Few women realize what great service they are doing for mankind and for the kingdom of Christ when they provide a shelter for the family and good mothering - the foundation on which all else is built. A mother builds something far more magnificent than any cathedral - the dwelling place for an immortal soul (both her child’s fleshly tabernacle and his earthly abode). No professional pursuit so uniquely combines the most menial tasks with the most meaningful opportunities. It is hard to locate an aging mother who believes she made a mistake of pouring her life into her children, and it would certainly be more difficult to find a child to testify that his mother loved him and poured herself into his life to his detriment and demise. Homemaking - being a full-time wife and mother - is not a destructive drought of usefulness but an overflowing oasis of opportunity; it is not a dreary call to contain one’s talents and skills but a brilliant catalyst to channel creativity and energies into meaningful work; it is not a rope for binding one’s productivity in the marketplace, but reins for guiding one’s posterity in the home; it is not oppressive restraint of intellectual prowess for the community, but a release of wise instruction to your own household; it is not the bitter assignment of inferiority to your person, but the bright assurance of the ingenuity of God’s plan for complementarity of the sexes, especially as worked out in God’s plan for marriage; it is neither limitation of gifts available nor stinginess in distributing the benefits of those gifts, but rather the multiplication of a mother’s legacy to the generations to come and the generous bestowal of all God meant a mother to give to those He entrusted to her care (Dorothy Patterson).
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2nd Chapter of Acts

2nd Chapter of Acts

Any of you who were of age in the 70’s and 80’s and were aware of contemporary Christian music would almost HAVE to remember a group called the 2nd Chapter of Acts and a grizzly bear of a singer named Barry McGuire. The 2nd Chapter of Acts was a phenomenally gifted and anointed singing group. And Barry was a one of a kind singer and minister of music. As a matter of fact, they were in large part responsible for helping to create the entire genre of contemporary Christian music.

Unfortunately, most of their early recordings were primarily produced and distributed in vinyl. Consequently, such early titles as “To the Bride,” “In the Volume of the Book,” and “With Footnotes” are no longer available.

I personally find this a crying shame since the ministry of the music of that era is still finding an audience today among baby boomers AND even among a NEW generation that is just discovering this music.

Sadly, the owners of these recordings, Word Entertainment, has no interest in re-releasing them.

However, if YOU are interested in being ministered to by these recordings again, I’m asking you to consider sending a courteously worded email to Word Entertainment asking them to make these recordings available again in CD format.

The names and addresses I have to contact are:

Ricky Widmer – Manager of customer service
Ricky.Widmer@WordEntertainment.com

Phyllis Addison – Licensing Department
Phyllis.Addison@wordentertainment.com

Word Entertainment

25 Music Square West

Nashville, TN 37203

(615) 687-6783

(615) 726-7903 Fax

To facilitate your help in this matter, I have also created a web page which will allow you to send a QUICK and EASY email to Word Entertainment. Just point your browser to:

http://davidball.net/bringbackthemusic/

Finally, if you do take the time to send an email to Word about re-releasing these great recordings, please also take a moment to forward this email to any and all of your friends whom you think might be interested in hearing this wonderful music again.

If Word gets enough encouragement in this way, and if you would take a moment to help this effort snowball … we might just have a chance to hear the ministry of this incredible music again.

Thanks and God bless,

— Dave Ball