Zach Nielsen of the blog, Take Your Vitamin Z, has recently released his first jazz EP, Songs In a Minor Key. The album features five songs, three of which are jazz standards. The other two are jazz arrangements of Nirvana’s Come As You Are and The Police’s Message In A Bottle. I’ve been listening to […]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Thoughts for Friday Morning
The week is quickly coming to a close. Here are a few thoughts rolling around in my head. We’re going to camp next week! Our youth group is hosting a fall “kick-off-the-school-year” camp. There will be a trapeze, skateboarding, free-style rapping, a monkey, and many Chuck Norris references. It’s going to be a fun time. […]
This Momentary Exile
In our youth group, we’ve been going through 1 Peter, looking at how Peter addresses an audience of Christians who are experiencing persecution throughout an area that spans modern-day Turkey. As I have been reading and preparing the first few verses, one of the big points that I think Peter makes is that this life […]
Music for Your Monday: Page CXVI
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post hymns are a wonderful part of traditional Christianity that has been lost on many new Christians who did not grow up in the traditional church. Thankfully, there are groups like Page CXVI, who are breathing new life into forgotten hymns by arranging the songs in more current musical […]
Everything is a Project
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been slowly working my way through Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen. Belsky and his team has done a great deal of research with individuals and teams that are both creative and yet also prolific, and has presented it in an easily digested format. So far, the book has been […]