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Spanish Bible Reading Report 8.18.14

August 18, 2014

After 228 days in 2014, I have finished reading 689 chapters in the Reina Valera this year (58%)!

Books completed – Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; 1 Samuel; Ruth; Nehemiah; Job; Psalms; Proverbs; Ecclesiastes; Isaiah; Matthew; Mark; John; Acts; Galatians; Philippians; 1 & 2 Thessalonians; 1 & 2 Timothy; Titus; Philemon; James; 1 & 2 & 3 John; Jude (606 total chapters)
Other reading – Numbers 1-30; 2 Samuel 1-6; Jeremiah 1-35; Luke 1-9; 1 Cor. 13-15; (83 total chapters)
Chapters read – OT – 537; NT – 152; Total – 689

500 chapters to go; praise God!

In Bible reading, Spanish

Mi exhortación acerca de nuestro semejanza a Cristo

August 6, 2014

Mi exhortación para todos nosotros como creyentes: ¡Dios quiere que crezcamos en nuestro semejanza a Cristo por teniendo un celo por nuestro Padre celestial, como Jesucristo tuvo (San Lucas 2:49)!

R60 Luke 2:49 Entonces él les dijo: ¿Por qué me buscabais? ¿No sabíais que en los negocios de mi Padre me es necesario estar?

In Exhortation, Spanish

Peticion de oración

August 1, 2014

Le agradecería oración por mi preparación para enseñar en la escuela dominical y predicar en el servicio de la mañana el 17 de agosto. Dios mediante, espero poder hablar en español para la mayoría de los dos servicios.

Gracias por sus oraciones.

(Written by using Google Translate and Spanishdict.com)

In Prayer, Spanish

Spanish Ministry Update – 7.31.14

July 31, 2014

The Lord is continuing to direct me toward further Spanish ministry—something I never expected during all my years of training for ministry. Here are some of the things that He has directed me to do so far in the past 2 ½ years to prepare myself for further Spanish ministry:

1. Teaching various guitar classes in one or more local Spanish churches for more than two years, including developing extensively a new method of learning and using guitar for Spanish ministry

2. Studying music theory in Spanish at some length

3. Studying much Spanish grammar through the use of several Spanish textbooks and learning a vast number of Spanish vocabulary words

4. Reading over half of the Bible in Spanish this year

5. Listening and practicing with a set of Pimsleur audio tapes made for beginners to learn Spanish

6. Watching and studying 56 of 60 free online video lessons for learning Spanish at Spanishdict.com (http://www.spanishdict.com/learn/courses)

7. Watching and studying all 22 video lessons produced by BBC that are available for learning Spanish (http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/)

8. Attending a number of Bible classes taught in Spanish at a local Bible institute/college

9. Learning to sing and play many Spanish hymns; intensively studying elision in Spanish hymnody

10. Writing several Spanish hymns

11. Writing a few blogposts in Spanish (with much help from Google Translate, Spanishdict.com, and several friends)

12. Ministering twice a month in my church’s Spanish ministry, mostly in special music involving using my guitar to accompany others

13. Attending a number of services in local Spanish churches

14. Ministering musically with some of my guitar students several times in three Spanish churches

15. Going out into neighborhoods around my church to follow-up on Spanish people whom others in my church have previously contacted

16. Preaching once in 2013 for a service in a Spanish church; preparing for teaching Sunday school and preaching in a Spanish church in August 2014, D.V.

Sea alabado el nombre de Jehová (Salmos 113:3)!

In Ministry, Spanish

Spanish Bible Reading Report 6.13.14

June 13, 2014

By day 164 of 2014, I have read 493 total chapters in the Reina Valera this year!

Books completed – Genesis; Exodus; Psalms; Proverbs; Ecclesiastes; Isaiah; Matthew; John; Galatians; 1 & 2 Thessalonians; James; 1 & 2 & 3 John; Jude (426 total chapters)
Other reading – Leviticus 1-7; Job 1-25; Jeremiah 1-5; Mark 1-8; Acts 1-19; 1 Cor. 13-15 (67 total chapters)
Chapters read – OT – 386; NT – 107; Total – 493

I praise God for my continuing progress with this project!

In Bible reading, Spanish

New Spanish Hymn for Children!

May 20, 2014

Using the tune to a familiar children’s song, I wrote a new Spanish hymn, “Dios es amor.” This hymn teaches children solid doctrine about God as love and about how He has loved us!

Teaching this hymn to young children will lay the foundation for their believing essential truths about our great God who is love! My English translation allows readers who only know English to profit as well from this hymn by knowing what they would be singing.

Dios es amor

Dios es amor y el amor es de él. Para siempre Él permanece fiel!

Dios nos amó y siempre lo hará. El amor de Dios nunca fallará.

En Jesucristo, Dios nos amό. Por nosotros, Cristo Jesús muriό.

En Jesucristo, Dios nos amό. Por nosotros, Cristo resucitό.

God is Love

God is love, and love is from Him. Forever, He remains faithful!

God loved us and always will. The love of God will never fail!

In Jesus Christ, God loved us. For us, Christ died.

In Jesus Christ, God loved us. For us, Christ rose.

You may use this song in a ministry context provided you do not change any of the words and you provide copyright information to anyone whom you distribute it. Please contact me for any other use of the song.

This PDF provides the melody notes and lyrics for the hymn. Here is how the melody goes:

In Music, Spanish

Spanish Bible Reading Report 5.14.14

May 14, 2014

Books completed – Genesis; Proverbs; Ecclesiastes; Isaiah; Galatians; 1 & 2 Thessalonians; James; 1 & 2 & 3 John; Jude (186 total chapters)
Other reading – Exodus 1-29; Job 1-5; Psalms 1-134; Matthew 1-26; John 1-12; Acts 1-10; 15; 1 Cor. 13-15 (220 total chapters)
Chapters read – OT – 327; NT – 79; Total – 406

I praise the Lord for His grace in getting this far in this project!

In Bible reading, Spanish

Praying for an Offering in a Spanish Service

May 10, 2014

I’m learning to pray in Spanish. Using various means, I’ve put together the following as a guide for my praying for an offering in a Spanish service.

Padre celestial, te alabamos porque se deleita en misericordia.

Gracias por perdonar nuestros pecados.

Gracias porque nuestros nombres están escritos en los cielos.

Encamine nuestros corazones al amor de Dios y a la paciencia de Cristo.

Por favor, use esta ofrenda para glorificar Tu nombre.

En el nombre de Jesús, Amén.

In Prayer, Spanish

“Santo es el Señor” — New Spanish Hymn!

May 6, 2014

Taking the tune of “Holy is the Lord” and trying to translate the words into Spanish, I recently wrote a new Spanish hymn, “Santo es el Señor.” This song emphasizes the holiness of God, which at its essence denotes His uniqueness.

Santo es el Señor

Santo, santo, santo, santo es el Señor!
Santo, santo, santo es nuestro Dios!
Él que vive siempre, nunca va a cambiar.
Rey del universo, sόlo tú eres Dios!

Santo, santo, santo, santo es el Señor!
Santa, santa, santa es la Trinidad!
Sin par y querido es nuestro buen Señor.
Santa, santa, santa es la Trinidad!

You may use this song in a ministry context provided you do not change any of the words and you provide copyright information to anyone whom you distribute it. Please contact me for any other use of the song.

This PDF provides the guitar chords, melody notes, and words for playing and singing Santo es el Señor in the key of D.

In Guitar Music, Music, Spanish

The Use of “Elision” in Spanish Hymnody

April 17, 2014

Spanish hymns have an interesting feature that I call “elision.” When a word ends with a vowel and the next word begins with a vowel, the last syllable of a word and the first syllable of the next word are often combined into one syllable.

For example, although “Pen-san-do en ti” has five syllables, through elision this phrase spans only four notes instead of five [“Pen- san- (do en) ti”] in this example:

On beat 3 of measure one in this example, “-do” and “en” are elided.

The following chart shows what vowels are elided with other vowels in songs in Himnos Majestuos: Revised Edition. The integer part of each entry denotes the number of the hymn and the decimal tells in which system the example occurs.

The rows give the first of the two vowels that elide while the columns give the second vowel.

For example, the top left cell of this table has this entry: 1.1; 255.1. This notation means that “a” elides with “a” in hymn #1 in the first system and in hymn #255 in the first system.

Using this table should especially help people who are not native Spanish speakers (like me) know what vowels or combinations of vowels often elide in Spanish hymns.

In Music, Spanish

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