Posted on October 27, 2009 at sometime around 6:50 pm
What if instead of baseball cards, we started trading around worship leader cards?
That would be funny, eh? (Note: I’m trying to begin to get readers from Canada, so I added “eh”. No hits from there yet…).
Would you trade two Matt Redman’s for one David Crowder? What if you got the whole band, not just the dude with the funny beard?
Would Darlene Zschech be worth more money than Israel Houghton? She goes all the way back to “Shout to the Lord”. That’s some serious credibility there.
What if Christians did something this crazy? What would you do? How would you respond?
This would be almost as tragic as Jesus tracts. Or bullhorns.
Posted on August 14, 2009 at sometime around 12:12 am
As most of my followers know, I recently went on a cruise through the Western Caribbean. It was the most incredible trip of my life! My grandma decided to take 21 of us in my extended family and I cannot even come close to finding the words to thank her. Also, my parents payed for a good bit of the expenses and so they deserve a huge thank you as well. We went to Haiti, Grand Cayman Island, Jamaica, and Mexico. I had not been to any of these places other than Mexico a couple of times on mission trips where we built houses for the homeless. A much different trip and needed getaway.
What you are probably most interested in is the karaoke that took place. It was hilarious! I’ve been getting notes from all kinds of people on facebook about it. Before the trip, I did not know my cousins all that well as I only saw them once a year for a couple days at Christmas. We always got along great, but just didn’t know each other since we had not spent time together. However, after living in a tiny, messy space together for the week, we found out that we all love weird, indie music, goofing off, and similar takes on God. We never planned on doing karaoke, but some of my aunts and uncles encouraged us to do it, so we tried it out. Everyone before us simply stood there without moving and just stared at the screen. We thought that was pretty boring so we wanted to step it up a little bit. I’ll let the videos speak for themselves…
N*SYNC “BYE BYE BYE” (My personal favorite that we were asked to re-perform below)
CHRISTINA AGUILERA “ALL I WANT IS YOU”
We performed a total of 6 songs, which I think is a bit much to post, but hopefully you got a great laugh out of that! I know my family definitely did and it was fun to liven up the party a lot more.
Below here is the “Flowrider”. This shot 600 gallons of water per minute at you while you either surfed or body boarded. This is on the boat! In the middle of the ocean! In the pictures below, you can begin to see that the boat looks more like a floating Hilton Hotel than a boat.
Posted on June 19, 2009 at sometime around 10:06 am
Regina Spektor, a folk pianist with traces of hip hop, classical, and jazz all rolled into one, has the voice of a goddess. She is releasing her new album entitled, “Far” on June 23rd (yes…4 days!) which can be streamed now at Regina’s Myspace. I am definitely digging the album after my first few listens through and will be purchasing it on Tuesday. Also, below is her new single called “Laughing With” which has some very nice speculations into who God is and who God is not. I could pull out a ton of truth out of this song, but I will leave the song speak for itself rather than share my thoughts. Feel free to share yours though!
Lyrics:
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God when the doctor calls
After some routine tests
No one’s laughing at God
when it’s gotten real late
And their kid’s not back from that party yet
No one laughs at God when their airplane
Starts to uncontrollably shake
No one’s laughing at God
When they see the one they love hand in hand
with someone else and they hope that they’re mistaken
No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say “We’ve got some bad new, sir,”
No one’s laughing at God
When there’s a famine, fire or flood
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or
When the crazies say he hates us
and they get so red in the head
You think that they’re about to choke
God can be funny
When told he’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha, ha ha
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
when they’ve lost all they got
And they don’t know what for
No one laughs at God on the day they realize
that the last sight they’ll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one’s laughing at God
When they’re saying their goodbyes
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or
When the crazies say he hates us and they get so red in the head
you think that they’re about to choke
God can be funny
When told he’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
(repeat)
No one’s laughing at God in a hospital
No one’s laughing at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor
No one’s laughing at God
No one’s laughing at God
No one’s laughing at God
