Twelve Scripturally-based songs accompanied by orchestra

We live in a frantic and fast paced modern world. God has called us to slow down and return to a life of real spiritual quality. He has called us like a father. He has wooed us like a lover. He has warned us through his prophets. He has even warned us through the erratic nature of a rapidly deteriorating ecology. Yet we continue to ignore Him moving faster and faster, like a driver grown drunk with technological power speeding carelessly towards our own destruction.

“Meditations In the Spirit” is an attempt to properly use that same technology through recorded sound to slow some of us down long enough to really listen. It is an attempt to create a spacious depth in sound that can usher us into genuine spiritual renewal and deep communion with God. It is in the silence that we can really hear God’s word. It is in the silence that we experience the healing forgiveness of God’s love. It is in the silence that we experience the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to really live by His word.

Musically, this recording falls squarely into the tradition of my past musical projects that have successfully helped so many to reach this spiritual goal. Phil Perkins and I continue to perfect this musical and spiritual art as we journey together through the years towards maturity in Christ.

Thematically, it begins with an invocation of the Holy Spirit, without whom no spiritual task is possible. We then walk through a series of psalms, canticles and traditional prayers dear to both private devotion and public liturgy. Through them we journey in the Spirit from the Old Testament to the New. We go from the psalms and the prophets to the incarnation of the Word of God in Jesus Christ, the “Annointed One”, and the establishment of the New Testament assembly of the people of God after Pentecost in the Christian church. We conclude with an apostolic charge and benediction that encourages us to persevere in the power of the Spirit in these difficult times and gives us the assurance to let us go in peace.

It is my prayer that this first recording in a proposed Meditation series, will begin to slow us down enough so we might really be able to listen to God and be open to the Holy Spirit. I pray it brings us into union with God in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word. I pray it brings us all into common union with Christ in His people, the church. Most especially, in this increasingly frightful and anti-Christian time, I pray it gives us the strength and the peace to persevere. If this recording even points us in this direction, I will consider it a true success in Christ.