Tag: music
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RIP Whitney
Rest In Peace Whitney Houston. I’m sure you are all watching it on the news right now. I’m sure it’ll be on the news for the next few days. As I listen to the news – they all connect with Whitney because she left their mark on their lives. Piers…
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Music and Dopamine
Good music releases dopamine. Dopamine makes you happy. Good music makes you happy. It is a natural high. It is a feel good chemical in our brain. There is some good neuroscience explanations for why that happens, but you can go Google that on your own. Sometimes I listen to…
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Music as an Identity Badge
I have received a few requests/demands maybe to write posts on certain topics. It’s a great exercise for me to think about writing something that didn’t originally spawn from my reading or thoughts. One recent request had to do with some thoughts about identity and music and there’s actually alot…
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Isn’t Dependent on Music or Vocals
My facebook status this morning was: im glad that worship isnt dependent on music or vocals. My good friend Bub Kuns posted this beautiful response to it. Perhaps if we corrected our misleading language it would go a long way to repairing God’s definition and instructions of and for worship.…
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Media That Challenges You
I have been told before to “read books that challenge me.” I love that challenge; to read things that I won’t necessarily like. It doesn’t mean – read bad stuff. It means read things that will challenge my thought process. Have you ever had anyone tell you to “listen to…
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Music and the Heavens
I don’t know how else to say it, but sometimes I just hear a song or listen to a type of music that just takes me to the heavens. Do you know what I am talking about? Sometimes it’s just one chord – a chord in the middle of a…