{"id":5,"date":"2014-02-13T21:57:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T02:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2014-02-13T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T03:01:17","slug":"welcome-to-the-ken-puls-music-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/welcome-to-the-ken-puls-music-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Ken Puls Music Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ken<\/a>Twenty-nine years ago this month (February 1985) I was called to serve my first church as minister of music. During that first year of ministry I began writing hymns for our congregation to sing in worship. Since that time I have served three churches: Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, Omaha, Nebraska (1985-1986), Heritage Baptist Church, Mansfield, Texas (1986-2002) and Grace Baptist Church, Cape Coral, Florida (2003 to present). By God\u2019s grace I have continued to write and compose music to His glory.<\/p>\n

When I launched the website Ken Puls Music<\/a> in 2011 it was for the simple purpose of sharing my music with churches and friends. I wanted to make my hymns and songs<\/a> easy to find and download. I soon followed with an archive of some of my sermons and articles<\/a>, including a series I taught at Grace Baptist Church: \u201cThoughts on Worship.\u201d In 2012 with the release of the album Upon This Rock<\/em> I added music streaming<\/a> to the website with bandcamp. In 2013 I began posting my commentary<\/a> on one of my favorite books, John Bunyan\u2019s The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I have been encouraged by the comments and responses I have received. My desire in introducing this blog now in 2014 is to provide greater opportunity to share and engage with others, and to offer an easier way to keep up with what is new on the site.
\nSo come back often, share your comments, and enjoy the commentary, music, sermons and articles. Look for me also on the Founders Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together!\u201d (Psalm 34:3).<\/p>\n

\u2014Ken Puls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-nine years ago this month (February 1985) I was called to serve my first church as minister of music. During that first year of ministry I began writing hymns for our congregation to sing in worship. Since that time I have served three churches: Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, Omaha, Nebraska (1985-1986), Heritage Baptist Church, Mansfield, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,4,2,3,6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-composition","category-ministry","category-music","category-sermons","tag-welcome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lLgO-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}