The 11th Hour

Why does it seem that just when you think you can't go any further help comes? Or why does it seem that prayers are answered at the last possible moment?

I was watching a piece on the 35 year history of the Trinity Broadcast Network. As they were in their beginnings they needed a $100,000 escrow deposit to keep going. The banks in Southern California closed at 3pm at that time. They had raised $65,000 but it was 2:30pm and it looked like on this last day that they could give the money that the station would be destroyed. A man of another faith then Paul and Jan Crouch the founders of TBN came and gave a check of exactly $35,000 and Paul ran over to the bank and got it deposited just in time.

Well, I don't know why it's that way but over and over I've seen this pattern. So I acknowledge I'm at the 11th hour waiting on my midnight breakthrough.

Anybody else there, too?

dg

My Redeemer

I promised that you would have a chance to help me pick the songs for my next album so here's your chance. I am posting videos of me singing some of he songs I'm thinking of recording. After you watch and listen to the song please click the comments button and follow the instructions. How did the song make you feel? Is it a good choice for me to sing or would someone else be better suited to the style or flavor of the song?

Please let me know.

Many songs have been hits in the CCM(Contemporary Christian Music) community without the majority of those who listen to urban gospel ever hearing of them. There are several songs that fall into this category that I'll be bringing to the table of consideration. This one is by Steven Curtis Chapman. I added an insertion from Chris Willis' version of "Stand."

I await your thoughts.

Have a good night.

Love

dg

Do you write how you feel?

I wonder if any other songwriters who write Gospel songs have this issue. You feel a certain way and you want to write about how you are feeling. On the other hand you have a belief set that says that your faith is suppose to overcome the emotions that you are feeling and then your change or blessing will occur. But haven't you just wanted to write a song about how you feel?

Joan Osborne's recording of a song that asks many questions about God in a totally undefined and open way gives me a bit of envy. That song says:

heyyyy ayyyy ayyyy
If god had a name?
what would it be?
and would you call it to his face?
if you were faced with him and all his glory
what would you ask if you had just one question?

an yeah yeah god is great
yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
what if god was one of us
just a slob like one of us
just a stranger on a bus
tryin to make his way home

if god had a face
what would it look like?
and would you wanna see?
if seeing ment you would have to belive
in things like heaven and in jesus and the saints and all the prophets

an yeah yeah god is great
yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
what if god was one of us
just a slob like one of us
just a stranger on a bus
tryin to make his way home
trying to make his way home
back up to heaven all alone
no body calling on the phone

except maybe the pope maybe in rome

yeah ohhh ohhh ohhh

an yeah yeah god is great
yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
what if god was one of us
just a slob like one of us
just a stranger on a bus
tryin to make his way home
just tryin to make his way home
like a hole in rollin stones
back up to heaven all alone
just trying to make his way home
no body calling on the phone
except for the pope maybe in rome

Many preachers have loved to preach using this song as an introduction. It's familiar to most people and it usually grabs the attention of the listener. But the preacher will bring us back to orthodoxy by the end of the sermon. Does being a Christian and a songwriter mean we always have to do like the preacher does?

What do you think?