One of the great joys of my life was making friends with Craig Smith. He was an up and coming contemporary Christian artist back in the day. He won a dove award and his music career was beginning to take off. However, he had such a heart for worship, evangelistic and pastoral ministry that he decided to stay home and help establish a local church ministry and to compose and then basically "give away" his recorded music all over the world as an overflow of his love for Jesus and what He had done for Craig and as a musical outreach to people who had not yet come to faith.
I have always been deeply moved by Craig's music and every variety of it--contemplative, celebratory, rock--whatever! Back around 2000, we collaborated on a project called Your Kingdom Come. Integrity Music produced the live worship CD at our church. It was all based around Craig's songs that had been inspired by the Lord's Prayer. He asked me to write a devotional book as a companion for the music and Charisma House published it. The CD and the book share that same title and cover art.
Now Craig has done it again. He has developed a website where anyone in the world can go and, at no cost, download a compilation of amazing songs that were inspired by Psalm 23. It's called Ancient Path of Peace and it was especially created to help Christian leaders connect with God in the midst of the press of intensive ministry to others. I have listened to it over and over again during quiet times and it's classic Craig Smith--songs of intimacy, gratitude, joy, faith, hope--deep rivers of divine life.
This blog is definitely overdue--I'm sorry I haven't told you about it before, but...better late than never! You can click on the site, sign in so he knows a bit about you and download the music for your personal enrichment. Enjoy and delight yourself in God and some amazing music crafted for His honor. Just hit this site: http://www.kardiamedia.com/ and follow the prompts at the bottom of the page.
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