Sunday

Sunday
Genesis 1:2-5

I have heard one or two people describe how they make records, and I have come to realize that there are two different approaches. Some people have worked it all out systematically before they go anywhere near a recording studio. They know how many songs they need; they know the sort of songs they want to write; they use regular formats such as verses that each have four sections of eight bars; they write all the words and afterwards compose the tunes to go with them; and then they go into the studio and record the album straight through in two days. Other people book three months in the studio, go in with little clue what they will do, and proceed in serendipitous fashion, trying riffs and trading licks and experimenting with key changes and making up rhymes as they go. Both approaches can produce great records. In Genesis 2 we will find that God operates the second way. In Genesis 1, God operates the first way. The process of creation is very systematic and ordered...