by Cliff Cline | Apr 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have had several occasions to discuss the nature of the church lately. For me I have begun to use some terminology to help me understand and discuss it better. I have started to deliniate between the institutional church and the group of Christians who collectively...
by Cliff Cline | Apr 10, 2008 | Church, Music, Pop Culture, Worship
So I am speaking at the Nova conference this Friday. The topic I am dealing with is how to take a church from traditional to contemporary music without blowing it up. It is a challenging topic not simply because of style issues and preferences, but because there is so...
by Cliff Cline | Mar 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
So in the midst of it all I have been working on a couple of more tunes. One is for an event I am part of , and the other is actually producing a tune my oldest daughter wrote. She is eight, and I am impressed. I am also impressed that as we started recording it she...
by Cliff Cline | Mar 12, 2008 | Music, Recording
Again with the break in blogging. Sorry. With all that is going on I have been growing in my appreciation of the single parent. Currently I am doing it all. Working full-time and parenting full-time.One of things I have noticed that helps is if I don’t stop...
by Cliff Cline | Feb 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
I am behind again in my story telling. You will see why in a moment.Feb 12I was driving home for work, a minor snow storm was afoot. I was travelling cautiously through back roads, missing traffic and looking forward to a piano recording session the next day when...
by Cliff Cline | Feb 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By the bye, I have turned comments on again. I turned them off some time ago because I was getting some wierd ones and some unfriendly ones. Alas, I am trying to toughen up and create some community around some of the topics addressed here. I am still going to...
by Cliff Cline | Feb 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
Another thought that I often wonder about, is why there are not more bands made up of the music pastors of churches that play somewhere with regularity. My experience in trying to get this sort of thing started was negative. I don’t know if it was a competitive...
by Cliff Cline | Feb 7, 2008 | Community, Music, Recording
It is an interesting landscape in Canada, or should I say lack of landscape. I have to admit as a musician in Canada I am always surprised at the lack of opportunities to play. Having been a music Pastor etc. I understand many of the challenges of hosting concerts...
by Cliff Cline | Feb 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
I think I may try and start a new repeating post type called, well, The View From Here. Thoughts on where things are and possibly going, and the mundane miscellaneous.The New AlbumI have decided to start uses the retro phrase album for several reasons. One being, I...
by Cliff Cline | Jan 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
So we have been trying to find and connect at a new church since leaving our last church, and the place I was a Pastor for 5 years (to the day) for the last 9 months. 9 months without a church home, for lack of a better expression, has felt odd. It has been an...
