My beautiful wife and children, The Word in all its forms, 3rd Day, Steven Curtis, Big Daddy, Sting, Michael W, Vince Gill, Gaither Vocal Band, Skip Ewing, everything 80's, Stevie Ray Vaughn and my Savior, Jesus Christ.
Sounds Like
Edwin McCain meets Stevie Ray Vaughn meets Big Daddy Weave meets Phil Vassar.
For Immediate Release - Indieheaven.com/The Christian Independent Alliance, the leading organization for Christian independent artists and musicians, is pleased to announce that Bill Petty has been awarded Male Vocalist of the Year in the 2008 MOMENTUM AWARDS.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GROOVE!
Bio
Bio
It’s all about the groove…
The groove…that moment of wonder in music where the experience moves beyond simply hearing the music….you feel the music. That’s where the Bill Petty and his music find their home…in the “groove”.
Bill sees music as he sees the Word of God. When you open yourself up and allow the rhythm and feeling behind the words to move you, to speak to you personally….it becomes much more than just words on a page or chords on a chart. You don’t just hear it, you feel it. It becomes part of you. “Carry the Word of God in your heart like a song…” Which songs live in your heart? The songs that meet you where you are and in who you are. They establish themselves through the groove that they create.
Bill’s ministry in music reaches deep into this concept on stage and in person...whether in a performance, leading worship at The Pointe or in his personal relationship with family or friends. It’s all about the groove!
Looking back on his life, Bill acknowledges that both music and ministry were always at the very core of the man that God had designed him to be.Born and raised in the suburbs of Nashville,TN, Bill was surrounded by music of every shape and style from the beginning. His father, Bill Sr., put a guitar in Bill’s hands at an early age, and his mother, Jane, has a remarkable voice that rings of the early women of country music.
With influences founded through years of performance and writing in most every genre of music, his strongest slant was toward those that are most often identified with their “groove”…blues, R&B, funk.
A hint of ministry direction revealed itself in 1986 as Bill headed to Belmont College. He played in numerous bands in and around Nashville, and in the first Belmont Baptist Student Union band. His first real “Christian” concert experience was also this year - Michael W. Smith at Belmont Baptist. “The Spirit of God filled that place as my heart swelled in a way I’d never experienced before. I still remember the feeling of holding up my hands in praise for the first time. I can see now that this night was only a foreshadowing of things to come….things I could not even imagine.”
This was also the year Bill began dating his beautiful wife. “Cinda is my foundation and my inspiration. She is kind and caring and has supported my music and my calling without fail. She is a beautiful woman, an excellent mother and my very best friend”
In 1999, at age 31, Bill gave his heart to Christ during a Sunday morning service at White House General Baptist Church, where he soon moved into ministry, serving as Music Director for seven years. It was during this time that he came to discover something much greater than the music itself -- a passion for serving God and a desire to speak to the hearts of others through music and ministry.
In 2007, Bill joined pastor Todd Bush in founding The Pointe (NorthPointe Church) in White House, TN, serving as Pastor of Worship & Creative Arts and seeking to fulfill the vision that God continues to reveal in his life.
Also in September 2007, Bill realized yet another “new thing” (Is 43:18) that God was preparing in his life through the release of his debut CD, “Wonder”, a collection of ten original songs that draws upon on a vast range of influences -- blues, funk, country, rock, Southern Gospel, Contemporary, P&W -- woven together with an underlying acoustic groove. “Wonder” draws hearts to worship, celebration and reflection, as each song presents a unique message and experience to listeners.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GROOVE
It was great to see you and your family Sunday. I enjoyed getting to hear you sing again, God has truly gifted you with not only a great voice, but an even better ability to write songs. Thanks again!
So I guess I'm supposed to get a hold of you....lol. I've been trying to spread your name to ppl up here. They love you! They want you to come up and give us a concert....lol. I'd love it too! Hope all is well.
ok so seriously you need to come to our church..and sing a song with me. oh by the way i go to Restoration Fellowship with anthony. lol. so just schedule it and our church will pay for you way here. so just arrange it with anthony and come up. haha.
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord: Psalm 96:12
Can trees communicate with each other? Psalm 96 speaks about the "trees of the woods rejoicing" and Isaiah 55 speaks about the trees "clapping their hands. " Is this just figurative language or can trees really have emotions and even praise God?
Actually, science has known for some time that trees are able to communicate with each other in several ways. Rapid communication can occur downwind by releasing chemicals called pheromones into the air from the leaves. Slower communication can take place using similar chemicals through their root systems. But now a physicist in Oregon has accidentally found yet another way trees communicate with each other and very rapidly.
Someone studying the flow of sap in trees started finding voltage readings in the trees. With more research, he discovered that trees generate a standing wave formation that not only travels in the tree, but also through the air to other trees. These waves, he finds, correlate with what the tree is experiencing. The blow of an axe not only causes a tree to send out strong waves, but the surrounding trees respond with a similar, but less emphatic reaction.
Can tree communication also praise God? Now that we know that trees can literally talk to one another, there is every reason to believe that they also literally praise their Creator, just as Scripture says.
