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		<title>New Music Tuesday: &#8220;Adopted&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I pull out one of my earliest-written congregational songs.  I wrote &#8220;Adopted&#8221; when I was working for Smarte Carte at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport during the winter break of  &#8217;96 (I was a junior at Belmont University at the time).  As I was pulling carts around from place to place, the rhythm of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myths about Leading: It&#8217;s All Up to Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve repented of my pride in dealing with how I feel before God, so I step up on stage with the understanding that it&#8217;s only by grace that I am ready.  But very soon after the set begins, the next temptation arises.  I notice someone in the third row still talking to their friend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://congregationalsongs.com/2010/08/myths-about-leading-its-all-up-to-me/</link>
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		<title>Myths about Leading: My Heart Is Not Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a Sunday morning, 10 minutes before the first corporate worship service, and I&#8217;m an anxious, or perhaps prideful, or maybe even totally apathetic worship leader. What do I do? I don&#8217;t have the choice to just label myself &#8220;not currently qualified&#8221; and go home. I&#8217;m going to have to get up there and at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://congregationalsongs.com/2010/08/myths-about-leading-my-heart-is-not-right/</link>
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		<title>New Music Tuesday:  &#8220;You Are There&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite chapters of the Bible for many years has been Psalm 139.  It&#8217;s a very intimate song &#8211; but not in the way you would think or the way we would naturally write a worship song today.  Rather than emphasizing how intimate we want to be with God or what we will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://congregationalsongs.com/2010/08/new-music-tuesday-you-are-there/</link>
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		<title>New Music Tuesday: &#8220;We Will Arise&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The universal principle of cause and effect is no different in our spiritual lives than it is anywhere else.  In the realm of our souls, God&#8217;s work is the cause of the effects of life, growth, and change. James Tealy and I set out to write a song that reflects this reality in the corporate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://congregationalsongs.com/2010/08/new-music-tuesday-we-will-arise/</link>
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		<title>New Music Tuesday &#8211; &#8220;Jesus Shall Reign&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Isaac Watts penned the words to &#8220;Jesus Shall Reign&#8221; in 1719. I just paused for a moment and realized that these lyrics have been around before the USA was the USA. To still be singing them is both a privilege (that they&#8217;ve been preserved) and an encouragement (that this man walked humbly with God 300 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://congregationalsongs.com/2010/07/new-music-tuesday-jesus-shall-reign/</link>
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		<title>New Music Tuesday &#8211; &#8220;Have Mercy&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those songs that quickly reminds me of my rightful place before our holy God &#8211; on my knees, begging for mercy. I think it&#8217;s one of my favorites because when I sing it, I feel that mournfulness over wrong choices, and the cry of David&#8217;s heart for forgiveness so many centuries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://congregationalsongs.com/2010/07/new-music-tuesday-have-mercy/</link>
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		<title>New Music Tuesday &#8211; &#8220;Hold On to You&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This song is inspired by a friend of mine and his family who are walking through the dark valley of cancer (read their story at teamemmett.com).  Suffering is an inevitable part of the human experience, and its mystery lies in its ability to give us a greater understanding of ourselves, of one another, and of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://congregationalsongs.com/2010/07/new-music-tuesday-hold-on-to-you/</link>
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		<title>Addendum&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My Cry Ascends&#8221; is also available at iTunes.  For some reason, I couldn&#8217;t find the album link, but if you search for &#8220;my cry ascends&#8221; in iTunes, it will be the only result.]]></description>
		<link>http://congregationalsongs.com/2010/07/addendum/</link>
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		<title>Album Worth Having</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t buy much worship music.  When I do buy, it&#8217;s usually singles off iTunes for the purpose of learning the song and helping others learn it.  But this album is worth having even if it were just for listening (which it&#8217;s not &#8211; these songs are meant to be sung in corporate worship). Ligonier [...]]]></description>
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