I have a friend, Brian Oaks, whom I’ve only met by e-mail. He’s a guitarist now living in Nashville who made an indie CD a while back called There Still is Room. It’s a collection of redone hymns that I’ve really enjoyed. Great lyrics, nice guitar work and vocals. Brian was asking me what to do with the CDs sitting around in his house and I suggested that he offer them at a discount and I’d let people know about it. So he’s offering his CD for 5 bucks, including domestic shipping.
These are the songs:
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
My Faith Has Found a Resting Place
The Savior Calls
At the Name of Jesus
Nothing but the Blood
Great God of Wonders
Tell Me the Story of Jesus
Day is Dying in the West
Ye
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I’ve found it’s nearly impossible to keep up on what’s happening in the Christian music realm. I long ago gave up trying to stay abreast of what artists are up and coming, who just released a new CD, and what each artist sounds like.
But for the past year I’ve been benefiting from the weekly e-mail newsletter sent out from Christianity Today. It’s called Music Connection and is written by Russ Breimeier. In the realm of popular Christian music, Russ is comprehensive, well-informed, and not afraid to ask thought-provoking questions. Recently he’s been asking how relevant Christian music is to our culture. He wrote:
I’m almost completely surrounded by Christian culture in my everyday life. I have lots of friends around work with whom I chat around the “water cooler,” and if
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