Ever wish you had a chorus in a different key? Trying to put together a praise chorus medley and you'd like to have all the songs in the same key?

Check out the Song Sheet Transposer. A beta version (meaning I just wrote it, so expect a glitch or two), is available at the Faithnet Bulletin Board.

You can copy and paste a chord sheet to the entry window, select the current key, select the desired key and there you have it! There is a little formatting required for the entry window, so just read the simple online instructions.

How Hot is It?

Cool Scripture Cite

"[The sun] rises at one end of the heavens and makes it circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat." (Psalm 19:6)

Hot Internet Site

WETSOCK. Show the temperature or other local conditions on your task bar. Download the utility at:
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Prayer in the Summer
Mark Sibley Jones

For many, summer time is a period of low energy. Whether it is the oppressive heat, boring reruns on TV, or having school-aged kids under your feet, summer is often a time of diminished expectations.

Here in south Texas, summer time is air-conditioning, water-sprinking, swimming-pooling, hunt-for-cool-October time. Halloween is our first festival of outdoor recreation. "Oh, look, the neighbor's painted their house chartreuse." I hadn't noticed before in my dashes from the auto A/C to the house A/C. The sun shines hot and long, clouds and rain are about as sparse as an Elijah-induced drought. The temps rise, the aquifer falls. Lawns burn, tempers flare, and a delay on the freeway in rush hour is tantamount to nuclear terrorism.

Where are you God, in the summer? How did our parents and grandparents survive without freon? How will the crops survive without water? How can I wash my car with rationing?

I can well remember when local churches capitalized on summer time to hold week-long revival meetings. Sermons on hell were not uncommon and seemed to actually help us cope with the relative heat of our hot houses. As a kid, sitting on the back row of the plywood pews of my little Baptist church, I sometimes wondered if the red-faced, brow-wiping preacher up front would ever burst into spontaneous combustion as Moses' burning bush. Wow, it was hot! Soon, we'd gather in the Fellowship Hall for home-made ice cream, and all the spiritual trauma of the evening would be soothed.

Where is God in all this? I really don't rightly know. Genesis records God's preference of visiting Adam and Even in the cool of the day, so I expect I'll most likely find the Almighty in Colorado this time of year. Summer spirituality in my locale is a variant of John of the Cross' "Dark Night of the Soul," except here it is the "Hot Night of the Soul."

Makes a saint long for that Living Water. Come Spirit, come with your refreshing breezes and stir again our hearts to passion for you. Amen.