My spiritual retreat

This is something that I just don’t remember hearing much about until recently in my Christian life (again, it may have been being preached to me but I missed it). The idea is to go away and really get alone with God. Sounds like a perfectly normal and good idea. Why haven’t I done it […]

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Christian Contemporary Music

As a teen, I was a big listener of CCM. I kept up with the latest releases of most of the artists out there that I enjoyed. It was the “soundtrack of my life” so to speak. I viewed the music as a form of entertainment that would occasionally even touch me or convict me […]

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Confessions of a recovering Baptist – Emotions

My wife and I both grew up in Baptist churches and no longer attend one. We are now attending Providence Church of Pittsburgh which is part of the Sovereign Grace Ministries family of churches. Their doctrinal positions would agree decently with traditional protestant churches. But they’re not very “Baptistic.”

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Changing older hymns’ tunes

I was searching the ‘net for a chord sheet for the hymn “And Can It Be.” My church sings this song using the redone melody/arrangement by Bob Kauflin instead of the traditional melody. Why is that? Is it a good idea? I found some web postings suggesting this isn’t a good idea.

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