Balm in Gilead

Balm in Gilead

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  • Episode 52.1 – Bonus episode The Non Sequiter to End All Non Sequiters

    Whenever FNH is on the show, he brings a wealth of interesting tangents and rabbit trails and Grant is only too happy to follow with Bryan close behind.

    Bryan is aware he forgot to readjust his vocal levels after cutting all this nonsense from the last episode and pasted it into a new audacity project.

    Enjoy!

    Thanks for listening

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    21 min
  • Episode 52 – Into the Lantern Waste
    Psalm

    Psalm 52

    What We’re Listening To
    Bryan
    • Psalms for Congregations vol. 2 Matt Searls
    • Westminster Shorter Catechism 1-10 with Brian Suave
    FNH
    • The Bible
    • Ultimately RC Sproul
    • Make Believe Heroes
      • Redemption Card Game
    • Sea Shanties for good Christian boys
    Grant
    • Jenny Oaks Baker
    • Jeff Lippencott
    • Crown & Covenant
    • Sarah Sparks
    • Thelonious Monk
    Follow Up
    • We had a three week gap between episodes because I was unable to record a Flying Solo episode because I was too busy being on episode 9 of the Super Reformed Bros podcast.
    • I want to make a clear distinction between what I will call “open handed criticism” and “closed handed criticism”.  Close handed criticism is based on objective issues found in the lyrics that do not line up with our core beliefs.  Open handed criticism is based on opinion and preference, and while important enough to discuss, doesn’t carry the same weight as close handed criticism.  In the last episode we pointed out what I will now call closed handed issues with the song Rest on Us by Maverick City, due to the song’s claims about the way the Spirit works that do not line up with Scripture.  We also talked about some nuanced issues we had with choice of words in the song O Creative One by Providence.  I want to make a clear distinction that the latter discussion was of open handed issues.  I might not choose the word “renovate” because of a nuanced implication that could be used to support the rejection of original sin, but this is an issue that could be easily addressed with liturgical padding or a brief definition of the word to set a proper context for hearing the song.  A similar example that I talked about on previous episodes as well a 6000 word essay on soundinworship.com (as well as on episode 9 of the Super Reformed Bros podcast), would be in the song “Reckless Love”, the use of the word “reckless” is a closed handed issue, because God is not reckless and saying otherwise is a misrepresentation of God; while the use of the word “worth” is an open handed issue that can be addressed to set a proper context (all things considered).  A major difference is that Cory Asbury has publicly explained what he meant by “worth”, and his explanation is not in line with Scripture; while I have no reason to believe, based on the context of all the rest of Providence’s music, that they are trying to deny Original Sin.
    Review: Into the Lantern Waste by Sarah Sparks

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    Into the Lantern Waste

    “Into the Lantern Waste” serves as an introduction to this collection of songs. It collects beliefs held by Clive Staples Lewis (primarily referred to simply as C. S. Lewis) in lyrics directly inspired by his writings. In this introduction, Sarah positions the Chronicles of Narnia author as a wise man on a park bench, telling these “fairytales” to Sarah (and therefore, to us, the listeners).

    • Grant’s awkward interruption
    • Great C.S. Lewis YouTube that illustrates several of his works
    I met a man at the park on a bench
    He was looking at home with a paper and pen
    He said, “Daughter, I have been through the Shadowlands
    For to hurt is to love and to know that you can
    That you are not alone, we all are broken
    He said, “You cannot diminish the glory of God
    By refusing to worship, like if locked in a cell
    On the walls, you write ‘darkness’ to put out the sun
    So you might turn the page or you might shut the book
    But the truth is still truth even if you don't look”
    He spoke to me then, “Are you looking for truth?
    Or is it wishful thinking and comfort you choose?
    On the edge of a sword and the knot of a noose
    On the way to your death, should I reassure you?
    But the comfort will come, if you search for the truth”
    See here I’m still stuck on these fairytales
    With a lion, a wardrobe, and magic unveiled
    For there's truth in these pages, in each line I read
    I'm the boy that betrays him, I can clearly see
    But the lion that saves him is bleeding for me
    Lucy’s Tale
    I've been feeling so restless
    Got no place to call my own
    When I know I don’t belong
    There's no place to lay my head down
    Cause I'm just a wandering soul
    And in the end I feel alone
    Oh
    Tell me a story
    Of redemption
    You’re the only peace that I have ever known
    I've been so cold
    This long winter
    But there's something written
    Etched into this stone
    I've been living in the shadow
    Weeping over blood
    But yet to see the empty grave
    Cause I'm still hoping in the not yet
    Clouds are covering the sun
    But I'll believe while in the shade
    Oh
    Tell me a story
    Of redemption
    You're the only peace that I have ever known
    I've been so cold
    This long winter
    But there’s something written
    Etched into this stone
    I heard a roaring in the distance
    In the earth a trembling
    Like the crumbling of stone
    I looked down to see my footprints
    When never in my memory
    Had I seen the melting snow
    Blood for Blood Lyrics
    Had I seen the melting snow?
    I saw and trembled
    For this a power I did not know
    Though I was bound with chains
    She was cruel but beautiful
    And I was greedy
    And like a slave I then was sold
    By the way she said my name
    Father, save me!
    I the traitor
    I who knew and ran from Love
    I can hear the
    Condemnation
    In the rhythm of the drums
    Though I knew all hope was lost
    And this what I deserved
    I had been conquered by the frost
    But on my skin it burned
    Cause she had power over me
    At her touch I turned to stone
    But in her eyes I saw a fear
    A deeper magic than her own
    Father, save me!
    I the traitor
    I who knew and ran from Love
    I can hear the
    Condemnation
    In the rhythm of the drums
    And when I looked him in the eyes
    I felt the weight of all my sin
    For I knew what the law required
    A death for death, a traitor’s end
    But when I thought I feel his wrath
    Despaired and filled with shame
    He bent down to search my eyes
    With such love whispered my name
    Father, save me!
    I the traitor
    I who knew and ran from Love
    Father, can you
    Hear the Lion
    It is written
    Blood for blood
    The New Song of Trumpkin Lyrics
    Hear the trees?
    Hear them whispering
    They tell stories of a king
    And the forest wakes
    With a divine ache
    For His returning
    I've forgotten who I am
    And who You are
    Cause the truth is all my worth
    Can only be found in Your scar
    So I’m learning how to die
    Cause it's what You're asking for
    I’ve been blind
    To you every time
    Only shaken in your teeth
    Do I know enough
    Strangest kind of love
    But it's pain that ‘wakens me
    See the leaves
    Simple dying things
    Never were so beautiful
    Cause in their dying days
    What a glorious change
    For in death they turn to gold
    I will forget who I am
    For who You are
    Cause the truth is all my worth
    Can only be found in Your scars
    And I'm learning how to die
    Because I know who You are
    By His wounds I'm healed
    I for the first time feel
    Like this may not be the end
    Eustace Scrubb
    For the first in my life
    I’m not living a lie
    And I hate who I am
    I’ve become what I feared
    And I cried dragon tears
    Just to prove I’m a man
    I tried to change my appearance but I am not changed
    I’m just tired
    I tried to heal myself long before I met your gaze
    At the water
    I’m at your feet
    Would you tear into the deep of my heart
    To heal me?
    I’ve seen my own reflection
    I know the pain I’m in
    I’ve been a lonely wretch and
    I can’t get out of it
    As he looked through my eyes
    At the things I despised
    I felt pierced by his gaze
    But he peeled off my skin
    And he then threw me into
    The water to save me
    I wore this bracelet, bright and golden
    That overnight became a chain
    I was a lonely, wretched soul that
    Lost in the dark cried out your Name
    You cut me deep, I know I felt it
    But it’s the sweetest kind of pain
    Oh sweet relief, You took my burdens
    Oh I believe Oh I believe
    Puddleglum’s Anthem
    In the warmth of the sun I believed
    Circumstance often changes
    The way that I see
    For the first the time a shadow found me
    I doubted the sun for the lack of heat
    And I ran but He ran after me
    He said remember the signs
    So I said them each morning
    And held to them tight
    But at the first chill of the night
    I gave up His words for the warmth of a fire
    And traded His love for a lie
    I said I’ll never forget
    I will call out your name
    Through the storm until death
    But the crow came three times as He said
    And I held tight my tongue just to save my own head
    And I watched from the ground as He bled
    But oh
    You complete your plans
    With our broken hands
    You have shown
    I have seen you work
    Raising life up from the dirt
    This I know
    See that thread of sin?
    Seamlessly woven in
    This I know
    See the lion see the lamb
    You complete your plans
    This I know
    A Song for Jill
    I saw you on mountain
    I met you by the stream
    And I terrified at your sight
    A lion after me
    You asked if I was thirsty
    I said “If I don't drink
    I will surely die here be dry
    Lying by the stream”
    He said, “Dear child, come farther
    For this the only stream
    That will bring you life
    My supply is all that You will ever need
    He didn’t promise not to harm me
    He said, “I'll do no such thing
    For I am the law
    And in my jaw I've swallowed men, and mountains and kings.”
    It is so
    There is only one blood could have done
    What I have done
    And I know
    As so many do you may run
    But I am your only hope
    There is only one blood could have done
    What I have done
    It is so
    I am justice and wrath, I am love
    But I am your only hope
    I am in the light, I am in the shade
    I am in the wind, I am in the waves
    Shasta’s Complaint
    Waves that beat upon the shore, they brought no peace
    Somewhere else I must belong, somewhere for me
    Who was it left me there, a boy scared and alone?
    No, I don’t think you heard me calling, always thought, He must not know
    Surely He would never leave me, wouldn’t leave me here alone
    You tell me now that I was never on my own?
    Well pardon me, I don’t remember you at all
    Cause with my back against the tomb, I called you out
    But I don’t think I heard your answer, I don’t think I heard a sound
    I don’t recall you in my anger or remember you around
    But He answered, “Who are you to question me?
    Do you command the mountains or calm the raging sea?
    For I am the current, there to save your life
    A man may find his eye deceiving, a fool holds on to trust his sight
    A wise man knows that his own feeling may not with the truth align
    And you think that you have never seen my face?
    But every moment you’re alive, you know my grace
    For only death in this whole world is justly deserved
    And you say that I never answer, just because you have not heard
    But you don’t know yet how to listen or to understand my words
    My love, I cared for you
    I was the comfort you felt in the house of the dead
    I drove from you
    Beasts in the night, all of this I have done while you slept
    All by my design
    Every chapter and word I’ve written every line
    All by my design
    Every chapter and word I’ve written every line"
    Digory’s Regret
    Lines from the spell that were meant for destruction
    Words tasted bitterly sweet on my tongue
    Polly warned me but I wanted freedom
    Even then I knew just what I done
    No one says it but mother is dying
    No one says it but we’re all afraid
    I can hear what they say in the hallways
    Whispering on the number of days
    Now a Genesis newly corrupted
    Now a story to start with a fall
    All because I could never keep quiet
    Just a tongue that brings ruin to all
    Wait, I hear
    A voice that’s singing
    A song I’ve never known before
    The very chord
    Awakes and praises it’s
    Maker as the earth is formed
    Wait, I see
    There in the lion’s eye
    A tear much greater than my own
    Could it be that He possesses a
    A greater love than I ever known
    Come Further Up
    There’s a song that I’ve wanted
    To sing for so long
    But the tune is just out of my grasp
    I may see for a moment
    When the lights reflects gold
    But so delicate, slips from my hand
    Every word that I sing
    Is a cheap imitation
    Of things that I don’t understand
    Light reflecting on water
    The picture gets harder to see
    With the eyes of a man
    I hear
    “Come further up, Come further in
    The greatest story, none on earth have read”
    So I’ll search for the melody
    Offering everything
    Till I am called out by name
    Cause the chord that was struck
    On the strings of my heart
    Is still echoing throughout my frame
    And when this long day ends
    And the morning begins
    And the Song that has found me I’ll sing!
    Written over my bones
    In a carving on stone
    By a rose, let my epitaph read
    Come further up
    Come further in
    My greatest story
    Has yet to be read
    Marvel of Marvels
    Of all that He said
    I who am nothing
    He called beloved
    2 hr 20 min
  • Episode 51 – Song v Song: Review of “Rest on Us” by Maverick City and “O Creative One” by Providence
    Psalm

    Psalm 51

    What We’re Listening To
    What are we listening to

    Spencer

    • Psallos
    • EDM Research
    • Steven Curtis Chapman – The Great Adventure album

    Bryan

    • Providence 

    Grant

    • Jenny Oaks Baker
    • Crown & Covenant
    • Spencer Parsons
    • Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach
    • Gian Piero Reverberi
    • Bonus: Natalie Grant
    • Bonus2: European Jazz Trio

    Studio C – The Other Way to Rob a Bank

    Why do song vs. song?
    •  What is the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives today? | GotQuestions.org
    • John 16 ESV – “I have said all these things to you – Bible Gateway
    Song vs. Song
    Rest on Us

    Song by Maverick City Music and UPPERROOM

    Listen Now

    (When reading through this song, I’m going to skip the “spontaneous” sections, since I assume they were not as diligently/intentionally written as the rest of the song, but we can talk about them on that back end)

    Verse 1
    [As the Spirit was moving over the waters / Spirit, come move over us / [Come rest on us] x2] x2
    Chorus
    [So come down / Spirit, when You move You make my heart pound / When You fill the room
    You're here and I know You are moving / I'm here and I know You will fill me] x2
    Spontaneous 1
    Hey / [Come fill us up] x3
    [Verse 1]
    Verse 2
    [Fire and wind, come and do it again / Open up the gates, let Heaven on in / [Come rest on us] x2] x2
    [Chorus]
    Spontaneous 2
    Won't You fill me afresh? / Fill me afresh
    Bridge
    [Holy Spirit, come rest on us / [You're all we want] x2] x6
    [Chorus x2]
    Spontaneous 3
    'Cause You love to meet us here / [Baptize us afresh tonight] x2
    O Creative One

    Song by Providence Providence Church – Austin

    Listen now

    Verse 1
    O Spirit of God, come guide / Awaken us to behold the Christ
    Direct our affections / And hopes to the heavens / O Spirit, guide
    O Spirit of God, come breathe / Reveal the truth, your wisdom speak
    Revive and refresh us / By your word and your presence / O Spirit, breathe
    Chorus
    Come with your light and your truth / Come sanctify, and renew
    O Creative One / Renovate our hearts
    Verse 2
    O Spirit of God, come fill / Enable us to do Your will
    To love justice and mercy / And walk with you humbly / O Spirit, fill
    To love one another / To worship none other / O Spirit, fill
    [Chorus]
    Bridge/Tag
    [Glory to you, our Counselor / Glory to you, our Comforter
    Renovate us, Consecrate us / In your power and love] x2
    Other Show Links

    Check out the Questions for Christian Music Discernment

    • Presbygirls #5: On Charity w/ Rosaria Butterfield
    • Shasta’s Complaint by Sarah Sparks 
    • Westminster Confession of Faith 16:3

    Their ability to do good works is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ. And that they may be enabled thereunto, besides the graces they have already received, there is required an actual influence of the same Holy Spirit to work in them to will and to do of his good pleasure; yet are they not hereupon to grow negligent, as if they were not bound to perform any duty unless upon a special motion of the Spirit; but they ought to be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them.

    Link: https://beta.relight.app/resource/WCF.16.3 

    • The Mixolydian Mode | THE SOUND OF ROCK 
    • 1 John 4 (KJV)

    Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

    Thanks for listening

    The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it with others. We enjoy hearing from you, so join us on our Discord and let us know what you’re thinking. If email is more your thing, write to us at thereis balmcast com. Thanks again and we’ll see you next time, Lord willing.

    1 hr 32 min
  • Episode 50 – Review of the album Jars of Clay with JB Floggington
    Psalm

    Psalm 50

    Jars of Clay’s self titled album review
    Liquid
    Arms nailed down / Are you telling me something?
    Eyes turned out / Are you looking for someone?
    This is the one thing / The one thing / The one thing that I know
    Blood stained brow / Are you dying for nothing?
    Flesh and blood / Is it so elemental?
    This is the one thing / The one thing / The one thing that I know
    Blood stained brow / He wasn't broken for nothing.
    Arm nailed down / He didn't die for nothing / He didn't die for nothing
    This is the one thing / The one thing / The one thing that I know
    Sinking
    It's not my problem anymore / You see it never really was
    So you can stop caring as you call it / And I'll be fine right here
    You see that I can play / A pretty convincing role
    So I don't need you / I don't think I need you
    But you see through my forever lies / And you are not believing
    And I see in your forever eyes / And you are forever healing
    You can't hear what I'm not saying / And I can hold out long enough
    Treading water I keep from sinking / I'm not one for reaching
    You see that I can play / A pretty convincing role
    So I don't need you / I don't think I need you
    But you see through my forever lies / And you are not believing
    And I see in your forever eyes / And you are forever healing
    Love Song for a Savior
    In open fields of wild flowers / She breathes the air and flies away
    She thanks her Jesus for the daisies / And the roses in no simple language
    Someday she'll understand / The meaning of it all
    He's more than the laughter / Or the stars in the heaven
    As close as a heartbeat / Or song on her lips
    Someday she'll trust Him / And learn how to see Him
    Someday He'll call her / And she will come running
    She fall in His arms / The tears will fall down / And she'll pray
    I want to fall in love with you (x4)
    Sitting silent wearing Sunday best / The sermon echoes through the walls
    A great salvation through it / Calls to the people
    Who stare into nowhere / And can't feel the chains on their souls
    He's more than the laughter / Or the stars in the heaven
    As close as a heartbeat / Or song on her lips
    Someday we'll trust Him / And learn how to see Him
    Someday He'll call us / And we will come running
    We'll fall in His arms / The tears will fall down / And we'll pray
    I want to fall in love with you (x4)
    We want to pray
    It seems to easy to call You 'Savior' / Not close enough to call You 'God'
    So as I sit and think of / The words I can mention
    To show my devotion
    I want to fall in love with you (x4)
    Like a Child
    Dear God / Surround me as I speak
    The bridges that I walk / Across are weak
    And the frustrations fill the / Void that I can't solely bear
    Dear God / Don't let me fall apart
    You've held me close to you / But I have turned away
    And searched for answers / I can't understand
    They say that I can move the mountains / And send them falling to the sea
    They say that I can walk on water / If I would follow and believe
    With faith like a child
    Sometimes, / When I feel miles away
    And my eyes can't see your face / I wonder if I've grown to lose
    The recklessness I walked in / Light of you
    They say that I can move the mountains / And send them crashing to the sea
    They say that I can walk on water / If I would follow and believe
    With faith like a child
    They say that love can heal the broken / They say that hope can make you see
    They say that faith can find a Savior / If you would follow and believe
    with faith like a child
    Art in Me
    Images on the sidewalk / Speak of dream's descent
    Washed away by the storms / To graves of cynical lament
    Dirty canvases to call my own
    Protest limericks carved / By the old pay phone
    And in your picture book / I'm trying hard to see
    Turning endless pages / Of this tragedy
    Sculpting every move / You compose a symphony
    And you plead to everyone / See the art in me
    Broken stained glass windows / The fragments ramble on
    Tales of broken souls / An eternity's been won
    As critics scorn the thoughts / And works of mortal man
    My eyes have drawn to you / In awe once again
    And in your picture book / I'm trying hard to see
    Turning endless pages / Of this tragedy
    Sculpting every move / You compose a symphony
    And you plead to everyone / See the art in me
    He
    Don't try to reach me / I'm already dead
    The pain when it grips me / For things that I've done
    Well I try to make you proud / But for crying out loud
    Just give me a chance to hide away
    Exhaustion takes over / Will this someday be over?
    Fearful tears are running down / The pain you've laid don't speak a sound
    Don't take my heart away from me / And they think I fell down again
    Daddy don't you love me / Then why do you hit me?
    And Momma don't you love me / Then why do you hurt me?
    Well I've tried to make you proud / But for crying out loud
    Just give me a chance to hide away
    Exhaustion takes over / Will this someday be over?
    Fearful tears are running down / The pain you've laid don't speak a sound
    Don't take my heart away from me / And they think I fell down again
    A teardrop falls / From up in the heavens
    Drowning the sorrow of angels in high
    For the least of the helpless / The hopeless, the loveless
    My Jesus, His children, / He holds in His arms
    He loves you, He sees you, / He knows you, protects you,
    He needs you, He holds you
    Boy on a String
    The marionette has your number / He's pulling your arms and legs
    'Til you can't stand on your own / Dragging your conscience on the stage
    And your heart gets rearranged / And you cannot tell you mentor / From you Maker
    Look at the crowd bleeding with laughter / Or the way you entertain at beckon call
    They don't see behind the lights / Or the painted background / They just like to see you fall
    But you don't really mind / And you're just wasting time
    You don't feel anything / You're a boy on a string
    I feel a sadness like Gapetto / Watching the life that he created run away
    Seeing the puppeteer's intrusion / And holding the remains / Of puppets that had rotted away
    One day the curtain will not open / And all of the crowds will go away
    Someday those strings will choke you / But until that day
    But you don't really mind / And you're just wasting time
    You don't feel anything / You're a boy on a string
    Flood
    Rain, rain on my face / Hasn't stopped raining for days
    My world is a flood / Slowly I become one with the mud
    But if I can't swim after 40 days / And my mind is crushed by the crashing waves
    Lift me up so high that I cannot fall / Lift me oh
    Lift me up / When I'm falling / I'm weak and I'm dying
    I need you to hold me / Keep me from drowning again
    Downpour on my soul / Splashing in the ocean, I'm losing control
    Dark sky all around / Can't feel my feet touching the ground
    But if I can't swim after 40 days / And my mind is crushed by the crashing waves
    Lift me up so high that I cannot fall / Lift me oh
    Lift me up / When I'm falling / I'm weak and I'm dying
    I need you to hold me / Keep me from drowning again
    Calm the storms that drench my eyes / And dry the streams still flowing
    Casting down all waves of sin / And guilt that overthrow me
    Worlds Apart
    I am the only one to blame for this / Somehow it all ends up the same
    Soaring on the wings of selfish pride / I flew too high and like Icharus I collide
    With a world I try so hard / To leave behind
    To rid myself of all but love / To give and die
    To turn away and not become / Another nail to pierce / The skin of one who loves
    More deeply than the ocean / More abundant than the tears / Of a world embracing every heartache
    Can I be the one to sacrifice / Or grip the spear and watch / The blood and water flow
    To love you, take my world apart / To need you, I am on my knees
    To love you, take my world apart / To need you, broken on my knees
    All said and done I stand alone /Amongst the remains of life I should not own
    It takes all I am to believe / In the mercy that covers me
    Did you really have to die for me? / All I am for all you are
    Because what I need / And what I believe / Are worlds apart
    And I pray
    To love you, take my world apart / To need you, I am on my knees
    To love you, take my world apart / To need you, broken on my knees
    I look beyond the empty cross / Forgetting what my life has cost
    And wipe away the crimson stains / And dull the nails that still remains
    More and more I need you now / I owe you more each passing hour
    Battle between grace and pride / I gave up not so long ago
    So steal my heart and take the pain / Wash the feet and cleanse my pride
    Take the selfish, take the weak / And all the things I cannot hide
    Take the beauty, take my tears / The sin-soaked heart and make it yours
    Take my world all apart / Take it now, take it now
    And serve the ones that I despise / Speak the words I can't deny
    Watch the world I used to love / Fall to dust and thrown away
    I look beyond the empty cross / Forgetting what my life has cost
    Wipe away the crimson stains / And dull the nails that still remain
    So steal my heart and take my pain / Take the selfish, take the weak
    And all the things I cannot hide / Take the beauty, take my tears
    Take my world apart, take my world apart / I pray, and I pray, and I pray
    Take my world apart / Worlds apart
    Blind
    Cynical, just your way / You play the doubting Thomas / Feel the scars and wipe the stains
    So you fight, and retreat / And talk yourself out of believing / in any peace that you can't see
    Blind words you call / Blind words will fall
    You're logical, you can't find / any reason to believe in love / you are blind
    Crucify, and deny, pass the blame and burn the mission / Till dust remains and wash your hands
    Blind words you call / Blind words will fall
    Four Seven (secret track)
    We have this treasure / in earthen vessels
    to show that this power / is from God, and not from us
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    2 hr 5 min
  • Episode 49 Part 1 – Review of Poor Bishop Hooper’s Album Foreign Made
    Psalm

    Psalm 49

    What We’re Listening To
    Bryan
    • Poor Bishop Hooper, Foreign Made
    Grant
    • Psallos
    • Poor Bishop Hooper
    • Crown & Covenant
    • Holly Dutton
    • Charlie Gray and Joseph Peach
    • Spencer Parsons, Psalm 2
    Foreign Made Review
    Tree Oh Tree

    Mark 11:12-25 and Matthew 21:18-22

    First song on their first album. This is how the world will meet you–a cursed tree and minor undertones.

    Battle

    Luke 12:49-56 and Mark 14:27-28

    If we’re faithful to Christ, we will rock the boat. 

    Treasure

    Luke 12:13-34

    Where is your treasure? Earth or heaven?

    Saints

    John 8:6-11, 17:9-12 and Revelation 19:11-18

    Lamplight

    Luke 12:35-47

    Risk On Me

    Matthew 25:14-30

    Does the line “When He returns…” refer in the melody in the concept to When I survey the Wondrous Cross?

    Final Fire

    Matthew 6:19-24, 10:9-40 and Luke 16:10

    A Ghost To Guide You

    Matthew 18:21-35 and John 20:21-23

    The Whole Sight of You

    Mark 4:10-11, 6:50-52 and Ezekiel 36:26

    1 Peter 1:12? Exodus 33:17-23

    He Loved Us to the End

    Matthew 26:17-30 and John 13:1-17

    Sons of Zebedee

    Matthew 20:20-28

    Thanks for listening

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    1 hr 48 min
  • 48 – Review of Psallos’ Album Philippians with Special Guest Spencer Parsons
    Psalm

    Psalm 48

    Welcome Spencer!

    Check him out on Spotify! Or other popular music services like Apple or YouTube Music.

    What We’re Listening To
    Spencer

    Listen to his music such as Psalm 1.

    Bryan

    Mars Hill Music

    Grant
    • Crown & Covenant
    • Poor Bishop Hooper
    • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    • Psallos
    Main Topic: Philippians

    Listen to the album with the Bible pulled up next to you. Also, visit Psallos’ website to learn more about them.

    The story behind Goin’ Home.

    Hymnos Christou English Lyrics.

    Send Spencer your favorite choral pieces by visiting our Slack or emailing us at thereis *at* balmcast *dot* com. Not a member on Slack? Join today!

    Thanks for listening

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    2 hr 27 min
  • Balmcast Flying Solo 1 CCM is a Broken System

    Bryan goes solo with both Grant and Justin out. This is our first video podcast too! Check it out on YouTube

    Thanks for listening

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    35 min
  • 47 Bonus ep 3: This one’s a little weird

    Episode 47 bonus episode 3. It was getting late and the guys hopped from the serious to the banal with amazing alacrity.

    Thanks for listening

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    7 min

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