Message: Psalms

I usually don't critique CD's on here, but I just got this cd today in my Relevant Network package. To be honest, I didn't expect much from this cd, but man this is a great disk. I listened to it on my way to school tonight and on my way home. Really good stuff.



Play a sample here.



Here are the track listings and more samples:

Psalm 121:1-3, 5-8 (Spoken Word)
Melony Pietersen Listen

Eyes For You (Psalm 141)
Sarah McIntosh And Phil Wickham Listen

Come Close (Psalm 69)
Building 429 Listen

How Faithful You Are (Psalm 89)
Phillip LaRue Listen

Last Chance (Psalm 88)
Jeremy Casella, Sandra McCracken And Andrew Osenga Listen

Psalm 23:1-4 (Spoken Word)
William Mwizerwa Listen

Flown Free (Psalm 129 & 124)
Over The Rhine Listen

Can't Get Enough (Psalm 63)
Chris Rice, Matt Wertz And Dave Barnes Listen

Run To You (Psalm 131)
John David Webster Listen

Wait (Psalm 40)
Kendall Payne Listen

Psalm 91:9-16 (Spoken Word)
Ben Johnson Listen

Salvation (Psalm 71)
Shawn McDonald Listen

Flag (Psalm 57 & 108)
Rachael Lampa Listen

To You God On High (Psalm 92)
Venus Hum Featuring Ginny Owens Listen

Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19 (Spoken Word)
Melony Pietersen Listen

Who Can Compare With God (Psalm 113)
Natalie LaRue Listen

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What kind of Christian are you?

My friend Adam posted this quiz on his site. I took the quiz and was not surprised to find that I fall on the "left" side of the spectrum. Oh well, guess my grandma was right.

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this. Emergent/Postmodern 82% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 57% Classical Liberal 46% Modern Liberal 39% Reformed Evangelical 39% Neo orthodox 36% Charismatic/Pentecostal 32% Roman Catholic 11% Fundamentalist 4% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

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Well, I am taking a couple days to go "home."
I am going back to my hometown of Anderson, Indiana to visit my father.
I will only be gone a couple of days, so don't fret.
In the meantime, I will leave you with this cool saying that can be found on the inside back cover of the most recent Relevant Magazine.

"Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as ever you can."
-John Wesley

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Another update

Well, I didn't get nto that second post on the postmodern delima. IT is coming though. In the meantime, I wanted to let those2 or 3 fans know that I am again writing. The process slowed to an excruciating crawl over the past 4 or 5 months, but the creative inspiration is back. We will see what happens to Ray, Seth, and Lynn. I hope that I finish this book soon, but I am not putting any hope in that. There are several areas left to develop and the crux of the story is far from attainable as of right now. At this rate, I will have 1500 page manuscript. An editor will most likely shred it down to 200-300 pages....such is life.

Well if you want to refresh your memory of the story you can follow these links:
Chapter 1 Part 1
Chapter 1 Part 2
Chapter 2 Part 1
Chapter 2 Part 2

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Postmodern delima

What follows is a comment I left on my friend, Anthony's, blog. There is a sharp distrust of what has become known as postmodern christianity. The delima lies in the naming of the response. Most people in think that postmoderninsm is a negative thing. Postmodern philosophy is an offshoot of nihilism, which is the child of naturalism. Since both of these worldviews denies absolute truth, people assume that postmodern christianity does the same. Postmodernism (the christian movement) is really a reaction to two things. It is the reaction to a growing postmodern world and a reaction to the modern interpretation of christianity.
As for its first underlying reaction, postmodern (emergent) christianity approaches the world of today and asks, "how can we engage a culture that has disengaged?" The second response is in the approach it takes. Realizing that the tools, methods, and traditions of modernism might not be the best answer for reaching a postmodern culture, postmodern chrisitanity attempts to deconstruct the religiosity of christianity to a culturally relevant faith.
This can be quite confusing to some. Postmodernism, the world view philosophy, is typically areligious, that is, not "anti-religious" but unreligious. There is no absolute truth, no moral measuring stick, no value or purpose to life. Whereas christianity's response to postmodernism insists that there is one absolute truth, God, and he has provided value, purpose, and morality. I plan to expound more on this topic later this week.

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Minor Update

I have been so busy lately. Sometimes I just crave some time to just sit and think.
3rd Place is doing really well. We had 17 total stop in at one point or another over the evening this week.

School is back in full swing for myself and for Michelle.

We just found out that I am going to get $1.70 per hour raise. That is good news.

We also just bought a new (for us anyway) car. A 2003 Saturn Ion. Mine is black.
It is pretty nice and I am excited 'cause it is mine!!

I have been doing a lot of reading lately. I finished the last book in the "New Kind of Christian" series by Brian McLaren. It was really a wonderful book. I enjoyed every bit of it.

I have also finished a book by the statistics King, George Barna. It is called "Revolution"

It gives an interesting look at trends in churches all across the country. A good read if you want to try to change some things before they get out of hand.

Well, I know that this is a boring post, but I wanted to update something for the two of you who read this....

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