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September 17, 2005

I received my first guitar for Christmas, 1984. I'd been playing for a little while before then on a borrowed instrument, but this one really suited me: a classical with nice, soft nylon strings for my wimpy fingers. I wrote my very first song, based on Psalm 16, the following summer. It was really, really bad, and I have not included it in the list below. My second song, based on Psalm 51, also appeared that year, but it wasn't quite so attrocious, so it begins my list below: a selection of the songs I've written over the past two decades in vaguely chronological order.

Please be merciful when examining these songs. Some of them betray a theological bent that I hope has been a good deal straightened in the years since they were written. And of course the recording quality is nothing to write home about—just me and my guitar, plunking away into a cheap mono computer mic, saving the first take I get through that isn't totally disastrous.

* These songs were composed for "The Invitation," a play I wrote and directed for the youth group at the church I was then attending. No, you will never, ever, ever see the script!