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We highly recommend these CDs from Red Mountain Church.
Music CDs (Click on the picture
for more information, or to purchase)
This Breaks My Heart Of Stone
(CD) (Third in the collection)
 Description:
"this breaks my heart of stone"
The further we get, the less we seem to be sure of, the less we seem to know. If
I'm honest, I'll admit that I struggle with being angry. I struggle with
cynicism. It's not only hard to believe. It's hard to love. It's hard to be
hurt. It's hard to see so many other people hurting. It's hard to stay. It's
easier to just be cynical.
And yet, there are moments where the light shines. There are moments where I am
"convinced as a sinner, to Jesus I come". There are moments when I meet someone
and their belief shakes me somewhere deep inside, because I feel a similar
belief inside myself. These moments of belief don’t seem to happen very often,
but when they do, it feels like rain is falling on the drought of my soul.
For me - and I think for a lot of us - these moments of belief often coincide
with music. These songs remind me, they remind us, that the gospel is at work.
That redemption is taking place. That sad things are being made untrue. That
hopefully in small pieces and small moments, our hardened hearts are breaking.
Thanks for listening.
Brian T. Murphy
Help My Unbelief (CD)
 Description:
Gadsby’s Hymns was compiled by William
Gadsby in the mid 1800s. Although William Gadsby contributed quite a few of his
own hymns, the bulk of the collection is comprised of many different hymnists.
Long-beloved writers such as Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts, John Newton, Anne
Steele, Joseph Hart and William Cowper fill the pages of this wonderful hymnal.
Gadsby’s Hymns has been so important to
us that we could not stop writing from it. Even before we had completed our last
collection of hymns, The Gadsby Project,
we knew we would make another record devoted to these beautiful, forgotten
texts. We decided to call this record Help My
Unbelief. Many of the texts in these particular songs carry themes of
doubt and longing. We believe that the Christian life is a complexity of
emotions, a marriage of sorrow and joy. Valleys and mountaintops. Light and
darkness. The hymn writers of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries seem to have
captured these tensions with more honesty and depth than many contemporary
writers. Because these writers have given us glimpses of their own doubt and
unbelief, working through their hymns has given us much hope. Hope that we are
not alone. Hope that sorrow, pain and hardship are not exclusive to our small,
believing community here in Birmingham, AL. Rather, that Christians from
different parts of the world, hundreds of years ago struggled with the same
things. This is one reason why we sing hymns, to remember that the Church is
bigger than just us at this moment. We hope you will join us in confessing,
"Lord I believe; help my unbelief." Believing that in our doubts and fears Jesus
will meet us with patience and grace. This collection of hymns is for God’s
prodigals and sojourners as they wait patiently for the Kingdom to come.
"Help my unbelief. My help must come from Thee."
The Gadsby Project (CD)
 This
appears to be currently unavailable. Check back - it's the first in the
series. Or, you can go directly to the source,
red mountain music.
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