It all started at the age of 10 on an old mandolin with 2 strings. "My dad taught me to play a few songs by moving my fingers on one string up and down the fret-board." And then guitar lessons, then the first garage band while in the 7th grade. "My best friend and I started our first band and we continued all through high school." "We were the most demanded band for all the parties and dances after the home games." After graduation the group disbanded and due to college, jobs and whatever else, the members disbursed into different directions. One day Doug stopped in to visit this best friend and discovered he had become a Christian. "He shared the gospel with me and it was at that time in history that the God, who had chosen me from before the foundation of the world, chose to reveal Himself to me and bring me into His Kingdom."
That experience completely changed the course of his music. He began writing and singing from personal experience and from the truths found in the Bible. He considers his music to be "message music" That is, to Doug it is the message that is important. The message must truly represent the love of Christ and the salvation He offers.
It is the desire of Doug to edify, uplift and challenge the Body of Christ and to share the Gospel with those "pre Christians" who are still to be called to know Him.
Doug's music is for people of all ages. He is able to minister to the older as well as the youth. "I believe the youth of today should be addressed just as adults when sharing the Gospel. The truth of Jesus Christ is for all people of all ages."
A concert experience with Doug will be a time of praise, worship, and encouragement.
For booking information you can contact doug at: DOUGBARKERMUSIC@GMAIL.COM
Doug is currently the worship leader for the contemporary service at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, SC
"Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven."
"If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumption, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved. Do not suppose that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going to the worldlings and telling them that they may be saved at this moment by simply accepting Christ as their Savior, while they are wedded to their idols, and their hearts are still in love with sin. If I do so I tell them a lie, pervert the Gospel , insult Christ, and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness." Spurgeon
Read Titus 3:1-8; Roms. 3:19-26; and Eph. 2:1-9.
