➡️According to the American Psychological Association, around 75% of adults are stressed out – causing headaches, tiredness, failed relationships, loneliness and depression.  According to best selling author and psychologist Dr. James Dobson, the most stressed out group in society are actually kids in middle school.  Everything is changing, and they have no control – which…

Recital tips for your student – getting ready when it’s your turn to go to the stage. Rehearsing this with your student two or three times before their recital will help with their success! 1- take a minute to make sure your chair is positioned good for you2-if you have music with you, adjust it…

➡️According to the Washington Times, 81% of people that you know are too easily offended. And yet research shows that being offended can lead to stress, anxiety, low self esteem, strained relationships…and even to the point of thinking that everyone is against them.  Have you ever known a person that seemed to carry a dagger…

THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 6-9 is Mini-Recitals Week – Monday are regular lessons (since they missed for Labor Day); however, TUESDAY-THURSDAY, we are hosting recital sessions @ 4:00 and 5:00 each day, plus a 6:00 PM Thursday evening show. Instead of your NORMAL lesson, you will need to choose a time-slot that works on your…

➡️In 1977, there was a top country hit that has been sung, and dreamed about millions of times since then: “I’ve been working in this factory for now 15 years, all this time I watched my woman drowning in a pool of tears. And I’ve seen a lot of good folks die that had a…

➡️I was raised in the church so I’ve heard about “the blood” all of my life – there’s power in the blood, oh the blood of Jesus, nothing but the blood. But think about the non-Christian walking into our churches and we start talking about eating Jesus‘ flesh and drinking his blood, John 6:53-58 –…

➡️I was raised in a good environment, around really good people.  We were a part of a small church, where everyone knew each other – a true family.  I remember reading the Bible, about the miracles of Jesus – the signs and wonders that followed the disciples – and even hearing of crazy stories of…

➡️According to PsychologyToday.com, around 85 percent of the things people worry about never happen; and if what they worry about does happen, 79 percent of them said they handled the outcome better than they thought they would.  In other words, it ended up not being as big of a deal that they thought it was…

➡️I was raised in a small town outside of Birmingham, Alabama where there was a church about every quarter mile. Our southern town was strongly influenced by the Baptists, who still today have in their by-laws that “drinking alcohol of any kind is prohibited”.  We were not Baptists, but we never had alcohol in our…

➡️I remember my first youth pastors job out of college. I walked into a small room upstairs, and there were maybe 25 or 30 students waiting for me. I scanned the room and quickly saw someone who didn’t seemed to fit – he wore black jeans, a black shirt, a black overcoat and a black…