Kyle Matthews Concert

John and I went to hear Kyle Matthews tonight. I think it's the 4th Christmas in a row we've been lucky enough to have him in Hickory. The songs he writes are meaningful and great stories. When you listen to them you feel the way you're suppose to feel at Christmas!

He's very talented and just a really great guy. If you don't know him, here's his website: http://www.kylematthews.com/

And this is my favorite CD of his: What Shall We Say?

You Tube versus God Tube

I’ve been working on our next Youth Worship service and had read a newspaper article about God Tube. I thought I might get some ideas by looking around the site, but it was so incredibly slow to load and then the videos would freeze (a lot!) that I switched over to You Tube and typed “Christian Music” into the search.

Then I got lost in it for about two hours! (In a good way!) If I had known I could hear all my favorites: David Phelps, Mark Lowry, Steven Green, Sandy Patty etc. etc. I would never have gotten anything done this past year!

Enjoy some great Christian music: http://www.youtube.com/

Steve Green

My husband and I went to an amazing concert tonight at the First Baptist Church here in Hickory. Steve Green. He was just great: wonderful singing, wonderful sharing.

Steve has been doing this for 20 years and has had 4 Grammy nominations, 13 number 1 songs and 4 Dove Awards. He says that even after 20 years he still feels a joyful responsibility and a strong urgency to share the gospel and that he approaches every event as if it were his last chance to communicate God’s truth.

Here’s his website:
http://www.stevegreenministries.org/
And he even has a blog!
http://www.stevegreenministries.org/journal/

Kyle Matthews

This has been a great weekend! Last year we went to hear Kyle Matthews in concert at a local church. At the time I had never heard of him, but I recognized a lot of songs that the newspaper write up said he had written.

You’ve all heard “You had me at hello”? Well, he had me at the first note!

Kyle is not only an amazing pianist and songwriter, but also a great speaker and just a warm, caring individual who wants people to know Jesus.

The reason this weekend was so great for me is – he was back! In concert Saturday night with a reception following and then on Sunday morning he led worship at another church.

We went to both events and if there had been more we would have been there too!

The following is a little of what cm central.com wrote about Kyle in their Artists data base:

To Kyle, songwriting has always been about communicating God's truth to other people. It's about combining his love for scripture and his love for music in a way that provokes deeper questions and leads people to see for themselves just what it is that God has in store for them. When other artists look for songs that are filled with emotional depth and theological insight, they turn to Kyle.

Kyle is driven by motivating other people to be surprised by God, to experience all that God is and has for them. He has a heart for ministry and an incredible talent for songwriting that combine in an artist who evades significance for himself, in order to point to the true Source of significance.
Kyle also believes service is the natural outcome of a believer’s life.

“Service is pretty much the crux of how I can call people to meet Christ. It's a place I know they can find him. It's a place I've been. It's a place I still want to go and be. And so, I feel like part of my call as an artist is to be a servant and to call people to serve.” Kyle says. “We live in such a blessed culture. Still, it's easy to get stuck asking God to fill your cup, longing for more from Him, when there's basically no more room in your cup for Him to put anything in. He's waiting for us to pour it out to others, so that He can give us more.”