Some Tech info about the project.
For this project I used Garage Band for all recording….I used my hollow body for most of the jazz comps and solo. However, I switched to my Les Paul copy for the solo at the end. I used an basic electric bass for the low end…just another Fender copy… However, I had to program the drums…Looking forward to getting a drum set ASAP. For vocals…I used the compresser and other effect right out of garage band…

I tried to hold to the spirit and style that Hendrix originally added to the song… Only I am afraid I didn’t have a Lesly and a Glockenspiel laying around so I had to improvise.

The solo is more of my own style. However…I hope it captured the freedom, innocence and youth that originally inspired Hendrix to write the song. I may continue to work on the solo in the future as time allows.

As I under it…Here is John’s intended meaning of the song…

“this is a song about… making sure you still love yourself… making sure you still have your head on, making sure you still say no the way your mom would say no. And I will need it every damn day of my life because it’s easier to mess up than it is to stay here.”

• This track is designed to support addition electric/acoustic guitars, keyboard and vox.

Target Audience

• Kindergarten through 5th grade

Video Song Slides with Arrows for jumping…

Everlasting Love Music Track

Credits

Words and Music by BILL BATSTONE
Copyright: 1993 MARANATHA PRAISE, INC.
Year: 1993

Man Running Animation Background 1

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Moving Water Animation

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Sand Beach Waves 18

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Sand Beach Waves 9

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Arrangement: Mike Gold
Guitars: Mike Gold
Drum Track: Mike Gold

The opening set is two worship songs back to back…

Lord you are good, Lord I lift Your Name on High. (8.5 min)
Please Note: there are 16 bars of intro/welcome music at the top before the first song begins.
Solos & additional guitars and vocals will be  live.

He Knows My Name (4 min)

Last Song – Solos & additional guitars and vocals will be live.

Full Song – Sanity Check

Finally finished a little stock music project that I have been working on. It was a song I wrote several years ago. My friend Mark Herring might remember a late night messing around at Light House Productions recording an early version this thing…good times.

Anyway…I thought I would post it out here for a couple days before I submit it to the Stock Music Site.

This final all guitar version has, what I hope to be viewed as an improved solo over my earlier version. All the drums and guitars are my own tracks. However, I hope to get with my friend Kenny Long soon to lay down a B3 track for yet one more version of the song. Kenny is an amazing musician with all kinds a chops on all kinds of instruments so it should be great.

On the Justice Journey Bus, 2005

To open my mind and my heart, on His compassion and  justice, God brought amazing new mentors and friends into my life, and he brought me throughnewexperiences. One example of this was in the Summer of 2005 when 25 leaders from Willow Creek Community Church, a predominantly White church, and 25 leaders from Salem Baptist Church, a predominantly African American church all loaded a bus to go on the a journey called the Justice Journey…We traveled through many of the routes

Selma Alabama, 1965 after the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge

and locations where Martin Luther King traveled with the Freedom Riders in the 1960s.

God opened eyes and transformed hearts on that journey that ended with leaders from both of our churches walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama. We walked arm and arm together in peace. Just 40 years before this event, that same act ended in tremendous bloodshed and pain.  On that journey I forged some deep friendships, gained a deep admiration for so many heroes who sacrificed and even died for the cause of Godly justice and I learned from some amazing Godly people.

People like Dr. John Perkins, who accompanied us on that Journey, taught me that Go

Selma Alabama, 2005 after a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

dly justice looks to make things right when one person blocks another person’s access to the blessings God intends for everyone. He pointed me to Isaiah 58:6-7 and Isaiah 58:10 :

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:  to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?” Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe him and not to turn away from your own flesh andblood?   Isaiah 58:6-7

“And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.  Isaiah 58:10″

Since then, my family and I continue to travel on this Justice Journey. I truly believe that living out a personal mission of justice is a critical part of God’s great commission as illustrated in Matthew 28:19-20. For me a mission like this adds power, definition and credibility to the words of Jesus when he says in John 14:12, I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these…

I once heard Gary Haugen, president of the international Justice Mission speak on this, I was inspired by how he illustrated God’s plan when he said,

“How are people oppressed by injustice in our world supposed to believe that God is good. In fact if you think about this question…What is God’s plan for making it believable. That he is good, for those who are suffering and hurting in our world.”

It turns out that the bible says…we are his plan…and that God doesn’t have another plan.

God says in Matthew 5:14,16 that we are the light of the world…”Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.” This is not just a trite little bible verse that you learn in Sunday school. God’s call for all of us let our light shine is a call to engagement, it is call action, it is a call toward compassion, and it is a call toward justice.

To my core I believe that Jesus is the path to God and the path to real transformation in our world. I also believe if more people met the real Jesus more people would accept that truth. My question is, do we as “Christians” portray who Jesus really is to to world around us. If Jesus is the path to God then perhaps living out a life of true, Biblical compassion and justice is the path toward letting the world see the who Jesus really is in all the fullness of His love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self control.

The world is not longing for religion, it is not longing for some new religious experience, it yearns for Godly compassion and justice where the blessings that God intends for everyone are not blocked by anyone.

The pursuit of significance seems to be a timeless human pursuit. The platforms and avenues for fame may change over time, however, the pursuit has remained the same. Now that we have personal soap boxes like Google+ Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the like, we have more resources at our disposal than ever to help us “live forever.”

I can’t say that it is particularly wrong to desire a life of significance. However, I do get concerned when the pursuit of significance out weighs the pursuit of character and faithfulness. I also get concerned when we start weighing the significance and value of a leader by their visibility and popularity rather than by their character and faithfulness.

Some of the most amazingly effective leaders for Christ I have ever met were leaders who have  little or no visibility to anyone other than the communities they serve directly. If you think about it, today’s high visibility leaders only make up a tiny percentage of the leaders in our world who faithfully and effectively grind it out every day in what seems like futile obscurity. What seems like obscurity to us, may be “rock star” status to God. I believe and imagine that from God’s perspective a woman, who against all odds starts a community church in a poor Barrio of the Dominican Republic is just as significant as a high tech pastor in L.A. It may take billions of dollars in social, corporate and production technology for us to see the progress and pursuits of many amazing leaders in today’s society. However, God reads the hearts and mind of every living soul as clearly as you and I read the latest twitter feed of a mega church pastor.

Please remember that God’s definition of significance does not resemble the worlds definition. There will be many pastors who were charged to lead millions and many pastors who were charged to lead 10 who will receive the same reward in heaven. God measures the heart not how many followers you have.

So Young Leaders who desire to make a difference for the Kingdom, I urge you not to pursue ways to increase your influence and significance in the eyes of the world.  Christ already gave you the greatest gift of significance in displaying His love for you when he died for you on the cross. How much more significance do you need. Therefore, the mega pastor and the minor church pastor are already equally significant in God’s eyes. Instead of pursuing ways to enlarge your territory, pursue ways to enlarge your heart for Christ. If God blesses you with greater amounts of influence then pray for wisdom and prudence to be faithful to this role.

There is nothing wrong with wanting your life to count for something. There is nothing wrong with wanting to make a difference. However, there is a fine line between the desire to make your life count for Christ and the pursuit of fame. Living up to your significance in Christ is all about Him. However, when your pursuit of making your one and only life count for Him slips into the pursuit of fame it becomes all about you. Trust me…I am an expert on this subject only because I slipped into this pursuit more than once in my life. Every time I go down this path I learn difficult lessons. Lessons you can avoid if you start on the right path early in your adventures in church leadership.

He Knows My Name is one of my favorite songs by Tommy Walker. I put together a little blues version of the song and I think I finally have a recording that is not too embarrassing. I used my Les Paul copy Guitar, a Fender knockoff for Bass,  and all drums/effects are in Garage Band…a virtual band on a budget.