Heaven and Earth
For the Institute Of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephens University. Essentials Blue Online Worship Theology Course with Dan Wilt
Romans tells us that the hope for which we have been saved is to see all of creation set free and redeemed. We experience salvation when ever we trust in Jesus as savior. Our lives are being transformed and redeemed as we walk out our faith, and we experience varying degrees of freedom and healing. And one day, the scripture tells us, we will die only to go be with Jesus in heaven. But that is only a layover, because get get resurrected into physical bodies just like Jesus, the first born from the dead, the first among many brothers.
As we come back to earth with Jesus all of creation gets renewed/recreated. The prophet Isaiah talks about this time as a world of such absolute peace that Lions eat grass, and wolves lay down and snuggle up with sheep. This is a message that a fallen world needs to hear. Jesus is savior of our souls, of our lives, and we do get a ticket out out of hell. And as wonderful as those are, they are just the beginning of what God has in store for us.
We have the liberty and the joy of experiencing some of that now. The beauty of creation reminds us of how awesome God is. The complexity of the cosmos, as unfathomable as it is, is still just a canvas that God painted on. As we are humbled and brought to a sense of wonder and awe at what God has done, we offer up our praises. We bring along creation with us, setting it free to praise, in the form of art, music, song, technology, and life in general.
This is my first attempt at songwriting. I recorded it with a Boss Micro BR, so it’s all digital. The drums and the guitar effects are all presets.
music wish list
This is my fantasy list of instruments/effects
I’ve fallen in love with Moog Music the last few months. So my first list is a few of their items.
Here are a few weirder ones
Atari Punk Console (you have to build this one yourself)
Voice of Saturn (this comes in as a kit) The video here is 6 min long, the longer you watch it the more interesting it gets, because the artist is connecting more items to it.
Some acoustical/natural type stuff
Didgeridoo – I’ve always liked this one. Those Aborigines!
Bullroarer – another aboriginal instrument. I discovered this on reading X-men comics back in the 80’s
Misc
Electro-Harmonix Polyphonic Octave Generator (POG) – awesome guitar effects that emulate an organ
I’m open to suggestions. I really like the noise box type stuff.
British Sea Power
British Sea Power are an amazing breath of fresh air into independent music. Their songs are rich with meaning, that range from love to war, to over analyzing problems. However at first listen you wont hear any of that. Their poetry abounds with historical imagery, mainly ranging from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s era. They talk of ships, wars, floods, love, and many places in around the British Isles. But hidden within that is usually a message to modern day man.
Carry on inside of your heart
Under the brine you won’t notice the dark
Can stone and steel and horses heels ever explain the way you feel
From Scapa flow to Rotherhithe, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Oh the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt the spray the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
Irrigate your heart until you know your complete
And your draped in kelp, below by 8,000 feet
My soul she cried I thought you’d died amid fumes of formaldehyde
You have been gone for so long I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Oh the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt the spray the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
When this Corpus Christic isle became a land of ocean blue
Again, she cried, you turned my eye,
At mentions of, no matter why,
And in the end, an August sun,
And one by one we blew
Until the devil screamed in the evermore
In envy of the grace we saw
Oh the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
