Research site of John L. Francis
Assistant Professor, Hannibal-Lagrange

 A “spiritual awakening”, having taken place in the small community of Herrnhut, Germany, gave birth to a sacred instrumental music ministry so profound that repercussions are still felt today in the secular and sacred United States and elsewhere. 

 This paper seeks to research why British hymnody would be an optimum source for a hymnal for Esperanto-speaking people, what can be learned from other English hymn translators and to determine a philosophy of translation to create a hymnal that would be useful for the glorification of God, and a tool for evangelism to a secularized culture. 

 Through his hymnal, William Gadsby, sought to use hymns as a formative means of teaching a specific doctrine of the Lord’s Supper to "Strict Baptists" that would be Calvinistic in expression, despite the clear Zwinglian “memorialism” stance that their confessions would state. 

This brief article is about the importance of sincere platform leadership through preparation, appearance, platform vibrancy and certain untangibles 

My Master's Thesis, "Trumpets in Scripture" explores the concepts of the two trumpets in the Bible and their meanings.

In the Jewish faith, according to Rabbi Abraham Witty, the shofar is a symbol for Messiah. This paper looks at iconodules and iconclasts to decide is the shofar a good representative of the Messiah.

This "Wayback Machine" web archive is from Ba'al Tekiah, Arthur Finkle. Despite its older look, it is rich with information about modern Jewish shofar customs.

This Christianity Today article is very insightful about the renewed interest in many Christians to sound the shofar.

In this CBN video, shofarist Don Heist claims that the shofar has healing power. This is not a viewpoint of biblicaltrumpets.org

This website has been a great help to me in my translating work. It presents a very systematic method of understanding Ancient Hebrew.

A web article divulging an interesting perspective of the one-hundred blasts of the shofar at Rosh Hashana.

This online English translation of the Shulchan Arach (Jewish Code of Law) covers shofar playing on 585-590.

British scholar and musician, David Wulstan (1937-2017) in an article in the May 1973 edition of the Galpin Society Journal titled, "The Sounding of the Shofar." Even to date, his is one of the only articles that includes a very important, yet oft overlooked, cross-reference of information to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

This is a post I wrote for Rosh Hashanah on Psalm 81. In this post, I examine the superscription, the liturgy, and the admonition of this Psalm to better understand its history and message as it pertains to the worship leader.