December 2010
1 post
A modern take on the Lord's Prayer
Our Father, designer, creator, builder and supporter who is in perfect, relational community, in your nature and your character you are completely unlike us.
May you live here among us.
May your desires happen here in the same way they do in your presence.
May you provide for us in exactly the way we need.
Forgive us for hurting you; and allow us to forgive those who have hurt us as well.
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August 2010
1 post
Official Yellow Car/Slug Bug Rules
Many years ago I “invented” the game of Yellow Car/Slug Bug. I use the term invented loosely however, because I essentially took what many people call “punch buggy” or what my Mid-West (meaning South Dakota not Ohio) friends call Slug Bug and threw yellow cars into the mix.
To be fair, we also made the game point based and not about hitting people. Furthermore, my only...
July 2010
1 post
Radio play Christianity or How to not unload on...
I probably couldn’t count the number of times that I have had a conversation that goes something this:
Person: I don’t like <insert name of band or artist here>.
Me: Oh really, why not?
Person: Ugh… that song of their’s get way too overplayed on the radio.
While I usually don’t try and discuss the merits of the particular band with the person that that...
June 2010
3 posts
The Bride of Christ or "You're Beautiful"
Over the past few months my church, Kings Valley Wesleyan, has been singing “You’re Beautiful” by Phil Wickham.
One of the verses says, “We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring, Your bride will come together and we’ll sing… You’re beautiful.”
The idea that we are the bride of Christ is something I’ve been reflecting a lot on...
"A GPS God" or "God-Positioning-Unit"
Yesterday Amanda and I got into a big fight. To be more precise, it was one of those really little fights, that ended up escalating into something a lot bigger than it should have been.
We went to Quispamsis to pick up a plinko board for the Bethany Admissions department. I had been there before, in fact both of us had. However, when I called the pastor to let him know we were on our way,...
"The Joy of the Lord" or "2010: The Year of the...
In March I kept saying that I was having a bad month. Of course, even as I was saying it I felt like the “month” had started around mid-February. My computer had pretty much decided to crash and was hanging on by a barely visible string, my external hard drive was acting roughly the same (which meant virtually no music for me). Furthermore, it seemed like just about everything in...
May 2010
6 posts
The Worship of the Work
I read this quote in Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest today:
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us our one great aim is to pour out a wholehearted devotion to Him in that particular work.
The truth is… I’m guilty of that. I’ve been...
Freedom of Speech or "incendiary"?
I realize Cinco de Mayo was a week ago, but I feel like I need to comment on this anyway.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06/california-students-sent-home-wearing-flags-cinco-mayo/
Here is a link to the article from Fox News. You can google “Cinco de Mayo Morgan Hill” and find this story all over the place.
The basic story is this: Last Wednesday, on Cinco de Mayo, the...
New Music Tuesday's: MGMT
If I keep this up, I might need to change this to New Music Wednesday. Of course, along a similar vein, I need to start writing some posts that are unrelated to music. I realize that writing begets writing and that if I want to be better at this gig that I just need to write more. So although this has nothing to do with music or todays blog, I guess I’m saying that I will try to blog more...
The Problem with Pudding
This is a blog post from my old myspace blog. I was told I needed to repost it, so here it is:
So I’ve recently come to the realization that the number one problem with pudding cups is their size. You eat one, but it’s so small and unsatisfying that it begs you to eat a second. And even after that you’re not entirely satisfied, so you eat number three. However, after eating...
New Music Tuesday's: She & Him
So twice now I have typed out a blog reviewing She & Him only to have Chrome crash on me. To be fair, it’s not Chrome’s fault. My computer is four years old and in computer terms is roughly the age Noah was after he left the ark. You know… right around the time he decided to plant a vineyard and get blitz drunk. That’s about the equivalent of my computer;...
April 2010
2 posts
New Music Tuesday's: Matt & Kim
I love music. However, recently I have done a horrible job of discovering new music to listen to. It seems like my playlists have revolved around the same few bands: Death Cab for Cutie, The Album Leaf, David Crowder Band and Andrew Peterson. (My wife can attest to this!)
While all of these are great bands, I also love new music. More importantly I love being able to talk about new bands that...
Back in Action
My friend Rob and I decided that we needed to start blogging. For him it’s an actual “start blogging” for me it’s a “start blogging again.”
I started a blog almost a year ago as a way of keeping people up to date with my internship. I’m not sure how many people actually read it. I know Steve did. However, I’m starting this blog in an attempt to do a couple of...