I’m a guy who mostly lives in the “right now.” I never thought too much about yesterday, and probably never thought enough about tomorrow. Composing and producing music (often on a deadline), [...]
Most of us have been “pigeonholed,” or creatively typecast at some point in our lives. For all I know, it’s human nature to reduce another person to a particular thing, so we can better identify [...]
I love the movie, The Princess Bride. William Goldman’s brilliant screenplay is one of the most quotable scripts of the last twenty years. And one such line happened when Miracle Max [...]
Robert Sterling’s For Unto Y’All is a delightful gospel musical based on the Biblical Nativity story… In this version, however, whilst the characters’ and town names remain the same [...]
It’s been quite a year. In the past twelve months, I’ve been through a major surgery and a minor surgery. I’ve buried a younger sister, an old friend, and a mentor. My wife, a [...]
This past weekend, I had a fun and all-too-brief visit to 1st Baptist Church, Carrollton, GA. The choir and orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Glenn Eernisse, performed four of my works in [...]
Every so often, I think it’s important to ask the question “why?” – especially as it relates to my work. As in, “Why do I write church music?” A lot of my [...]
Has it really been two years since the church music world lost one of its true artists in Luke Garrett? When I recall answering the phone that Saturday morning in June, 2016, from Luke’s [...]
Well, another Composer Symposium is in the record books. And this year provided continued evidence that we must be doing something right – because the level of the music presentations was [...]
Chapter 9 in The Craft of Christian Songwriting, “Critical Thinking,” is dedicated… …What??? You didn’t know I wrote a book on songwriting for the beginner Christian [...]
