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December 2014

December 24, 2014

Christmas: To Know it For the First Time

One of my favorite Christmas movies is It's a Wonderful Life. Technically, you could say...

December 23, 2014

Christmas Top Fives: "Angels We Have Heard On High"

Christmas Top Fives is a series where I take one beloved carol and run down...

December 22, 2014

The Grinch Critiques… Revisionist "Joy to the World"

The last carol revision that came under the Grinch's eye involved changing ye olde-fashioned grammar to...

December 19, 2014

More Essential Tracks of Christmas: "Emmanuel/Little Town/Christmas Hymn," by Amy Grant

So last year I did this thing called "The Twelve Essential Tracks of Christmas," and...

December 18, 2014

Christmas Favorites: A Very Veggie Christmas

I started this series to showcase some of my favorite Christmas albums, but it fell...

December 16, 2014

My Favorite Movie of 2014: Interstellar

"Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at...

December 15, 2014

Monday Morning Humor: Meet Christmas Chaos

"This is Christmas chaos, reminding you that you COULD take a day off and relax....

December 12, 2014

The Grinch Critiques… Revisionist "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

This Christmas I... uh, I mean the Grinch thought he would get a few complaints off...

December 11, 2014

Finals Week: A Playlist

I got all my finals out of the way in one fell swoop this week...

December 08, 2014

Monday Morning Humor: What About the Tree?

"What are we gonna do about the tree?"

December 02, 2014

Keith Getty on Christmas Carols

Music pastors, take note! These are the real “crossover” songs of Christian music—appearing in movies,...

December 01, 2014

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Most people sing this carol during Christmastime, but technically it's an Advent carol. For this reason, I...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

"As God is my witness…"

...I thought turkeys could fly. Happy Thanksgiving!

November 25, 2014

On Bill Cosby and What We'd Hoped Him To Be

In a taped concert by gospel trio The Booth Brothers, Michael Booth said something about...

November 24, 2014

Monday Morning Humor: That's the Worst

Really. The worst.

November 19, 2014

Quick Thoughts On Some New Movies

A number of films are just now being released or are going to be released...

November 17, 2014

Southern Gospel Lookalikes

[This post has turned out to be quite popular! Wordpress tells me it has about...

November 13, 2014

The Definitive Hymns: "Just As I Am"

It's every Baptist's favorite hymn today! Raise your hand if you've hummed along to this...

November 11, 2014

To the Men Who Took the Cliffs

To the boys of Pointe du Hoc, a toast. To the men who took the...

November 09, 2014

The Berlin Wall: 25 Years

I would be remiss if I did not write something acknowledging the 25th anniversary of...

November 07, 2014

Video of the Week: Signature Sound's Smallest Member

Signature Sound bass Paul Harkey recently brought his baby boy on-stage for a special performance...

November 05, 2014

On Music, Grace and Something Higher

The older I get, the more tangibly aware I become of God's presence through beauty....

November 03, 2014

CD Review: Stronger, by Taranda Greene

After signing a batch of family acts, it was natural for fast-growing StowTown Records to...

November 01, 2014

Video of the Week: The Little Akins

Regrettably, I can't embed this video, as it's on Facebook, but I was tickled pink...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Movie Review: The Judge

A good movie is hard to find. Bad writing, bad acting and even worse morals...

October 28, 2014

Hudson Taylor on Weeping For the Lost

Some time ago I ran across a re-telling of this story from Hudson Taylor on...

October 24, 2014

CD Review: Out On a Limb, by Wes Hampton

Out On a Limb is a wide-release re-packaging of Gaither Vocal Band tenor Wes Hampton's...

October 22, 2014

Marriage in the Movies: Mrs. Doubtfire

"Once the father of your children is out of the picture, the only solution is total...

October 17, 2014

If Your Life Has Purpose, You Are Busy

The other day, one of my professors greeted us all in his charming German accent...

October 14, 2014

The Definitive Hymns: Be Thou My Vision

While I was pondering which hymn to feature next, the decision was made for me when...