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   Riël Malan:
     A Christian Voice in South Africa		 Vol. I No. 12
Nov. 16, 2006 
  

His music is accessible from numerous sites around the net, high quality music... from two years ago. Are we so inundated with good Christian music these days that an excellent songwriter like Riël goes relatively unnoticed? (Since emailing this newsletter, Riël has informed me he's working on a new CD.)

It certainly isn't because of lack of effort in getting his music "out there." But it looks like we as the church are falling prey to that same subtle media effect: "It's all in the marketing." How much a "product" is marketed bears a direct proportion to its value. Or at least that's the unspoken, unwritten assumption. It's most likely we have slipped into that trap because we're so overwhelmed with the information in our inboxes, in our magazines, newspapers, conferences, that we only have time to listen to the loudest voices—those we see everywhere and by default begin to notice.

Listen to some samples of Riël's CD Begin at
http://www.riel.co.za/music.htm.
Riël Malan

RIËL MALAN
  
   Quick Picks for Your Planning

Each week WorshipToonz posts a new QuickPicks Worship List, one of the ways we try to help you in your worship music planning. Below is our current list, from Zion Christian Church in Troy, MI. See other lists for download on this page at WorshipToonz.

List of the Week, November 12, 2006

TAB KEY SONG AUTHOR CCLI #
tab C,D You, You Are God Walker Beach 4389918
tab D Majestic Lincoln Brewste 4573308
tab Dm Shout

Martha Munizzi
(Alvin Slaughter)

2793915
tab Gm Glorious Dan & Martha Munizzi/
Israel Houghton		 4185538
tab F You Are My King
(Amazing Love)		 Billy Foote 2456623
tab F We Will Worship
the Lamb of Glory		 Dennis Jernigan 208409
tab F,Gb,G Amazing Grace John Newton Public
Domain
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tab C My Savior My God Aaron Shust/
Dorothy Dora Greenwell		 4592255
tab A Worthy Is the Lamb Darlene Zschech 3217555
tab A Nothing But the Blood Matt Redman 4329411
For your convenience,
you can download this list.
Site Spotlight

For all new guitarists who struggle with the number of chords and chord changes in many of our worship songs, this site may be of interest. You'll find chord reductions of many well known worship songs. A nice bonus—chord reductions of Christmas carols, perfect for the season. The site was just updated at the end of October, so it's likely that it will continue to be updated with worship songs, adding to its already fairly extensive list.

The site belongs to Eileen Jahna, who includes some of her songs on the page along with a demo mp3.

Go there...
  
   True Worshipers of God Series
  

This is another installment of Pastor Dan Gardner's series, True Worshipers of God. For this complete series on audio, go to WorshipToonz on this page. You can also find much of Dan's music, recorded and published, on this page. Each song has its own audio and leadsheet demos.

Session 3: Priestly Ministry/
      Moses’ Tabernacle               Part 2

Dan Gardner

  

I. THE TABERNACLE

In Session III Part 1, we saw the importance that God placed upon the first ministry of the priests being unto him. In this session we will look into the Tabernacle of Moses and see some of the dynamic truths important to the life of the worshiper.

The tabernacle and temple in Scripture are symbols of God’s dwelling with His people; The Tabernacle of Moses & David and the Temple of Solomon in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament, Jesus, the Individual Believer, the Corporate Body of Christ, and the ultimate joining of the Bride and Bridegroom in eternity, which all represent places where God’s presence dwells with and in His people. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit, a place where God’s presence dwells.

So it was in Moses’ Tabernacle that God established a twofold purpose:

  1. I will prepare a habitation” Exodus 15:2 - a place where the manifest presence of God would dwell, and...
  2. The Tabernacle would serve as a place in which worship would be offered.

Note that in all Tabernacles and Temples God dwelt in the Holy of Holies. His shekinah glory lives in a place that has been set aside for Him. He is looking for a Holy of Holies in us as temples also. Have we prepared that place for Him?

The Tabernacle of Moses was a mobile tent that was constructed and carried through the wilderness for forty years into Canaan land, finally established on Mount Gibeon; it was there for hundreds of years.

This Tabernacle represented the law. Israel had refused God’s desire to make them a “Kingdom of Priests.” They traded relationship and grace for law; someone else could do their worshiping and sacrifice for them; they just wanted to be instructed in what God said to Moses, refusing to communicate to Him on their own. It is important to understand that the Old Testament priesthood and tabernacles couldn’t fulfill God’s perfect plan; God was just seeking a consecrated people that would minister to Him. Finally, through Christ, that priesthood is perfected.

Surrounding the “law” that the Tabernacle of Moses represented was God’s prescribed design for pure worship; Jesus fulfilled and perfected the law through the shedding of His blood. The Tabernacle of Moses is highly detailed and speaks in typology.

  • If you study it, you will see Christ; He is in the Tabernacle, He is in us, He is our tabernacle, He dwells in us, He lives in our spirit.
  • We offer spiritual sacrifices at the Brazen Altar.
  • We stay clean by the Blood and washed daily in the Word at the Laver.
  • We walk in the sevenfold light of the Spirit at the Golden Candlestick, manifesting the gifts of the Spirit in the church.
  • We call to remembrance the broken body of Christ at the Table of Shewbread, breaking bread with other believers.
  • Then we offer pure, holy incense at the Altar of Incense both in corporate and individual expression of praise, worship, and prayer, ascending into the Holy of Holies - dwelling in Him!
  
  

Download of the Month

The Worship Package for download this month is I Was Glad, and includes: a Windows Media audio file, Lead Sheets in Bb and C for 3-part Worship Team, Lyrics & Chords for Guitar in A and C, and a Lyrics Sheet for your convenience—five pages of music and lyrics!

Go to the following web address to pick up this month's download:

http://www.worshiptoonz.com/#zip file

Christmas Arrangements

New guitar duet for fr*ee download, among five carols arranged for guitar - notation and tablature. Five Christmas (baroque-style) brass and orchestral arrangements are also available on the page, including a fully orchestrated arrangement of Joy to the World. Come back often—you'll find more in the weeks to come.

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