June 11, 2009
Okay, stop what you’re doing.
For anybody who reads this space who doesn’t own the latest Charlie Hall CD, “The Bright Sadness”. Stop.
Right now.
Go here and buy it.
I just got a chance today at the Willow Creek Arts Conference to spend some time in a seminar with Charlie and then in the evening to attend a small acoustic worship event. Charlie doesn’t connect me with Charlie. And it’s not just that his songs are amazing and that the passion in his voice and instrument are insanely inspired. It’s that Charlie connects me to this guy who gave everything so that I could be part of God’s plan on earth, this guy named Jesus.
I can’t recommend Charlie’s music enough. No other songwriter or worship leader since Rich Mullins connects me to God quite the way Charlie does. Just in case you google yourself, Charlie… THANK YOU!
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October 1, 2008
As most who read this page know, I work, for a living, as a Worship Arts Pastor at the coolest church in the whole wide world in Du Bois, PA. Wow, I’m glad I’m doing that now and not 20 years ago. The music that’s out there now is just so over the top great. But three artists in just the past few weeks have released what I think are the greatest albums of their careers, and the greatest, coolest, most useful (if you can call it that) collections of worship songs in a while. So if you’re into worship music, play in church, whatever… check these out.
Chris Tomlin “Hello Love”
Charlie Hall “The Bright Sadness”
Lincoln Brewster “Today is the Day”
Now, for you church musicians out there. Chris’s CD is available from worshiptogether.com in a package with an extra CD with how-to’s and chord charts and sheet music. Charlie has free chord charts at his site, Lincoln’s album is available in a “vertical music worshiptools” pack from integrity.com.
I can’t say it enough… just buy ‘em! What a great time to do what I do!
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July 31, 2008

My new CD is here. It came out great. The printing is perfect. The experience with Disc Makers was unbelievable and I can’t recommend them enough for any CD project you may have. I will update this space to let you all know when it’s available online. Right now you can get it by contacting me (It’s 10 bucks plus shipping) and at Tri-County Church.
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June 28, 2007
So…
I stuck in two different CDs today. One, by an artist whose name I will not mention… It was… just let’s say it was not good. Then I got out my trusty iPod (the real cool one with U2’s signatures on the back… Aren’t I just the consumer…) and pulled up Beethoven’s 6th. It made up for everything.
Trouble is, when I find myself listening to great music, then I find myself listening to something that is… not great, let’s say… I find my tolerance for the “not so great” goes lower and lower, to the point where I feel like I’m becoming a snob and not a regular person.
Another example. I was sorting through some new worship music that came across my desk (since I’m a “Worship Arts Pastor” I have to sort through this stuff) and trying desperately to find new music we could use here at the church (www.tricountychurch.net) and getting nowhere, so I pulled out a CD that I knew had great music on it to listen just to inspire me a little… Crowder’s “A Collision” (Check it here). Then I feel like I could never write a song as good as “Wholly Yours”.
Same thing with art and photography… Okay, just photography. I can take a picture, but I can’t draw a straight line. But I see something really beautiful, and it makes me feel like I could never take a picture like that.
How about you? Does great art inspire you? Or just frustrate you? Or maybe both at the same time?
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