Holiness Reeducation

With the beginning of Advent I will finally allow for Christmas music to play in the house. I definitely have my favorites that I tend to go back to year after year. I have several albums of Christmas and Advent hymns that have been redone by popular Christian artists. I love these and they go […]

I am very excited that the new Mumford and Sons album dropped today. I woke up to find out that it had downloaded on my computer. The new album called Babel continues where the last album Sigh No More left off. There are plenty of throaty vocals overlain across kicking acoustic guitars, plucking banjos and […]

Sometimes you can be so cutting edge that you don’t even realize you are setting new trends. Yesterday at Duneland Community Church we hosted a wonderful Hog Roast to celebrate the fall. It was a great chance to simply be together as a family and enjoy some fellowship and good times. It was not, however, […]

Rapper Snoop Dogg, who has carved out a huge career since his entrance onto the hip-hop scene in the early 90s, has been reborn. According to the artist he has been reborn now, and renamed by a Rastafarian priest as Snoop Lion. Snoop, whose transformation is being documented in a film called Reincarnation that is […]

I am always on the look out for music that speaks to preaching and this week it is the Avett Brothers on my mind. (It just so happens that Gretchen and I are seeing them in concert on Thursday). This song, And it Spread, has been swimming around in the sermon section of my brain […]

I have been exploring some new music this summer and trying to find new bands to love. I want to share some of my suggestions and get some recommendations. Here are the albums/artists that have been in heaviest rotation for me this summer. Bon Iver – new album entitled Bon Iver This is a nice […]

Today is the 17th anniversary of the day Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the grunge band Nirvana took his own life. I remember that day when Kurt’s death was announced. I remember being saddened, being worried about my friend at school who loved Nirvana so much and being completely unsurprised by Kurt’s suicide. Thinking back […]

It has been a long time since we have really talked about music. A long while back I promised to have a post on the greatest rock album of all time. This is obviously another huge debate. I have thought about it long and hard and I think that there are 5 major criteria for […]

Alright, after a lot of great input, here are the finalists for the greatest rock songs ever.  I did not stick totally to the previously alloted slots, and instead I am just grabbing the 12 best songs we listed and voted for. Here they are, in no particular order: Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepplin […]

How do you judge the best rock song in history? First, you have to decide what constitutes a rock song. There are many genres of rock stretching over the past 40 years. Certain genres are true forms of rock, while others are lesser, unimportant genres. There are certain genres of rock that must be excluded […]