All posts tagged Music

Music in the Early Church

by Mary C. Findley Jesus and the disciples attended Jewish synagogues and temple worship. These services included stringed, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The book of Psalms was the hymn book of the second temple. After finishing the Passover meal they sang a hymn, presumably not a Psalm, and presumably without instruments, before […]

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What Makes Us Sing?

by Ada Brownell Music is one of my first memories. My older siblings and finally, Mama and Daddy, gave their lives to Christ shortly after I was born. They had recently escaped the Kansas droughts, the Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression and moved to a 10-acre irrigated farm in Fruita, Colorado. The […]

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Tale of a Harpist

By Lynn Mosher “Take a harp…play skillfully and make sweet melody…that you may be remembered.” (Is. 23:16 AMP) Suddenly taken ill, a renowned harpist was rushed to the hospital. While tests were being run to find the cause of his illness, he lay in his hospital bed, reminiscing over his life. Seeing himself […]

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