It sorta bugs me that in church, nobody really sings loud enough to hear. I can blast out the bass line, but I need volume to do it. I refuse to be the only person heard singing. The songs are great, and we don't need to worry about what other people think of us. The band is pretty loud, and even if we all sang loud, we would still be hidden by the band. That's alright. Oh well.
In the sermon today, pastor mentioned some first-impression facts. He said that at first, scientists proved that a person had developed exactly what they thought of you in the first 2 minutes. It's bad enough that it takes so little time, but now they say that within seven seconds, your personal image is inscribed on their mind. That really does not bode well for people who just don't make friends easily. If they remain quiet for a minute, they will (for quite a while) be thought of as that quiet weird guy (or gal). Usually it takes me around five minutes to start pulling my wit and quotes out of my sleeve. That really makes me wonder what people think of me.
"Public Confession of Sin" this week was a confession turned to song. It really coincides with a lot of the music I have been listening to recently.
Gracious God our sins are too heavy to carry
Gracious God our sins are too real to hide too deep, too deep to undo
Forgive what our lips tremble to name
What our hearts can no longer bear
Grant us Your grace to grow more and more
Into the likeness of You
Set us free from a past we cannot change
Set us free into a future where we can be changed
We can be changed into Your image,
Jesus, Light of the World
wow.
I know you shouldn't go to church just to get that "Churched Up" feeling. I think that if you do get that, you shouldn't reject it. I've messed up a lot, and I feel refreshed each Sunday. I'm not about to stop that.
I was wondering what it would be like to interruI am going to Judgment House tonight. What do I think of it? It's like scaremare, where they try to scare you into being a Christian (even though they deny it at the beginning) It is a little different in it's approach, and gives you a 3rd person perspective on a group of lives. Gives you a lot of food for thought, too.
There was a cloud eclipsing the sun a moment ago, and it just dissapeared, showing gossamer (cool word) spiderwebs, and good prospects for moto riding.
I saw a bend in the road on the way home from church. From where I was situated, it looked like a blind 90 degree turn. I got there, and it was a nice, slow turn into a beautiful view of a country church. Life is a lot like that for me. Things look like they'll be bad, and you just need to ride it out to see the beautiful view on the other side. Thank you God.
Nerd Rant Alert!
Is CD piracy really that bad?
A few things:
I know it is illegal, I am simply looking at the effects.
This includes p2p, firewire, and download sites. I am not thinking of the effects of passing burned CDs.
I'll take into account several bands.
Each member of Skillet has an iphone, mac, and some have another phone to go along with them. They also have dozens of guitars & such.
Each member of Emery has an iphone, and they have several macbooks (~2000$) They have all normal band accouterments.
Enter the Haggis, a very small celtic progressive punk rock band (totally sweet) all have iphones, a couple macs, and multiple name-brand guitars.
For Skillet, the average ticket price is probably 30$-40$. They play at HUGE venues. If only 5000 people come, the band gets 20,000$. In the next few months, they are playing 50? shows.
That's a lot of money
Emery is near the same.
Enter the Haggis plays mostly in bars and small music halls. The average music price is 10ish dollars. they get 200ish people, depending. They also play at a lot of free events.
I see no reason not to download a Skillet discography, because they have enough money.
Same with Emery.
Enter the Haggis has a very small (and very dedicated) fanbase, but they still run much lower on money than they say they do. I would not download one of their CDs, because I want to do my part in helping them continue making good music.
That is all. For now.
Alert Ended.
In Luke 1:15, where it says, "And he must not drink wine or strong drink..." It is not clarifying that he shouldn't drink wine, the Greek words are actually different. It is basically saying he should not drink wine (a common drink) or, as we would call it, brandy or moonshine. Their "strong drink" word is basically what a still does. They boiled the wine, and caught the condensation, making a stronger drink. Knock your socks off type.
Cool.
I go eat. I hope there's lots of dessert at small group tonight.
J~S
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