“The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.”
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
I incorrectly attributed this quote to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Wednesday morning (sorry about that guys) but it led to some interesting conversation.
Continue reading Fight for your rights
The Search shared a great list of the top CCM albums of the 1990’s today. I think I owned every album on the list at one point or another — some of them I still have.
It got me thinking back to my own youth… primarily the 1990’s and the music I listened to. It was primarily a mix of CCM, Rock, Country and a few others thrown in. So without further ado, here are the Top 21 Albums of my Youth… (ranked primarily in order of how much time they spent in my single disk CD player)
Continue reading Top 21 Albums of my Youth
I’m not sure when I actually heard it last, but U2’s Window in the Skies has been playing in my head a lot lately.
Such a beautiful song and video…
Continue reading This week’s earworm :: Window in the skies
After a full weekend, I joined a few friends and family to hear our friend Coy Christensen play a gig at White Rock Coffee last night in Dallas.
Coy did a great job, playing an hour long set, primarily of his own songs, but throwing in a few covers from Jon Foreman, Shaded Red, John Mark McMillan and When In Rome as well.
Continue reading Coy Christensen at White Rock Coffee
I meant to get this vidoe/post up earlier today but alas, time wasn’t on my side.
This is the re-cap video from Thursday night’s Freeze Project in Rockwall ::
We had a decent response — 15 or so showed up to take part.
But in the midst of several hundred people (if not thousand) we were a bit over-shadowed. We plan to do it again towards the end of summer — so hopefully you’ll come out and join us if you’re in the Dallas area.
The key was raise awareness about modern day human trafficking (aka Atlantic Triangular Trade — argggh!) and we did that — so that’s what matters.
Find out more and learn how to hold your own Freeze Project at www.thefreezeproject.com
A couple of weeks back, Brian McLaren talked to a room full of missionally-minded church planters and lay people at the TransFORM East Coast Conference (which was free by the way).
I thought it was a great message and well worth sharing here.