Saint Patrick’s day musing: learning from the Faith of the Irish

 Today, 3/17/2012 is Saint Patrick’s day. A day where people celebrate their Irish heritage. This writer does have family who immigrated from Ireland, so the day has some meaning. Yet, the meaning for me does not rest on green beer and alcohol, but rather the roots of the Church in Ireland. There is a lot [...]

Musings on a Night at the Orchestra

This weekend I had the pleasure of spending some time at the Minnesota Orchestra at an inside the classics concert featuring music of Maurice Ravel.  In particular, the concert included orchestration from Chloe and Daphnis and the music poem, La Valse.  The evening was educational and intriguing. The music of Maurice Ravel is unique. He uses [...]

Video Selection: Jesus You are Holy performed by Charolette K.

In response to my last article my sister-in-law Mary Blake referenced a song, Jesus You Are Holy. It is a worship song written and performed by Katie Miner on her Live From Sunset Strip album published November 16, 1999.  My understanding is Charolette K. made some alterations from the original arrangement, yet this is the [...]

Video Selection: He’s Everything to Me

This is a song the Holy Spirit has me recalling and playing in my mind recently.  None of the video’s catches the memory of the way the song was sung at campfires, at youth groups, or any get together of believers.  This song does really capture and reflect on the essence of God’s divine empathy. Here are the [...]

I-Phone Application Review: The Wave Study Bible

Recently I had an acquaintance from an online Christian forum make me aware of a new I-Phone application. The application is a study Bible application that is being called ”The Wave Study Bible.” The name appears to stem from a word picture used by Dr. Noel and Dr. Denise Enete in their book “How to Read the Bible So [...]

The Wonderful Cross- Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman

 

Christian Creativity: Sand Art- The Passion by Joe Castillo

Just learned of some Christians using the medium of sand art.  I once saw a video of sand art before and found it interesting but empty as it wasn’t being used to point to Jesus.  I did not look around at that time to see if anyone was using the medium to point to Jesus.  [...]

Video Selection: ¡Alarma!

When I first started writing this blog there was a post about Lakeland and recent events entitled http://peacebringer7.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/daniel-amos-the-%c2%a1alarmachronicles-prophetic/.   The content of that 4 album series is still appropriate today.  Given the recent post related to “The coin game”, decided to see if I could find a you tube video of the song alarma and was able to do so. It was preformed live at the Cornerstone [...]

Focus on the Family Tim Tebow Superbowl Commercial

During the Superbowl tonight there was a lot of hype and talk about the Tim Tebow ad for Focus on the Family that ran during the Superbowl.  The ad was controversial because it was delivering a pro-life message.  The commercial itself was really showing the relationship of Tim and his mother and encouraging folks to [...]

Video Selections: The Words I Would Side- Sidewalk Prophets

The Words I Would Say Three in the morning, And I’m still awake, So I picked up a pen and a page, And I started writing, Just what I’d say, If we were face to face, I’d tell you just what you mean to me, I’d tell you these simple truths, Be strong in the [...]