I think sometimes it might be important for us to distinguish what type of music is shaping the context that we are writing in. Sometimes I wish I could hand every one a cd to listen to while they read whatever it is that I�ve written. I think music helps make writing make sense. It [...]
There is nothing better than listening to a live cover of Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire by Coldplay. Single handedly elevated the show from great to superb. Thanks Peggi!
So I was listening to this conversation that N.T. Wright was giving at last years Emergent Gathering today. And he kind of touched on an idea and then didn’t really develop it fully, so it got me thinking. It kind of fits in with this whole narrative approach to Scripture that I’ve been discovering over [...]
I kind of always talk about being authentic. Basically being true to who I am when I act and speak and live. I think that has been somewhat of an outward anthem of mine. But I think it has been a lot of talk essentially. I mean it sounds good. Because I can look at [...]
David Crowder
Beautiful Collision
The heart breaking makes a sound
I never knew could be
So beautiful and loud
Fury filled and we
Collide
So courageous until now
Fumbling and scared
So afraid you’ll find me out
Alone here with my doubts
Here it comes a beautiful collision
Is happening
There seems nowhere to begin
There I am
Now You and I
Collide
Something circling inside
And spaciously you fly
Infinite and wide
Like the [...]
You can here the soundtrack to the new Elizabethtown movie here. Its superb.
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I haven’t so much stumbled upon a guy by the name of N.T. Wright’s works lately. But I guess I just forgot about reading and listening to his thoughts over the last year. And I guess I rediscovered him over the last couple of weeks and have been listening and reading. And he has a [...]
Listening: Sufjan Stevens, The Streets, David Crowder, The Decemberists, Rosie Thomas
Reading: Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard & Searching For God Knows What by Don Miller
I’m not sure why or how or even when for that matter, but somewhere about 3 or 4 years ago I began to lose my faith. Not in God. But in people. Church. Christianity as it has come to be called. The answers that Christianity gave me for the questions of life became to crack [...]
I know I sound like a weirdo as much as I talk about the David Crowder Band. But go check out the ecard below. Read about each and every song that is on their upcoming album. In a day in age, in a world, where art, good art is hard to be found, especially [...]