American Idol Thought The first week was awful. Why would you start the top 24 with a theme night and of all themes you do 60s night? I thought 5 out of the 24 showed they were good, but it was horribly bad overall. I can’t wait until we’re down to the top 12 or…
Fridays are for New Music
A few weeks ago I posted a new Hillsong song named “Lord of Lords.” An absolutely incredible song. This week I’m going to post another song from the same cd. It is called “To Know Your Name.” I don’t doubt this is a great song…but here is my question. This song just repeats over and…
Almost Famous
I found out earlier this week that I am famous in Alaska. It is official…I have finally made my mark on my in-laws 🙂 Thanks Gary and Lynne. This is an ad in the Homer, Alaska visitor guide for 2008(yep that is me). It is easily one of the prettiest places I have ever been…
Passion: God of this City
The newest Passion cd has been out for 2 weeks. It includes all the usual suspects: Tomlin, Redman, Charlie Hall, Kristian Stanfill, Steve Fee, and David Crowder. Not all those names ring bells for some of you but they’ve all been on Passion albums before. For me, this cd was a bit of a disappointment.…
Extreme Grace
A Christian buzz word I’ve heard a lot of is “extreme grace.” Yeah ok, it is 2 words. I know that. But the phrase is used all the time. Whenever someone who was in jail, is a prostitute, or was addicted to drugs, accepts Jesus, people call this extreme grace. Whenever a 12 year old,…
New Nooma for Free
The new Nooma video “Open” is out for free for the next 36 hours or so on Facebook. You can check it out here. I wonder what you think about it? Open is a great title for it because it does leave things very open, theologically. Rob Bell is almost saying that we have the…