Best Music of 2003
in my uneducated opinion
Damien Rice - O
Jason Mraz - Waiting For My Rocket To Come
Jack Johnson - On and On
Ben Harper - Diamonds On The Inside
David Crowder Band - Illuminate
Nada Surf - Let Go
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Royal Tenebaums Soundtrack (a year too late)
Josh Kelley - For [...]

Another excerpt from the same article.
A second trend which challenges our call to the cross is the temptation to see political power as the Church’s primary means of influence in the world. Such a temptation arises in contexts where Christians are permitted to participate in the governing processes of Nation-States.
The American context is an obvious [...]

Will Thou bring guard to us now in our time of need?
Water against rock O Lord our Keep.
Availing with unbending tear
Echoes of Thee Expansive we doth hear.
Sheltered in the Shadow of the High
Clinging for the drawing of nigh.

O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, [...]

Excerpts from a paper by Dr. Wayne Johnson of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
One such trend is the rise of Triumphalism and the Church Growth movement. It has, for example, become common to hear bold proclamations that God is about to do “something great” through the Church which will “win” or “take” whole societies [...]

Peggis4JC: heyhey
Peggis4JC: but josh does not respond
Peggis4JC: because little does peggi know
Peggis4JC: he is out saving the world…ONE COPY CRISIS AT A TIME!
Peggis4JC: running the mail at lightening speed
Peggis4JC: designing duratrans that will attract the attention of millions
Peggis4JC: folding brochures and battling the evil god of the paper cuts
Peggis4JC: bloody and wounded at the end [...]

What I’m Listening To This Week: Damien Rice, Starsailor, Cake, Nada Surf, The Flaming Lips, Royal Tenebaums Soundtrack, etc, etc, etc.
What I’m Reading This Week: absolutely nothing - finals week

another nugget of cool from sharon of seattle.
“today is your birthday josh brown. i will not call you today and wish you a merry birthday. why? it’s too predictable. how mundane of me to call you:”hey josh! happy birthday, how are you? oh good. what are you going to do today? oh cool…have you gotten [...]

One thing that I’m learning to do which runs countercurrent to isogesis and I believe is a higher form of exegesis is to allow the Sacred Scriptures to read me, reading into me the heart of God and reading out of me my sin and biases. Which places me and my lifestyle as the object [...]