Donate

Premier Gospel News

1 Sep 2017

Pastor's piano playing in Houston floods goes viral

Like thousands of others there, Aric Harding's home is filled with water, but the piano is still standing.

Aric Harding posted the clip on social media site Instagram with a short message.

He said: "I think it's all finally sinking in a little. What we used to have going as a city is gone.

"I really think God is going to do something completely new here. I am excited to see the new beauty in the suffering."

In the video he jokes that the piano will need to be re-tuned.

The clip has been shown on BBC and CNN amongst other media outlets.

A video of a Houston pastor playing his piano in his flooded home is being shared across the world as a sign of hope in the midst of darkness for the Texan city.

Share this page...

Request Messages Timeline Exceptions Views38 Route Queries10 Models6 Livewire0 Mails Gate Session

Settings Request history8.3.1785.64ms3MBGET article-series/{article_series}/article/{article}

status

200 OK

full_url

https://premier.amperative.site/article-series/premier-gospel-news/article/pastor-s-piano-playing-in...

action_name

article-series.articles.show

controller_action

App\Http\Controllers\ArticleController@showArticleForArticleSeries

uri

GET article-series/{article_series}/article/{article}

scope_bindings

true

controller

App\Http\Controllers\ArticleController@showArticleForArticleSeries

file

app/Http/Controllers/ArticleController.php:20-29

middleware

web

duration

85.55ms

peak_memory

4MB

response

text/html; charset=UTF-8

request_format

html

request_query

[]

request_request

[]

request_headers

  0 of 0   
array:15 [▼
  "host" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "premier.amperative.site"
  ]
  "connection" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "keep-alive"
  ]
  "pragma" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "no-cache"
  ]
  "cache-control" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "no-cache"
  ]
  "sec-ch-ua" => array:1 [▶
    0 => ""Chromium";v="130", "HeadlessChrome";v="130", "Not?A_Brand";v="99""
  ]
  "sec-ch-ua-mobile" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "?0"
  ]
  "sec-ch-ua-platform" => array:1 [▶
    0 => ""Windows""
  ]
  "upgrade-insecure-requests" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "1"
  ]
  "user-agent" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)"
  ]
  "accept" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7"
  ]
  "sec-fetch-site" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "none"
  ]
  "sec-fetch-mode" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "navigate"
  ]
  "sec-fetch-user" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "?1"
  ]
  "sec-fetch-dest" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "document"
  ]
  "accept-encoding" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "gzip, deflate, br, zstd"
  ]
]

request_cookies

[]

response_headers

  0 of 0   
array:3 [▼
  "content-type" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
  ]
  "cache-control" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "no-cache, private"
  ]
  "date" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "Thu, 26 Jun 2025 02:46:39 GMT"
  ]
]

session_attributes

  0 of 0   
array:1 [▼
  "_token" => "v5AQCIxG1bgm7h9Wx1rVWJnY2de4R1XLXn8GscDO"
]

Booting (34.57ms)time
Application (51.06ms)time
Routing (2.34ms)
1 x Application (59.62%)
51.06ms
1 x Booting (40.37%)
34.57ms
1 x Routing (2.73%)
2.34ms

38 templates were rendered

1x templates.articles.showshow.blade.php#?blade
1x components.sections.slimline-headerslimline-header.blade.php#?blade
1x components.sections.header-topheader-top.blade.php#?blade
20x components.iconicon.blade.php#?blade
1x components.sharethissharethis.blade.php#?blade
1x components.recommendations.index-bespokeindex-bespoke.blade.php#?blade
1x components.promotional-blockspromotional-blocks.blade.php#?blade
1x components.sections.footerfooter.blade.php#?blade
2x components.form.inputinput.blade.php#?blade
2x components.form.input-groupinput-group.blade.php#?blade
1x components.layouts.mastermaster.blade.php#?blade
1x components.faviconfavicon.blade.php#?blade
1x components.social-metasocial-meta.blade.php#?blade
1x components.modals.searchsearch.blade.php#?blade
1x components.modals.generic-1generic-1.blade.php#?blade
1x components.toast-controllertoast-controller.blade.php#?blade
1x components.modals.model-show-thank-youmodel-show-thank-you.blade.php#?blade

uri: GET article-series/{article_series}/article/{article}
middleware: web
scope_bindings: true
controller: App\Http\Controllers\ArticleController@showArticleForArticleSeries
as: article-series.articles.show
file: app/Http/Controllers/ArticleController.php:20-29

10 statements were executed (4 duplicates)Show only duplicates9.55ms

RedirectMiddleware.php#49premier750μsselect * from `redirects` where `is_regex` = 1 and `redirects`.`deleted_at` is null

Bindings	0: 1
Backtrace	app/Http/Middleware/RedirectMiddleware.php:49 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:180 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:116 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php:797 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php:776

RedirectMiddleware.php#79premier560μs

select * from `redirects` where `is_regex` = 0 and `match` = '/article-series/premier-gospel-news/article/pastor-s-piano-playing-in-houston-floods-goes-viral' and `is_active` = 1 and `redirects`.`deleted_at` is null limit 1

Bindings	0: 0 1: /article-series/premier-gospel-news/article/pastor-s-piano-playing-in-houston-floods-goes-viral 2: 1
Backtrace	app/Http/Middleware/RedirectMiddleware.php:79 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:180 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:116 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php:797 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php:776

DatabaseSessionHandler.php#97premier690μsselect * from `sessions` where `id` = 'twJwZNM6O7vlrTESpoMMBjDi9AWrRggyZrmGkvxV' limit 1

Bindings	0: twJwZNM6O7vlrTESpoMMBjDi9AWrRggyZrmGkvxV
Backtrace	vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/DatabaseSessionHandler.php:97 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/Store.php:113 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/Store.php:101 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/Store.php:85 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/Middleware/StartSession.php:147

ContentFamilyTrait.php#42premier560μs

select * from `article_series` where `slug` = 'premier-gospel-news' and `is_active` = 1 and `article_series`.`deleted_at` is null limit 1

Bindings	0: premier-gospel-news 1: 1
Backtrace	app/Models/Traits/ContentFamilyTrait.php:42 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ImplicitRouteBinding.php:61 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php:947 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Middleware/SubstituteBindings.php:41 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:180

ContentFamilyTrait.php#59premier4.31ms

select * from `articles` where `articles`.`article_series_id` = 5 and `articles`.`article_series_id` is not null and `slug` = 'pastor-s-piano-playing-in-houston-floods-goes-viral' and `articles`.`deleted_at` is null limit 1

Bindings	0: 5 1: pastor-s-piano-playing-in-houston-floods-goes-viral
Backtrace	app/Models/Traits/ContentFamilyTrait.php:59 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ImplicitRouteBinding.php:56 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php:947 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Middleware/SubstituteBindings.php:41 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:180

ArticleController.php#22premier340μsselect exists(select * from `brands` where `brands`.`id` is null and `brands`.`deleted_at` is null) as `exists`

Backtrace

app/Http/Controllers/ArticleController.php:22
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:259
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205

Setting.php#20premier600μsselect * from `settings` where `setting_key` = 'web_donation_link' limit 1

Bindings	0: web_donation_link
Backtrace	app/Models/Setting.php:20 app/Helpers/Settings.php:6 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:110 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58 vendor/livewire/livewire/src/ComponentConcerns/RendersLivewireComponents.php:69

Setting.php#20premier880μsselect * from `settings` where `setting_key` = 'web_donation_link' limit 1

Bindings	0: web_donation_link
Backtrace	app/Models/Setting.php:20 app/Helpers/Settings.php:6 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:110 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58 vendor/livewire/livewire/src/ComponentConcerns/RendersLivewireComponents.php:69

Setting.php#20premier410μsselect * from `settings` where `setting_key` = 'web_donation_link' limit 1

Bindings	0: web_donation_link
Backtrace	app/Models/Setting.php:20 app/Helpers/Settings.php:6 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:110 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58 vendor/livewire/livewire/src/ComponentConcerns/RendersLivewireComponents.php:69

Setting.php#20premier450μsselect * from `settings` where `setting_key` = 'web_donation_link' limit 1

Bindings	0: web_donation_link
Backtrace	app/Models/Setting.php:20 app/Helpers/Settings.php:6 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:110 vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58 vendor/livewire/livewire/src/ComponentConcerns/RendersLivewireComponents.php:69

App\Models\Setting: 4Setting.php#?
App\Models\ArticleSeries: 1ArticleSeries.php#?
App\Models\Article: 1Article.php#?

_token: v5AQCIxG1bgm7h9Wx1rVWJnY2de4R1XLXn8GscDO

AutoshowClear Show all

	Date ↕	Method	URL	Data
#1	2025-06-26 03:46:39	GET	/article-series/premier-gospel-news/article/pastor-s-piano-playing-in-houston-floods-goes-viral	38 10 6

1 x Application (59.62%)	51.06ms
1 x Booting (40.37%)	34.57ms
1 x Routing (2.73%)	2.34ms

Premier Gospel News

Pastor's piano playing in Houston floods goes viral

Trending Audio