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Bryan
Sirchio Live!
| Wise As Serpents - Gentle As A Dove
| Artist's Hand Study Guide |
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Bryan Sirchio Live In Concert! Includes The Wooden Bell, Dan Stood Here, and Deeper Than The Valley. From the Liner Notes... This
concert was given on June 18, 1991 in the Lawrence University Chapel
during the Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Conference of the United
Church of Christ. Guest musicians include Larry
Dalton accompanying on acoustic bass, and Bert Dalton on piano.
This recording was originally digitally recorded and mastered by engineer
Tom Blain of Ultimate Audio, Madison, WI. Previously only available
on cassette, it has been digitally re-mastered by Tom for this 2004
release.
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As Serpents - Gentle As A Dove From the Liner Notes... This is a collection of songs from the early years of my music ministry. This recording is actually a double album, and includes just about every song from my first two solo recordings (Gentle As A Dove, released in 1989, and Wise As Serpents, released in 1990). These two recordings were always a double album in my own mind, which is why I chose to take their titles from one verse of scripture, Matt. 10:16. Gentle As A Dove focused mostly on personal spirituality and Wise As Serpents mostly on social justice. It's good to bring these together on one recording, because both of these aspects of the Christian life really need to be held together. Gentle As A Dove was initially available only on cassette, so I'm delighted to finally be making these re-mastered songs available on CD. Thanks again for listening, God bless you, and I hope these songs are meaningful to you. Bryan Sirchio
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. Artist's
Hand Study Guide Also
includes some of Bryan's thoughts regarding the biblical basis and
theology of From the Introduction... Thanks to Maren Tirabassi I want to say a huge thanks to my friend and colleague Maren Tirabassi for all her creativity and excellent work on this guide. As far as I'm concerned she's one of the most gifted and soulful and faithful writers in so-called Main Line church circles these days. And in case you did not know, in addition to writing Christian Ed. Curricula and liturgical resources, Maren is a very powerful poet and writer of just about all literary genres. I hope some of you will contact her and find out more about other books and resources she has available. And I'm particularly grateful for Maren's work on this project, because I know it probably was tough at times to take my songs and open them up in the artistic and sensitive and theologically sound ways she did--especially in those times when my theology might not have been in total agreement with hers. So again, Maren, thanks for being who you are and for being so gracious and patient and easy to work with! Preface and Suggestions From Bryan Sirchio I'm really excited to make this study guide available. I think you'll find some great stuff in here, and that Maren's work will open up all kinds of ways for my songs to minister to, with, and through the young folks you work with. The study sessions are very straightforward and easy to use, and Maren and I encourage you to use whatever is helpful to you and to just disregard what might not work well for you. The one thing that's always a bit challenging for me is listening to or somehow using songs of mine which were written several years ago. Thank God, we all keep changing and growing theologically, and I'm certainly no exception. Sometimes I find that as time goes by I'm not quite as comfortable with some of the concepts or theological nuances or images or words which I used in songs that were written several years ago. One of the strange things for recording artists is that recordings have a way of "freezing" and preserving one's theology at a given point in the journey. So now and then when I'm performing older songs, I feel a need to share with audiences where my thoughts have changed or evolved. Usually the changes are subtle. I'm actually glad that this happens now and then, because it shows that my own faith experience is a constantly growing and living thing, and that I keep evolving as God continues to speak to my heart and life. "Artist's Hand" was released in 1995, and some of these songs are now over a decade old. I think they still "work" artistically, and teens and adults seem to still be enjoying the songs, and I still enjoy playing them. But there are a few lyrics in this collection which I think I might have altered a bit if they'd been written from where I stand at this point in my spiritual journey. I've done my best to share some of my thoughts along these lines in the "Words from Bryan About This Song" section which precedes each of Maren's study sessions. I hope you find this interesting at least to some degree, and please feel free to contact me if anything I've written raises questions which you'd like to pursue with me personally. Thanks again for listening to my music, and for giving this resource a try. My deepest prayer is that the songs and study sessions help you and the youth you work with to experience God's amazing grace and love more deeply, and that they help you take a next step in your own faith journey. God bless you, and thanks for all you do to share the Gospel with the young people in your life. Your Brother in Christ, Bryan Sirchio
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