Thursday Thrilliance – April 3, 2025 Edition

This week is a little different because I’m sharing some of the thrilling and brilliant things around our new area. We moved to the tri-cities area on eastern edge of Michigan, near the purlicue* of the state last fall. Pete grew up in the area (Saginaw) but I’m not very familiar with it at all, …
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Musical March – March 25, 2025 Edition

So you want to play music, but learning an instrument seems like an insurmountable task? Well I’ve got good news for you! There are instruments out there that are fun, easy, and require no training! Just an ear, fingers, and some spare time…yes, really! With the multitude of online instructional videos we can learn to …
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Picture Day! March 24 2025 Edition

Some birds in the yard (a house finch, and a flock of red-winged blackbirds) For some reason, Maisie decided to move her “house” out from under the bird cage table, and into the room next to where I sit hahaha! Waking up to see my gurl’s face next to me in the morning…and disturbing His …
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Supernal Sunday – March 23 2025 Edition

Want to try an exercise in futility? Try finding ANYTHING in the Bible that tells us deception is a good thing! Pretty much everything I could find about God’s truths on the topic are below… This command keeps coming to mind as I researched today’s topic (not necessarily for today, but for my own life …
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Musical March – March 23, 2025 Edition

And so I offer just a few of the sites I have enjoyed perusing here; they’re much too late for me, but maybe helpful to someone! https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/what-should-a-music-director-know https://hello.discoverworship.com/ultimate-guide-to-maximizing-music-ministry https://www.ashleydanyew.com/posts/2016/my-favorite-online-resources-for-church-musicians

Musical March – March 22, 2025 Edition

A cappella music…is quite possibly my all-time favorite musical sound…though I have many favorites actually, all piling on top of each and elbowing the others for THE top spot…but I digress… From the time I was very young I had always dreamed of having a decent singing voice but studied piano diligently until I was …
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