Like every good red blooded hipster/musician/artist I love browsing through thrift stores. As often as I can I hit up the local goodwills, salvation armies, and local thrift shops in search of a great jacket, boots, shirts, ties, records, books, etc… It’s a thrill to capture that once in a lifetime thrift store [...]
Writing Archive
The Work of the People
We have been recording a worship album for our church over the past couple of weeks and throughout the sessions we have had 39 musicians and vocalists come through the studio to be a part of the record. It would have been simple to have studio musicians come in and play on the album [...]
What’s Next for Worship?
In the late 1600s Isaac Watts was bothered by the poor poeticism of the songs in his father’s church so he set out to write songs to glorify God. Some of these songs were based on the bar and pub melodies of the time. His songs were met with some resistance, but none [...]
One Day without Shoes
On April 8th you have an opportunity to help change a life a child across the world. Toms Shoes is an organization helping children across the earth with one simple need that we don’t think twice about everyday. Shoes. Most children in developing countries grow up without shoes. They play, and do chores, and go [...]
The Cross of Christ
This week makes me think about a lot of instances in the life of Christ. Starting with what we call Palm Sunday and leading up to Good Friday. I think about Christ’s thoughts and what He must have been going through knowing what lie ahead on Friday. That Friday was far from [...]
Thad Cockrell
Some artists just have something about them that is special and Thad Cockrell is one of those artists. Most songwriters/artists who are Christ followers struggle with the paradox of sacred and secular and how it affects their writing, their thought process, and how they interact with the world who listens to their music. [...]
1000 Hills Coffee
I was recently in Atlanta for a conference and thankfully the conference was providing free coffee. I was ready to grab a cup and let my presumption ring true that the coffee would be the usual front office crap coffee. However, I was blown away. It was literally some of the best [...]
Sustain
I’ve always wanted a Les Paul. The guitar named after the wonderful guitar player who invented the shape of the guitar for the Gibson company decades ago. Les Paul’s are synonymous with rock and roll and in some ways antonymous to it’s rival the Fender Stratocaster. The Les Paul has a sound all it’s own [...]