

Wes Nance
Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
MY WEEK WITH JUD by Wes Nance Last month I spent a week with Judson “Jud” Carithers, age 13. Our friend, Alana, finding herself with a...


Naomi Franklin
Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
AN ARTIST'S POWER “Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Early 18th-century Romantic poet Percy Bysshe...


Jonathan Keener
Thought's from a Musician's Heart
THE INSIDE OUT OF MUSIC As a Christian musician, I often have pondered why God gave us music. Is it to praise Him? Of course. But is it...


Shannon Nance
Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
BECAUSE HE CARES FOR YOU “Cast all your anxieties on the Lord, because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). This directive has applied to my...


Steven Franklin
Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
WAITING FOR EMMANUEL Every summer I escape the heat in Kansas City to spend six weeks playing in a chamber orchestra in Lake Placid, NY,...


Cammy Cook
Thoughts from A Musician's Heart
PLAY! One of the defining convictions of my children’s school is the importance of unstructured and (mostly) unsupervised play. There is...


Sara Beam
Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
A Journey of Grief and Gratitude Psalm 69:30 states after 29 verses of sorrow, “I will praise the name of God with song, and exalt Him...

Barbara Kavanaugh
Nightmare Comes True*A Missed Gig*A Life Saved
Musicians have nightmares of crazy performances and lessons, disintegrating instruments, unplayable notes, murder by the stand partner,...


Annabelle Gardiner
Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
FOCUSING ON GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE Our orchestra recently performed a few pieces that inspired me to contemplate the emotion of love...


Carter Johnson
Thoughts from a Musician's Heart
OUR ULTIMATE SOURCE OF COMFORT AND SATISFACTION I was 13 years old when I began to fall in love with the music of Johannes Brahms. This...