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That Night

By michael lee ⋅ December 20, 2007 ⋅ 10 comments

I’m in the midst of cooking up some Christmas Miracles for our church this upcoming Sunday and Monday, and a thought rattled up from the depths of my Nyquil addled brain. Back in school, Chad had done a choral arrangement of an poem by an unknown author, presented in a book called The Book of [...]

Two Shootings in Colorado

By michael lee ⋅ December 9, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I was coming home from church today, and got a news alert that there had been a shooting at New Life Church in Colorado Springs. You might remember this as the church that Ted Haggard resigned from in disgrace after his homosexual affairs became public knowledge.
Horrified, I started scanning for more information, hitting up [...]

child o’ peace

By michael lee ⋅ November 8, 2007 ⋅ 12 comments

Christmas is coming! I wrote a little hymnic song for the choir this year, called Child of Peace.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
If anyone is interested in using it with your choir, here’s a copy of the chart: Child of Peace
This was by far one of the hardest demos ever to record - [...]

Seize Him, And Make Him King

By michael lee ⋅ October 21, 2007 ⋅ 8 comments

The service went pretty well this morning. I had a few people come up afterward and take issue with the message, but I think they were, for the most part, reacting to what they thought I was implying, not what I actually said.
Thank you for your help, as always. For those interested, here’s the audio:
Sermon [...]

Inappropriate Zeal

By michael lee ⋅ October 19, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

I don’t think I’m going to even get past this fist verse for Sunday. The phrase “seize him and make him king” just keeps tripping me up. I’m sorting through what motivated the crowds, what they’re intent was, in part to get at Melody’s question about where they went. It’s hard to sustain a mob [...]

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