Who is this Jamin guy anyway?
I am the husband of one and the homeschooling father of five. I am a singer, songwriter, and a worship leader who plays guitar and piano. I am the Executive Director of Trinity Arts Center, a small Christian Arts Academy in Eastern Tennessee. I'm also a guitar teacher and -- I spend about half my time building web sites and helping companies organize their thoughts, fine tune their products, and turn their customers into company evangelists. I've been involved with four music projects in my life -- Hot Pink Turtle, Spin Radio, Stand Like Stone, and of course, Jamin Rathbun. I'm also training to be an Ultimate Fighter (that's not true). = )



It's interesting to note that so many of God's promises depend, not on our acheivement of some goal, but -- simply on a sincere desire to find Him and -- a passionate cry for help.

Any of you who have been reading this site for a while can attest to the fact that I'm not any kind of theological giant. = ) As I've confessed in the past... I'm learning a lot of basic truths about God much later in life than I wish was the case. I continually sin. I fail to be faithful. I constantly struggle to maintain a pure mind. I fail a lot... As a husband, as a father, as a friend, and as a child. I've committed, in my life, sins that I doubt I'll confess to anyone other than my Heavenly Father, for fear that people's opinions of me would never recover. I say all of that to say this...


Sometimes I just stop whatever I'm doing, struck with the truth of a passage or lyric, as tears stream down my cheeks and my soul somehow comes to terms with what God has done (and is doing) for me. What a comfort it is to know that God is at work in me, in fact, often in spite of me, to change me. It's amazing to consider that I am being renewed somehow, in a very mysterious and incomprehensible way, in order that, eventually, I can arrive at the place where my entire being just cries out "Holy. Holy. Holy." I can't wait. = )



I haven't used the site much but, the couple times I have, I've found it pretty helpful. The site include articles, message boards, worship set lists, links, and the usual peripheral worship stuff but -- their strength really is in the chord charts. From what I've seen, they are accurate and clean and... fairly comprehensive and include the ability to change the key of the song which is very cool!

Cool resource... Very usable... Give it a spin.


The phrase "Fear of the Lord" in the passage above reminds me of a line from the very cool (and recently movie-tized) C.S. Lewis series, Chronicles of Narnia...


If you're not familiar with C.S. Lewis -- he is absolutely worth checking out. He has a unique insight and ability to communicate that has really resonated with me and taught me a lot. There is no author (except maybe David or Paul) that I'd recommend higher. = )

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This month's related stuff:

I have an RSS feed for this page. (if you're into that kind of thing)

A shameless plug for the Arts Center my wife and I are starting. Visit Trinity Arts Center for more info.

Sponsor a child through World Vision.

Avant Ministries -- a different kind of missions organization focused on short cycle church planting.

Check out my worship "lens" at Squidoo.

July 24th is the deadline to submit songs for the Integrity Songwriter's Workshop.