It's a Matter of the Heart

"There was nothing that Hezekiah did not show them."
2 Kings 20:13

So he showed the envoys from Babylon everything?  I think he didn't.  He did not show them the LORD God of Israel!  Why had they come?  News had reached them about Hezekiah being healed, but even more than that, they had seen the great sign that had accompanied the healing.  The writer of Chronicles emphasizes that they wanted to know more about what had happened: "...envoys were sent by the rulers of Babylon to ask him about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land..." 
        (2 Chr. 32:31)

       Let that sink in for a few moments.  

The king of Babylon saw the sun do this amazing Backup Thing in the sky.  This was unprecedented.  He wanted to know what happened and why.  He started by asking his wise men, then his vassal kings and rulers.  They all said, "Yeah, we saw it, but we don't know what happened."  Finally reports came in from the Kingdom of Judah that their God had given the sign to their king.  So the Babylonian king sent envoys to find out more about this sign and the God behind the sign.

They showed up—probably with royal gifts—and Hezekiah was tickled pink that these Important People™  were all here to see him.  Thus he showed them around the palace and the city, trying to impress them with how impressive he, King of Judah, really was.

Let me repeat: Babylon wanted to know about God but Hezekiah talked about gold.  Babylon wanted to understand the Sign but Hezekiah showed off his signet rings.  Babylon wanted to hear more Words about who this God was that could command the sun like that, but Hezekiah told them more about this World. 

Hezekiah gave them Stuff^® when only one thing was needful! 

Why?  Out of the heart the mouth speaks (Lk. 6:45) and he was storing up treasures on this earth so his heart was there with his treasures (Mt. 6:19-21).

This explains why he was so sad when Isaiah told him it was time to die.  He was attached to Stuff^® and didn't want to let it go.  He hadn't been living correctly so there was no way that he could die correctly. 

It really matters what we set our hearts on.  And his young son, Manasseh, learned well and stuffed all sorts of worldly things into his heart so that there was no room for the LORD God of Israel. 

Where is our heart, our love and our affections?  Time will tell.  But don't wait till then; tend to the matter now and stoke the love and affection of God and Godly things! 

God Gave Us Friends

God gave us friends so that we
    could understand a part of Him,
    have a tangible picture of His care,
    have a visible representation of His covenantal Love
                              —His ever-faithfulness

Like stones in His pocket we're placed together
         sharpening,
         smoothing
     and making plain the rough places in each other
                              —and others.
  So that when He takes us out to look at us
     He sees beauty
         because the polished surfaces of our lives
              ƚɔɘlʇɘɿ — reflect
                  and
                     ɹoɹɹıɯ — mirror
                           HIM!

Stones of Fire—    His precious possessions
His prized gems,   radiating His Gentleness,
His brilliant Love—    blinding Holy fire.
In praise of Father's Firstborn,     Fair Prince of Peace,
Dayspring from on high,     angels dance in rainbow-spangled hues,
and God in Love,    with Holy Light—
Wisdom from verity—     into His vestments reaches
and pulls forth a stone,     and places in in the light.
"Rejoice!" they cry;     "My King!" it sings.
Then smiling, God     sets it back again.

Hallelujah! Lord your plans are so wise,
    Grafting us into a body to make us one another
                                  and
                                     one with You.

You give us friends to encourage,
           exhort,
                           rebuke,
                   and
             provoke in love
                    to do good works.

You have also given friends
   So that we might see
A glimpse of You through them
   Though imperfectly.
And in this imperfection
   We can see
The strange fusion
   Of God in humanity.
By His Life
   We're saved from death;
Through His Grace
   We have new Breath.
This Love that keeps us strong
   And makes us friends
Is the same Love of God
   Which holds us till the end!

- D. Benning

25-Apr-1984

Praise God for Change — Pray to God for Change!

 They only heard the report: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”  And they praised God because of me.
Gal. 1:23 - 24

   This scripture encouraged me this morning.  Look around and see the lives changed by God's intervention.  See that life?  It once was in darkness but now is walking in light.  The life that once reveled in wrong now delights in right!  That is a miracle!  God's power displayed in frail vessels of clay, redounding to His glory and the good of His people.  We should praise God for conversions!  Praise Him for change!

   But I was encouraged by this as I read it to pray for change!  God is mighty!  He, who was able to change a church-hating Saul of Tarsus into a stalwart Apostle and bond-slave of Jesus Christ, can certain still change sinners into saints.  

   Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest.  Not just for workers to go out, but pray to Him that there would be harvest!  Miraculous harvest!  Abundant harvest!  Harvest that will redound again to God's glory and the good of His church.

It Will Never be a Political Fix

 

 First of all, let me say that I do not think that we should abandon political solutions.  No, we are in this world, we are afforded the opportunity to participate in society and in government (to some extent) and thus we need to make rational and well-formed decisions that seek best to further good behavior and right living in our land.  After all, we are called to be salt and salt is to have an effect on those around.  Salt preserves and adds good taste as well as covers over some of the bad taste.  It also has medicinal effects in that it keeps bacteria and rot from growing.

So, yes, we as Christians are to do all that.

But in our society the depth of rot has progressed, the level of degradation has only increased and the extent of depravity has only plummeted.  At what point does someone look at a dish of food and say, "It is too far gone; salt cannot help this!"

We need something more.  We need the unmistakable hand of God doing what only the Divine can do: change hearts.

Why does the sinner sin?  Because he chooses what his nature wants.  We are reaping the last century of increased disregard for God, His Laws and His standards.  We have evicted God from the marketplace of ideas, first in politics, then from public schools and now to a large extent even from churches themselves.  Thus we have charlatans and false prophets preaching half-truths or out-right lies.  These pedal a different gospel and a different Jesus by means of a different spirit.  And since church-goers are so unfamiliar with what the Bible actually says, they just sit and soak it in, having their itching ear tickled to their hearts' content.  These are the ones that Paul warn the Ephesian elders about in Acts 20 when he said that grievous and savage wolves would enter to devour the flock.  But he told the Galatians that anyone who preaches a different gospel is under a divine curse: Anathama!

So we have a huge problem.  People are increasingly running after more and more sin, worse and worse perversions, and glorying in their chosen depraved life styles to an insanely blatant level.  The dog returns to its vomit and the pig to its filth.  Politics alone will not work.  We can argue all we want but there is a fundamental world-view problem.  Our set of assumed values and default priorities are not necessarily the same as other people in society.

We have a government of the people and by the people.  They will only vote for what they want.  Their nature is to want more and more things and entertainment and pleasure and stuff.  The only way to turn this country and society back to making Godly moral choices is to change the nature of its people.  That cannot ever be done through politics, though we should work hard to influence society for good.  Nor can it be effected through better education, though we should strive to make sure that our children are properly trained in all academia and godliness.  Can the leopard change its spots?  No, it takes the Great Physician to perform a great work within the heart of each individual. 

The Lord God, the "heart-knower," must work in us again.  He must start in His church,  for judgment begins in the house of the Lord.  He must remove the false prophets and wicked shepherds who teach antinomian ways, who lead their flocks straight in through the gates of hell.  To those workers of iniquity He will say, "depart from Me."

But we are still afforded opportunity for it is still called "today."  He said if we hear His voice "today" we should not harden our hearts.  That means that He still is in the business of speaking and softening hearts and giving the gift of repentance.

He told His disciples to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send workers.  That must mean that He still is seeking a harvest.

Even though the kingdom of Judah was wicked and had a wicked king, God told Jeremiah to go and speak once again to the people:

“This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the Lord. Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word. Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done. Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: If you do not listen to me and follow my law, which I have set before you, and if you do not listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you again and again (though you have not listened), then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse among all the nations of the earth.’”
       Jer. 26:2 - 6

The Lord was giving Judah yet one more chance to repent and turn away from sin.  Can we not pray to this same great God and ask for one more chance?  One more awakening?  One more revival?

We should pray for the real God-called pastors and godly teachers that God Himself would strengthen them and outfit them and equip them for the task of declaring the Word of God boldly to a society that increasingly does not want to hear anything that would condemn their sin.

But we should also pray for an out-pouring of the Holy Spirit on all flesh.  We should not buy into the cessationist argument that said that all the special stuff died out with the original Twelve Apostles.  No, don't put God into a box defined by your own limited experience.  Church history is filled with examples of real men and women of God doing mighty things that can only be explained by the Holy Spirit doing works with and through them. (Try googling the Welsh revival, the many revivals on the Isle of Lewis, and the revival at Asbury College, Kentucky in 1970.)

So this post is a challenge to all Christian to start praying seriously.  Pray for true men of God to have Holy Spirit unction and divine protection to be able to deliver the Word of God clearly, forcefully, powerfully and correctly.  Pray also that people's hearts would be softened to hear the Word of God and that people would be changed.  Pray also that God would grant an outpouring of His Spirit so that people will want to leave their lives of sin and misery.

The alternative is to keep on doing the same ol' same ol'.  And we can see just how far down the drain that is getting us.  No!  We need God to perform a miracle.  A mighty miracle of revival!  Not a man-made, conjured up cheap trick on a certain date, but a genuinely divine out-working and in-working of His Spirit, by His Spirit for His glory.

Pray!

 
See also this related post.

Whole-hearted

“But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord, “and you have aroused my anger with what your hands have made, and you have brought harm to yourselves.”
Jer. 25:7

Note that not listening to the Lord does two things: It arouses His anger and it brings harm to yourself.  Neither are wise and the second automatically follows from the first.

2 Kings 16 — Here is the strange story of Ahaz, son of Jotham.  Jotham was an "okay" king doing right, but there were still the high places left in the land.  I wonder if these became a snare for his son Ahaz.  Regardless, Ahaz rejected true worship of YWHW and actively pursued any other form of religion that allowed him to do as he pleased.  But notice his syncretism:

   King Ahaz then gave these orders to Uriah the priest: “On the large new altar, offer the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, and the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. Splash against this altar the blood of all the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar for seeking guidance.”
   2 Ki. 16:15

He believed in "both/and" and borrowed whatever from wherever.  He ended up with a different gospel, and would have been happy with a different Jesus and a different spirit.  He was half-hearted at best in his worship of the Lord; but half-hearted is worthless in God's estimation. 

God wants whole-hearted devotion:

• Ps. 9:1; 111:1 — whole-hearted praise of God
• Ps. 119:2, 10 —whole-hearted seeking of God
• Ps. 119:34, 69 — observe & keeps laws whole-heartedly
• Ps. 119:58, 145 — crying out to God, praying and pleading with Him whole-heartedly

We must remember that He is the rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.  (Heb. 11:6)

Dialogues for Two Clarinets

Published by Kistner und Siegel:

* Dialogues for Two Clarinets


    This duet started off because someone asked me to write a duet for trumpet and clarinet. It worked well, but several people (including myself) felt that it would work even better as a clarinet duet.

Here is the link to the computer playback of the piece.  NOTE: you will have to search the list within the SoundClick link to find the individual movements since that site has changed their format.

The three movements are

• Reminiscing
• Pleasant Conversation
• Punctuated Dialogue

    In the last movement you will hear percussion sounds. These are to represent the foot-stomping or toe-tapping that the performers are to engage in whilst playing. The foot antics are written into the score and very deliberate, punctuating the dialogue.

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Brass Suite with Trumpet

Published by Kistner und Siegel:

* Brass Suite with Trumpet

      This is an interesting ensemble.  Four tubas and a trumpet.  (Technically two tubas, two euphoniums and a trumpet.)  I wrote the first movement and was almost immediately asked to turn it into a complete suite.  I am indebted to David Carter for using his Vienna Symphonic Sound Library to make a very realistic computer playback performance of this piece.  Indeed it was he who encouraged me to write additional movements for this suite after he surveyed the initial piece.

Here are links to various ways of listening to it.  NOTE: you will have to search the list within the SoundClick link to find the individual movements since that site has changed their format.
     The whole suite

Or the first two movements with cool pictures illustrating part of what I heard as I wrote it.
     Movement I, Fanfare
     Movement II, Reflections

Reviews:

The whole suite—

mmmm that's nice
   This 3 movement work features some beautiful lower brass chords and maintains rhythmic interest throughout.  The trumpet melodic work is so different to the way I approach melody that at first I found it hard to lock into, but as the piece developed, the logic and sense of the melodic work became apparent and actually, quite catchy. To me, the underlying feeling of serenity/tranquility is the unifying feature of the work. The review headline is actually what I said after the last notes. I note that some of the composers other works have this same underlying feeling. A work of quality.
 
~Jeffrey Thorpe

Individual movements—

Movement I, Fanfare
            The first review has been lost to time and the bit bin of the internet.

Movement II, Reflections

Beautifully done
While some may argue with the "muddy" side of such an ensemble, four tubas is the foundation of just about every brass band around and I think the chords you have presented here underneath the trumpet are well structured. 

~ David Smith

Movement III, Delight!

Aptly named 
The title of this piece is a perfect description. A delight to listen to. Short and sweet, bouncy, plus any other synonyms of delight that could be thought of to make this review more than the minimum 30 words. :-D

~ Tony Matthews

Mars—59,620 Years

Published by Kistner und Siegel:

* Mars—59,620 Years

Click here to find a computer playback of this piece.  NOTE: you will have to search the list within the SoundClick link to find the individual movements since that site has changed their format.

      A Wind Quintet written in 2003 for a small, informal competition.  It had its premiere in London in 2006 at a small gathering of musicians who were showcasing new works.

The theme of the competition was the fact that the planet Mars was reaching its closest approach to earth in an estimated 59,620 years.  I took that theme and wove the idea of the Roman god of war with the dry and dusty images from the planet.

59,620 Years--Mars Returns is the simple telling of the approaching of Mars, the god of war. Mars, the Planet, is dry and arid--much like many of the deserts found throughout central Asia. For that reason, I chose a wind quintet and often featured the use of the double reed instruments with a haunting melody to try to invoke the feeling of a desert or at least nomadic life.

The approach of Mars is signified by a change to a minor key and an increasing sense of urgency. The storm clouds of war gather and break over everything. But Mars is old. The youthful delights that once he took in the exploits of war now easily tire him and his passion quickly drains away. Fear and foreboding subside. Calmness returns. The idyllic joy again returns as Mars fades away into the distance.

The numbers 5, 9, 6, 2, and 0 play an important part in developing the intervals used in two sections of this piece.

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Nothing but the Blood

Published by Kistner und Siegel:

* Nothing but the Blood

      A duet for Piano and Violin that is an arrangement of an old hymn.
Initially I started this as an exercise of "Can I write music in 5/4?"  But it quickly developed into something that transformed the old hymn and made it soar.  I am blessed to have performed this three or four times.  The recording, although not our best, is from one of those occasions

Click here to find the link to a recording of the performance.  NOTE: you will have to search the list within the SoundClick link to find the individual movements since that site has changed their format.
 

Reviews

Excellent
I stumbled across this while browsing through the composer's personal page, and before I'd even begun to listen to the scorch playback, I knew that it was not going to be just another arrangement- the obvious and wonderful rhythmic style is perfect for this hymn. All too often, I find versions of this—one of my favorite hymns—done in too much of a "rock" style, but this is perfect. It sets itself apart while still not violating the spirit of the song. I would love to hear this performed, I'm sure it is even more moving in person. Excellent, excellent job.
 
~ Curtis Schweitzer


A Transformation
Despite the title, this is an instrumental piece for violin or any other suitable instrument and piano. The old-fashioned and slightly four square gospel hymn by Robert Lowry is transformed into a moving almost epic, folk-like piece. The original 4/4 time is changed into 5/4 time which helps give it a new character and any jerkiness is avoided by an effective flowing then dramatic piano accompaniment. The melody itself is beautifully varied and ornamented—soaring to a lovely climax. Anyone who needs an instrumental piece to play during moments of reflection in a service or, indeed, in a sacred concert should have a look at this.
 
~ Charles Dodds

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Longings

Published by Kistner und Siegel:

* Longings

      A duet for Piano and Violin in one movement.
The steady underlying quarter note rhythm of the piano throughout much of the song provides an almost hypnotic effect over which the violin raises questions and hopes. There is the initial "longing" which grows into a more petulant and vocal whine before subsiding into a deep resignation. It is the music of a man staring out a rain-spattered window, contemplating many things that had been or almost were.

Click here to listen to the computer performance.  NOTE: you will have to search the list within the SoundClick link to find the individual movements since that site has changed their format.

Reviews:  Staring at the rain from a glass window, immersed in thought

   An intriguing piece of music for piano and violin. It begins like a kind of an aria with an interesting tune and a fair bit of chromaticism which sometimes generates surprises, such as in bar 13. I would like to know what inspired this piece, because it has quite a sombre mood. This is confirmed by the title ("Longings") and indications in the score ("with much feeling", "sighing" and "resignation"). I have the theory that these longings are of a spiritual nature, rather than not.
The opening movement is hinted at in the program note as being "Slow and plodding". This is not an entirely inappropriate description. The piano accompaniment is quite uniform: one note in every beat of the 4/4 metre — very constant in rhythm, and one wonders if the music would benefit from a greater use of syncopation and suspension to make the piano part more attention-grabbing. But then, perhaps that would not be what is intended, as the music succeeds in generating a certain eerie and almost hypnotic feeling.
By bar 40 the accompaniment's basic rhythm begins to change a bit, and at 62 a contrasting section commences, immediately delivering a more threatening kind of sound, as the music gets progressively more disturbed (never loosing its basic restraint, though).
The music concludes very quietly, perhaps giving the feeling that the longings have not been entirely resolved, the ending being "resigned and sullen" as hinted in the program note? certainly no happy ending here. I liked very much the glissando at bar 123 *, which was in the right place of the music to impact emotionally. In summary, I find this piece to be quite sad and resigned, like staring at the rain from a glass window immersed in thought about old dreams, the unfulfilled promises of youth, the longing for answers about the loneliness of the human condition in this world. I felt that the piece had interesting harmonic twists but that it could benefit from more rhythmic variety and more strongly contrasting sections but I found it interesting enough to keep my attention. That's why I can say that, personally, I liked it.

~ Jordi Vives i Batlle

* Note: the glissando mentioned in the above review did not show up on this computer playback.  It would have been between the second to last note, a high G, and the last note, a G one octave lower.

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Passages of Time

Published by Kistner und Siegel:

* Passages of Time

  A duet for Piano and Flute in four movements.
I do have a recording of this being performed by Flute and Piano, but the recording was on an old cassette tape and was of poor quality.  I'm not putting it on the web.  Period.  Instead I have three of these movements recorded as performed with Violin and Piano.  The violinist said there was no way she could work up the second movement.  Far too flute-like and demanding of all but the most advance violinist.

All four movements run almost 17 minutes, the last movement being the longest.  The second movement is the most demanding in terms of the flute part (tonguing) and the piano part (getting all the notes in with the right rhythm). NOTE: you will have to search the list within the SoundClick link to find the individual movements since that site has changed their format.

• Mvt 1, violin & piano 
• Mvt 3, violin & piano
• Mvt 4, violin & piano

Reviews:  Music of a man at peace with the world

   After hearing the first bars of this piece it became quite clear to me that the best I could do was not to try to "analyse" it, but instead to allow myself to be surrounded and transported by this beautiful music. I experienced a range of subtle, warm, delicate emotions while listening to this piece as the sinuous line melodic lines of the flute and the enchanting piano accompaniments unfolded. Perhaps the best way to describe this feeling is that I felt as if I was beginning to soar in the air, like a bird learning to fly, gliding higher and higher above the land and watching the calm sea, and the diffuse line of the horizon. Passages of Time is the music of a man at peace with what lies ahead and what has slipped into eternity behind us. It is the music of a man on a journey, who has found his sense of purpose and can bid farewell with sweet melancholy without striving desperately for the unattainable. In some way this music encapsulates our human experience and our ability to move forward and let our memories fly over the horizon without casting them away from our soul. 

~ Jordi Vives i Batlle

UPDATE:
Here are the recordings as done  by flute and piano.  This had to have been from the early 1990s or the late 1980s.  Sound quality is a bit spurious, but is sufficient to allow the listener to image how I had originally envisioned the music.

• Mvt 1, flute & piano
• Mvt 2, flute & piano
• Mvt 3, flute & piano
• Mvt 4, flute & piano

Tripping

Published by Kistner und Siegel:

* Tripping

  A Wind Quintet originally written for the 60 x 60 project and it was accepted in 2008.  Since this piece is under 60 seconds long, I cannot think of this as being a full, formal Wind Quintet, but instead a Breeze Quintet.  It is light and playful like a breath of early Summer.  Tripping is a light-hearted interplay between instruments, filled with musical humor.

Click here for link to the computer performance.  NOTE: you will have to search the list within the SoundClick link to find the individual movements since that site has changed their format.



Review

  Pleasant Whimsy

   I hear a pleasant little whimsy—interesting gestures, rhythmic interplay and tonal sound world. This composer shows some promise.  }:¬)

~David Carter

Unconventional & Engaging!

This "Breeze Quintet" is quite fitting of the title "Tripping". David has written lines which almost all descend, and by passing them from higher to lower voices gives a sense of a slow fall over the course of the piece.

The harmony is most unconventional, and a welcome change from the often bland harmonic language present in today's music, and adds to the programmatic nature of the piece, giving a sense of uncertainty to the slow descent.

A fine work, David!

~ Jonathan Loving

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Dancing Night Wind

Published by Echelon Music:

 *     Dancing Night Wind
  A flute solo, but the best recording I have of it is by Charlie Brighton who heard the piece and thought he could do a grand job with it as a solo tuba piece.  I think he did an outstanding job.  (He reviewed the piece; see below.)

    Listen here.

This piece was premiered in Sacramento in 2011, by Maquette Kuper, who is the director of the Davis Youth Flute Choir.

Reviews

 A flute's magic flight

With due apologies to Herr Mozart for the headline, this is ravishing music for a solo flute. Full of dance-like figurations, subtle changes in rhythm, lyrical episodes and dream-like reveries. The technical demands are self-evident along with the challenge of combining and balancing pace and poise in such a carefully written piece. Highly satisfying. 

~ Cedric Peachey

 Brilliant

A wonderful piece, full of atmosphere, great fun to play and listen to.  I featured it in my Euphonium recital and the live recording can be heard here, played in concert C, with a few octave changes.

Best wishes,

~ Charley Brighton, BBC Winds, London

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Music....

Well, this is rather interesting: I have music that is or is being published.
Seven pieces published by the German publishing company, Kistner und Siegel.
And one piece by Echelon Music.

I have been asked to provide links to sound files so that each of these could be heard in some form.  Remember, I cannot show the musical scores, but I can showcase the musical performances.  This blog entry will also allow me to collect comments and reviews that some of these pieces have received over the past decade or so.

That any of these pieces came into being is truly a gift from God.  I am the unworthy recipient of His grace and any talents that I may have.  And to think that somehow some of this music connects to other people and touches them by listening is really, really humbling!



     Inspiration
Even as I sit here
In deep wonderment I am;
It's something between awe
And ad nauseam!
     Yet not that—but puzzlement.

I am not myself,
But another, yet unknown;
It is something in my finger
That I would seek to disown.
     Yet not that—but imprisonment.

I would that I could control it
(It from my stylus pours);
It must be tamed somehow,
Lest I myself deplore.
     Yet not that—but penitent.

This scourge that from my finger flows
Is sampled here upon this page;
It comes and keeps on coming—
I would to put it in a cage!
     Yet not that—but banishment.

But I reckon that it's here stay,
So I'll let it do its thing;
I'll let it pour out on paper
All its foolish clamorings.
     Yet not that—but accomplishments!

So I'll use this Gift from God
(He by His Grace bestowed it);
I'll nurture it and cherish it
And be a real composer-poet.
     Yet not that—but His instrument!

- D. Benning
02-Dec-1982



Here is the list of published music.  Click on each to go to a separate page describing the piece, complete with reviews and links to a recording of a performance.

• Dancing Night Wind
• Tripping
• Passages of Time
• Longings
• Dialogues for 2 Clarinets 
• Brass Suite with Trumpet
• Nothing but the Blood
• Mars—59,620 Years