Christian Guitar Lessons Blog
We just celebrated Resurection Sunday and I wanted to make you a song arrangement of ‘I Know My Redeemer Lives.’ I was hoping to have it for you before Easter Sunday, but didn’t get a chance to get it out. Click here for the song. Hope you enjoy the song!
‘Be Thou My Vision’ is a beautiful worship song that has been enjoyed by Christians for centuries. The original melody is from Ireland in the 4th century. A woman in the Newsletter list, from Hawaii, wanted to learn to play it. I’ve made four arrangements of ‘Be Thou My Vision’ ranging from very easy to advanced.
The first arrangement is with three chords and can be played by a new guitarist. Each arrangment adds new chords and more elaborate strumming or finger picking. It’s the newest addition to the Online Streaming Videos. You can find the arrangements available with the other Online Streaming Videos. There is also an option to purchase the arrangements on DVD.
‘Be Thou My Vision’ is towards the bottom of the Streaming Videos page.
In deep gratitude John Newton wrote ‘Amazing Grace’ over 200 years ago. Ex-slave trader turned preacher, John knew first hand God’s amazing grace!
Later, John Rees wrote the last verse, which is my favorite verse:
When we’ve been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun. There’s no less days to sing God’s praise than when we first begun.
I’ve made a video for you with 3 arrangements of ‘Amazing Grace.’ Quite a few little kids are using my kids guitar lessons program and I didn’t want to leave them out. The first arrangement is super simple for kids to play.
Here is the music for the arrangements of Amazing Grace. Below is the video.
I recently finished a Beth Moore Study called ‘Believing God.’ She certainly is a wonderful teacher and vibrant speaker/encourager. On the last night we watched her, via DVD, demonstrate how short our lives are by putting a sign post on one end of the stage that said ‘0 Years’ and another at the opposite end of the stage with ‘1000 years.’
In Scripture it says that 1000 years is as one day to God. There were three more sign posts, one saying ‘500 years’ in the middle of the stage, ‘250 years’ between the ‘0’ and ‘500 years,’ and ‘125 years’ between the ‘0’ and ‘250 years.’ The ‘0 years’ and ‘125 years’ sign posts were close enough together that Beth could touch both with her hands.
That’s our life in terms of eternity. It’s brief. Well, a few days later I was worshipping and praying and a my first song in Spanish was birthed. I had heard from a number of stores that their Spanish customers loved my videos and DVD’s. I found out they were being used in several churches in the Panama, Spanish Churches in the US and in missions trips to Hispanic Countries.
The song, inspired by Beth Moore’s class, is all about how our lives are short and belong to Him. I sang the song to a few Spanish friends. One of my prayer partners, Marion, corrected a few lines and that Sunday, my friend Esther, from Cuba, told me she thought the song would be well received in a Spanish Church she knows. Then, Rich, a dear brother who preaches at a soup kitchen for mostly hispanics loved it too. I’ve sung at his soup kitchen a number of times, in both English and Spanish.
It’s a song with simple chords and I have it here with both the audio and music. Since English is the language most of you speak, I translated it into English too.
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HERE to both hear and see the music. Feel free to use it in personal or corporate worship.