Archive for June, 2009
Podcast 21 – Jon & Kate, Standing at the Door, and more Anger Management
Today starts off with me talking about the television show on TLC called Jon & Kate Plus Eight. I talk about the show from the perspective of having watched it from the beginning and how it has changed over the years.
Next, Rich reads the wonderful poem by Sam Shoemaker called “I Stand by the Door.” It is a reminder of our duty as believers to bring people to the same place we have been brought and not to forget where we once were. All too often Christians can forget what it was like to be a non-believer and lose their empathy for the lost.
Next we transition into a revisitation of the topic of our anger towards others when they do us wrong from the perspective of our having been forgiven.
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No Sliding Backwards!
I was messing around on youtube recently and came across some Christian Punk that I used to listen to my first semester in Bible College. The song is called “Sliding Backwards” by Pat Nobody. The album was called Nobody Special.
Pat Nobody, if I understand correctly, is Pat Taylor, the younger brother of Joey Taylor of Undercover. For those that don’t know Undercover is one of the favorite bands of Ken and I.
I used to be into RC car racing and I had cut vinyl graphics across of hood of one of my cars saying, “No Sliding Backwards!” which had to do with this song.
Anyway men, we want to be moving forward with our faith and not sliding backwards.
You might also want to check out some of the other songs by Pat Nobody, like Burnt, Aint That Hard and Get Off The Air.
Richard
Father’s Day is coming up!
This is from my son, and I thought that I would share it.
He wrote me a note–
“Dear Dad, I believe that God is testing your faith. Try to stay on the path. Don’t go off the trail like Aaron with the Golden Calf. Use the Power of God to turn it into golden beef. Love, your son.”
Gotta love that!
Beauty whispers His name
Some things are just beautiful in and of themselves. Nature, Art, Music, they all have something intrinsically in themselves that is beautiful and is capable of moving our hearts and minds. As a tool, media is neither good nor evil, but is shaped by those who create it. But irrespective of who creates it, and the motives they may have had, sometimes the art is just simply beautiful. I saw this video and thought, “Man, God is so amazing to create sound in such a way that the careful attention to harmonics can evoke an emotional response,”… or something like that. 
It is a reminder to me that everything beautiful, indeed, every good and perfect gift comes from above. God is an amazing craftsman, the details present in His universe whisper His name.
Anyway, I wanted to share this with you. This song has always been one of my favorites. Because of my wife and my choral backgrounds, this presentation was particularly inspiring.
The title on YouTube doesn’t do it justice. It is labeled “Amazing Choir uses hands to simulate storm”. I hope you enjoy it.