Frh Songs of Praise and Bible Verses Paraphrase: A Compendium of 52 Original Songs and Hymns, 52 Paraphrased Bible Verses and 50 Recommendations for Enrichment of Family Relational Health

by Anthony L. Gordon Ph.D

Overview

FRH Songs of Praise and Bible Verses Paraphrase is a compilation of 52 original songs composed to the tunes of well-known songs and hymns in the Christian church, and 52 originally paraphrased Bible verses in the context of family relational health. The work is designed to provide families with a repertoire of songs and hymns that inspire, encourage and challenge them as they grapple with, and even protest against the contemporary issues negatively impacting family relationships from a fundamental Bible-based perspective. These songs and hymns are timely and relevant because the available songs in the present church hymnals do not address most of the modern issues that have the family under attack. The Holy Bible is repeatedly and correctly referred to as God’s Family Book; but not every text or verse in it seems to speak directly and immediately to a specific family issue. Paraphrasing/paralleling of selected Bible verses is done to achieve that goal of immediate application to some of the contemporary relational issues negatively affecting families. Supporting the songs and paraphrased Bible verses are four Appendices with Titbits, Suggestions and Recommendations for the improvement of one’s Private Prayer life, and Marital Relationships. Included also is the innovative Family Seminar Sandwich Series - A ‘Sandwich’ object lesson approach to conducting Family Relational Health Seminars. This book is the product of nearly forty years of working with families across the world, and will bring more light and life to singing generally at Church and specifically at family gatherings at home, retreats, conventions, with all categories of the family: men, women, married, single, young and the aged, parents and children finding songs composed especially for them. In family morning or evening worship, one song and one paraphrased/paralleled Bible verse can be learned for the 52 weeks of the year. The songs are presented in words only, seeing that the tunes are popularly known and the scores are already available in the public domain and in most hymnals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665566032
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	02/09/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr. Gordon is renowned in several countries around the world as a counseling psychologist, family relational health therapist, educator, and author based on his numerous seminars, therapy sessions, and radio, television, newspaper, and magazine presentations and articles. Inasmuch as the above go before him now, they have really been preceded by his playwriting, poetic, and song composition skills, which began in the early seventies. He has composed seasonal and special songs for school and church choirs and other occasions. One of the little known but most outstanding of his compositions was done for the governor general of Jamaica in 1982. The occasion was Sir Florizel Glasspole’s attendance as guest speaker at one of the annual community exhibitions and fairs - Exhi-Fun-Fair ’83 in Portland at school where Gordon was Principal. The song presented by the school choir, was recorded on audio cassette and the words framed and delivered at Kings House, the official residence of the governor general. Among his musical accomplishments was his production of several annual cantatas featuring works by Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven, among other musical maestros. Highlights of those programs were several pieces of his own composition performed by the forty-voice choir and a band, both of which he directed. Dr. Gordon’s background in music began when he did a course in music appreciation and sang in the celebrated annual musical pageant Feast of Lights at West Indies College (now Northern Caribbean University). He continued honing his musical and choral skills with emphasis on composition and choir production. He rarely, but occasionally, sings solo! He pursued further academic study in the area of music theory but never went beyond grade 3 in the Royal School of Music (RSM) program, and he never looked back. Paraphrasing of Bible verses in the context of family relational health has become a natural outgrowth of his song composition skills, hence the combination of both in complementing his Bible-based psychosocial seminars and therapy programs in family relational health. The musical aspect of Dr. Gordon’s ministry has been ably supported by his wife of forty-five years, Deloris, and their singing two children, son, Delthony, and daughter, Delthonette. The team has been extended by singing daughter-in-law, Esther, and technical son-in-law, Andrew. Dr. Gordon’s motto is “People need people,” and he questions, What better way to meet such needs from a psychotherapist’s perspective than to equip such people’s minds with family relational skills stabilized and anchored in the therapeutic, assuring, yet challenging and uplifting lyrics and melodies of the soul—songs and hymns of praise, thanksgiving, adoration, and supplication to the God of Families?