Tuesday, October 25, 2005
In Music
Casting Crowns will be in Birmingham, Al on Saturday October 29, 2005 along with Building 429 and youth evangelist Tony Nolan. On the day of the show, Mark Hall of Casting Crowns, plus youth communicators Tony Nolan and Roger Glidewell will all take part in an intensive 3-hour conference at Gardendale First Baptist Church in conjunction with the evening concert with Casting Crowns.
Shawn McDonald (Gravity, All I need) just released a new Live version of his remarkable debut CD called "Live in Seattle".
Third Day has just release a new album entitled "Wherever You Are". Check out their site for preview songs and commentary from the whole album.
Jackson Browne is a closet Christian. I've always been a huge fan of Jackson Browne's music but I never considered the question as to whether Jackson was a bonafide Believer - until I heard "Don't you want to be there". So now I'm convinced, and if you want further evidence, just check out this excerpt from Bruce Springsteen's humorous and endearing speech for Jackson's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Shawn McDonald (Gravity, All I need) just released a new Live version of his remarkable debut CD called "Live in Seattle".
Third Day has just release a new album entitled "Wherever You Are". Check out their site for preview songs and commentary from the whole album.
Jackson Browne is a closet Christian. I've always been a huge fan of Jackson Browne's music but I never considered the question as to whether Jackson was a bonafide Believer - until I heard "Don't you want to be there". So now I'm convinced, and if you want further evidence, just check out this excerpt from Bruce Springsteen's humorous and endearing speech for Jackson's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Jackson's work was really California pop gospel. Listen to the chord changes of Rock Me On the Water and Before the Deluge, it's gospel through and through. Now I always thought that in our fall from Eden, besides the strains of physicality and the bearing of earthly burdens, our real earthly task was that an unbridgeable gap, or a black hole was opened up in our ability to truly love one another. And so our job here on earth, the way we regain our divinity, our sacredness, and our general good-standing is by reconstructing love and creating love out of the broken pieces that we've been given. That's all we have of human promise. That's the way we prove ourselves in the eyes of God and facilitate our own redemption. Now, to me Jackson Browne's work was always the sound of that reconstruction. So as he writes in The Pretender: We'll put our dark glasses on, and we'll make love until our strength is gone, and when the morning light comes streamin' in, we'll get up and do it again. Amen."
