3ABN Today

Music Around the Piano

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Participants: Danny Shelton (Host), Tim Parton

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Program Code: TDY017017A


00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people
00:12 I want to spend my life
00:18 Removing pain
00:23 Lord, let my words
00:30 Heal a heart that hurts
00:34 I want to spend my life
00:40 Mending broken people
00:45 I want to spend my life
00:51 Mending broken people
01:06 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today program.
01:09 Thank you for joining us as you do each and every day
01:12 and as always thank you for your love and your prayers
01:15 and financial support of 3ABN
01:17 as we endeavor to take this great gospel
01:19 of the kingdom into all the world.
01:21 I'm here today with
01:23 one of my favorite friends in the whole world
01:24 and one of the greatest musicians
01:27 I think on planet earth,
01:28 we'll give God the credit for that,
01:30 my Brother Tim Parton.
01:31 Oh, what a tweet. Tim, how you doing?
01:33 Well I'm doing better now
01:34 that I know I'm one of your favorite friends and...
01:36 Oh, absolutely. I know my status with you.
01:38 It's good to know. Oh, yeah, yeah, all right.
01:40 I think it's important to let people know
01:41 what they mean to you too and I truly...
01:43 Before they die, right? Exactly.
01:45 Well, it doesn't, you know...
01:47 Yeah.
01:48 Every day just let them know how much they mean to you.
01:49 Now that really is 'cause a lot of times
01:51 we'll talk about after someone
01:53 or even I've heard people at funeral homes,
01:55 said, boy, he was an, and you know,
01:56 or later I wish I had it told,
01:58 I lost my father when he was just 51 years old,
02:02 back 1974
02:04 and there were so many regrets I had
02:06 that I thought,
02:07 "Wow, I wish I had just told him this,
02:09 or wish I had told him I loved him more."
02:11 Right, right.
02:12 You know, as you get older you understand those things
02:13 but I was 21 almost, I guess 22 when that happened,
02:17 just a young person,
02:18 but today we want to do some music
02:20 and speaking of that,
02:22 I kind of wanted to go back
02:24 and talk to you and kind of reminisce
02:27 we want you at home to reminisce
02:29 because how important is parental training.
02:33 It's incredibly important
02:35 because the reason I can look back and see
02:38 why I'm here today is because of my parents.
02:41 And so those of you that are parents and grandparents,
02:44 it's our responsibility
02:46 to train up the child in the way he should go.
02:48 And when he is old, the Bible says,
02:50 he will not depart from that,
02:52 you know, they may go away for a while
02:54 but we have to claim those promises
02:56 about our young people.
02:57 But I'm thankful, Tim, I came from,
03:00 my family, we were pretty poor.
03:02 We lived on the poor side of the track on West Frankfort
03:05 but my father was disabled at 36 years old.
03:08 My mother and dad used to, my dad especially
03:10 had a little country band
03:12 and they played every weekend
03:15 everywhere they could play and travel quite a while.
03:18 And I know that my mother only played,
03:20 she always used to say,
03:22 "Now don't talk about me
03:24 playing out in the clubs for a bit but..."
03:26 Now here's what she said,
03:28 "I tried to get your dad to quit
03:29 and he wouldn't quit."
03:31 So I said, "Well how would you like it
03:32 if I go out and play?"
03:33 Oh, wow.
03:35 So she played what we call a little honky-tonk,
03:36 can you show what a honky-tonk, rag time.
03:42 That was my mother,
03:44 she could do it with the best of them...
03:46 I love it.
03:47 She could do it with the best of them
03:48 It's quite a style. Oh, yeah.
03:50 But she did and they were raised in Christian homes.
03:53 I think my mother was raised Methodist,
03:56 my father didn't go to church at all.
03:58 All right.
03:59 Family, they raised 12 kids, I think 13 of them,
04:02 totaled my aunts and uncles
04:03 and my Uncle Kenneth was killed in World War II
04:06 but I was raised with 12 aunts and uncles
04:09 on the one side and some of those like
04:11 Uncle Owen had 12 kids and Uncle Bud eight...
04:13 All right.
04:14 You know, we had five but my father was disabled
04:16 and so he became a Christian,
04:18 my mother became a Christian in the year I was born
04:21 I think, 1951
04:23 and then after that my father took him
04:25 about three or four more years.
04:27 I won't go through the whole deal
04:29 but it was a series of things.
04:30 He just would not, my mother would say,
04:32 "Honey, you really need to accept the Lord."
04:34 Everything he tried to do
04:36 literally as he would say blew up my face
04:38 till finally he said, "You know, what?
04:39 The Lord wants me that bad.
04:41 I'm going to..."
04:42 You know, my mother, so he died for you,
04:44 made a plan of salvation for you,
04:46 then I'm going to give my heart to Him.
04:48 Yeah. And he did that.
04:49 So he quit playing out,
04:50 which he could make pretty good money back then.
04:52 They made money
04:54 and so he quit doing that altogether.
04:57 So now he was disabled with a heart attack,
04:59 where he couldn't hold a regular job.
05:02 So we didn't have much of an income but those of us,
05:05 the kids worked and we all chipped in,
05:07 my mother worked and so we painted houses,
05:10 all the brothers mowed lawns for people and, you know,
05:13 we got jobs at early years.
05:14 But what I'm so thankful
05:16 is that both of my parents were Christians.
05:19 And I didn't hear them
05:20 arguing with each other all the time
05:21 and they didn't argue with us.
05:23 It was like this, this is the way
05:24 it's going to be and this is what you do.
05:26 Right.
05:27 And then they would explain to you why,
05:29 and my dad would say,
05:30 "Look, the Lord made, the reason I'm the parent
05:32 'cause he put me in charge.
05:34 So as long as you're under this roof,
05:36 you're going to do what I say."
05:37 But he was very good at saying.
05:38 This is why I want you to do, not just because I want you
05:42 but I want you to grow up to be something,
05:45 to be a value to somebody else.
05:47 He used to say, "I don't care how much money you make
05:49 or what you do or how much, you know,
05:51 schooling education you get.
05:52 I just want you to be a person who loves people
05:56 and who loves the Lord and makes it to heaven."
05:59 And so I'm thinking today
06:01 when we used to sit around as kids
06:04 and on Friday evening especially,
06:06 Sabbath came and my mother played the piano
06:08 and my dad played guitar,
06:10 and as we got older my brother Tommy played piano,
06:13 and I played guitar,
06:14 my brothers could play bass or guitar,
06:16 whatever you needed,
06:18 and I think you have a similar story.
06:19 I do.
06:21 So tell us a little bit about yours?
06:22 Well, I was raised in a Christian family
06:24 and my dad played the guitar
06:27 and we all sang
06:29 and it was just, it was what we did.
06:31 Actually my parents had formed a little group
06:34 called the Parton Family...
06:35 Okay, all right.
06:37 It was my sister, I have an older sister
06:38 and so it was the Parton trio.
06:39 Okay.
06:41 And so when I came along, that was just,
06:43 it was either get in or get left, you know,
06:47 so I began to sing when I was like two and three.
06:50 I remember my mom telling me that I was singing harmony
06:55 before I was even saying words.
06:56 I would hum harmony to the radio.
07:00 So it was, you know, it's just,
07:02 that's I didn't have,
07:04 I was just telling somebody the other day.
07:06 When I graduated high school,
07:08 I didn't wonder what I was going to do.
07:12 I knew I was going to be playing music.
07:14 Okay.
07:15 It was just like, it's so natural
07:17 and I have a son now
07:18 who is getting ready to graduate
07:19 and I'm kind of concerned about what he's going to do
07:22 because I don't see that natural inclination
07:25 or supernatural whatever
07:26 or however way you want to look at it...
07:27 Sure, yeah.
07:29 But, so I'm kind of concerned about his direction.
07:31 Yeah.
07:32 He's a Christian and he wants to follow the Lord...
07:34 Yeah, sure.
07:35 But there's no, you know, specific,
07:36 obvious like it was in my life
07:39 where I went right on the road out of high school,
07:41 so anyway back to my growing up,
07:44 that was, we sang four or five times a week.
07:49 Really? Wow.
07:50 Yeah, it was through...
07:51 What kind of music did you do?
07:53 Give... We...
07:54 This is, let me tell you, I told Tim,
07:55 here's a program we're going to do today.
07:57 I'm just going to throw things out
07:58 and see if you know it and you play it
08:00 whatever happens here.
08:01 But we prayed and asked for the Holy Spirit to be here
08:04 and we're here today.
08:05 We're not here to show you anything
08:07 but to worship with you,
08:09 because God inhabits to praise us of His people,
08:12 and one of the ways we can praise Him
08:14 is through music.
08:15 So some of you, we know we get letters
08:17 from those of you that's incarcerated,
08:19 those of you in hospitals or nursing homes
08:21 and you say, I really love it when you all just kind
08:24 of stand around the piano and sing some songs
08:27 that maybe we might know too and we can sing with you.
08:30 So today we have a plan without a plan
08:33 and that is we've asked the Holy Spirit
08:35 to lead, guide and direct in this.
08:37 But I told Tim,
08:38 I'm not really going to tell you,
08:40 I'm going to throw out some things,
08:41 so this would be one of those...
08:42 In other words... Something that...
08:44 You are going to put me on the spot.
08:45 Yeah, something that you did when you were really young
08:47 with your family, what kind of music...
08:48 I remember one of the first songs
08:49 that my sister and I sang was...
08:51 This little light of mine,
08:53 I'm gonna let it shine
08:56 This little light of mine,
08:59 I'm gonna let it shine
09:02 This little light of mine,
09:05 I'm gonna let it shine
09:08 Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine
09:10 One more time, you sing it now...
09:14 This little light of mine,
09:17 I'm gonna let it shine
09:21 This little light of mine,
09:24 I'm gonna let it shine
09:27 This little light of mine,
09:30 I'm gonna let it shine,
09:32 Let it shine, let it shine,
09:35 let it shine
09:37 And there is something else.
09:38 Let my light
09:41 Shine for Jesus
09:43 Okay.
09:45 Let it shine
09:47 All day through
09:50 Let it shine
09:53 Shine for Jesus
09:56 Let it shine
09:58 Let it shine on you.
10:00 I love it, beautiful.
10:02 Something like that with my words in it.
10:04 I love it.
10:05 So those are the type of songs,
10:06 was it you considered gospel music,
10:08 southern gospel music, just...?
10:09 Oh, yeah...
10:10 Or did it, did you do all of it?
10:12 This was back in the '70s...
10:13 Okay.
10:15 And you know, I didn't know
10:16 that there was a specific southern gospel...
10:17 Okay.
10:19 We just sang, you know, gospel music...
10:20 Gospel music... Yeah.
10:22 And do you ever do any of the Lanny Wolfe stuff?
10:23 We did...
10:25 Did you ever hear Lanny Wolfe before you came here?
10:26 Oh, yeah, definitely...
10:28 Everybody, right? Oh, my goodness, yeah.
10:29 We had in his records and yeah, there was,
10:32 we might visit
10:34 just a whole bunch of different writers
10:36 that we sang from...
10:37 Surely the presence... Surely the presence...
10:38 Of the Lord. Yeah.
10:40 Yeah, I want you to play a little bit of that...
10:41 Okay...
10:43 Maybe we'll saying with you in a minute.
10:44 Do you have a preference on the key words for you?
10:45 No. well, you know what I can do and can't do, so.
10:47 Okay.
11:33 Surely the presence
11:38 of the Lord is in this place
11:43 I can feel
11:45 His mighty power
11:48 and His grace
11:53 I can hear
11:55 the brush of angel's wings
11:59 I see glory on each face
12:04 Surely the presence
12:09 of the Lord is in this place.
12:16 Well, it's amazing, no matter where you go,
12:18 you can feel the presence of the Lord,
12:20 that's what I love about it is wherever we travel,
12:22 we never have to say, "Oh, I'm afraid."
12:24 Now, maybe if we take ourselves into positions
12:27 we shouldn't be in
12:29 and my folks always tell me now if you go in a bar,
12:31 the Lord isn't going to go in there with you.
12:32 Right.
12:34 Your angel's not going to go in there with you,
12:35 so you're on your own.
12:36 So I never went in a bar, you know.
12:38 All right, that's smart, that's smart.
12:39 But it's amazing that wherever we go
12:42 that God's presence is there.
12:43 Absolutely.
12:45 And whether we're here on television
12:46 or wherever you are at home,
12:48 right now you may be by yourself.
12:50 Maybe you've not seen anybody, haven't heard from your kids
12:53 or, your, you know, family in any sense
12:55 and you're feeling really down, you're feeling really lonely
12:58 but you don't have to be, all you do is say,
13:00 "Lord here I am,
13:02 please come and visit me today."
13:04 And I promise you He's going to say,
13:06 "Well, I've been here all along,
13:07 you just didn't see me.
13:09 You just didn't hear me."
13:10 And but when we're open to that,
13:11 God will speak to us.
13:13 And that peace will come that will fill that void.
13:17 And so it's,
13:18 I'm so thankful today to be a Christian.
13:21 And I'm so thankful that I have an opportunity.
13:24 I never knew what I was going to,
13:26 my dad used to say,
13:27 "Son, what are you going to do with your life?"
13:29 I said, "I don't know."
13:30 Like it was in high school, he's like you, about your son,
13:34 get through about my junior year,
13:35 my dad finished eighth grade,
13:38 he was first one in his family of 12 or 13,
13:41 graduate in eighth grade.
13:43 My mother I think did her freshman year at high school.
13:45 So they didn't put much emphasis on education too much
13:48 but they wanted us to do something.
13:50 So I'd be 16 junior, senior,
13:52 son, what are you going to do with your life,
13:54 I said, "I don't know.
13:55 I'm just kid."
13:56 He said, "Yeah, but you graduate in high school,
13:58 what are you going to do?"
13:59 And I said, "I really don't know."
14:00 And he said, "Well, I think
14:02 it's about time you figure this out.
14:03 You need to start thinking."
14:05 So one day, Tim,
14:06 they had a senior class in West Frankfort,
14:09 we went down, it was 1969
14:11 to Southern Illinois University,
14:13 big university in Carbondale.
14:15 And it was orientation of course,
14:17 what they're doing is
14:18 trying to get all the students from here
14:20 to go to college there.
14:22 So first time in my life, I went to a college campus.
14:25 I said, "Wow this is pretty good."
14:27 But, you know, you're in late '60s
14:28 and you are starting the hippie movement
14:30 and all these things are going but I said,
14:32 "Maybe I'll go to college."
14:33 My older brothers, none of them had gone to college.
14:36 So maybe I'll do that.
14:37 So I go home, I said, I want to talk to my dad
14:40 'cause he's always what are you going to do.
14:41 We had a little music room,
14:43 it's just we called it music room,
14:44 we had a little reel to reel Sony tape recorder,
14:47 guitars and big speakers he had built
14:49 and people would come over, his friends
14:51 and they play it every Tuesday night
14:52 and, you know, things like this.
14:54 So I would go in there
14:56 and my dad was sitting on a stool,
14:58 I'll never forget,
14:59 had a microphone, little recorder,
15:01 he was playing his guitar, I said, "Dad."
15:03 "Yeah, son?"
15:04 I said, "You always ask me
15:06 what I'm going to do with my life?"
15:07 I said, "I think, I know what I want to do."
15:09 "Really, what's that?"
15:11 Didn't hardly, you know, hardly looked around,
15:12 said "Really what's that?"
15:14 I said, "I want to go to college."
15:16 He looked back and he said,
15:18 "That's what I like about you son,
15:19 you're always joking."
15:20 And then he just went on back and I walked away and I'm like,
15:23 "Wow, who do I think I am to go to college?"
15:25 I mean, I didn't know anything about grants awaited...
15:27 Sure, sure.
15:29 So I didn't do it, you know, point is,
15:30 but the Lord had a plan for my life.
15:32 God's got a plan for your life...
15:33 Absolutely does.
15:35 Maybe you don't know
15:36 the direction God wants you to go right now.
15:37 Now that could be the teenager,
15:39 that could be the person in college
15:40 or you might be my age or older,
15:42 you might be 75, still wondering.
15:44 Now wonder what it is God wants me to do
15:46 as long as we have breath,
15:48 you know, let everything that has breath do what?
15:51 Praise the Lord. Absolutely.
15:53 And so I'm so thankful, I got in construction.
15:55 My brother and I, we had a construction company
15:57 about, oh, I don't know, 13, 14 years,
16:00 then I went to Michigan,
16:01 managed a lumber yard there in Berrien Springs,
16:03 you know, Andrews University...
16:06 Came back down here in '79,
16:08 Melody's mother and I
16:10 and the girls we had Ronda and Lisa.
16:12 She had two girls when we were married
16:14 and so we had a little group.
16:15 So we started traveling and singing,
16:17 then of course she was killed in an automobile accident
16:19 in 1982
16:21 but Melody and I, we continued singing
16:23 as she got older
16:24 and I praise God today that she still does.
16:26 So train up a child in a way it should go,
16:28 now it doesn't mean anybody, everybody is perfect
16:30 'cause none of us are,
16:32 but like you, where would you be
16:33 without the training from your folks today?
16:35 Right.
16:37 I think about that
16:38 and my older sister and I talk about that
16:41 and the great memories
16:43 that we have not only the training
16:45 and the godly influence
16:48 that my parents instilled within us
16:50 and being around people,
16:51 being in churches and singing
16:53 and just being,
16:55 having a community of people of fellow believers,
16:58 but the words of the songs that we sang,
17:03 they come into play so much in our daily lives,
17:06 we're just going through life
17:08 and I'll be walking down the street
17:09 or driving down the street
17:10 and a song will come to me, lyrics will come to me
17:13 that provide direction for me in a situation that,
17:18 you know, I would never have thought that,
17:20 that song would have given me some guidance, some clearance,
17:23 some clarity on what to do.
17:25 In fact, let me just sing a song...
17:27 Yeah. This is a great little song.
17:28 Now you might not think that this was very applicable
17:32 but even more so now that, you know,
17:34 when you get older you realize what you were singing
17:35 when you were a little kid...
17:37 All right, let's do it.
17:38 And so this is a great Steward Hamblin song.
17:40 It's kind of a, he wrote, how big is God...
17:42 Oh, yeah.
17:44 The great song
17:45 and this old house wants to my children,
17:47 you know, that one, it's great, great song.
17:48 I know you got the base, but you got it there, okay.
17:50 I got something.
17:52 But this is a great little tune that, just a lot of fun.
18:01 My mamma told me something
18:03 That everyone should know
18:06 And it's all about the devil
18:08 And I've learned to hate him so
18:11 She says he causes trouble
18:14 When you let him in the room
18:16 He will never ever leave you
18:19 If your heart is filled with gloom
18:21 So let the sun shine in
18:24 Face it with a grin
18:27 Smilers never lose
18:29 And frowners never win
18:31 So let the sun shine in
18:34 Face it with a grin
18:37 Open up your heart and let the sun shine in
18:43 When I forget to say my prayers
18:45 The devil jumps with glee
18:47 But he feels so awful, awful
18:50 When he sees me on my knees
18:53 So if you're full of trouble
18:55 And you never seem to win
18:58 Just open up your heart and let the sun shine in
19:03 So let the sun shine in
19:07 Face it with a grin
19:09 Smilers never lose
19:11 And frowners never ever win
19:13 So let the sun shine in
19:17 Face it with a grin
19:19 Open up your heart and let the sun shine in.
19:30 I love it. Something like that.
19:32 We sing, I sing that as a kid but...
19:33 Did you?
19:35 I didn't know had all those words,
19:36 I don't know where I learned, I learned at home
19:38 but maybe our folks didn't have all the words,
19:40 that's, that's really neat.
19:42 Those are great lyrics.
19:44 30 years later, 40 years later you're still got those in,
19:47 you know...
19:48 Right, yeah... Frowners never win...
19:51 Simlers never lose... Simlers never lose.
19:52 Right, exactly.
19:53 I love it 'cause we've read the back of the book.
19:55 And Revelation says they overcame him, Satan,
19:58 by the blood of the Lamb.
19:59 And the word of the testimony. And the word of the testimony.
20:01 That's exactly right.
20:02 And so it says we win, so there we go.
20:04 And you know the power of a smile
20:06 and you know the power of a frown.
20:08 Yeah, absolutely.
20:09 And when you see somebody with a smile,
20:11 you are more apt to go up and talk to him
20:13 and you know the power of a frown,
20:15 you want to turn away and walk, leave him.
20:17 Yeah.
20:19 So yeah, those little nuggets like that...
20:21 Yeah, yeah.
20:22 Will make life learning to deal with life,
20:25 I believe Christ walks with us and the Spirit lives in me
20:29 and gives me the ability to handle situations,
20:32 but little tips like smiling and, you know...
20:37 Absolutely, being happy. Yeah.
20:39 It's just, you can't smile without being happy.
20:42 Right, right. I mean, how many...
20:43 That's a lot of good advice.
20:44 How many angry people do you know that are smiling?
20:47 You know, they're not, right? They're not, right.
20:48 So smilers win.
20:51 Right. That's true. Right.
20:52 Frowners don't, so there you go...
20:53 Good advice, good advice. That's great advice.
20:55 Take it to the bank. We'll stop the program today.
20:56 Now play a little better, sing a little bit of
20:58 ''This Ole House".
21:00 Oh my goodness, I don't know that's...
21:01 You don't have to play or do the bass
21:03 but, oh, you remember the...
21:04 I really, I just knew that line.
21:05 You know how the tune goes?
21:39 Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
21:41 I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints.
21:45 Let's see if I know the words, I don't know, if I do, bless...
21:47 This ole house once knew my children
21:50 This ole house once knew my wife
21:53 This ole house once rang with laughter
21:55 As it stood the storms with life
21:58 This ole house is gettin' old
22:00 And I feel no fear or pain
22:03 For I see an angel peekin'
22:05 Through a broken window pane
22:09 Need this house no longer.
22:10 Yeah.
22:11 Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
22:13 Ain't got time to fix the shingles
22:16 Ain't got time to fix the floor
22:18 Ain't got time to oil the hinges
22:21 Nor to mend the window panes.
22:23 Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
22:26 I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints.
22:30 I said I didn't even know, I knew those words...
22:31 That's great, yeah. Isn't that crazy?
22:33 And that's what we're just talking about things
22:35 that you listen to, things that you hear,
22:39 I'm 65 years old and there's hardly a day go by
22:42 I don't think of something when I'm making decisions
22:44 that my dad told me when I was a young person
22:47 'cause he had so much common sense.
22:49 Yeah, wow.
22:50 He didn't make it through the educational,
22:53 you know, system...
22:54 But he sure did when it came to common sense...
22:56 Right, right.
22:57 And how to deal with people but things like that,
22:59 this ole house once knew my children...
23:01 Isn't that great?
23:02 Well, you know, they say children, right?
23:04 This ole house once knew my children.
23:05 I noticed you said that.
23:06 This ole house once knew my wife.
23:08 That's good.
23:09 And I don't remember where, but Tennessee Ernie Ford,
23:10 didn't he used to do that...
23:12 I think so Rosemary Clooney sang as well.
23:13 Oh, yeah. Did she really? Yes, yeah.
23:15 Okay, a lot of those folk. Yeah, great. Great songs.
23:16 What else did you say he did, Stuart Hamblen,
23:17 he was a great writer.
23:19 Yeah, he did ''How Big is God.''
23:20 Oh, yeah. Then there was a great song.
23:30 It is no secret.
23:37 Was that someone you
23:40 You may have long for added strength
23:45 Your courage to renew
23:50 Do not be disheartened
23:55 for I bring news to you.
23:59 Sing in chorus, Tim.
24:01 It is no secret
24:07 What God can do
24:13 What He's done for others
24:18 He'll do for you
24:24 With arms wide open
24:29 He'll part anew
24:35 It is no secret
24:41 What God can do.
24:49 Wow, now that is going way back.
24:52 The time went out.
24:53 So people saying are you sure they doesn't know...
24:55 Really, this is neat, I love doing this
24:57 'cause it's like just sitting around like
24:58 we used to do with kids at home,
25:00 my dad would start, give me a key
25:02 for like suppertime, you remember that?
25:03 Oh, yeah, let me see it.
25:04 We'll give a little bit of tempo to it.
25:07 When I was but a boy
25:10 In days of childhood
25:16 I used to play
25:18 Till evening shadows fall
25:26 Then winding down
25:28 An ole familiar pathway
25:35 I would hear my Mother call
25:39 At set of sun
25:44 Come home, come home
25:49 It's supper time
25:54 The shadows lengthened fast
26:02 Sing it come home now.
26:03 Come home, come home
26:08 It's supper time
26:13 We're going home
26:17 At last.
26:21 All right, wow. Yes.
26:24 Those are neat songs and some of the great songs,
26:27 I mean, there's a lot of beautiful songs written today
26:29 but I think some of the greatest songs
26:31 ever written.
26:33 We did on the program not too long ago,
26:34 I come to the garden alone.
26:36 I mean, where do you find a song for me
26:39 that ministers to me like this song.
26:42 I mean, I come to the garden alone.
26:43 Would you play a little bit, maybe?
26:45 Yes, I will.
27:23 And He walks with me
27:30 And He talks with me
27:34 And He tells me
27:37 I am His own
27:43 And the joy we share
27:47 As we tarry there
27:54 None other
27:58 Has ever known.
28:02 I like this second verse, it says.
28:06 He speaks
28:09 And the sound of His voice
28:14 Is so sweet
28:18 The birds hush their singing
28:24 And the melody
28:29 That He gave to me
28:34 Within my heart
28:39 Is ringing.
28:43 Sing it at home with me.
28:45 And He walks with me
28:50 And He talks with me
28:55 And He tells me
28:58 I am His own
29:03 And the joy we share
29:08 As we tarry there
29:15 None other
29:19 Has ever known.
29:32 Amen, what beautiful songs.
29:35 Then there's a lot a up tempo songs
29:39 that I remember
29:40 when I was a kid growing up in our church.
29:43 We used to go and then Sabbath afternoon
29:45 we had these young people's meetings.
29:48 We used to go sometimes in the afternoon
29:50 and we'd like the younger kids,
29:51 you want some more up tempo songs.
29:53 So I'm gonna let's see
29:54 what some of them like He Lives
29:57 or Onward Christian Soldiers, or something,
29:59 I want you to give us a little.
30:01 I told Tim, I'd put him on the spot.
30:03 So give us a little of that. I say bring it, I love it.
31:10 All right.
31:56 Yeah, that's good. Oh, that is. I love it.
31:59 Not my playing, I mean this song.
32:00 No, no, no, it's great. Yeah, it's good stuff.
32:01 And I want to ask you,
32:03 we were talking about education a while ago.
32:05 You apparently graduated
32:07 from the Juilliard School of Music,
32:08 is that true?
32:10 In my dreams I did but no, I play by ear.
32:14 You play by ear.
32:15 Now, come on, I mean
32:17 you hit every note on the piano.
32:18 I was temped to take this water...
32:19 Well, that's just because...
32:21 I think piano was so expensive,
32:22 I though it was going to catch on,
32:23 I thought, I saw smoking here.
32:25 Well, no, I played every note
32:26 just in case I find one that works, that so,
32:28 I was searching for the melody.
32:30 No, when I was, actually when I was born
32:34 my parents had already purchased a piano
32:36 for my older sister.
32:37 One of those spin it, you know, just the half way
32:40 and so she didn't take a liking to it as we say.
32:44 So I'm kind of one of those with obligated personality,
32:46 I felt like I needed to,
32:48 you know, make use of the piano since my sister didn't.
32:50 I always like to give her a hard time about that
32:53 but I crawled up there,
32:55 I remember as early as age two,
32:57 crawling up and just, you know, beginning to get the feel of it
33:01 and then, you know,
33:03 naturally as I didn't know what I was doing at the time
33:06 but I just found
33:08 that I had a kind of a natural drawing to it,
33:11 a supernatural drawing to it.
33:13 And I mean surely you took, you know, you started lessons
33:16 and you started taking lessons for years.
33:18 Okay, so what I did was I took when I was at age six,
33:22 I took piano lessons when I was, yeah,
33:25 just I turned six
33:28 and I took for two years
33:30 and I always say
33:31 that I couldn't teach the teacher anything,
33:34 so but that's really silly
33:36 but honestly what happened was
33:38 I remember going in one day at the lesson,
33:43 I played the song exactly right but I was in the wrong key.
33:47 Oh.
33:48 So I had asked the teacher to play the song for me
33:51 before I left the previous lesson
33:53 and I had memorized it
33:55 and just didn't catch the right key signature.
33:58 So I gave myself a way,
33:59 so my parents said fully on this as they say.
34:02 Why spend the money
34:03 when you didn't need the lessons.
34:05 Exactly, well I could have, I wish that I, you know,
34:07 as every person now who desires to play the piano,
34:11 they grew up, their parents will give them the opportunity,
34:15 you know, to take lessons,
34:17 I wish that I would have pursued my music
34:19 even further in and through education
34:22 because honestly, I have struggled
34:24 with feeling like I was legitimate.
34:27 Oh, my, my...
34:29 And, you know, I'm not being pitiful, it's truthful.
34:31 And a lot of people I'm sure feel that way
34:33 when they have a natural gift
34:36 that you feel like
34:38 you need a degree or a diploma something to prove...
34:41 I'll give you one. Okay.
34:43 I'll give you one I'll write it.
34:44 From the Danny Shelton School of music, I love it.
34:47 Well, that will be worth something,
34:48 as long as I can have a cap and gown...
34:51 What lessons would do
34:52 because most of the people that I know,
34:54 I mean, I have friends who,
34:56 they play a little bit and they'll say,
34:58 I took ten years of piano as a child
35:01 but they can't play anything unless it's in front of them.
35:04 But now you, if we put a song in front of you,
35:07 you could play a little bit enough just to hear it.
35:09 Yeah, it would be painful at first.
35:12 Because I'm not good at sight reading.
35:14 And I would want to take time and wood shed it as they say.
35:19 But you know, I was listening
35:21 to somebody talking just this morning,
35:24 talking about the 10,000 hour concept,
35:28 I don't know if you've heard how it takes 10, 000 hours
35:31 to master something.
35:32 Really?
35:34 Music is something, again, growing up in it,
35:37 that's all I've known.
35:39 So thus I've been blessed,
35:41 I was blessed to be in that position.
35:44 But I had a reason to practice
35:46 which I didn't even know I was practicing at the time,
35:49 I was just playing to learn the songs
35:51 that my family was going to be singing.
35:52 So I always encourage people, if you want to,
35:55 want to be good at something, have a reason to do it
35:59 and then if you don't want to embarrass yourself
36:01 in the public
36:03 while you'll learn how to do that
36:05 but it takes a lifetime of committing
36:07 and you can't be good at several things.
36:09 Yes.
36:10 You know, you have to pick a field that you're good at
36:12 and then pay somebody to mow the yard.
36:15 My dad once again used to say,
36:17 "Son you're a jack of all trades and master of none."
36:19 Oh, wow.
36:21 'Cause I like doing everything and when ball season was in,
36:23 no matter what kind of,
36:25 if it's a baseball, ping-pong ball,
36:27 basketball, you know, I'd find something to do
36:30 but I'd love to do music too.
36:32 So I'd do music and then I'd play ball some more,
36:34 then I got into construction, then I do this and I do that.
36:37 So consequently,
36:39 I can do a little bit of a number of things
36:41 but really didn't master but...
36:43 But you're a great communicator and that's what I do love...
36:46 That I've probably put a whole lot more than 10,000 hours in.
36:49 Well, sure. Well, sure, yeah. Sure.
36:51 But you know, in all the things that you were doing
36:53 and all those skills that you had,
36:55 you were using that gift of communication
36:57 to get the job or to...
36:59 Yeah, I talk, my brothers used to get so upset at me at home,
37:02 they were older and I was the youngest brother
37:04 out of four boys
37:05 and my younger sister Tammy came eight years after me
37:08 and they'd be and I'd sing around the house and say,
37:10 "Dad, won't you make him shout up, he sings."
37:13 And my dad said, "As long as he wants to sing,
37:15 he's happy, we're going to let him be happy
37:17 Now if he's crying or being fussy
37:19 then I'll work on him."
37:20 He'd say and I knew what that meant.
37:22 Right.
37:23 That wasn't like some parents say work on you,
37:24 my folks knew it and my dad knew
37:26 how to work on you...
37:27 Right. Usually it was with the belt.
37:29 You know, well, people going to say what they want,
37:30 but I'm glad that he loved me enough
37:32 to take care of me
37:34 when I was out of line
37:35 and give you some hope
37:37 and some vision for the future of what we really want to do.
37:40 But I think God, now I learned from my parents,
37:43 my parents came in, it was a different era
37:46 and there was more if you, if I can use this word,
37:48 you might understand with me, legalism of do's and don'ts...
37:51 Sure.
37:52 So well, this is you can't do this, you can do this,
37:54 you can't do that.
37:56 So I didn't really understand,
37:58 I knew I wanted to be a Christian,
37:59 I tried but I didn't really understand
38:02 a relationship with Jesus.
38:04 And that freedom, it gives me,
38:06 doesn't give me the freedom to go out and sin...
38:08 Right.
38:10 But it gives me the freedom to love Jesus
38:12 and to say thank you Lord, I want to serve you...
38:14 Right.
38:16 And now I don't worry about people say,
38:17 "Well, what do you do on a Sabbath?
38:19 You know, when my folks say, you know,
38:21 now you are not going out and play ball,
38:22 you are not going to watch television,
38:24 you are not going to do these things
38:25 and that's the best they knew
38:27 how to tell us as kids but I tell people,
38:29 don't worry about what you can't do,
38:31 worry about what you can do.
38:32 You spend time with God, with your family,
38:35 with church family, you can go out in nature,
38:36 there's so many things, spend time studying,
38:39 not having to spend time
38:40 worrying about your bills, right?
38:41 Your payments, worrying about things
38:43 that work or stress that you have.
38:45 What a great opportunity, what a great time, so.
38:49 I'm really thankful for parents who love the Lord and raise me.
38:54 Now, if I'd done everything right in my life?
38:56 Absolutely not.
38:58 And I mean, I've had everything written about me
39:00 and said about me that could be said
39:02 but that's okay,
39:03 I'm in good company, they said it
39:05 with a lot of other people too,
39:06 probably talk about you too, Tim,
39:07 behind your back, you know...
39:09 If they care it all.
39:11 Now they care.
39:12 Well, what it is, when you are on the frontline...
39:13 Right, exactly...
39:15 You know, the enemy hates people on the frontline
39:16 and so you there, so I've learned to expect it
39:19 and most everybody that I am around in ministry,
39:22 you find it and then, you know, what?
39:24 Those of you that are Christians, same thing,
39:26 maybe you're by yourself at home
39:28 but you're still, the devil is out
39:29 to steal, kill and to destroy...
39:31 Right.
39:32 But Jesus says, "I've come to give you life
39:34 and give it more abundantly."
39:35 So I'm so thankful for that promise today
39:38 and thankful that He loves us, He died for us,
39:41 He made a plan of salvation for us
39:43 and He's coming back very soon in the clouds of glory.
39:46 It's our prayer, mine and Tim's here,
39:48 all of us here at 3ABN that we can meet together,
39:52 that second coming says,
39:53 the dead in Christ shall rise first
39:55 and we which are alive
39:56 and remain shall be caught up together,
39:59 this is forever with the Lord in the sky,
40:01 so you'll be able to sit around on the piano
40:03 and with Tim Parton up there playing...
40:06 I'm hoping when we get to heaven,
40:08 you'll be able to play the piano,
40:10 so I can sit back and listen
40:11 'cause I'm gonna be retired by then.
40:13 Well, yeah.
40:14 Especially if you keep on asking these requests
40:16 of songs I don't know.
40:17 Yeah, I'm just trying to think of another one...
40:19 Hey, I'll tell you what, before we go on...
40:20 All right.
40:22 You're talking about, you know,
40:24 situations where people talk about you
40:26 and there's another life lesson in a song
40:29 that I learned and you've probably,
40:31 you may have sung this one yourself,
40:34 but this was one I remember singing
40:36 when I was a kid.
40:37 One of the more serious ones and it goes like this.
40:43 Little flowers never worry
40:48 When the wind begins to blow
40:54 And they never, never cry
41:01 When the rain begins to fall
41:07 Though it's wet
41:08 and, oh, so cold
41:14 Soon the sun will shine again
41:20 And then they'll smile to the world
41:27 For their beauty to behold
41:33 So, let it rain, let it rain,
41:38 let it pour
41:41 Let trouble keep knocking at my door
41:49 If we'll learn the right from wrong
41:56 It will help to make us strong
42:03 So when the clouds begin to gather
42:09 And that old wind begins to blow
42:15 Little flowers don't complain
42:21 Though they're tossing to and fro
42:28 So I guess they've learned the secret
42:34 Even little flowers know
42:40 That if it never, never rains
42:47 Then will never, never grow
42:52 So, let it rain, let it rain,
42:56 let it pour.
42:58 Sing it.
42:59 Let trouble keep knocking at my door
43:06 If we'll learn the right from wrong
43:13 It will help to make us strong
43:20 'Cause if it never, never rains
43:28 Then will never,
43:31 Never grow.
43:40 There's a great life lesson.
43:42 What a pretty song that is. Yeah, it is.
43:44 I think I used to sing that years ago once in a while,
43:47 but never really knew again all the words of it,
43:50 but it's such an as you said life lessons,
43:53 absolutely beautiful.
43:54 Yeah, Job knew that, he learned that the Lord gives
43:57 and He takes away,
43:59 but whatever you are going through,
44:01 blessed be the name of the Lord.
44:02 That's right because his friends all told him,
44:04 "Hey, Joe, go out and die."
44:06 Right? Right.
44:07 Hey, basically hang yourself, shoot yourself,
44:08 do whatever you can do...
44:10 Right, exactly. You're exactly right, yeah.
44:11 I guess he didn't have gun.
44:12 Yeah, some friends...
44:14 Spear yourself, do something, you know...
44:15 You know, he got the point. Yeah.
44:16 He said, fully on you all,
44:18 blessed be the name of the Lord,
44:19 I'm sticking with the God.
44:21 Absolutely. So that's should be our goal.
44:22 Absolutely, I cannot believe as I'm looking down,
44:24 here we got like just eight or ten minutes
44:26 for this whole program.
44:28 What else you got, any more surprises up your sleeve?
44:30 Is there some, I loved it...
44:32 I'm surprised at myself, I'm on air,
44:33 just don't know what's going to happen next actually.
44:35 So one tune...
44:37 Well, if I can think of something maybe,
44:38 how about you know the song, ''Something Beautiful"?
44:40 Maybe play it a little bit. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.
45:25 Something beautiful,
45:30 Something good
45:35 All my confusion
45:40 He understood
45:45 All I had to offer Him
45:49 Was brokenness and strife
45:53 Yet he made something
45:57 Beautiful of my life
46:05 If there ever were dreams
46:08 That were lofty and noble
46:11 They were my dreams at the start
46:16 And the dreams for life's best were the dreams
46:21 That I harbored down deep in my heart
46:28 But my dreams turned to ashes
46:32 My castles all crumbled
46:35 My fortune turned to loss
46:40 That I wrapped it all
46:43 In the rags of my life
46:47 And laid it at the cross.
46:52 At the feet of Jesus, right?
46:54 Something beautiful
47:00 Something good
47:05 All my confusion
47:10 He understood
47:15 All I had to offer Him
47:19 Was brokenness and strife
47:23 But he made something
47:28 Beautiful of my life
47:33 And he'll make...
47:34 And he'll make something
47:39 Beautiful of your life.
47:41 Of your life.
47:47 Wow, isn't that amazing,
47:49 how God can take the least,
47:52 and when you think there is no hope
47:55 that He can do something great.
47:56 I love it because God is the creator,
47:58 Satan is an imitator
48:00 and he's got all kinds of imitation
48:02 especially for young folks,
48:03 well, I'm going to have to add all of us,
48:05 'cause I'm 65 and he's still working on all me, right?
48:08 And the devil is but so is God. Right, exactly, more so...
48:10 What's that old song, remember that song?
48:12 He still working on me that used to be one but...
48:13 Right, yes, right.
48:15 He's still working but the devil is an imitator,
48:17 he's a liar but God is the truth.
48:22 The Bible says, He is the truth,
48:24 the way, the truth and the life.
48:25 Without him, there's nothing.
48:27 Anything else is false,
48:29 so unless you're looking to Jesus,
48:31 to the cross of Calvary,
48:32 that's the only hope for this world today.
48:35 There is no other way out
48:37 and we serve a God that's so big,
48:39 He's absolutely marvelous.
48:41 Sometimes I wonder, I'm marvel, how big is God?
48:45 Tim?
48:47 Is that my cue? That's your cue.
48:48 Sound like a cue to me, I like it.
48:49 You know that?
49:56 Raise it up a half step. We'll just do the last part.
50:00 How big is God
50:04 How big and wide
50:07 His vast domain?
50:11 To try, to tell
50:15 These lips can only start
50:21 Well, He's big
50:23 He's big enough
50:25 To rule this mighty universe
50:32 Yet small enough
50:36 To live within
50:39 My heart
50:45 Now who wrote that, you say it's...
50:46 Stuart Hamblen. Hamblen wrote that also.
50:48 Wow, what a great songwriter. Yeah.
50:50 I don't know all the verse
50:52 but I know quite a bit of the verses.
50:53 Apparently, I don't either. That's no, no, no...
50:56 No, he has such a great, he was a great lyricist.
51:01 Oh, absolutely.
51:03 And you know, he was a cowboy...
51:05 Oh, really?
51:07 The singing one of the first singing cowboys on the radio...
51:08 Oh, is that right? I didn't know that.
51:11 Yeah, he had such, you need to search on him,
51:12 I would like to do a program one day of just his songs...
51:15 Absolutely, absolutely.
51:16 Because he had some really great songs,
51:19 a lot of people who are, you know,
51:21 aren't believers they hear these some songs from,
51:23 you know, olden days and so, good stuff.
51:26 As a singing cowboy way before your time
51:28 but my time was Roy Rogers.
51:30 Okay.
51:31 And he and Dale Evans used to write some...
51:33 I thought he was a fictional character.
51:35 I didn't know he was real,
51:36 now you're the first person I met that ever knew him.
51:38 No, absolutely, Roy Rogers, he was a singing cowboy
51:42 but he and Dale Evans, they did,
51:44 they were Christians and they did a lot of...
51:46 Have faith, hope and charity
51:50 That's the way to live successfully
51:52 That's what I've heard.
51:53 How do I know, the Bible tells me so
51:58 Don't worry 'bout tomorrow
52:01 Just be real good today
52:04 The Lord will bless and guide you...
52:07 Something like that.
52:08 Lead you on your way Oh, the Bible says have faith
52:11 Hope and charity
52:14 That's the way to live successfully
52:17 How do I know, the Bible tells me so
52:21 How about this guy, he doesn't even have to hear a song,
52:24 has no idea what it is
52:25 and he jumps right in and can play it.
52:27 What a gift, what a gift.
52:28 I can't believe our time is all gone.
52:30 We're going to have to take a short break,
52:32 then we're going to come back with a closing thought.


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