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Concert Report: Third Day, Jars of Clay, etc
On the heels of the fantastic U2/Muse show, we went with Brett Whitfield to see Third Day in Simpsonville at the amphitheater down there….can’t remember who owns it…..anyway….. I like Third Day, I’ll be honest. I mean, I hate most “Christian music” as a general rule because it’s just so damn HOKEY. But Third Day…
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Concert Report: U2/Muse “360 Tour”
I’m generally a “small venue” kind of person – I like tiny places like New Brookland or Ground Zero where you basically stand right up against the stage and reach out to touch whoever’s playing. I like the crush of the crowd (kind of), the particular sickeningly-sweet smell of 300 people crammed into too-small-a-space to…
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“Now is the winter of my discontent.”
Shakespeare, as usual, provides unbeatable phrasings for the deepest thoughts…. Discontentment really is a soul-winter. It robs you of joy; freezes over the warmth of soul and life that ought to throb and remind you of what’s worth living for. I am thankful that Paul said, “I have LEARNED in whatsoever state I am in,…
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…It always costs something
“We may feel anger, as God does. We may feel hurt, as God does. We may feel disgust, as God does. Love not only allows these feelings; it requires them.” ~Leslie Leyland Fields … best statement of this aspect of love I’ve ever seen. Thanks, Camille, for finding this. When you really start to try to love people, you…
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A Life of “Becoming”
“This life is not godliness, but growth in godliness; not health, but healing; not being, but becoming; not rest, but exercise. We are not now what we shall be, but we are on the way; the process is not yet finished, but it has begun; this is not the goal, but it is road; at present all does not gleam and…
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