I’m not sure what made me think of this song, but here’s a 45-year-old cut from Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn (pronounced “Coe-burn”) – an acoustic guitar instrumental (‘Water Into Wine’) proving that sometimes, good music doesn’t require words.
I almost never listen to the radio. At home I don’t have a good enough antenna on the stereo to bring in much, and in the car I almost always have the iPod Classic, or an audio book, or a podcast playing. So I don’t even know what the current FM stations are, or where […]
I suspect it’s true for most people that when it comes to the arts (music, books, etc.), if we’ve met an artist, author, etc., we tend to be much more interested in, vested in, and appreciative of that person and their gifts/words. Likewise, the more closely we follow that artist/author, the more we tend to […]
You shall not go out with haste…for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. (Isaiah 52:12) Security from Yesterday. “…God requires an account of what is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the […]
This year I’m going deeper for Christmas. Or, more accurately, I spent Christmas money on resources to go deeper into studying scripture. I’ve had the NIV Study Bible for several years, and it really is a great resource. Its footnotes, along with its cross-references between verses, are extremely useful in tying scripture together into a […]
Five years ago or so, not long after they first hit the market, I picked up a Chromebook – the Acer c720. I did it mostly out of curiosity, as the new (at the time) Chromebook concept centered around the lightweight Chrome operating system from Google, packaged in a small and lightweight machine. In some […]
“Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord. “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you”. (Zechariah 2:10-11) […]