worship for blokey blokes

interview with Matt Redman about the modern church being over-mothered and under-fathered.

HT to Timmy Brister
See also, God is not your girlfriend

sunday night

we went to the Long Center front lawn last evening for the concert in the park series from the Austin Symphony. It was big band night and it was great. Took a picnic. brought the camera and listened to the big band sounds followed by shaved ice snow cones. hmmmmmm. [...]

worshipping worship

Challies has posted an extended quote from D.A. Carson on the idea that as we progress into the era where feelings are paramount we are developing an odd tendency to fetishize “worship” itself. Here is a piece of Dr. Carson’s quote, but go to the link to read it all to find out why [...]

Aaron Ivey

Aaron Ivey is one of the worship leaders at the Austin Stone. He released a solo album this week, Between the Beauty and the Chaos. You can download it on Amazon or iTunes
I highly recommend the whole thing. Aaron seems to fully embrace his inner Coldplay to very good effect.
here is [...]

singing my song

Joe Thorn is singing my song. I love to sing and I firmly believe there is a song for every occasion. Singing is a wonderful way to express thoughts, fears, feelings, hopes, concerns, dreams. Sometimes when no song lyrics come to mind, I will make them up. My kids feel like [...]

Worship CD from Austin City Life

Austin City Life will release its first worship CD on June 28. Here is their myspace page where you can preview the tracks.
here are some of the distinctives of ACL’s approach to music:
City focused
Gospel-centered
Martin Luther on the Spirit
High Colossian Christology
Ancient hymns to progressive tunes
Reflective worship that builds and crescendos
Integration of Gospel, Community, and Mission [...]

free music

Resurgence is starting a music wing called Re:Sound. To kick things off, they are giving away a free EP of eight songs.
I just downloaded them and have listened to the first two. Interesting.

mute math

Vitamin Z has posted Mute Math’s new video “Spotlight.” Z also has a quote about how it was made. Pretty cool.

and of course, my favorite Mute Math is “Typical.”

tunes

I am obsessing this week over the Justin Cofield Band.
specifically, King of Glory and Whiter Than Snow are in heavy repeat mode on my iPhone. Psalm 51 already haunted me without setting it to Justin’s voice and Kyle’s guitar.
their home page and blog here
Here is Kyle giving a sneak peek with some pretty terrible [...]

Steve Fee

Glory to God Forever is a new song from Fee. He has posted the chords for download on his site. here is the video of the acoustic version

here is more Fee music.
hat tip to catablog