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Red Mountain Church has just released a new collection of hymns, called All Things New.  While I haven’t heard the album in its entirety, the couple of tracks I have heard are outstanding.  Red Mountain continues to breathe new life to powerful, yet obscure hymn texts.  The production of their music continues to get better with each release, while maintaining a simple, understated vibe of folk

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“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.”           - Galatians 4.4-5, esv God’s redeeming acts in Salvation History give us an opportunity to marvel at what he has done on our behalf and give us surety of what is yet to come.  It is the dual nature of

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Finding great worship music for kids is not easy. Whether you are a parent looking for something to play in the car or someone who works in children's ministry, The Village Church, near Dallas, TX, has produced an excellent album of songs for kids. With topics focusing primarily on the doctrine of God, creation and sin, The Village has given the church a valuable set of songs that are well

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We recently had a Middle School Student Retreat themed, ONE. Based on Ephesians 4.2-7, students egaged the realities of one God, one Life and one Mission. My friend, Marshall Head, of Studio Say So fame, was kind enough to join us for the weekend and put together this great little video. Enjoy.

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Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridgeem moulton Christmas 2006The Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge stretched outacross the Ohio this morning looking heavywith the weight of rain soaked into the pours ofits concrete piers and dripping downfrom its minted steel forms as morning commutersinched across with lights on and wipers on andAM radios on leaving a trail of exhaustto join the tang of

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Advent is quickly becoming my favorite season of the liturgical church year. The reminder of the Incarnation of Christ and the eventual triumphal return of the risen, ascended and glorified Lord of all presents the opportunity to rejoice at God’s great mercy and yet still hope through faith, anticipating his certain return. Advent reminds us that the Kingdom has come and yet is coming still in

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Apocalypsee.m. moulton august 2004we talked about what you believed tonightafter the rain and the last glass of wineand what you would be willing to pay a price fordespite what you saw and did that ultimatelydefy the gravity that pulls you downwas it made of flesh and blood and would itrefuse all the kingdoms of this worldfor love alone and the chance to start againfrom the beginning and the

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Here is a final thought on Bill Maher’s Religulous. In the Filter magazine interview he was asked whether agnosticism was the most “honorable” outlook one could take regarding the afterlife, etc. Maher responds by commenting that for Christians, salvation is really a selfish pursuit. He says, “…whenever they start to answer these questions in religion about what happens when you die, it gets

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Last week I picked up the latest edition of Filter magazine, a music, film and cultural review periodical (that targets a young audience and leans aggressively left on the traditional culture spectrum), and found a short article about and interview of Bill Maher and his latest effort, a documentary film called Religulous. The basis of the film is to expose the inherent danger that lies at the

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I am reading J.I. Packer’s A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan vision of the Christian Life and my heart is stirred just in its opening chapters regarding the holistic vision that the Puritan reformers held. The Puritan ideal is not satisfied with anything less than total transformation – of heart, mind, body, church, community & culture. The glories of the doctrine of the sovereignty of God will

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Edward Mote’s famous hymn, “The Solid Rock” is certainly legendary in Christ’s church. Mote was a British Cabinet-maker who penned the hymn while working one day. He later read what he had written at the bedside of an ill friend. Some two years later the hymn was published and the rest is church history. You can read more on Mote and the story behind many of the most famous of the church’s hymns

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Listening to the world demands listening to musicians. The power of music is unmistakable and sometimes lyric and melody combine for an extraordinary effect. I love music for the way it inspires and challenges, the way it relates and befuddles me. Though there a few more albums I’m looking forward to hearing this year (ie, U2, The Windupdeads and Damien Jurado’s newest effort that just released

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One of my dear friends growing up in Conyers, GA, was Ryan E. Crais. I think we just about covered all of the county running together from 1990-1994. We ran early, we ran late, we ran short and we ran long. Ryan was a freshman student at Georgia Tech when I was a senior in high school. As a part of my training regimen for wrestling, I would run at night. I had a number of different routes from my

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This summer I was introduced more fully to the writings of the 17th century French mathematician, philosopher and theologian, Blaise Pascal. Of course, most everyone is familiar with Pascal’s Wager, which, as my professor, Richard V. Horner, says, may not even represent his best work in theology and philosophy. Dying relatively young (age 39), Pascal made considerable contributions to the world

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The Irish band U2 is putting the final touches on a new studio album set to be released in late October of this year. I have deeply admired and appreciated the craft of U2 for a long time. In a world of excess, arrogance and gratuitous, “throw-away” lyrics and music from today’s pop world, U2 stands apart. They have managed, for nearly thirty years, to champion life and to keep the arrow

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On our relationship with place and its impact on culture:Few cultural commentators put the dagger in my heart repeatedly like Wendell Berry seems to be able to do. There are some voices that, having read them, haunt you with their ceaseless echoes swirling in the chamber of your mind and heart. Wendell Berry is like Nathan speaking to David, waking him from his own delusion and fantasy. In many

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The Phos Hilaron (O Gracious Light) was one of the first recorded hymns of the Christian church, but certainly wasn’t the last. Jesus Christ and his redeeming love dominates the landscape of song in human history. In the Old Testament Israel worshiped and foreshadowed the Incarnation of Christ and the church, in response, writes hymnody and verse in reflection of his saving work on our behalf.

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In the late Summer months of 1992, I had the privilege of working a few days for Clay Chapman. He was building a barn near Zebulon, GA and asked if i would like to help him for a few days before Fall semester at college started back. I am sure I was mostly dead-weight on the work-crew and maligned more than a few nails and defenseless 2x6's, but it was a great couple of days working with a genius

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Put on, then, as God’s chosen ones,holy and beloved, Compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has Forgiven you, so you also must forgive.~ Colossians 3.12-13 This is the ethic of the Spirit of God, that builds the culture of the Kingdom. Putting off the works of the flesh (

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Listening to Damien Jurado is a journey into the heart of all that's right and wrong in the world, mostly what is wrong. Jurado’s literary style and narratives follow lost loves, perplexed figures, musings on various facets of life’s mundane nature and gross brutalities. He is to songwriting what Flannery O’Connor is to the short story and what the Coen brothers are to film. They all deal in

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“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” ~ C.S. Lewis, from The Weight of Glory So darkened is our expectation of life in the world, so clouded is our

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Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridgeem moulton ~ Christmas 2006The Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge stretched outacross the Ohio this morning looking heavywith the weight of rain soaked into the pours ofits concrete piers and dripping downfrom its minted steel forms as morning commutersinched across with lights on and wipers on andAM radios on leaving a trail of exhaustto join the tang of rain and riverof road-top

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Phos HilaronO gracious Light,Pure brightness of the everliving Father in heaven,O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed!Now as we come to the setting of the sun,And our eyes behold the vesper light,We sing your praises O God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.You are worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices,O Son of God, O Giver of life,And to be glorified through all the worlds.Amen. BCP p.118The

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I am listening to a new album from a young Seattle band called Fleet Foxes. The commitment to the voice as an instrument is evident throughout the disc. There are moments in the album where the vocal harmonies really step forward and become overwhelmingly powerful. So far forward on some tracks is the voice that you wonder if other instruments will appear at all. The vocal harmony and folk

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Stone Would Be Waterby Samuel Menashe Stone would be waterBut it cannot undoIts own hardnessRocks might runWild as torrentsPlunged upon the skyBy cliffs none climbWho makes fountainsSpring from flintWho dares tellOne thirstingThere’s a wellOne of the many appeals to poetry, for me, is in the economy of words. Saying a lot in just a few lines is certainly an art form of highest rank. Here poet

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