New Original Music 2023!
I’m so excited to share that six new songs are coming your way very soon. Mindy and I just returned to Florida from a week of tracking new music in Nashville with Artist/Producer Jeremy Casella and a team of fantastic musicians.
We recorded six songs. Five are brand new, written in the past couple of years. One is a song I wrote a ten years ago that just hasn’t fit on any other projects until now. I can’t describe how fun it is to be releasing these new pieces into the world!
The last time I recorded completely original material was 2013. In between I have released two Hymn projects. So, this new EP is really exciting for me. A lot has happened since the “Count The Stars EP” was funded by you via Kickstarter and released: I was ordained an Episcopal Priest, I became an LMHC, I celebrated the birth of two daughters, I grieved the death of both my parents, and I played more away dates around the United States than ever before. What is life?!
So, this new EP is about responsibility, growth, home, doubt, reconciling with our past, and the centrally of the Christian Faith in the midst of life’s chaos.
The producer, Jeremy Casella- a compelling artist in his own right- helped me make these songs a reality. He booked the musicians and caught my vision for the songs from the beginning. This project marked the beginning of a new, sweet, friendship for me with Jeremy!
One of the fun discoveries in the making of this project was just how many unrecorded songs I have. Choosing the songs for this EP made me realize that I have a lot of work ahead of me in the coming years, if I want to get all of my music on tape for others to hear. It’s a fun and challenging dream that I plan to make come true!
To Wilberforce Weekend Orlando Friends!
Hi! If you are currently attending the Colson Center’s Wilberforce Weekend in Orlando, this is a message for you!
Orlando is where I live and each Sunday night I lead worship at The Cathedral Church of Saint Luke (about 20min away from the Rosen in downtown Orlando).
Please join me this Sunday night, May 15, after Wilberforce Weekend. It would be an honor to have you worship with us.
You can find out more here.
There is free parking around the church and the service begins at 6pm.
Advent Hymn: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending
One of my favorite hymns of this season… Helping us prepare to not only relive the first coming of Jesus Christ, but live- in advance- his second coming. We do this weird kind of “remembering the future” thing in the Eucharistic Liturgy of the Church when we “remember” that “Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.” It’s a strange juxtaposition of our past, present, and future, but it’s all captured in this hymn.
-JB
A Sermon for Christmas
The Christmas that Christianity offers is anything but cute, sentimental, or trite. The birth of Jesus Christ hails a new moment in the story God is writing in our world. This gives us comfort because, let’s be honest, we don’t need a “cute Christmas,” we need a Christmas that touches the darkest moments in our lives.
-JB
A Sermon For The Feast of Christ's Ascension
Welcome To The New JoshBales.com!
I am excited to introduce you to my new website! Please take some time to look around, listen, and watch.
I always wrestle with finding the best platform to present my varied interests in a concise way, and this is my best shot! This site will enable me to add new articles on counseling or liturgy, add fresh homilies and lectures, in addition to keeping you up to date on my music. I've writing for a new album right now.
So please check back often for new content. And keep in touch!
JB