If you’re like me, you understand the transforming experience of God’s grace. By his great power we are set free and brought to abundant life. In response to his call on my life, I have given myself to him fully, pledging my life to Christian ministry. I began a broken sinner. Then his grace made me new. He has called me to share his deep healing with others along their spiritual journeys.
There are four desires in my heart that seek to respond to Christ’s call. I desire to live in intimacy with my God by constantly pursuing him, to be continually transformed by the Holy Spirit, and to steadily grow within the context of spiritual community. Only when these three desires are pursued can I continue with the fourth in integrity: to move forward in service to the world in which I live.
As a part of my ministry preparation, I have prayerfully identified several core values that are essential to my ministry. These include life-long learning, healthy family, spiritual formation, serving out of passion and gift-based ministry, evangelism, and accountability. I have outlined specific steps towards maintaining these values in the ministry approach section of this website.
Please enjoy my worship music. And be sure to see my resume and contact information.
May our Lord bless you as you consider inviting me to minister with you,
Pastor Steve Baney
The Direction Of Music - Songs That Point To God
by steve, posted 08/21/08 09:06:10 » Song Writing
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We all remember studying parts of speech in school, learning to identify nouns, verbs, and other types of words. Once we'd mastered these basics, we moved on from studying individual sentences to studying entire paragraphs, looking for themes, content, and the infamous moral of the story. These same techniques can be applied to music. Let's look at two familiar hymns, Amazing Grace (John Newton, 1779) and My Jesus I Love Thee (William Featherstone, 1864). The lyrics of the sixth verse of Amazing Grace say: When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun, Compare this to the first verse of My Jesus I Love Thee: My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine; If you look at all of the lyrics of these two songs, you'll find striking similarities. Both songs are about grace that saves us. Both songs address the price Jesus paid on our behalf. And both songs address the issue of life in heaven after death on earth. But there is also a distinct difference. |
The Direction Of Music - Writing Songs That Point To God 