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Posted by audiori on 06-22-2009 at09:08:

  purpose driven life

Just stumbled across this on a search engine...

"Terry Scott Taylor (of the rock group Daniel Amos, Lost Dogs, and a host of other musical incarnations in his lifetime) is on a very short list of singer/songwriters whose geniuses, in my opinion, were lost on a Christian music label and audience that could never understand what they were trying to do. Hopefully they will still be found by those who can. "

http://www.purposedrivenlife.com/en-US/FreeTools/devotional/todaysDevo/Devotional.htm?a=1668&z=1

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Posted by Jerry Davison on 06-22-2009 at14:15:

 

Wow! Very cool shout out. Are those written by Rick Warren or does he have one of his minions do those? Either way, it's nice to see TST getting some much deserved recognition.

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Posted by audiori on 06-22-2009 at14:17:

 

I was wondering that myself.. couldn't find a writers credit anywhere.

The way that its written it almost makes it sound like we're supposed to know who the writer is ("In my opinion," etc).. so maybe it is.. ?

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Posted by joey on 06-22-2009 at14:43:

RE: purpose driven life

his church is right in terry's area...

(or what was terry's area for most of his career...)

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Posted by tchandler on 06-22-2009 at17:02:

 

wow that'a a really great quote -- didn't know about that one!

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Posted by audiori on 06-23-2009 at21:22:

 

Terry said he thought the article was written by John Fischer. I guess he works for Warren now.

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Posted by audiori on 07-01-2009 at16:54:

 

The mystery continues.... their people tell me that Pastor Warren does write the devotionals... they said that there were other writers helping out a few years ago, but those devotionals have by-lines. They also said that Pastor Warren is currently out of town and couldn't respond directly.

Does anyone see a by line on this article that I'm missing?

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Posted by sondance on 07-01-2009 at23:41:

 

yeahman - on that page click on the "Archives prior to April 2009"
Then you can either scroll to the date or do a "Find" for Terry and you'll see John Fischer's by line there.

Had dinner with him once at my buddy's girlfriend's house (we were about 19). He was working at Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto at the time (Ray Steadman's church where Chuck Swindoll leanrt his chops). We were in San Jose and she invited him. He came with a buddy of his and we had steak fondue. Lot's of buddy stuff that evening. We did not ask him to perform for his supper.

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Posted by Ritchie_az on 07-01-2009 at23:54:

 

But has anyone purchased any of Terry's music due to that devotional?

OK, I know that's not the point of the devotional. I'd sure like to see Terry get more of his due at some point, though.