This is it — the first official podcast from the new era of Music To Pray By.

Podcast 71 is compiled from the first three live worship sessions, recorded Good Friday through Easter Sunday 2026. If you’ve been following along, you know that we launched live streaming on Good Friday, and those first three sessions hold a special place — recorded during the most sacred weekend of the Christian year. There’s something about playing worship music during the passion and resurrection of Christ that carries a weight and an intimacy that’s hard to put into words.

The music is mostly original — pieces that came out of those live prayer sessions as the Spirit led. You’ll also hear a few familiar hymns and worship tunes that I naturally fell back on during the live recordings. When you’re playing live for 30 minutes straight, you go where the music takes you, and sometimes that means leaning into melodies that have carried the church for generations.

A note on quality: you’ll hear some imperfections. The good news is that each week the quality improves as I refine the automated MIDI cleanup and processing pipeline I’ve been building. Every iteration of edits I work through gets incorporated back into the automated tools, so the post-production process gets smarter over time. What you’re hearing in Podcast 71 is the very first pass of this system — it only gets better from here.

Thank you for listening, and thank you for praying. This ministry exists because God called it into being during Holy Week 2026, and I’m grateful for every ear and every heart that joins in.

Soli Deo Gloria.