Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

I am going to start a series of posts called “Song & Story”. I have written a lot of songs and released a couple of albums over the years and I might as well share them with you.

Song 1: Broken Hearted
Why not have a listen while you read:
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This week I reached a bit of a milestone. The appearance of a column entitled “Rescuing Worship” marks my first work published in a nation-wide publication – in this case, “Christian Week”. I will be doing a series of these posts throughout 2010 under the column heading “Worship Matters” (apologies to Bob Kauflin).
Here are the [...]

Like a good Christian music listener, you look at lyrics before you listen to music. Good for you. This of course keeps us all safe from “bad” music, right?

Let’s be blunt: to think that a lyric alone is what makes a song bad or good defies reason. After all, the whole point of a song [...]

A few weeks ago I collected some questions from readers here – feel free to go there and add a few more. Below is the second question answered… actually its a series of three questions from Michael Segui. The questions are:
1. What musicians or style of music originally inspired you to take up music?
2. Do you [...]

This video is a must see whether or not you are a Dylan fan. Weird Al can be a goof, but he can also be a genius. Each line of this send-up of a Dylan song is a palindrome – which means it can be read forward and backward (think “radar” but instead of a [...]

I used this song by Benjamin Coy in our Sunday morning services last week.
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You can hear more of Ben’s music here.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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I am NOT a Hillsong basher but Ugh, I hate Hillsong videos… and some of their lyrics. I have no idea what they’re trying to market in videos such as the one below. Ok, actually its pretty obvious: the people in the band and all their fans are gorgeous and hip! They spend time in [...]

Thrice – Beggars
Quite a transformation from punk-ish metal to more scream-oriented material to this album, which seems more straight ahead rock and roll, with some piano mixed in. It sounds good, but lacks the intense passion of previous efforts. I hear some Soundgarden in places. This might take a while to grow on me.
Pearl Jam [...]

In a recent Breakpoint article, Chuck Colson asks, “Is there a right and wrong kind of music for worship?”
“One expert on church music says yes, there is. Much of today’s music is of poor quality, he writes. But so was some music written centuries ago. The difference is the old hymns have endured a centuries-long [...]

Written at the rear of the sanctuary during the song service for Peter Dyck (March 29, 2009):
It is a tradition among our people to gather and sing on the evening of someone’s death. Songs are sung in both German and English from old, worn black (German) or green (English) hymnals that have inhabited our pews [...]