Kingdom Brothers at Doxa Art Complex
csband, October 10/02/09, 2009 comments: 0

Special Guest Beth Tuttle joins Kingdom Brothers for a night of Cajun Cookin and Rightous Blues.

From 8pm -12am $5 Admission and $10 Cajun plate For  tickets and more info check out www.DoxArts.com

New CD release
csband, May 05/14/08, 2008 comments: 0
I know you just got so excited because you thought I finally got it together and got a new CD recorded. Well, not exactly. I have been playing and singing with another band called Kingdom Brothers and we did just get done recording a new CD called Shine a Light. Don't worry I haven't abndoned the Chris Shepherd Band and I do hope to have a new project soon but for now the new Kingdom Brothers traks will keep you more than satisfied. Check out the site at myspace.com/kingdombrothers. We will be playing this Friday the 16th at BBs Blues Jazz and Soups downtown. Stop by and pick up a copy of the new CD or go to the site and send Bob a message that you want to order one or two or three.

Peace and blessings
Chris Shepherd

Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 7:30 p.m
csband, February 02/20/08, 2008 comments: 0
Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 7:30 p.m
(Doors Open at 7 p.m.)

DeSmet High School Auditorium

for $5 per person
General Admission

Why 40 days of Lent
csband, February 02/20/08, 2008 comments: 0
The word lent comes from the “lengthening” of hours of daylight as we move from winter into spring. We can think of it as a time of moving from the darkness of winter into the light of spring. Other languages often use a name for this season that is derived from their word for forty. Why forty days of lent? Well Jesus fasted and prayed for forty days in the desert but he could have stayed there for any number of days like thirty or twenty. You have to remember back to the old testament. Noah was in the Ark while it rained for forty days and forty nights. Moses was up on Mt Sinai for forty days when he received the ten commandments. The Israelites wondered in the desert for forty years. Numbers very often have a symbolic meaning in the Old Testament. One possibility for the use of forty is that a woman usually carries her unborn child for about forty weeks before the new life of the fruit of her womb is revealed to the world. A not so comfortable time of preparing for...

Randy Stonehill
csband, January 01/09/08, 2008 comments: 0
Randy Stonehill is coming to town! He will be performing at Old Orchard Presbyterian Church in Webster Groves, Mo Jan 25 at 7 pm. Jon Hardy will also be performing . The Church is located at 640 Amelia Ave, Webster Groves, MO (314) 962-3795. Tickets are $10 and there will be coffee and dessert. For more info go to wwwrandystonehill.com or www.oldorchard.org

Christmas
csband, December 12/30/07, 2007 comments: 0
Happy new year. The stores have quickly forgotten the baby Jesus and have moved on to Valentines Day candy displays. I went to a home improvement store a couple of days before Christmas and they had already started putting all their tool displays away to make room for a massive display of totes. I guess that is when people go into a buying frenzy looking for large plastic containers to put all their extra stuuff that they got for Christmas. The truth is that we are actually still in the Christmas season. That's right, for most churches that follow a liturgical calander it will be Christmas season until Jan 6 when the feast of the Epiphany is celebrated. Epiphany commemorates the beginning of the proclamation of the gospel—Christ's manifestation to the nations, as shown in three different events: the visit of the Magi, the baptism of Jesus, and the turning of water into wine. In the Western tradition, the Magi predominate. But in the Eastern churches, Jesus' baptism tends to be...

Advent, The Coming
csband, December 12/12/07, 2007 comments: 0
Well here we are in the midst of the Advent season. Advent means coming. So what is coming? Not what but who!. This is a time for us to be contemplating and meditating on the coming of Christ. We prepare our hearts to receive the incarnate (made flesh) word of God as a small child in a manger. Jesus humbled himself and came to us as a helpless baby. That's how much he loves us. He was willing to become one of us and dwell among us and deal with all the day to day trials we all face here on earth.

Prpare the way of the Lord! John the Baptist gives us the advice we need to properly get ourselves ready for the coming of Christ. As we prepare to celebrate Christ's birth let us prepare the way for him in our hearts. What does the path to our heart look like? Is it covered with trash is there a spiritual road block that keeps us from receiving the fullness of the grace God is trying to give us? Do we need to clear away the brush and fallen debris from the storms of our past?