Balm in Gilead

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Psalm 44 What We’re Listening To Bryan Citizens and Foreign Made . Anyone surprised? Justin New automated playlists Grant Citizens Peter Gregson Christi Stills Barrage Crown & Covenant Songs of Mars Hill: Citizens Sweetness of Freedom Zach Bolen and Brian Eichelberger Verse 1: Within my heart’s a Rebellious side / Conflicting with the Spirits’ desire To keep my heart in step with you / So I do...

Psalm 43 Psalm 43 Follow Up How on earth could Bryan not like King’s Kaleidoscope? Grant: Newsboy’s Clean is pretty good. Their song STAND sounds like 90’s Phillips, Craig, and Dean Faithful listener to the show Spencer Parsons explains a bit more about the Proverbs tracks What We’re Listening To Justin  Fernando Ortega – “Our Great God” from Storm Album Melody for “T...

Psalm 42 What We’ve Been Listening To Grant New Newsboys song Clean .  Top artist: Crown & Covenant Others of note:  Adam Young Titanic Ola W Jansson album All The Things You Are Leeland’s Opposite Way album Matthew David Montgomery Fingerstyle Hymns And also, there are a ton of good Psalm 42 songs out there. So I made a playlist. Bryan Ghost Ship Citizens and Saints Kings Kale...

Psalm Psalm 41 Feedback We really enjoyed our Summer Interview Series with Kyle Thompson , Philip Moyer , Renee Emerson , Cody Curtis , and Henry Haffner . Unfortunately, Jesse Roberts could not make it onto this episode due to Covid, which oddly enough is why Justin couldn’t make it onto this episode either! So please keep the Rea and Roberts families in your prayers for a swift and full re...

Psalm 40 Introduction Henry Haffner is a violist, violinist, music director, composer, and educator at Parish Presbyterian Church in Franklin, TN where he leads worship. He also is the principal violist for the Lexington Philharmonic and has performed and given masterclasses throughout the South and Midwest. He appears on recordings by Nathan Clark George, Jim Daneker, Paul Cardall, and Michael W....

Psalm 39 Introducing Cody Curtis of Psallos Cody Curtis is the writer and composer for the musical group Psallos and professor of music at Union University. He joins us to discuss his goal of putting the Epistles to music. So far, that includes Romans , Hebrews , Jude , and coming soon, Phillipians . Cody’s Music Recommendations Personal listening Classic Rock The Beatles Pink Floyd Abigail...

Psalm 38 Meet our Guest, Renee Emerson This week, we welcome Renee Emerson , poet and author to talk about poetry and beauty. We discuss how this connects into how a poet looks at the Psalms and what we can learn from them. Renee has several published works including Threshing Floor and Keeping Me Still , and the forthcoming poetry work, Church Ladies in the spring of 2022. She will soon expand in...

Psalm 37 Interview with Philip Moyer of My Soul Among Lions The MSAL story Started making hymns  https://Songbook.warhornmedia.com Realized that the Psalms were the missing component Bring back the songbook/prayerbook of God’s people Songs of Deliverance , Especially the Song of Moses “Dedicated to restoring the Book of Psalms to its place in Christian worship.” Who do you all lis...

This week, we talk with Kyle Thompson of the Undaunted. Life podcast. Recently on episode 176 of his show he discussed 8 problems with contemporary worship music. Naturally, we had to investigate his perspective.

Psalm 35 Sponsored by DAWdio Who are we listening to Bryan As Isaac, Exodus project Thief to King, Oh Great High Priest PBH, Foreign Made x Worship Is Our Weapon (Spontaneous), Sean Feucht x Praise is a Weapon, Mark & Sarah Tillman x Psalm 151, J Lind Grant More Henry Haffner ( YouTube channel ) Poor Bishop Hooper (Instrumentals) Nathan Drake (Reawaken Hymns) Marcus Warner Justin Norton Hall B...

Psalm 34 What We’re Listening To Poor Bishop Hooper : Just finished Book 2 of the Psalms. JUDAH New Album Switchfoot New Single “i need you (to be wrong)” Thief to King Ellie Holcomb Caroline Cobb Corner Room Psallos Top Songs on CCLI Great Are You Lord by All Sons & Daughters Battle Belongs by Phil Wickham Reckless Love by Cory Asbury. Reckless Love: The Catechism   Rai...

Psalm 33 Follow up Apologies for the delay in last episode. I had some major technical issues as my iPad stopped exporting audio (and I had to export the audio manually by playing the audio from my iPad into another computer which lowered the audio quality as well). We are not transitioning to a triweekly podcast, but there may be some delays as I am using borrowed equipment. I met a gentleman nam...

Jon Foreman wrote a song based on Psalm 51 that is beautiful. The instrumentation is very somber, and while it has a lot of moving pieces, functions in a way that really points to the words being sung. The Modern Post covered this song and while it is very excellent musically, the focus is much more on the instrumentation and vocal style than the actual words. This may just be the hindsight talkin...

Quick, interesting discussion regarding similarities in deconstruction stories. And some podcast recommendations. Podcast Recos Restless The Alisa Childers Podcast Cooper Stuff Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it with others. We enjoy hearing from you, so join us on our Discord and let us kno...

Psalm Psalm 32 Listen to the Episode Ice Breaker Review of Jon Foreman’s Departures album I would classify this album as a Type 2.5 album. Many of the songs are solidly Type 3, but there are Type 2 and at least one song I would classify as a “personal” Type 1 (not meant for congregational worship) Lament: Jesus I Have My Doubts. Before we can fully dive into that song, however, it is importa...

Psalm Psalm 32 Special Guest Justin Rea Check out what he’s been up to: If Songs Could Preach Podcast Sound In Worship Music recommendations? Artists are all Spotify links The Corner Room Matt Boswell & Matt Papa My Soul Among Lions Norton Hall Band Joe Deegan Another Son Brian Sauve Favorite song(s) in church? Psalm 150 (Gettys and Boswell) A Mighty Fortress Questions about current pers...

Psalm Psalm 30 Welcome to the Show Your intrepid hosts start off by discussing our recent appearance on Presbycast and how much we loved it. We also get an update from Bryan’s church travels and find out what he makes of the OPC. Song v. Song: Waterfall v. Satisfied in You Waterfall By Chris Tomlin Verse 1 Oh God, my God I seek You I wanna move when You move You're more than I could long for...

Another bonus segment from our discussion in episode 29 . We start, but do not go to deep into instruments in worship. Allowed? Not? Things to think about. Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it with others. We enjoy hearing from you, so join us on our Discord and let us know what you’re t...

Part 1 of some bonus content from our last show . Here, we go on a bit of a journey through discussing what we each think about how writers’ beliefs ought to affect the singing of their songs. Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it with others. We enjoy hearing from you, so join us on our...

Psalm 29 Follow up Grant was talking with one of the guys over at Presbycast about our show and he said that he was wary about using the Psalms as a model. I have been thinking about what he said and I want to make a clarification. I talked about how the Psalms are Scripture, poetry, and lyrics; but we can only use the Psalms as a model as far as poetry and lyrics go. However, we cannot forget tha...

Psalm 28 Special Guest Poor Bishop Hooper This week, we have Poor Bishop Hooper in the virtual studio to talk about their music and especially their latest project, EveryPsalm . Both hailing from small towns in central Kansas, we began writing, recording, and performing together after our marriage in 2013. What began as a duo, weaving together a patchwork of melodies atop an upright bass and a gui...

Psalm 27 Psalms as Scripture When translating the Psalms as Scripture, there are two major schools of thought: word for word translation or line by line translation. Generally speaking, word for word translation is a better tactic for ensuring what we have is what was intended. Line by line translations tend to misinterpret plays on words or double meanings. Where word for word can fail is in coll...

Psalm Psalm 26 Main Topic We wrap up our discussion of the Psalm model with three concepts: Petition, Supplication, and Call to Action. Petition To petition someone is to see that person as higher, superior to you, who you nonetheless ask for something from. We mention a couple Psalms that relate to this concept. Psalm 6 Psalm 17:6 Psalm 102:2 Psalm 9:13 Supplication Supplication is very similar t...

Psalm Psalm 25 Follow Up The Lightest Form of Flogging had another episode further discussing discussions we have discussed on this very show. Check out The Podfather, ep. 119 . You Say…. is no longer even in the top 50. Crazy. Icebreaker We open by sharing our year in listening to music. On Spotify at least. Let’s see if you can find any themes. Bryan’s Playlist Grant’s Playlist...