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In 1984 I felt God calling me to be a “Songwriter for Jesus”.  It was quite a surprise because I really wasn’t that gifted…  I can’t play piano, can barely play guitar, and know virtually no music theory.  All I know is that about a month after being born again, I got baptized in the Spirit, and got VERY excited about Jesus.

About a week after that I was laying in bed contemplating all that had been happening to me when I distinctly got the call to be a songwriter for Him. I never viewed this as being about music; it was Jesus I was thrilled about and the songs were just an expression of that.  I wrote about what God was doing in my life, and the vision He had given me about Him.  I never sat down to “write a song”, my goal was to get close to Jesus; He was far more interesting than just music could ever be.

Most of my songs have come as I’ve been out for a walk, or driving somewhere, making dinner, or whatever…  I always carried a little recorder with me because I never knew when a new song would come.  From the beginning many of my songs were “message songs”.  I had a very strong pull to evangelism because I wanted the whole world to know about what I’d found, but it always seemed that my songs were given to me in a particular way for the church, and that my calling was to speak to the church through music.  I saw too much in me, and too much in the church, that would constantly tug at my heart!

Roughly a year ago I stopped recording CD’s.  (I still have some around and they can be ordered if you’d like one), but I decided instead to record single songs.  Back in 1984 it wasn’t really practical to do that, but with the internet and Mp3’s everything’s changed.  If there’s a message on my heart I can record a song and post it.  I think that’s great!  We have the Psalms as a collection of songs, but they weren’t written for the purpose of putting out a “music project”!  When King David wrote his songs, they were written one by one about whatever was going on in his life at the time. 

I've just posted my most recent song called, “It Shouldn’t Be Like That.”  It convicts me to the core.  Honestly, I think we need a revival in the church, and I include myself in that assessment.  Never has so little spiritual life passed for so much, in my opinion.  I’m tired of the deadness, posing, apathy and lifelessness that passes as spiritual life.  I’ve tasted His fullness in times past… seen it in myself and in His Church… know what it is to be full of the Spirit and truly “alive in Christ”, and brothers and sisters, this is not it!  May God have mercy on us and send revival!