Four weeks in. Podcast 74 is up, and the cadence I’ve been hoping for is starting to feel like it just is — not something I’m muscling into existence anymore.

Same compile as Podcast 73: live worship piano from the morning streams, stitched into a single listen. This week’s episode is drawn from the streams on April 13–15 — we’re running about two weeks behind in the release cycle, and that’s honestly fine. The point is the rhythm of getting one out each week, not which days the recording happened. If you’re new here, the launch-week post walks through what Music To Pray By is and the tech behind it.

A handful of times a week I post a short clip from one of our services at The Connection Church — me serving keys at Sunday morning, our Wednesday gathering, or our Saturday gathering. If you’ve watched any of those, you’ve probably noticed the audio quality on the church clips never quite matched the morning streams from home.

That’s about to change. This past week we finished a cutover at TCC from an analog signal chain (Mainstage → Apogee Symphony I/O → analog runs → Allen & Heath board) to a fully-digital Dante network. End-to-end, my keys now travel from Mainstage on my MacBook Pro out to the Allen & Heath board without ever leaving the digital domain — no analog-to-digital conversion to color the signal, no cable noise floor, no impedance loss.

The bonus: I can record the stream mix straight into Logic alongside an isolated track of just my keys. Going forward, the worship shorts from every service I serve at TCC — Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday — should sound dramatically cleaner. Same Disklavier-grade signal philosophy, just from the church side.

Monday I rolled out the next batch of 15 Prayer Shorts — built from Podcast 73’s MIDI, played back through the Disklavier as the actual instrument under the scripture and the prayer. With this batch we’ve crossed 44 prayers published since this started. Two a day, every day, 8 AM and 8 PM CT. By the time you’re reading this they’re still rolling out, with the last one of the week landing Monday evening.

What I keep noticing is the shape of the loop: every Friday morning of playing eventually becomes a week of small prayers — first the podcast that compiles the recording, then the prayer shorts built from the same MIDI. Nothing is wasted. Every session God gives me at the piano gets a second life carrying scripture into someone’s morning or evening commute. That’s the part that humbles me most about this whole project — I just sit down and worship, and somehow He keeps multiplying it.

If you’ve been praying along with the shorts — thank you. If you haven’t found them yet, search musictoprayby (one word, no spaces) on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or X. Pick whichever platform you already use.

One thing I haven’t talked about here yet: I’m working on the next album. Working title is Hallowed Be Your Name, and I already have two candidate songs in early shape. The goal is to have it out by the end of the year — Lord willing.

I’ll share more as the songs take form. For now, the big rock is just keeping the morning rhythm faithful and letting the album come together in the margins. If God wants it out by December, He’ll make the time appear.

I’ll leave you with one of last week’s Prayer Shorts. This one has been on my heart all week. It’s drawn from Lamentations 3, written from the literal ashes of Jerusalem — and it’s still the verse that produced the hymn we sing every Sunday: Great is Thy faithfulness.

Lord, my heart is weary,

The faithful love of the Lord never ends!

I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance;

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Great is Your faithfulness, Lord.

— Lamentations 3:22-26 · Hebrews 13:8 (NLT)

Thank you for listening, and thank you for praying.

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