blues

  • Changing the Tune

    Let me hear joy and gladness, let the bones You have broken rejoice.  Psalm 51:8  NASB Joy and gladness – I love to listen to the Blues.  For years the plaintive cries of those lyrics have echoed my own struggles.  They remind me of M. Scott Peck’s famous opening sentence, “Life is difficult.”  Yes, it is.  And…

  • Mostly Blues

    “By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19 NASB Sweat – When it comes to music, I’m a blues man. Give me Clapton, B.B. King, Tommy Castro, Robert Cray or Debbie…

  • Divine Karaoke

    Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to YHWH Exodus 15:1 Sang – shiyr is the Hebrew verb, “to sing.” Most of the time the word is used in connection with worship. The pictograph tells us that the word is about deeds or work that consumes the person. In other words, singing…