Andrew R Rogers

Have you ever felt trapped, misunderstood, and hopeless at the same time? That’s how I felt when writing “Halfway In Between.” Trapped by my own addictions.

And it seemed that God might misinterpret this weakness to mean I didn’t want Him or need Him (arrogant to assume God can misinterpret, I know…) So I wrote the song to inform God “I don’t want to do these things, and I do need you to rescue me.” (As if He didn’t already know).

Sort of like Romans 7:19 and 7:24 where Paul says “I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t…Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?”

Click here to listen and read the lyrics to “Halfway In Between.”

I found the above image at the Southeast Christian Church Website and they gave me permission to use it.  Fits perfectly with everything the song “Found In You” is about.

Can two diametrically opposed natures exist in perfect harmony, and complement each other to produce something that is greater than both? I’ve always wondered how God’s Holiness and His Grace fit together.

I think of Holiness as different-ness, separate-ness, distinct-ness, power, majesty, etc. This may or may not be a good definition, but it’s what I thought Holiness meant when I wrote the song “Found In You”. J

Grace seems to be the opposite, in many ways. Grace bends down and reaches out for us, condescendingly, humbly, freely, humanely.

Who is this Lord that embodies both Holiness and Grace at once?
Click here to listen and read the lyrics of “Found In You.”

Bob Clifford, my former boss and a music industry veteran, sent some thoughts and another link regarding my last post.  Check out the link to the article he included.  As usual his emails are filled with insight and experience, so I hope he doesn’t mind me posting his entire email

Thanks for sending this, Andrew - very cool.

Here’s a link to a recent UK digital music report (it only takes five
minutes to read what’s here) - the link is from Hypebot, a music blog I get.
(I also get the Sivers stuff; I thought about trying to help out with the
assistance/mentoring program, but it’s more about the live band surviving
the business - manager, agent, booking, the road - than about the studio and
production stuff.)  Anyway, I thought you might want to post a link to the
report on your site.

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/10/new-digital-mus.html

The labels might actually survive if they can downsize the radio promotion
staffs (or at least change the way they do business), increase the web
staff’s, and get a handle on monetizing the internet.  Society (or at least,
‘wired’, society) is learning, or demographically growing into, the music on
the web life.

Hope things are well with you and yours.  ~ Bob

Here are a couple websites that can help musicians right away. Really. Check them out.

http://sivers.org/

http://musicbizacademy.blogspot.com/

http://www.bob-baker.com/buzz/index.html