Recently on a friend’s facebook wall I engaged in a discussion about the lyrics to a song for worship. I argued that we need to choose so...

Recently Glass Harp released a 2008 concert CD that, initially I was less than excited about. That was before I heard it. You see, I f...

I found myself awake a lot last night so I popped in my earbuds, hit play on my iPod and listened to Zooropa , perhaps the U2 album I have ...

Music is pretty important to me. I have it on most of the time and I listen pretty intently quite often. Every once in a while an album c...

I've been having fun with Garageband lately - here is my latest recording , a cover of Phil Keaggy's "Days Like You." If ...

When I heard that McCartney was releasing a CD/DVD of his NYC run of shows last summer I thought that this was probably one too many live...

This has been a strange year of listening for me – not many new albums have really grabbed my attention. Plus, for a couple of reasons, I ...

I haven't blogged for a very long time and it seems trivial to make this my first post in a while but I've been listening to a fair ...

This whole thing started with Eric Clapton. I was looking on Wikipedia for information about Jimi Hendrix’s album Electric Ladyland . I h...

The new book, which I wrote with Laura, Celebrating the Milestones of Faith: A Guide for Churches , arrived at our house today - here is a p...

I’m just finishing Mark DeVries’ book Sustainable Youth Ministry and I like it a lot. I’ve not written as much about books here lately but...

I’ve watched Eric Clapton in three different videos so far this summer and seen him live once (with Steve Winwood – an absolutely amazing sh...

I watched some of The Concert for George this morning again, the George Harrison tribute concert. Especially with the recent Michael Jacks...

I've been lax about posting here because I was asked to post over at ThinkChristian and I figured that many of the things that I had to...

I've been invited to do some of my posting over at ThinkChristian.ne t and my first one was put up there today. It's about America...

I woke up at 5:00 AM this morning, 50 minutes before my alarm and 30 minutes before I allow myself to get up so I reached for my ipod (which...

Yesterday I learned that the forthcoming companion album to U2's No Line on the Horizon will be called Songs of Ascent , a reference, n...

I’ve been listening to the new U2 album by trying to think about what each song might be about in the overall context that I pointed to in m...

I am a huge U2 fan. I already knew I would like their new album, No Line on the Horizon , before I heard it. Why? Because 12 albums into...

Earlier this year (early January, in fact) I had dug up some old CCM albums and was listening to them again for the first time in a few year...