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Album Tab added

Eric Priest — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:29:29 +0000

I’ve added the “Album” tab above for information about the Psalms and Hymns: From First to Last album.
You can find out where to purchase the album online as well as listen to sample tracks.

Metrical Index Updated - Now Includes Red Mountain Music

Eric Priest — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:16:11 +0000

I’ve updated the Metrical Index to include tunes from Red Mountain Music from Red Mountain Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Along with the Indelible Grace tunes, I believe that this Metrical Index is the most complete of any online for cataloging newly composed hymn tunes.

I’ll be updating the list further and providing links and music to tunes that I’ve written.

Fresh Content Coming

Eric Priest — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:50:13 +0000

It’s pretty depressing when most of the recent posts are in the category “Site Information”. That won’t be the case for long. After a lengthy sabbatical that has included graduating from seminary, moving, starting a job, getting married, undergoing ordination exams, purchasing a house and getting ordained, I am working on the site once again. If there are any readers left, thanks for your patience.

Slowly but surely

Eric Priest — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:10:06 +0000

Slowly but surely I’ll be finding time to re-upload all of the info that was on the previous website including chord charts, lead sheets, etc.

For an album preview, click here.

To purchase the album online, click here.

To purchase the album via iTunes (yep, we’re on iTunes now), click here.

Now Available in Central Florida

Eric Priest — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:16:23 +0000

Just a note to anyone who may be in Central Florida, Psalms and Hymns: From First to Last is now in stock at the Reformed Theological Seminary bookstore in Oviedo. The address is 1231 Reformation Drive, Oviedo, FL 32765. Be sure to also sample the baked goods and classical music while you are in the bookstore.

Site Update in Progress

Eric Priest — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:53:25 +0000

We’ve moved to a different server and have been down for a few days. Thankfully, a few good import/export plugins have made the transition to the new server much easier than I feared. I’ve got the notebook back up and running and I will have the entire site back up in a few weeks.

I’m sticking my head up for a few hours to update the site while I’m in the midst of my finals. I turned in 2 of my term papers this morning and I’ve got a busy week of final exams next week followed by graduation next Friday evening. It’s a very busy time!

I’ll be updating the notebook and the site a little more often this summer, though I’ll be preparing for my ordination exams, so I might be a little more bogged down than I’d like. For now, the notebook (blog) is back online and other aspects of the website will follow.

Sound Clip added to "May Your Kingdom Come"

Eric Priest — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:49:16 +0000

I‘ve added a sound clip for May Your Kingdom Come. I’m not sure how successful it will be if you are on a slower connection. I’m still working on tweaking the setup of the plugin.

I wrote “May Your Kingdom Come” this summer as a setting of the Lord’s Prayer. Spending time on both words and music took much longer than some of my other settings. I turned to a book by NT Wright, The Lord and His Prayer for some inspiration. I’ve always thought that if you wish to write well, you should read people whom you consider to be good writers.

[Edit: I noticed that I made a grammatical error in the initial posting. That's been fixed.]

Psalms and Hymns.com is Live

Eric Priest — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:27:50 +0000

Well, I suppose the title tells you everything that this post could. I’ve updated everything on the website so that the newest content should be live for any visitor to the site.

I’ll be updating the site fairly regularly over the next few weeks (hopefully) and smoothing out all of the wrinkles.

Site Launch and Greek Verbs

Eric Priest — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 07:38:30 +0000

Slowly but surely the site is coming together. In the next few days and weeks lead sheets will be added, content will be uploaded and the whole thing will generally get going. The site won’t be launching all at once, instead we’ll steadily keep adding content. In that respect, it’ll be very much like the perfect tense of Greek verbs.

In my first semester of Biblical Greek, Dr. Mawhinney described the perfect tense as the “present result of a past action”. For example, in [bible]1 John 1[/bible], where the Apostle John writes: [bibleblock]1 John 1:1[/bibleblock] Dr. Mawhinney said that it could be translated as “which we have heard (and our ears are still ringing), which we have seen (and still see with our mind’s eye)” to reflect the perfect tense.

I’ve always wanted to use that idea in a lyric but have never figured out a way to make the rest of the lyrics sound as good as what Dr. Mawhinney gave me.