Music – Calvary Baptist Church | Temecula, CA https://cbctemecula.com An independent Baptist church Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:06:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/cbctemecula.com/wp-content/uploads/CBC-Logo-icon-square-color.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Music – Calvary Baptist Church | Temecula, CA https://cbctemecula.com 32 32 152221272 Choir – Christmas 2019 https://cbctemecula.com/choir-christmas-2019/ Sun, 11 Aug 2019 14:04:00 +0000 https://cbctemecula.com/?p=7982 The 2019 Christmas Cantata will be a musical drama that includes a minimal script with choir songs interspersed. We will post piano recordings of each part (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) on this page when they are available.

Audio:

01 Angel Carol Medley (two pianos)

Click here to listen to ANGEL CAROL MEDLEY. Right-click to download.

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02 Our Messiah’s Birth

Click here to listen to OUR MESSIAH’S BIRTH. Right-click to download.

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03 Wexford Carol

Click here to listen to WEXFORD CAROL. Right-click to download.

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05 Hark the Herald

Click here to listen to HARK THE HERALD. Right-click to download.

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06 I Heard the Bells

Click here to listen to I HEARD THE BELLS. Right-click to download.

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07 Only One

Click here to listen to ONLY ONE. Right-click to download.

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08 Every Good and Perfect Gift

Click here to listen to EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT. Right-click to download.

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09 He Shall Save

Click here to listen to HE SHALL SAVE. Right-click to download.

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10 O Come, All Ye Faithful

Click here to listen to O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL. Right-click to download.

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Piano Recordings:

CLICK HERE to access the piano recordings on Dropbox.

ALL RECORDINGS

Or click your part below to download a ZIP file of all your songs:

Piano Recordings (Grouped by Song)

O COME LET US ADORE HIM

I HEARD THE BELLS

HE SHALL SAVE

HARK! THE HERALD

EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT

From Majesty Music:

Below is a recording of the full play (Youtube video), or learn more by visiting this page:

https://www.majestymusic.com/christmas-cantatas-and-musicals/majesty-music-cantatas/i-heard-the-bells-choral-book.html

Video:

]]> 7982 CHOIR – Hark! The Herald – Piano Parts for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass https://cbctemecula.com/choir-hark-the-herald-piano-parts-for-soprano-alto-tenor-and-bass/ Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:41:29 +0000 https://cbctemecula.com/?p=7837 Please click below to listen to your part for HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING:

 

Soprano (right-click and “save file as” to download to your device)

 

 

Alto (right-click and “save file as” to download to your device)

 

 

Tenor (right-click and “save file as” to download to your device)

 

 

Bass and Baritone (right-click and “save file as” to download to your device)

 

 

All Parts (right-click and “save file as” to download to your device)

 

 

FULL SCORE (right-click and “save file as” to download to your device)


 

 

]]> 7837 Unto Us A Son Is Born – Piano Rehearsal Recordings https://cbctemecula.com/unto-us-a-son-is-born-piano-rehearsal-recordings/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:07:20 +0000 https://cbctemecula.com/?p=7891 See below for piano recordings of the upcoming Chorale song, “Unto Us a Son Is Born.”

PDF: BP2089-Unto-Us-a-Son-Is-Born-COMPLETE

FULL RECORDING:

CLICK TO LISTEN – FULL

MEN

Tenor 1

CLICK TO LISTEN – TENOR 1

Tenor 2

CLICK TO LISTEN – TENOR 2

 

Baritone

CLICK TO LISTEN – BARITONE

Bass

CLICK TO LISTEN – BASS

]]> 7891 Excellence Is About Doing the Best We Can With What We Have https://cbctemecula.com/excellence-is-about-doing-the-best-we-can-with-what-we-have/ Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:11:22 +0000 http://www.cbctemecula.org/?p=6872 I have said before that we do not have to be THE best. We just have to be OUR best. That is excellence.
A church plant with 15 people can still be excellent. I was a witness to that just last week when we were in Los Angeles. A church planter that we have supported since his beginning (Bro. AJ Harold–Solid Rock Baptist Tabernacle) is working to train his people to be excellent with what they have. They can’t have the BEST and BIGGEST building in Los Angeles, but they can (and do) make the best of what they have–an old storefront on 54th Street. When they first signed the lease, the grime on the walls was so thick you could scrape it with your fingernail. The walls were only partially drywalled, and the bathroom was completely condemned.
They got right to work—cleaning, painting, cleaning, building, cleaning…you get the idea. The building is beautiful, now. It is excellent. The bathroom has new fixtures, granite counters and bright lights. The sanctuary is a pleasing milk chocolate color. The walls are finished, and a new little nursery is clean with new carpet. Everything is a work in progress, but his people are starting to get it. At first, they’d ask, “Pastor, you know we don’t own this building, right? Why are we doing all this work to it?” Little by little, though, they’re understanding the reasoning. God’s house is important. Pastor AJ is teaching them about excellence—doing the best they can with what they have.
Our choir is not THE best in America, but at this phase in our ministry, I think it is the best it can be right now, don’t you? Your faithful practice and year-by-year consistency has created a testimony of excellence in our music ministry. I’ll take that over a professional choir any day.
– Bro. Ryan
]]> 6872 Is There Anything “Popular” About Church? https://cbctemecula.com/is-there-anything-popular-about-church/ Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:08:10 +0000 http://www.cbctemecula.org/?p=6870 What aspect of church is chic? Is there anything we do that’s popular? Are we cutting-edge in any way?
Nope. Never. Not even the “cutting edge” churches are cutting edge. They’re just picking up on trends and copying them. They’re not creating them.
The church as an institution was never meant to be hip, chic and cutting edge. It was designed by God to be cross-culturally timeless. Nothing about it is popular, by nature.
We appease people, often, to accommodate the gospel message (w ho doesn’t want the AC on, right?). But luxuries are not “cutting edge” or “popular.” In our culture, they are basically necessities, but do not detract from truth.
Church goes against the normal human nature. Our flesh likes one thing; God’s Spirit prefers the opposite, usually. Since “popular” things are driven by our human desire to appease our flesh, I get really suspicious about anything that’s both Christian and popular.
Not that I want to be UNpopular. No, no. The GOAL is not UN-popularity. The GOAL is non-conformity (Rom. 12:2). If something is popular, the chances are good that it’s not something that’s going to be found in church.
Popular things aren’t bad. Sports, entertainment, board games, activities…I’m into all these things, and that’s okay. They’re popular things; they’re just not things that define a church.
Our MUSIC (it took me a while, but I got on topic in this article) in church is
not necessarily popular, but popularity is not the goal. Everything’s weird about church to a non-church person: corporate prayer, “Amen’s,” offerings, preaching, the Bible…but just because something is weird to the non-church person doesn’t mean we should change it.
Instead, let’s hold fast to what we know God wants from our music.
– Bro. Ryan
]]> 6870 New Hymnals Coming Next Week! https://cbctemecula.com/new-hymnals-coming-next-week/ Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:03:57 +0000 http://www.cbctemecula.org/?p=6868 Our past two Easter offerings went toward purchasing new hymnals. As the interns were rolling stacks of books into my office, I said, “Forget it! Let’s switch to e-hymnals or words on the screen!”
While the hymnal might be heavy and expensive, I still like the printed physical book for congregational singing.
The hymnal taught me to read music. This is a personal preference, but I learned to read the bass line from my sister who pointed at the note and sang
it in her octave. It clicked! From then on, I could start to figure out the harmonies and the notes on my own.
The score helps people learn new songs. When they have music, they can read rhythms and pitches. Even if they aren’t proficient musicians, most people at least took a few piano lessons or a music theory class in their school days. The MAIN reason we still use a hymnal is for the music score.
It’s a nice collection of church doctrine. With all the songs we sing in one place, it’s nice for all people to see at a glance what we believe. A hymnal is a tangible reminder of a lot of doctrinal truth. When I go to new churches, I page through their songbook to see what their church is like.
The kids can thumb through them. Let’s be honest… this IS a nice feature of hymnals sometimes.
-Bro. Ryan
]]> 6868 I'd Hate To Throw This Out of Church! https://cbctemecula.com/id-hate-to-throw-this-out-of-church/ Wed, 25 May 2016 20:27:58 +0000 http://www.cbctemecula.org/?p=6843 This morning we sang the great hymn by Charles Wesley: “Arise, My Soul Arise.” It is purely my opinion… but I think of all the current songs these days, none are better than this one.
There are some GOOD songs that are currently being written. There’s a revival of doctrine-rich, truth-filled lyrics among song-writers today, and I appreciate that. They’ve seen the worthlessness of the emotional 7/11 songs (singing 7 words 11 times) and have responded with a reemphasis on truth. To that, I say, “Praise God!” That’s what God always intended.
The problem is, no current song has withstood the test of time. New is not bad. But new hasn’t weathered the storms, either. All songs were new at some point. But not all songs last the trends.
Take the 70s and 80s styles of music. Think about the style of those days, and then think of some Christian songs that were popular in those days. Are those songs still popular? I doubt it. They were trendy, but laughable today.
The hymns, though, have stood the test of time. This morning’s timeless hymn, for example, is what I want to have in my life. I’m glad for these hymns, and I hope we never get to the place where we refer to them as quaint little songs of yesteryear.
Choir, you and I have the duty of upholding the timelessness of the hymns. Let’s sing them convincingly! 1 Cor. 14:24
]]> 6843 https://cbctemecula.com/6833-2/ Mon, 16 May 2016 04:53:59 +0000 http://www.cbctemecula.org/?p=6833 This was a good, biblical article I read last week 1:
OLD TESTAMENT TEMPLE MUSIC: LESSONS FOR TODAY
(Friday Church News Notes, May 13, 2016, www.wayoflife.orgfbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)
David organized the music worship program for the temple (1 Ch. 15:16-28; 16:4-6; 23:1-5; 25:1-31), and he did this by divine revelation (2 Ch.29:25). It is obvious that God loves sacred worship music. These things are an example for the churches (Rom. 15:4). Notice some lessons from these passages.
First, the instruments were harps, psalteries, cymbals (1 Ch. 16:16; 25:1) and horns or trumpets (1 Ch. 15:24). These four instruments are also mentioned in 1 Ch. 15:28 and 2 Ch. 29:25-26. These are not the type of instruments used to create raucous music with a dance rhythm. Notice that there were no drums.
Second, the singers and musicians were skillful (“to excel,” 1 Ch. 15:21; “skilful,” 1 Ch. 15:22; “cunning,” 1 Ch. 25:7).
Third, they were trained (1 Ch. 25:7).
Fourth, they were well organized; they submitted to God’s  order and to the authority God had put over them; they were assigned their places (1 Ch. 25:2,6, 8). Compare 1 Co. 12:7; 14:40; Rom. 12:3-8; Heb. 13:17.
Fifth, they sang and played with enthusiasm and joy (1 Ch. 15:16). God’s people should follow this example in the churches, and the music leaders should teach and encourage it. I believe that congregational singing is a reflection of a church’s spiritual character. Many of the Lord’s people do not sing or sing so softly that no one can hear them, but the song service is not about me and whether or not I feel like singing or like to sing, and it’s not a
time to be entertained. It is about singing to God and edifying one another, and it should be done with exuberance.
Sixth, they prophesied (1 Ch. 25:1, 2, 3). Compare 1 Corinthians 14:24 which says that all the saints should prophesy. This means that every believer participates in and responds to every part of the service from the heart: to the preaching and teaching, the singing, and the corporate prayer. In light of 1 Chronicles 15, the singing and playing of instruments should be done for prophesying, which is defined in 1 Co. 14:3 as speaking “unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.” When visitors see that the members are enthusiastically involved in the services, they understand that the believers really do believe what they say they believe and they are convicted of the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Seventh, they sang God’s Words (1 Ch. 25:5). Compare Colossians 3:16. Worship cannot be heretical or frivolous but must be based solidly upon Scripture.
Eighth, they gave thanksgiving to God (1 Ch. 25:3). This is the first and foremost purpose of the Christian life and church. The churches need to make sure that they sing songs and hymns of worship and thanksgiving and not only songs for the edification of the saints.
]]> 6833 “Old Paths” Kind of Ministry https://cbctemecula.com/old-paths-kind-of-ministry/ Sun, 08 May 2016 21:16:08 +0000 http://www.cbctemecula.org/?p=6824 When Pastor was reminiscing last Sunday about our past 29 years as a church, he used the term old paths. I like being in an “old paths” kind of ministry, but I want to make sure we’re never stuck in an old, outdated path that hinders more than helps the gospel.
Old Paths, to me, refers more to the underpinnings of our music ministry than it does to the style. I think with that term comes a certain approach to which songs we’ll sing, how we will sing them, and who we’ll get them from.
I stay away from certain songs partly because of how they’re sung. Pastor made a point last week about appreciating howour music is portrayed, in that it’s all about God and not about the experience. I still don’t buy into the concept that we are selling people an experience at church. I don’t see that in Scripture.
I stay away from certain music partly because of where it comes from. I try to read things about the composers and what their goals are for the new music that is being produced. I get uneasy about certain popular songs—even when it’s toned down for our church— because the people who say, “Great song, I should look that up” will search YouTube and find the rock version of the song. That makes me uncomfortable.
Is it all about feelings? No. But feelings play a part in the subjectivity of music.
-Bro. Ryan
]]> 6824 Giving My Best https://cbctemecula.com/giving-my-best/ Mon, 02 May 2016 20:07:20 +0000 http://www.cbctemecula.org/?p=6818 Does God deserve the best?
Or does God deserve my best?
There’s a difference. I may not be the best musician in the world, but I have one thing that no one else has. Me.
It’s interesting…God made me like me and you like you. And out there among the billions of people that God has created, there’s not one other person who can give your best.
Sure, there are hundreds of millions and probably billions of people who are better musicians than me.
But God doesn’t necessarily ask me to be the best. He just asks me to do my best.
I can do that.
Whew! That’s a relief.
I can show up to choir, work through my music, try to make my doggone vocal chords line up with my tongue (and everyone else’s voice), and work at not losing my breath. I can do my best when singing congregationals. I can sing with gusto and a sense of conviction. I can do that.
The guy next to me might not think it’s the best, but it’s my best. God knows.
-Bro. Ryan
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