, would …