New Delirious Goodies

Delirious has redesigned their website, and have done a tremendous job. They’ve added a “Living Room” area containing blogs (with commenting open) from the band members. There’s also a great audio player with lots of full-length tunes in it from all their albums.
They are offering a free download of a song from their [...]

Filed under: Music

What is Worship?

There’s a lot of talk these days about worship. Thanks to the creative gifting of people like Matt Redman, Delirious, Hillsongs, and David Ruis in the 90’s the music and songs used for corporate worship took on a whole new life. Not only was the music better, but it connected with culture in [...]

Filed under: Church Life, Music, Video

The Wiggles Creep Me Out

My 2 year old daughter and her cousins love The Wiggles. Personally, they make me shudder. Maybe it’s all the primary colors or the songs that make no sense. If Stanley Kubrick had put together a boy band, I think the result would’ve been something just like The Wiggles.
Here is a puppet [...]

Filed under: Family Life, Humor, Music, Video

Godward Art Series: Tree63

Yesterday I highlighted a band called “The Listening” that, in my opinion, is a good example of what a Christian counter culture can do. Today I have another. The band is Tree63.
I appreciate The Listening for their complexity in sound and lyric, and I appreciate Tree63 for the opposite. This is straight [...]

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Godward Art Series: The Listening

Following the theme of shallow pop culture and the church’s response to it, I’m going to highlight two bands that I think are doing some great things. Today I’m looking at The Listening. Tomorrow will be Tree63. There are some others that could and should be mentioned (like The Choir), but I’m [...]

Filed under: Church Life, Music