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From an early age, music seemed natural to me. I know I could play chords and rhythm on a guitar by the time I was five years old. I learned to play the saxophone in the elemetary school band. When I was about 12 years old, my parents made a deal with me. They would buy me a piano if I would let my brother, who is two years younger than I, play the saxophone. That was a momentous point. It was at this time I began learning the piano, the instrument which has become my primary instrument. I studied music in college. I excelled in music theory and took lessons in music composition, piano, guitar and bass guitar. But I was, and still am to an extent, a very shy person. So even though music was natural to me, performing has been much harder, and telling people of my calling for music much harder still.

During my high school years, I was saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God became the dominant feature of my life and music. It is impossible for me to imagine music without God. I am noted for not being a big fan of popular music and shows like American Idol because, in my mind, they take God out of music, and music is meaningless to me that way.

After I graduated from high school, I felt the call on my life to be in music ministry. But in the intervening years between then and now, the naysayers and the circumstances of my life, as well as just generally not knowing what to do, have kept me from doing the work of this ministry. But in the last year or so, I have felt a strong push of the Lord to purify my heart and get back into the music ministry He has called me to. For a time I was lost in the combined thicket of the cares of life and the search for my place in the music industry (a search that was primarily in my desires and not so much in my actions). But today I am coming back to the truth. That truth is that true music is about the beauty of God's Kingdom and not the furtherance of the music industry. The true song is the exceeding greatness of God's Kingdom carried into our hearts by the Spirit of God.