Worship is more than music…it is your invitation to a divine encounter! When you worship, more is going on than meets the eye. You take your place among a heavenly symphony that has been offering up praise since the dawn of time. Discover how you were uniquely created for supernatural experiences in God’s presence—no matter who you are or what you have been designed to do! In fact, how you were made often reveals how God desires to encounter you. The artist sees God in colors, shapes, visual contrasts, and dimensions. The mathematician perceives Heaven’s activity in the precision and fluidity of measurements, movements, forces, proportions, and vectors. The writer senses divine Presence in the poetry of perfectly selected words. God has created you for an intimate encounter. Your distinct personality, talent, and destiny allows you to sense the different colors of His activity in your life and in the world. Receive a fresh vision of your destiny, start seeing the supernatural activity of Heaven released through worship, and experience God in ways you never dreamed possible!

Offered in honor of James Earl Massey. Sharing Heaven's Music is a collection of thought-provoking essays on Christian preaching--its methods, meaning, and message. Contributors include William Pannell, William Willimon, Gail O'Day, David Buttrick, Frederick Norris, Cheryl Sanders Ronald Allen, Justo Gonzalez, among others. Also contains a bibliography of Massey's work.

In The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora, twenty-three scholars advance knowledge and understandings of Chinese music studies. Each contribution develops a theoretical model to illuminate new insights into a key musical genre or context. This handbook is categorized into three parts. In Part One, authors explore the extensive, remarkable, and polyvocal historical legacies of Chinese music. Ranging from archaeological findings to the creation of music history, chapters address enduring historical practices and emerging cultural expressions. Part Two focuses on evolving practice across a spectrum of key instrumental and vocal genres. Each chapter provides a portrait of musical change, tying musical transformations to the social dimensions underpinning that change. Part Three responds to the role that prominent issues, including sexuality, humanism, the amateur, and ethnicity, play in the broad field of Chinese music studies. Scholars present systematic orientations for researchers in the third decade of the twenty-first century. This volume incorporates extensive input from researchers based in China, Taiwan, and among Chinese communities across the world. Using a model of collaborative inquiry, The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora features diverse insider voices alongside authors positioned across the anglophone world.

In this subtle and intelligently conceived study of Milton's major poems, Professor Lawry analyzes and explicates the poems and interprets them in the context of the entire body of Milton's work. His interpretations help the reader to participate with the poet in the "enactment" of the poems, whether with Adam in the Garden of Eden or with Satan in Hell.

A collection of poetry written by Melanie Watson from young adult to present.