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Time To Tune-Up … Your Heart
7/19/2010
 So, its that time again. You pick up your guitar and sit down to play or practice. What's the first thing you do? Tune your guitar of course. If your guitar is out of tune, then every sound coming from your guitar will be off.
I have a great friend who uses the guitar as an analogy for our lives. Jonathan Dubuse Jr, shared with me, that if we want to stay in tune with God, then we need to continually tune up our hearts and minds. Staying in tune doesn't happen by itself. Just like our guitar, the more it gets , played, moved, abused, effected by the temperature and weather, it continually needs to be re-tuned. Our lives are the same way. We all have the best tuner money can buy to do this ... it's the Bible. The Word of God is our life tuner. It lets us know if we're flat and tells us if we're sharp.
Galations 5:25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
Enjoy this video of Jonathan Dubose Jr on guitar ...
If your life is playing a bit out of tune, then pull out your tuner! 
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Tutorial – How He Loves by John Mark McMillan
7/13/2010
You know a worship song has arrived when its being redone by lots of different artists on lots of different albums. John Mark McMillan's song, How He Loves is one of those songs. I checked Amazon and I can see it recorded by David Crowder, Jared Anderson, Lake Hills Church, Northstar Worship and many more.
The song is simple to play with only four chords (C, F, G, Am7) but its effect as a worship song can be great. As John states in his tutorial video below, its the dynamics that really make this song go. I would add that its the opening and pouring out of the worshiper's heart that makes this song so powerful and intimate.
Here are the chord variations that John Mark uses, as mentioned in the video:
C - x32010
F/A - x03010 (substitute for Am or Am7)
F - x33010 (variation of F with open G and E strings Fmaj9 no3)
G - 320001
How He Loves by John Mark McMillan
Verse 1
He is jealous for me loves like a hurricane
I am a tree bending beneath
The weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden I am unaware of
These afflictions eclipsed by glory
I realize just how beautiful You are
And how great Your affections are for me
Oh how He loves us so
Oh how He loves us
How He loves us so
Yeah He loves us
Oh how He loves us
Verse 2
So we are His portion and He is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest
And I don't have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way that
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