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I wrote this in maybe spring of 2022 after a worship conference when I was in Portland. To be honest, I wrote it because I wanted to write a cookie-cutter conservative American Evangelical fist-swinging Christian hymn. There was definitely some spiteful desires in me even though no one will probably ever care about this song very much. I wanted to write the song to demonstrate how bored I was w...

This song is one of my more recent songs. I wrote it sometime after moving to Kansas City. Sometimes I wonder how much the lyrics are actually connected to the way I feel, but that remains a mystery. The lyrics of songs often come to me pretty naturally so I assume they are likely a reflection of the way I was feeling at a time. The song is about sin struggles as many of my songs are, but the d...

This is a song based off of Psalm 88 and includes some of the specific language used in Holy Scripture. The verses of the song are reflective of the various wrestlings with doubt and sin in a Christian's life, even in my own life. Just as Psalm 88 is a cry to God as the pains of life overtake the psalmist, so too every Christian feels moments of doubt, pain, suffering, sin, and hopelessness. A ...

This is Philippians 2:5-11 put to music with a chorus from Romans 12:2. It is nearly word for word for memorization purposes. This is a similar song to the one I posted previously (Colossians 1:15-20). It may have functioned as a hymn or liturgical passage in the early church. The chorus fits with the first line of the song "have this mind among yourselves." We are to act and live in a way that...

This is Colossians 1:15-20 put to music with a chorus from 1 Timothy 6:15b-16 from the ESV translation. The lyrics are nearly verbatim to the wording of the ESV with only slight changes or additions to fit the music. Both of these passages likely functioned as hymns or doxologies and would have been sung or read aloud for liturgical purposes in first century churches. These are theologically ri...

Here is a lyric video for the song "Tongue." It sounds a little better than the other video.

This is a video of the Nicene Creed put to music. It's a repost because I posted the wrong video the first time. This was completed as a project in the hope that one of my professors could use it to catechize his children. This is as well the reason I desired to write it. It is crucial that Christians remember and internalize first Scripture and second an understanding of historic Christian bel...

I felt a number of months ago like I had made a grave mistake. Here is the lyric video to a song I wrote during that time. I'll probably mostly post lyric videos from now on.

This is a song based off of Psalm 88 and includes some of the specific language used in Holy Scripture. The verses of the song are reflective of the various wrestlings with doubt and sin in the Christian's life, even in my own life. Because the Psalm is a cry to God as the distresses of life overtake the psalmist, so too every Christian feels moments of doubt, pain, suffering, sin, and hopeless...

This song is Titus 1:5-9 from the ESV translation. This is the last Scripture song in a series of passages I was assigned to meditate on in a class I took on Ministerial Ethics a few years ago. This passage is one of the major passages that describes what leaders in the church ought to look like. The language focuses on the character qualities a man who aspires to be an elder ought to have. The...

This is Acts 20:28-31 from the ESV translation put to music. We were assigned this passage to meditate on during a ministerial ethics course that I took some time ago. The passage begins with an exhortation to the elders of the church in Ephesus from the Apostle Paul. Paul knows he will not see these dearly loved brothers and so gives them final instruction that they may shepherd the flock of G...

This song is Jeremiah 6:13-15 from the ESV translation. It is a sharp rebuke against Israel for their continued wickedness. I feel it is reasonable in this time to hear something like this towards my own country. Truly if you love someone you will be willing to tell them things like the words of this passage. Human beings, no matter their status, naturally choose wickedness over good. When we d...

This is a rerecord and repost of a post I made earlier. This time I recorded the whole passage. Below is the original description. This song is Jeremiah 5:26-29 in the English Standard Version. Contextually, God is upset with the spiritual leaders of Israel because they are leading the people poorly. Interestingly enough, Jeremiah continues in verses 30-31 to say that the people are at fault as...

This is a video of me playing the "Shema" (שמע). The words are the exact words of Deuteronomy 6:4-5. There is a question as to whether אחד should be translated "one" or "alone." I use both in the song because both are true - God is both One in His unity and He is the only God. Here is the text of the NASB 95: "Here, O Israel! The LORD is out God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your Go...

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