I remember the day each of our two kids left home for college. First our daughter. Then our son. Each goodbye was hard in its own way. But the goodbye that left the nest empty and silent was particularly solemn. My son was a video game aficionado who repeatedly left the cabinet doors open below…
“I love you,” Dad said before leaving for the hospice center. Three minutes earlier, the second hijacked jet had struck the South Tower in New York. Those were the last words I ever heard Dad say. That morning, I mourned with my country. And I mourned with my family. Today marks 25 years since the…
At midnight Thursday night—the first minute of Friday—our next song releases to music-streaming services: “Don’t Sing Me Your Blues (Psalm 18).” The title may sound a little tough. But the song is really about hope. Psalm 18 is an old song credited to David, a man who knew fear, loss, danger, and loneliness. He called…
The Bible text is free to read online for anyone in the world who wants it. The maps and discussion questions are free to use while you’re studying online. The music, you can sample now and stream later. You’d think somebody with grant money would want to help with that. Not so much.
It’s going to cost over $80,000 to have the company that proofreads most English Bibles proofread the Casual English Bible. Yes, you read that right. But it’s a lot of work – all 66 books – and this is the company best equipped to do it.
Dearest Rebecca: Wasn’t it only a minute ago that your mom and I drove you to kindergarten, while you bubbled with excitement in the back seat and Mom cried in the front seat? Seems like it.
It has been too long since I’ve written you, for very good reason, though. A lot going on for a one-man garden with part-time help. We just upgraded our website that holds The Casual English Bible.® And I’ve been frantically filling in the search data needed for you to find your maps among the 1,000 or so that we have.
I was asking ChatGPT about the streaming numbers of the lead song on the album I released last week, “I Won’t Dance with the Devil (Psalm 84).” Chat seemed impressed – for an AI system. It quickly started asking about my other songs.
I know I’m supposed to write more often. And I want to write more often. After all, I am a writer. But we’ve had so much going on for the past year and a half. It’s overwhelming at times. Last year we were fighting the website and a system that got royally messed up by the only developer I’ve ever had to fire.
SMASHED IN JERUSALEM. Someone, years ago, ran up to our rented car and threw a cantaloupe-size rock at the windshield. We had stopped to see Hezekiah’s Tunnel in East Jerusalem. It was closed. But rocks were open for business. Only the insurance company was hurt.
He’s seven years old and about to lose a best buddy, the family’s first dog, a 12-year-old border collie named Tucker. Everyone cries.
Merry Christmas from Charlie Chance Miller, named by our grandsons (Charlie) and our granddaughters (Chance). We love them all.
The older we get, the better suited we are to cartoon characters.
Blowing up on Spotify
Pause a minute and listen to some new Christian music. It’ll make you smile.
“SONGS, Music of Psalms,” an album of 12 songs inspired by psalms in the Bible, releases Friday, November 21. Musical Friday, one week before Black Friday.
MY BELOVED DAUGHTER-IN-LAW swimming with the sharks. I’ve been waiting for the right time to show the video clip. Adding it to the music video for New Song [Psalm 40], which releases tonight, seemed the right move.
When I paraphrase Ezekiel 45, I will have paraphrased Genesis through Revelation. I can’t write it today because I’m dealing with the launch of a new song. We’re using “Lord, I’ve Seen the Great I Am” in Psalm 104, since some of the lyrics come from there.
Before I started writing music for Psalms in The Casual English Bible® (TCEB), I wrote other songs. I’ve been doing that since I was in junior high school. The TCEB songs will start releasing on September 26. But on Friday, three other songs will drop.
Music in TCEB – This is new and dramatic. If you go to Psalm 23, you’ll find a new, original song inspired by that ancient song. If you don’t like the style of music, try another psalm. We’re just beginning to put our psalm lyrics to music.
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