November 2011
18 posts
Worship Music
I struggle with a lot of worship music. While the best stuff out there has brilliant content, musically most of it sounds like U2 or Coldplay. This is fine. I mostly like U2 and Coldplay, but they’re not what I would normally listen to at home. Mainly this style issue is because I’m shallow. Still, I do find style gets in the way of content at times.
With all that said, here is some worship music I really do rate (both content and style wise):
“It is likely that the debate about transformationalism will, along with historical Adam and the legitimacy of homosexuality, be the big discussion of the next decade.”
—From Carl Trueman’s post The Next Big Thing
“There was nothing dramatic about that day’s waves. They weren’t barrelling breakers… Nor did they have any of the regularity of the waves you see in your mind’s eye… In fact, there wasn’t the slightest order to the water’s motion. Like rush-hour commuters at a busy station, the little crests passed this way and that, crossing each other’s paths chaotically.”
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from The Wavewatcher’s Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. Winner of the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.
(via The Idler)
200 labels withdraw their music from Spotify: are its fortunes unravelling? (Wired UK) →
wired.co.uk
The answer is probably no but an interesting read none the less.
Some (frankly too early!) Christmas Music
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
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Maurice Sendak (via thatluciegirl)
Amazing story.
(via shandel)
I haven’t found a solid source for this quote yet, but it’s a lovely story. —Sarah
(via npr)
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“The culture says you have to be free from any obligation to really be free. The modern view of freedom is freedom from. It’s negative: freedom from any obligation, freedom from anybody telling me how I have to live my life. The biblical view is a richer view of freedom. It’s the freedom of—the freedom of joy, the freedom of realizing what I was designed to be.”
—Tim Keller on ‘The Meaning of Marriage’
