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Good You’re the lifeblood of earth that is around us You’re the spark in the creation that absorbs us You put this magnificent spirit inside all of us And we come alive You blind the seers with a fire-light consuming You’re the fullness just beyond our understanding You let us lose ourselves inside of your … Continue reading
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My friend and Lead Pastor, Scott Hodge, taught about creativity last weekend at The Orchard, and through the conversations with him leading up to the weekend, as well as the conversations with many in our community since then I had a realization: Even though I’m supposedly an “artist and a “creative” (heck, the word “creative” … Continue reading
Because 2011, for me as a music fan, was a year of great change in how I consume music, it will go down in the books with: 1991: The year I transitioned from cassettes to CDs 2000: The year CD burning became the norm. 2002: The year I got high-speed internet, and thus discoved the illegal bliss of … Continue reading
2011 was quite a year… so much fantastic music (for a more detailed look at that, be sure to see my post called “Crack for Music Addicts: The Joys and Dangers of Music Subscription“). In order to not overwhelm you, I’ve kept my list to my top 15 albums of the year, plus of handful … Continue reading
Sometime in mid-2005, shortly after the release of The Recovery, I recall saying something to my wife that compared being a singer-songwriter in the suburbs to some sort of sadomasochistic extreme-sport wilderness survival challenge. The kind where someone abandons you in near-arctic Northern Canada with nothing but a pair of galoshes and a carving knife. … Continue reading
We are all divided into two camps of people: Those that enjoy Christmas-themed music and those that hate it. For the later camp, there’s probably little I can say to convince you there is actually a world of Christmas music that exists out there beyond the musak they pipe through the speakers at Kmart for … Continue reading
Every leader knows the feeling: Your manager joins a traveling circus and quits your company. The lead actor in your play bites her tongue off in a Chinese restaurant. Your quarterback is at home hugging the toilet. Its called “The Gap“. Every team gets gaps and every leader has to deal with them. At The … Continue reading
It was late October, 2010. Our team was gathered on a late Tuesday morning, just like the Tuesday morning before, and the Tuesday morning before that. Our weekly worship planning meetings took place immediately following an hour-plus long full staff meeting, and usually around 11:30 a.m. the caffeine and empty carbs from breakfast would vanish … Continue reading
