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Here’s a bit of Irish satire for you this morning. Marc Gunn, the Celtfather, performing his song “St. Patrick Never Drank” at DragonCon 2011: By the way, if you haven’t yet check out Marc’s Irish and Celtic Music Podcast as it is an amazing collection of independent music delivered on a monthly [...] My heart fell in love with the song “Form Us” by Casey Corum/Anabeth Morgan back in May at the National Conference as I felt that it carried a prophetic message for our church as well as the Vineyard Movement as a whole: Form us, make us Mold us, shape us To be like you, [...] The chorus of Harry Belafonte’s “Day Oh’” has been going through my head these last few weeks – so this morning I decided to listen to it, which lead to a trip through a bunch of my old favorites folk/bluegrass songs. “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford I recently stumbled upon an article about Stonefield and just had to share with you all. Stonefield is an upcoming Australian rock band consisting of four sisters ages 13 to 21. They started playing about six years ago when they talked their parents into buying them a drum kit. Amy, the oldest sister, took [...] Brother Claude Ely, pictured in 1953 in front of the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Ky. (Courtesy of Macel Ely and NPR) You all HAVE to listen to this! NPR’s All Things Considered recently did a 12-minture segment on Brother Claude Ely, the Pentecostal preacher who wrote the song “There Ain’t No Grave [...] I just read an amazing and thought provoking article about worship and theology by Frank Emanuel, Freedom Vineyard (Ottawa, Canada). In this article, Frank makes service important points as to why we must be careful what worship songs we sing: a) People will remember the words of a worship song long after they have forgotten the points of a sermon.
b) If we are singing to God, we better make sure our words reflex the truth about Him – similar to how you would make sure a love song to your spouse included accurate information about them.
Surprisingly, Friday’s elementary/intermediate school dance turned out to be a lot of fun. During the setup, I expressed my doubts as to the wisdom of such a dance – and received likewise comments from some of the other adults…yet, I also learned that it was the kids themselves who requested the dance after getting [...]
My intermediate years of 4th through 6th grade were marked by avoiding the horned beasts opposite gender as they eked cooties. The one exception to this rule was Jolene (aka the Purple Girl) who played trombone (the BEST instrument as you could bing folks in the back of the head without getting caught!) and had purple eyeglasses, purple braces, and a sweet purple dinosaur on her trombone (give me a break, this was pre-Barney!!). Years later when I was a freshman (or was it eighth grade?) in high school, I attended my first school dance with my mother. Yep. I took my mom to a school dance…what I can I say, she had a drivers license and we lived a half hour from the school. This dance marked a turning point in my life as it was the first time I really loosed up and begin to be myself at school. Prior to this dance, I was the outcast of the school (ok, that fact really didn’t change) – attracting unwanted attention by jocks and others in the ‘in’ crowd. This made me retreat into myself (I could go through an entire day without saying 3 words – an act of God to anyone who knows me now) while outside of school I was talkative and friendly. Emily recently discovered a new songwriter/singer that is amazing! So amazing in fact, that I couldn’t help but share the knowledge with you all. J.J. Heller has a great folksy sound and, best of all, some powerful words. Her songs do what songs are suppose to do – they resonate with one’s soul in a way that words by themselves can not. I implore you to check out the music videos below. It was a multicolored package holding an excellent sophomore album by Midtown Dickens’. In fact, it held the album “Lanterns” in four different formats: vinyl, CD, digital download and printed words. (this way you can enjoy the songs anyway you want!) Much happiness! For those who don’t know, Midtown Dickens is a great [...] |
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