Like sharing your opinion and want to impact Christian Music, then go vote in CCM Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Awards 2006. Voting ends on October 15, which gives you about a month and a half to get it into your schedule. When it’s all over, be sure and continue visiting the CCMmagazine website for the results.Read More →
Dan Haseltine, lead singer of Jars of Clay, is interviewed on Christianity Today. It’s a really great interview and talks about how the band came to record their soon to be released album “Good Monsters” available next week. The specific quote that really hits home is: The gospel never calls us to live our lives privately, but the idea of individualism and isolation has worked itself into our idea of what a good Christian life looks like—that it’s full of quiet times where it’s just us and God. But for me, when I get into that scenario, the only voice I’m really hearing is myRead More →
Got you didn’t I? I’ll be you weren’t expecting that one, just like I wasn’t expecting the topic to be covered in a recent article by Russ Breimeier on Christianity Today. It’s really a great article and brings to the forefront a discussion about contemporary Christian artists that use some coarse slang and profanity in their songs. What do you think? Is it more reflection of anti-Christian behavior or just a sign of the change in the world we live in? If it’s the latter, how do you balance that with being IN the world but not OF the world? Ever heard of a ChristianRead More →
The free music download this week from Hear It First is “Hours and Days” by Turn Off the Stars. Be sure and visit their site to grab the download for Windows or Mac. The file is DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected, so you can’t burn the WMA files to a CD, but it’s still free music for your computer!Read More →
A friend introduced me to the Sweet Comfort Band last week. I’d never heard of them before, they were popular in the late 70’s and 80’s. We listened to them for a couple of days and I kept thinking to myself that the lead singer’s voice sounded very familiar. I finally figured it out, it’s Bryan Duncan. Of course from the photos below you can see it fairly clearly. I had seen the photo before, but didn’t make the connection initially. Also in the group was Randy Thomas, who went on to form a great group, Allies, with Bob Carlisle. Also in the group wereRead More →