You Vs. God

Snowball Fight

So Will put this together and then sent it out to the whole staff ... I was almost worried about worship and youth pitted against children, spiritual formation, and senior leadership ... almost ... but it's too funny to pass up. Cheers.

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Celebrities Conquer Africa!

And Other Ill Effects

As global warmi ... sorry, "climate change" began to take its toll, it seemed that nothing was left sacred ...

End Child Politics! (and other Onion videos)

Human Rights Group Campaigns To End Use Of Child Politicians In Africa

New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time

Obama Axes Pentagon Plan To Build Billion Dollar Tank In Shape Of Dragon

The Outcome of Bad Evangelism

Eco-Friendly?

Taco Bell's New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature

The Day That True Love Died

Jon did this piece at Crosswinds this past weekend, and I'd never heard it before. But it hit me hard, and I went home and bought it off of iTunes. I highly recommend you have a listen, it's quite a good piece. Lyrics are below.

Come close listen to the story
About a love more faithful than the morning
The Father gave His only Son just to save us

The earth was shaking in the dark
All creation felt the Fathers Broken Heart
Tears were filling Heaven's Eyes
The day that True Love died, the day that True Love died
When blood and water hit the ground
Walls we couldn't move came crashing down
We were free and made alive
The day that True Love died, The day that True Love died

Search your heart you know you can't deny it
Come on, lose your life just so you can find it
The Father gave His only Son just to save us

The Earth was shaking in the dark
All creation felt The Fathers broken heart
Tears were filling Heaven's Eyes
The day that True Love died, the day that True Love died
Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com
When blood and water hit the ground
Walls we couldn't move came crashing down
We were free and made alive
The day that True Love died, The day that True Love died

Now, Jesus is alive

Jesus is alive
Jesus is alive
Jesus is alive
Jesus is alive
Oh, He is alive
He rose again

When blood and water hit the ground
Walls we couldn't move came crashing down
We were free and made alive
The day that True Love died, The day that True Love died

Come close listen to the story

Please, Talk to Your Kids

I Feel His Pain

Special Boy With Freakishly Large Brain Wins Spelling Bee

Update

Just a quick update, for those of you waiting with baited breath (weirdest phrase ever, by the way) for the next post in my series on music and mission. I've been in the process of re-vamping my entire laptop because HP programs were slowing it down ... a lot. You might say I gave it a personality transplant; I obtained Vista Ultimate from a friend and have since been installing it and formatting hard drives and installing drivers and all that. But in the process, I may have lost the text file I'd saved for all of the work on this series. So it may be a few days before I'm back up and running again, but at least the lappy is working faster.

So Cool

The Onion: Special Reports

I love the Onion. Every so often, though, they totally outdo themselves. Like their magazine cover section - these are some of my absolute favorites:

The Dog Who Saved the Stimulus Package
Natural Childbirth: The Smart Choice
School Edition: Is This Your Year to Fail?
Uncomfortable Furniture You Can't Afford
Should We Bring Our Astronauts Back from Space?
Could an Asteroid Solve the Problem?
Our Fragile Ecosystem

Construction Tools

If you look closely, you can see Jim Carey and Jeff Goldblum.

Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat

Milestone

I just happened to notice that my blog had 499 posts ... before this one. It's been five years of randomness, and this is post number 500! Not only that, but my little tracker-gizmo says I've had over 20,000 hits to the site since year number two (when I discovered the tracker-gizmo). That is a lot of people with very little time on their hands, but thank you to each of you for taking the time to read at least a little of my rambling.

So where do I find myself? Still job-hunting, of course, but feeling like an end may be in sight. I don't know what that end might look like, though.

I gave up, temporarily, the recording I was working on for "Prophesy" to try working on something a bit easier for my first time; it turns out that recording vocals is extremely difficult, and I picked the hardest song I'd written to try first. Figures, right? So I started a few "test-projects" to experiment, giving the vocals to a more ... experienced singer (my wife) so I can focus on the intricacies of recording without wondering why I sound like ... that.

Anyway, thank you to all of you who've read this long; I promise, I'm trying to think of some new topics to write on. Perhaps suggestions are in order from you, the readers? Just leave them in the comments section.

[The Management]

Jon Stewart and Brian Williams

Just about the funniest interview I've ever seen. Seriously.

Auto Bailouts, Onion Style

I love The Onion. This was in their news today, and once again I find that I admire the style they bring to telling it like it is. Enjoy.

Post-Apocalyptic Preparation

Sorry for the silence of late; I've been visiting family.

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

Unrealistic Expectations

Bratz Dolls May Give Young Girls Unrealistic Expectations Of Head Size

Finding Jesus

I just had to put this up. Thanks, lolcats!