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Balm in Gilead
by Bryan Emerson & Grant Baker
A music & worship podcast
Episodes
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58 – Gratitude vs. Song of the Risen Son
Psalm 58 (ESV) To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. 1 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? 2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb;...
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57 – Is Jesus Lower Still?
Psalm Psalm 57 Welcome What have we been listening to… since February Bryan (old hats) Poor Bishop Hooper Sarah Sparks Providence The Oh Hellos (really old hats) Switchfoot/Jon Foreman Relient K Colony House (new hats) The Gray Havens You Me & The Bread The Orchardist Nostalgia Shiplap On Repeat...
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56 – Innovation or Manipulation? The Ethics of Using Technology in Christian Worship
Psalm 56 Psalm 56 Welcome “Hello and welcome back to the Balm in Gilead podcast, where we explore all things Christian music and worship. I’m your host, Bryan, and as always, I’m joined by my co-host, Grant. Today, we have a fascinating and thought-provoking topic to dive into – Artificial...
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55 – Deconstructing Reconstructing Deconstruction
Psalm 55 Psalm 55 on Relight Welcome The Rev. Aaron De Boer (Associate Reformed Presbyterian, ARP) joins us this week. Follow him on Twitter at @DutchPresby and visit Friend of Sinners church that he pastors in Everson and Maple Falls, WA. For more info visit their website...
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54 – 2022 Spotify Wrapped
Psalm 54 We love talking about music on the show and this week we talk about our top picks from 2022. Do you agree with us? Find something interesting? Let us know, follow us on Spotify or Last.fm and drop a comment below.
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Presbycast Crossover – Music for the Church and the Christian
Chortles Weakly and Wresby of the excellent Presbycast podcast join us to talk all things Christian music—from the business, to worship, to personal devotions and even for entertainment purposes. We had a lot of fun…maybe a little too much! Be sure to subscribe to their show:...
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Flying Duo: Advent Music with Renee Emerson
Balm in Gilead host Bryan Emerson and his wife Renee Emerson discuss their Advent Playlist as well as their thoughts on Christmas/Seasonal Music. Worth noting, we added an Advent Birmingham album after the recording.
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Bonus Episode: Flying Duo (For Real This Time)
Bryan got to hang out with Grant and we decided to turn on the camera and see what happens. Credits due to O Creative One by Providence, Eustace Scrubb by Sarah Sparks, Saints by Poor Bishop Hooper, and Behold the Man by Spencer Parsons. We also sang Psalm 42D from The Book of Psalms for Worship...
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53 – Revisiting the Kensrule
Psalm 53 Psalm 53 in the ESV – Hey, did you see that Relight now has the ESV and the KJV? Listen to the Episode We’re Back! This is our first episode back from our “summer” hiatus. Thanks for sticking with us. We start out by talking about what we’ve been up to and listening to. A big shoutout to...
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Balmcast Flying Solo 3 – Mistakes Were Made
As we close out season 4 of the Balm in Gilead podcast, Bryan takes to the airwaves to discuss the phrase “Mistakes were made” and how it relates to the recent Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). We’re taking a break as we’re all pretty busy, but are already planning our next slate of episodes. In...
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Episode 52.1 – Bonus episode The Non Sequiter to End All Non Sequiters
Whenever FNH is on the show, he brings a wealth of interesting tangents and rabbit trails and Grant is only too happy to follow with Bryan close behind. Bryan is aware he forgot to readjust his vocal levels after cutting all this nonsense from the last episode and pasted it into a new audacity...
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Episode 52 – Into the Lantern Waste
Psalm Psalm 52 What We’re Listening To Bryan Psalms for Congregations vol. 2 Matt Searls Westminster Shorter Catechism 1-10 with Brian Suave FNH The Bible Ultimately RC Sproul Make Believe Heroes Redemption Card Game Sea Shanties for good Christian boys Grant Jenny Oaks Baker Jeff Lippencott…
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Episode 51 – Song v Song: Review of “Rest on Us” by Maverick City and “O Creative One” by Providence
Psalm Psalm 51 What We’re Listening To What are we listening to Spencer Psallos EDM Research Steven Curtis Chapman – The Great Adventure album Bryan Providence Grant Jenny Oaks Baker Crown & Covenant Spencer Parsons Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach Gian Piero Reverberi Bonus: Natalie Grant Bonus2:...
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Balmcast Flying Solo 2 – Jack Lewis, The Trinity, and Oceans
Bryan is back with another Flying Solo. Check it out on YouTube too!
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Episode 50 – Review of the album Jars of Clay with JB Floggington
Psalm Psalm 50 Jars of Clay’s self titled album review Liquid Arms nailed down / Are you telling me something? Eyes turned out / Are you looking for someone? This is the one thing / The one thing / The one thing that I know Blood stained brow / Are you dying for nothing? Flesh and blood / Is it…
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Episode 49 Part 2 – A Conversation with Jesse Roberts of Poor Bishop Hooper
Bryan sits down with Jesse Roberts of Poor Bishop Hooper to finish the discussion on their first album, Foreign Made. Check out Poor Bishop Hooper’s website for more on their music.
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Episode 49 Part 1 – Review of Poor Bishop Hooper’s Album Foreign Made
Psalm Psalm 49 What We’re Listening To Bryan Poor Bishop Hooper, Foreign Made Grant Psallos Poor Bishop Hooper Crown & Covenant Holly Dutton Charlie Gray and Joseph Peach Spencer Parsons, Psalm 2 Foreign Made Review Tree Oh Tree Mark 11:12-25 and Matthew 21:18-22 First song on their first album....
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48 – Review of Psallos’ Album Philippians with Special Guest Spencer Parsons
Psalm Psalm 48 Welcome Spencer! Check him out on Spotify! Or other popular music services like Apple or YouTube Music. What We’re Listening To Spencer Listen to his music such as Psalm 1. Bryan Mars Hill Music Grant Crown & Covenant Poor Bishop Hooper BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Psallos Main...
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Balmcast Flying Solo 1 CCM is a Broken System
Bryan goes solo with both Grant and Justin out. This is our first video podcast too! Check it out on YouTube Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it with others. We enjoy hearing from you, so…
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47 Bonus ep 3: This one’s a little weird
Episode 47 bonus episode 3. It was getting late and the guys hopped from the serious to the banal with amazing alacrity. Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it with others. We enjoy hearing…
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47 Bonus ep 2: Snow in the South
Episode 47 bonus episode 2: Where we talk about the presence of snow in the south. Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it with others. We enjoy hearing from you, so join us on our Discord and…
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47 Bonus ep 1: On C.S. Lewis
Episode 47 bonus episode where we get off on a rabbit trail about C.S. Lewis. Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it with others. We enjoy hearing from you, so join us on our Discord and let us...
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47 – Mars Hill Music: The Sing Team + Collaborations (with special guest FNH from the Not the Bee Social Podcast!)
Psalm 47 Read Psalm 47 What we’re listening to Bryan: Sarah Sparks – Into the Lantern Waste The Oh Hellos – The Four Winds Grant: Psallos Crown & Covenant The Blenders The Corner Room Dwell The Sing Team The Sing Team – Oh! Great is Our God! Oh! Great Is Our God! Verse 1 Oh! Great is our God! So…
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46 – Mars Hill Music: The Modern Post
Psalm Psalm 46 Spotify Wrapped Check out our Slack channel or our group on Not the Bee for our Wrapped and please share your own! Check out Bryan Emerson on YouTube. Songs we discussed Rejoice Dustin Kensrue and Stuart Townend Verse 1 Come and stand before your maker / Full of wonder full of fear...
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45 – Mars Hill Music: Ghost Ship
Psalm Psalm 45 Songs: Creation to Salvation by Drakeford Ghost Ship: The Good King Mediator – CAM HUXFORD IV Verse 1 He takes our place and stands in front of God on high He speaks on our behalf since we don’t have the right He pleads before the God who judges hearts of men Our mediator served…
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44 – The Mars Hill Bonus episode
An interesting tangential discussion that we thought was worth sharing
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44 – Mars Hill Music: Review of the album “Citizens” by Citizens and Saints
Psalm 44 What We’re Listening To Bryan Citizens and Foreign Made. Anyone surprised? Justin New automated playlists Grant Citizens Peter Gregson Christi Stills Barrage Crown & Covenant Songs of Mars Hill: Citizens Sweetness of Freedom Zach Bolen and Brian Eichelberger Verse 1: Within my heart’s a...
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43 – Mars Hill Music: Initial Thoughts and a Personal Update
Psalm 43 Psalm 43 Follow Up How on earth could Bryan not like King’s Kaleidoscope? Grant: Newsboy’s Clean is pretty good. Their song STAND sounds like 90’s Phillips, Craig, and Dean Faithful listener to the show Spencer Parsons explains a bit more about the Proverbs tracks What We’re Listening To...
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42 – Balmcast 2.0: Discussion of CCM News and What’s Next for the Balm in Gilead
Psalm 42 What We’ve Been Listening To Grant New Newsboys song Clean. Top artist: Crown & Covenant Others of note: Adam Young Titanic Ola W Jansson album All The Things You Are Leeland’s Opposite Way album Matthew David Montgomery Fingerstyle Hymns And also, there are a ton of good Psalm 42 songs...
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41 – Not What My Hands Have Done: Understanding Excellence in the Craft of Lyrics and Music
Psalm Psalm 41 Feedback We really enjoyed our Summer Interview Series with Kyle Thompson, Philip Moyer, Renee Emerson, Cody Curtis, and Henry Haffner. Unfortunately, Jesse Roberts could not make it onto this episode due to Covid, which oddly enough is why Justin couldn’t make it onto this episode...
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40 – God Moves in a Mysterious Way: Henry Haffner interview
Psalm 40 Introduction Henry Haffner is a violist, violinist, music director, composer, and educator at Parish Presbyterian Church in Franklin, TN where he leads worship. He also is the principal violist for the Lexington Philharmonic and has performed and given masterclasses throughout the South...
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39 – Nothing But the Blood of Jesus: Interview with Cody Curtis of Psallos
Psalm 39 Introducing Cody Curtis of Psallos Cody Curtis is the writer and composer for the musical group Psallos and professor of music at Union University. He joins us to discuss his goal of putting the Epistles to music. So far, that includes Romans, Hebrews, Jude, and coming soon, Phillipians....
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38 – All Things Bright and Beautiful: Interview with Poet Renee Emerson
Psalm 38 Meet our Guest, Renee Emerson This week, we welcome Renee Emerson, poet and author to talk about poetry and beauty. We discuss how this connects into how a poet looks at the Psalms and what we can learn from them. Renee has several published works including Threshing Floor and Keeping Me...
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37 – Lead On O King Eternal: Interview with Phillip Moyer of My Soul Among Lions
Psalm 37 Interview with Philip Moyer of My Soul Among Lions The MSAL story Started making hymns https://Songbook.warhornmedia.com Realized that the Psalms were the missing component Bring back the songbook/prayerbook of God’s people Songs of Deliverance, Especially the Song of Moses “Dedicated to...
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36 – Power in the Blood: Interview with Kyle Thompson of the Undaunted.Life Podcast
This week, we talk with Kyle Thompson of the Undaunted.Life podcast. Recently on episode 176 of his show he discussed 8 problems with contemporary worship music. Naturally, we had to investigate his perspective.
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35 – Rejoice the Lord is King: Understanding Objective Beauty, Accessibility, Memorability, and Appropriate Emotion
Psalm 35 Sponsored by DAWdio Who are we listening to Bryan As Isaac, Exodus project Thief to King, Oh Great High Priest PBH, Foreign Made x Worship Is Our Weapon (Spontaneous), Sean Feucht x Praise is a Weapon, Mark & Sarah Tillman x Psalm 151, J Lind Grant More Henry Haffner (YouTube channel)…
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34 – For the Beauty of the Earth: Understanding Beauty and Craft
Psalm 34 What We’re Listening To Poor Bishop Hooper: Just finished Book 2 of the Psalms. JUDAH New Album Switchfoot New Single “i need you (to be wrong)” Thief to King Ellie Holcomb Caroline Cobb Corner Room Psallos Top Songs on CCLI Great Are You Lord by All Sons & Daughters Battle Belongs by…
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33 – How Excellent in All the Earth: Introduction of the Excellence Element and a Biblical Argument for its Importance
Psalm 33 Follow up Apologies for the delay in last episode. I had some major technical issues as my iPad stopped exporting audio (and I had to export the audio manually by playing the audio from my iPad into another computer which lowered the audio quality as well). We are not transitioning to a...
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(Bonus Content) Song vs. The Same Song
Jon Foreman wrote a song based on Psalm 51 that is beautiful. The instrumentation is very somber, and while it has a lot of moving pieces, functions in a way that really points to the words being sung. The Modern Post covered this song and while it is very excellent musically, the focus is much...
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(Bonus Content) Community Deconstruction
Quick, interesting discussion regarding similarities in deconstruction stories. And some podcast recommendations. Podcast Recos Restless The Alisa Childers Podcast Cooper Stuff Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the...
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32 – Earth Has No Sorrow: Dustin Kensrue’s Deconstruction, Review of “The Grey” by Thrice, and Reviews of “Departures” and “Jesus, I Have My Doubts” by Jon Foreman
Psalm Psalm 32 Listen to the Episode Ice Breaker Review of Jon Foreman’s Departures album I would classify this album as a Type 2.5 album. Many of the songs are solidly Type 3, but there are Type 2 and at least one song I would classify as a “personal” Type 1 (not meant for congregational…
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31 – Thy Works Not Mine O Christ: Interview with Justin Rea of Sound in Worship
Psalm Psalm 32 Special Guest Justin Rea Check out what he’s been up to: If Songs Could Preach Podcast Sound In Worship Music recommendations? Artists are all Spotify links The Corner Room Matt Boswell & Matt Papa My Soul Among Lions Norton Hall Band Joe Deegan Another Son Brian Sauve Favorite...
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30 – As the Deer: Review of “Waterfall” by Chris Tomlin and “Satisfied in You” by The Sing Team
Psalm Psalm 30 Welcome to the Show Your intrepid hosts start off by discussing our recent appearance on Presbycast and how much we loved it. We also get an update from Bryan’s church travels and find out what he makes of the OPC. Song v. Song: Waterfall v. Satisfied in You Waterfall By Chris…
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Let All With Heart and Voice and Occasional Unorthodox Theology: Part 2, Instruments of Instrumentation
Another bonus segment from our discussion in episode 29. We start, but do not go to deep into instruments in worship. Allowed? Not? Things to think about. Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please share it...
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Let All With Heart and Voice and Occasional Unorthodox Theology: Part 1 What about Watts?
Part 1 of some bonus content from our last show. Here, we go on a bit of a journey through discussing what we each think about how writers’ beliefs ought to affect the singing of their songs. Thanks for listening The Balm of Gilead podcast is a member of the Tech Reformation family of podcasts.…
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29 – Let All with Heart and Voice: A Biblical Argument for Music Ministry, Music Ministers, and Instruments in Christian Worship
Psalm 29 Follow up Grant was talking with one of the guys over at Presbycast about our show and he said that he was wary about using the Psalms as a model. I have been thinking about what he said and I want to make a clarification. I talked about how the Psalms are Scripture, poetry, and lyrics;...
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28 – Rock of Ages Cleft for Me: Interview with Jesse and Leah of Poor Bishop Hooper
Psalm 28 Special Guest Poor Bishop Hooper This week, we have Poor Bishop Hooper in the virtual studio to talk about their music and especially their latest project, EveryPsalm. Both hailing from small towns in central Kansas, we began writing, recording, and performing together after our marriage...
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27 – Every Kindred, Every Race: Understanding the Psalms as Scripture, as Poetry, and as Lyrics
Psalm 27 Psalms as Scripture When translating the Psalms as Scripture, there are two major schools of thought: word for word translation or line by line translation. Generally speaking, word for word translation is a better tactic for ensuring what we have is what was intended. Line by line...
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26 – Come and Worship: Understanding Petition and Supplication and Our Need for an Omnipotent God
Psalm Psalm 26 Main Topic We wrap up our discussion of the Psalm model with three concepts: Petition, Supplication, and Call to Action. Petition To petition someone is to see that person as higher, superior to you, who you nonetheless ask for something from. We mention a couple Psalms that relate...
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25 – O Come Let Us Adore Him: Understanding Adoration, Blessing, and Thanksgiving as Parts of Genuine Praise
Psalm Psalm 25 Follow Up The Lightest Form of Flogging had another episode further discussing discussions we have discussed on this very show. Check out The Podfather, ep. 119. You Say…. is no longer even in the top 50. Crazy. Icebreaker We open by sharing our year in listening to music. On…
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