The Music of Heaven

by John Thurber with Cari Haus

Table of Contents

1. The View from Down Here
2. The Beautiful Music of Heaven
3. Discord in Paradise
4. The Day Heaven's Music Stopped
5. The War for This World Heats Up
6. When the Message of Music Is Me
7. Satan's Creative counterfeits
8. When the Music Becomes the Message
9. Planting Your Feet on God's Word
10. The Trouble with Tainted Theology
11. Will You Stand on the Plain of Dura
12. Sing a New Song to the Lord
13. Judging Each other's Song
14. The Devil's Primary Target
15. The Beauty of Soft and Simple
16. The Great Controversy (Over Music!)
17. The Style of Worship in Heaven
18. When the Sacred Gets Mixed with the Common

What is the music of heaven really like? Read a Bible-based answer from John Thurber, a professional musician who has made a lifelong study of the topic.

Churches everywhere are in a crisis mode over what to sing and play for the assembly of the saints in worship. Many have unanswered questions such as:

• Is God concerned about the music being played by Christians today?
• Is the music being played in my church of heavenly, or earthly origin?
• How should the church react to all the new "flavors" of music?
• Was Lucifer's "pride problem"—the one that started his rebellion in heaven—somehow tied to his music? And is it still hounding the saints today?
• What about the music that so many of our youth love so dearly—are they being led or misled?
• Are we swept up in worshiping stars rather than looking to and praising the Star of heaven?

John Thurber finds the answers to these questions, and more, in this important new book on the music of heaven. Pastor Thurber's first sermon, which he preached while a student in college, was on this wonderful topic. Since that day, he has spent many happy hours searching the inspired pages of the Scriptures and Spirit of Prophecy to learn even more of God's music. You'll find the results of his study in this book, including:

• The role music has played in the great controversy between Christ and Satan
• Detailed descriptions of what heaven's music is-and isn't-like, and
• Twenty-seven practical principles for choosing heavenly music

No book Pastor Thurber wrote would be complete without stories, so he's included a few of those, too. Read the touching story of the fat lady and the circus, and how God worked in her life through music, in "Baby Francis and the Bullet Holes." Your heart will be warmed as you read how God send a "shoe-shine" boy to Pastor Thurber in an airport one day. And your thinking will be stirred by the lesson behind "When the Crowd Didn't Clap."

Before his retirement, Pastor Thurber taught music in several different academies and colleges. The highlight of Pastor Thurber's music ministry was singing with the King's Heralds Quartet at the Voice of Prophecy, and traveling with H.M.S. Richards Sr. and his fellow musicians. Pastor Thurber brings all of his experience, and the wisdom gained through his career as a professional musician, into this inspiring book.