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Some links here are not specifically music-related. This stems from a core belief I hold that our church musicians ought to think theologically while they serve their churches using the arts they have been trained in.

In the same spirit, I hope that the musical resources here are not beyond the delight of pastors with less musical education. I am firmly convinced that our pastors ought to doxologically respond to the beauty of the LORD while they study the Word and minister to their parishioners.

         
  Links to Frequently Used Resources Online   Links to Resources from David B. McGrew  
  Link to 9.5 Theses on Worship: a Disputation on the role of Music by Gary A. Parrett, Assistant professor of Christian education, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Published in Christianity Today, February 2005   Link to "Leading Worship" page where several outlines and abstracts highlight my philosophy of worship and most frequently used online resources  
  Link to Evangelistic Worship by Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, NYC   Link to my new Metrical Hymn Texts (free for use)  
  Link to the homepage of Harold Best, Dean Emeritus of the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music   Link to my new verses and altered texts to choruses  
  Link to the Jonathan Edwards Institute (JEI) homepage   Link to my journal from the writing of two metrical hymn texts based on Psalm 16 and Psalm 139  
  Link to Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) Online Hymnal - free sheet music, demos, downloads, and much more   Link to an e-mail transcript sent to a pastor in answer to the question, "What is Christian Rock?"  
  Link to Guitar Chord Index online      
  Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary      
  The Complete Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts      
  The Cyber Hymnal: Hymn texts, MIDI tunes, and histories      
  Reformed Praise: truth-Centered Worship Music      
  Sacred Harp Lyric Index online      
  Oremus Hymnal: Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1875-1924