Sunday's Music - July 27, 2008

We had a great rehearsal last night. Thanks to everyone who was able to join us. I'll be looking for all of you Sunday morning.

We'll be singing these songs with the congregation:

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Days of Elijah

All Hail, King Jesus

Choir anthem - Everlasting

Rock of Ages (not your grandma's hymn)

Nothing But the Blood

Covers Me for Life

In Christ Alone

Keith and Kristyn Getty, the writers of In Christ Alone will be singing at PraiSing 08 on 8/8/08 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall in Nashville when LifeWay introduces their new hymnal. I'll be singing that night too with the Tennessee Baptist Men's Chorale. It will be a wonderful evening!!! I'll write more about it later.

Music City - Nashville!

I love Nashville! How could a music person not love Nashville - Music City? The home of Country music, great jazz, the heart of Contemporary Christian and Southern Gospel (and the Ryman!) and the home of the new world-class Schermerhorn Symphony Hall and the great Nashville Symphony. WOW!

My lovely wife, Cheryl, and I went to Nashville as tourists the other day. Cheryl is there 5 days a week at work, and I have been there countless times visiting hospitals, going to the downtown Y, going to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts http://www.fristcenter.org/site/default.aspx and the Estel Gallery http://www.estelgallery.com/exhibitions.html The really cool Bicentennial Mall and Farmer's Market. And of course LifeWay

And then of course there is the wonderful Children's Science Museum and the Zoo at Grassmere http://papalyndel.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-fun-at-zoo.html. I still need to get out to Cheekwood.

So why go to downtown as tourists? Well, for our mission trip to Rio, we wanted to take some gifts for our interpreters (presentes para nossos tradutores). So since Clarksville isn't exactly world renown (no offense) we wanted to take some Nashville souvenirs as gifts. It's hard to believe that I have lived in Tennessee for 20 years and in Nashville for 8 of those and we've never been in one of the tourist gift shops downtown. So, here I am.

We picked up some nice t-shirts that say Nashville and have a guitar (pronounced GITar) and a fiddle on them. We also picked up some little coffee cups that say Nashville and have guitars for handles. We thought those would be great since they love coffee (cafezinho) in Brazil.

On our trip as tourists, we of course saw a guy walking down the street with a guitar on his back.

We also saw several beauty pageant contestants. This one had died her poodle pink! Hahaha! (It was easier to tell from the front.)

So if you haven't been to Nashville as a tourist in a while - or ever - take off this weekend and see a great city.