Mighty River Music: News

This morning, I worshipped the Lord with a fairly new song - about the blessing of being able to come into the Lord's presence because of Christ tearing the curtain in two, giving us entrance into the Holy of Holies - through His blood. That led me directly to an old song from maybe seven or eight years ago (or maybe longer...). The song is called Lord of All. I will have to record it sometime but in the meantime, the lyrics are:

Lord, You are Lord of all, Lord of all.
Lord, You are Lord of all, Lord of all.

Lord, You are Lord of all creation,
Master of the universe, and more.
All that I can see,
And all that I cannot,
Will bow down,
and sing praises to the King of kings.

Lord, You are King of kings.
Your royalty flies high above the earth and sky.
Around Your mighty throne,
All heaven shouts, Hosanna!"
Your earthly children lift their hearts, "Come, Lord, Come, Lord!"

Lord, You are Lord of all, Lord of all.
Lord, You are Lord of all, Lord of all.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, my friends! Take your strength and peace from the Lord of all! Be encouraged by knowing Him, who He is, and whose you are.
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My Loving God is starting to take shape with the couple more tracks added. We added a couple nice electric guitar tracks over the weekend. Take a listen and see how the song is developing. The mix is rough but hopefully you can hear all the pieces starting to come together. Blessings!

I picked up a book to learn about Logic Express 8 and this is the first project from that work. My little sheltie, Caelie, debuts on this song. She's had many way in the background parts on other songs on the site but this her first song where she is the lead vocalist! Just imagine Lassie taking a little hike through the woods on her way to the ranger station to deliver a lunch bucket. Many are the adventures full of cougar cubs, wacky racoons and otters along with all the other forest critters she's friends with. It's quite a story, as you will hear! For those of you who know her. This one is for her fans! Check it out on the Music page!

If anyone out there is following a song becoming... I re-recorded the vocal track tonight. Go to the music section to find the latest version of My Loving God.

I spent some time learning about the Loops on Logic 8 and they are pretty cool to work with. I purchased some 6/8 drum loops and started working with them for My Loving God. At the last cut, I just had a basic 6/8 loop going for the whole song. Today, I broke that up and used 3 separate groove loops with additional break and cymbal hits. I need to run it by a good drummer to get some thoughts but I am pretty satisfied with the results. Check it out in the latest music section! There are a lot more tracks to put down on the song yet but the foundation is really shaping up nicely. Note... the songs intro will really start where the cymbal swell is. The measure before is so we can find the beginning when recording all the other tracks!

We had a great time with old friends and new friends at Warm Hearts on Friday night. One of the newest songs, Your Way, turned out great. The band really outdid themselves. It is really a special honor to be supported by Andrea, George, Tom, Andrew and Joe. Mark E. stopped by for a tune too! At the end of the night, we all chose to snack on some of Pete and Tess's awesome chili. In January, we'll be back at Warm Hearts. Our next date is Sunday night, November 9th, at Mt. Laurel Church of God, just north of Harrisburg.

Sometime soon, check out my blog at www.mightyrivermusic.blogspot.com . This past week I've been pondering 2 Cor 3:18 a bit. Hope to understand enough to share soon.

Blessings to you all...

Please come and join us in fellowship and music at Warm Hearts coffeehouse in Mechanicsburg, PA, this Friday night at 8PM. There is a nice team coming that I think will be very enjoyable. Plus, some warm mocha and a snack would be very nice on a chilly autumn evening. Have a new song to share too! Blessings!

I put up the latest recording of My Loving God. I redid the acoustic guitar track, making into two tracks. After some web research, I used two mic's instead of going direct. One was a big diameter diaphram condenser aimed at the soundhole and neck meeting place. The second mike was a pencil condenser aimed at the 12th fret area. Both were 5 - 7 inches away from the guitar. The guitar I used was the 615CE Taylor. I redid the vocal track as well. It is a hard song for me to sing perfectly. It took many takes and I'm still not satisfied. I also slowed the song down from 82bpm to 80bpm. I think it feels better there.

Much more to add and clean up. This is just the beginning of the process!

In the past couple of weeks, we ended up with some refreshing rains for our parched lawns and gardens. It seems as though new songs and ideas for songs are coming at a faster than normal pace. At first glance, the latest song, yet to be recorded, seems silly.

When in Jerusalem, I purchased a prayer shawl and I had the interesting experience of God telling me to pray and seek Him with it over my head. I had this little tent of a prayer shawl that has become my favorite place of meeting with Him.

So on Thursday, at lunchtime, I needed time with God and withdrew from the world with guitar in hand an prayer shawl over my head. I started to play and the words came, along with lots of tears, in almost an instant. The song is really about that instant.... Saturday morning, God gave me words for describing the instant of falling into God's presence. It is a "moment unfolding".

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Holy Spirit, Your Way

I am under my tent.
Your holy fire draws near.
The veil of heaven's opened,
With Your blood I am made pure.

I am under Your wings,
Your holy fire is near
The veil of heaven's opened,
With Your blood I am made pure.

Holy Spirit, Your way
Holy Spirit, Your way
Holy Spirit, have Your way
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So at the moment of being overshadowed by the wings of the Lord, is there much anything else to say but what Mary said? Be it unto me, Lord....

I just put up the latest version of My Loving God. It was recorded on the TASCAM and then exported onto the Mac. We'll be adding parts and bettering the scratch tracks in the near future. I will keep updating the song so you all can watch it become.

I am still working on Illumine Us a bit and the Lord is showing me Scripture from Ephesians 4 and how it applies to being lit from the inside by Him. I found the phrase "shield of love" in a Scripture and it seemed a great word picture to use in the song so I added it in the last verse. The lyrics as of now are:


Illumine Us
c2008 Mark Grosz

Lord Jesus,
Come and make Your home with us.
King of Glory be enthroned,
In our love.
Adoration, light Your blaze in us,
Consume us!

Illumine us,
Illumine us,
Illumine us,
King of Glory shine.

Holy Spirit, oh, we welcome You inside.
Fill our lamps with Your fragrant, golden oil.
Adoration, light your blaze in us,
Consume us!

Father God,
Take delight in Your children.
Your shield of love, your embrace,
is our joy.
Adoration, light your blaze in us,
Consume us!


Hope to get it recorded this next week!

Blessings...

If you stop by at Warm Hearts this Friday night, please love on Pete and Tess a bit (they own and run Warm Hearts, among other ministries). Through words or whatever, take a moment to bless them personally this Friday. Warm their hearts this weekend!
Hmmm, those two things go together. John Wesley's heart was strangely warmed by holy illumination.

We're planning on doing some new music, some not even sketch recorded yet, on Friday. Come join us at Warm Hearts and listen in on what the Lord is speaking to us about.

A just finished song is about being illuminated from the inside, like one of the pretty paper lanterns. I get really warmed on the inside when I sing this to the Lord. Come hear it at Warm Hearts on Friday or look for it on the website soon!


Illumine Us
c2008 Mark Grosz

Lord Jesus,
Come and make Your home with us.
King of Glory be enthroned,
In our love.
Adoration, light Your blaze in us,
Consume us!

Illumine us,
Illumine us,
Illumine us,
King of Glory shine.

Holy Spirit, oh, we welcome You inside.
Fill our lamps with Your fragrant, golden oil.
Adoration, light your blaze in us,
Consume us!

Father God,
Take delight in Your kids.
Precious Father,
Oh Your love is our joy.
Adoration, light your blaze in us,
Consume us!

We'll be at Warm Hearts this Friday night! Hope to see you all there. We visited Warm Hearts last night and had a nice time listening to Gary Shelton and meeting some new friends.

This morning, we had a wonderful worship time with the folks at the School of Ministry at Christ Community Church. "Arise, we'll arise, for our light has come. O Lord of Glory, shine on us."

Blessings!

First, I wanted to say thanks so much to the folks who come out to listen to us and partake in the worship, in a very different from normal place. Thanks also to the folks who are not local and hit the website! Thank you, thank you, thank you, my good friends! Your support for our nights at the coffeehouses and the spreading of the online content is very, very much appreciated!

The new song needing the 2 lines is pretty much completed! One of my writing partners, Heidi, came up with some great lyrics along with some beautiful words and melody for a bridge and counter melody. We'll be working on a recording of the song very soon.


You are my strength,
You are my fortress.
You are my strength,
Lord, you're my fortress
I wait for You,
My loving God.

Jesus, Your Name's
My tower of safety.
Your Name alone,
A stronghold of peace.
So good, so good,
Loving, You're loving
All praise to You,
My loving God.

In front of me,
Behind me,
All around me....

Hope to see you at The Daily Grind on Friday night, July 25th. Will have a good band with me! Stop by and say hello! (Is it July 25th already?)

There is a fresh song from this past Monday. The words, story and recording are up on my Music page. The song is called Voice of God. I spent some time with some new recording hardware and software and it a quantum leap for me, recording-wise. I don't quite have it all figured out yet but there is a huge capability gain from my little 4 track. I hope you enjoy it!

- Blessings to all!

Have two new songs to put up. They are pretty bare bones but it'll be good to see what people think of them. The one song is still missing two lyric lines and we are working on that!

Look in the music section shortly for My Loving God and Resting in your Hands. Let me know what you think!

Happy 4th of July Independence Day!

Oh a song almost there... I'm still awaiting two lyric lines. So in two lines, how can you contain even a small revelation about the love of the Lord? Could even an ocean of lyrics contain the smallest insight about the love of our Lord? Yet that is the position of the psalmist... searching for and trying to express a revelation about the Lord in words. For me sometimes the Lord makes me pursue that revelation. He gives me the foundation, either from the Word, dreams, prophetic vision or just from thinking about Him and pondering about the Lord. Then He makes me work for those last two lyric lines. He makes me experience what is often too large to fit into the constraints of words and music. The Lord is a good teacher and He makes me think through what He is teaching me and helps me get down to the basic truth He wants me to internalize. It is then I can share it properly in the words to a song that others can sing and we can ponder the Lord's truths together.

Consider this:

Psalms 48:12-14 (NIV)
Ps 48:12 Walk about Zion, go around her,
count her towers,

Ps 48:13 consider well her ramparts,
view her citadels,
that you may tell of them to the next generation.

Ps 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever;
he will be our guide even to the end.

Summer really dropped upon us this week, with the hot and humids. We picked up a nice software package, iLogic Express for our new Macbook Pro. Sure would appreciate any hints and tips from folks if others are using the software. Hope to have a new song up soon. It is based on Psalm 59, O my Strength, My Fortress, My Loving God. Right now there is only a verse. I'm hoping the convergence of the song and learning the new software come together at the right time. The thought of having more than 4 tracks really is exciting. The package has some great loops for perc and shakers that will help very much - it's amazing how hard it is to play a shaker consistantly for 3 minutes! If you are local, Tomorrow night is healing prayer at CCC and Saturday is the event at Good News church! Stay cool...

Please check out the calendar for the details. Next Saturday, we will be at Good News Church, on State Rd in Mechanicsburg, PA. There are lots of other artists playing all day long. The event is to raise funds for an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Come and sow into the Lord's work...

See you at Warm Hearts Cafe tonight. I am looking for one of the fruit smoothies to cool off the day a bit. Looking forward to hanging out with friends at the cafe! 8pm to 10pm tonight! Let us know if there are prayer needs. We will make time and space to pray with folks tonight.

My son, Tom, and I hiked and backpacked an 18 mile section of the Appalachian Trail on Thursday and Friday. It was quite an adventure! I always wanted to backpack and do an overnight hike on the AT. You can see some pictures along with GPS data at the everytrails website -
Appalachian Trail Adventure in PA - In Sections 12/13 - Widget powered by: EveryTrail
What fun! (Yes I am still a little bit stiff and sore but improving!)

Last night started a 3 week series by Zory Klinger on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They are on Wednesday nights at 7pm, at Christ Community Church. I've heard no better teacher on the Holy Spirit than Zory. If you are in the Harrisburg area, I'd recommend the sessions.

Please consider coming out on May 30th to Warm Hearts Cafe in Mechanicsburg. It is on my heart to not only worship, entertain and fellowship but to also make space for healing prayer to happen. Please come join in...

This song was in process for a couple weeks. There is a good teaching behind it and I will post that soon. The song is called Shake. One of the teachings is, the Lord loves all the unique worship expressed to Him, from all peoples, tongues, and tribes. I believe the Holy Spirit is setting people free to uniquely worship Him out of the expression He placed in them. Diverse worship from all cultures is beautiful to the Lord. The second teaching is, the Lord always moves first, then we move. So what might it sound like when the Lord, enjoying all the worship He impulsed, arises from His great throne? I think everything in heaven and earth starts to shake and vibrate. Beautiful sounds then come forth from His peoples and all of creation! Enjoy the new song! Blessings!

Hope to see you at Your Daily Grind on Friday night, starting at 7pm. We will have a new friend who plays conga's at a cool church in Reading (where Andrew plays as well) join us. It might be a rythmn-fest! We'll have much fun anyway!