Skip to content
Robert Sandford
the creative life
  • home
  • writing
    • A Jungian Approach to Engaging Our Creative Nature
    • blog
    • essays
  • music
  • wood
  • photography
  • design
  • talks
  • contact
  • search

Category: music ministry

Hope

January 10, 2020 Robert

The psychologist Erik Erikson writes of how in the first stage of our development the primary concern is basic trust…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music ministry, spirituality Filed under: hope, mistrust, music, spirituality, trust

We are God’s people

May 2, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

From my May 12, 2019 Music Corner bulletin column Today’s Psalm 100:1-2 We are God’s people, the sheep of his…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music ministry, spirituality Filed under: community, faith, psalms, singing, testimony

How music heals

March 29, 2019 Robert

Trees are constantly growing. When a limb is cut off the tree grows around the cut to seal the wound…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: creativity, music, music ministry, spirituality Filed under: creative, creativity, healing, play

God through us

February 25, 2019 Robert

Singing into a microphone or playing in front of a congregation can be intimidating. From personal experience and many conversations…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music ministry, spirituality Filed under: courage, service, stewardship, trust

The art of accompanying

February 4, 2019 Robert

In Mark 9:36 Jesus tells the disciples the one who leads must be “the servant of all.” An accompanist leads…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music, music ministry Filed under: ensemble, music, spirit

Sympathetic vibration of the heart strings

February 1, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

When you a sing near a cello, it vibrates. If you sing the pitch of one of its strings, it…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music ministry, spirituality Filed under: music, resonate, vibration

Beauty opens us

January 28, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

In divine moments, by the Holy Spirit, nature’s beauty uncloses us. Tightly wrapped, we are unbound

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music ministry, theology Filed under: beauty, heart, music, spirituality

Believing is seeing

January 23, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

Mark 1:15 says “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music ministry, spirituality Filed under: belief, imagination, kingdom, seeing

the impact of music ministry in worship

March 28, 2014 Robert Leave a comment

One of the great benefits of communal worship is that witnessing the expressions of faith of our brothers and sisters…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music ministry

music and spiritual experience

December 1, 2012 Robert Leave a comment

Consider the character of spiritual experience and what it has in common with the experience of music. Spiritual experiences often…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: music ministry

writing by category

  • architecture
  • creativity
  • music
  • music ministry
  • myth
  • philosophy
  • psychology
  • spirituality
  • theology
Copyright © 2021 Robert Sandford