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Charlie Peacock on the Future of CCM

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michael lee
on 1 May 2008
in audio, church, emerging church and faith and theology
. 1 Comment

Charlie Peacock wrote a piece for the final print issue of CCM Magazine, on the future of Christian Music. Well worth a read:

In the future, young musicians will think that all Christian music is dated and boring, and they will create something they think is current, relative and exciting. They will say things like: “We just wanna show people that you can be a Christian and have fun, too.” Or, “We’re not gonna hit people over the head with the Bible. We’re not Christian musicians; we’re musicians who are Christians.” Or, “We are totally sold out to Jesus. We don’t write vague, sugar-coated lyrics.”

It will be nothing but retread hubris though. I will roll my eyes and grumble that history is hell-bent on repeating itself.

Read the whole thing here.

(ht: The Black Nail)

Phreaky Phwednesday: 1 Samuel 25:22

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michael lee
on 30 April 2008
in church and phreaky phriday
. 33 Comments

Of all the arguments I’ve ever heard for using the King James Bible, this is by far the best. BY FAR.

Pastor Steven L Anderson, pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. My favorite quote is, “The editors of the NIV pee sitting down.”

(ht: Monday Morning Insights)

Servant of Grace

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michael lee
on 4 April 2008
in audio and church
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I wrote a song about 3 years ago that we’re pulling back out and dusting off for the next 3 weeks at church. Doug’s starting a series about actually doing things, serving the community in which we’ve been placed, you know, that whole Kingdom thing.

This song seemed to fit. You can download the chart and the demo, and use it freely if you’d like. Or, mock it intensely in the comments, either way.

Downloads: Demo / Chart

No More Tithing

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michael lee
on 23 March 2008
in The Intra-Web-O-Sphere!, art and culture and church
. 24 Comments

So, a few years ago, Matt shot a quick and cheesy little video about what church would look like if we simply did away with tithing. I subbed out some of the music, and we distributed it through Sermon Spice - you can see the original here: No More Tithing.


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You need to watch it all the way through, just trust me on this one. Watch the little gags along the way. Got it? Good.

I did a Google search tonight for the phrase no more tithing, just to see what would pop up. And lo, the google gods blessed me with this:

I called Matt, and made him watch the whole thing while on the phone with me. We laughed so hard I threw up.

My Redeemer Lives

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michael lee
on 20 March 2008
in art and culture and church
. 42 Comments

We’re doing the song “My Redeemer Lives” for Easter service on Sunday, and I couldn’t find a decent chart for it anywhere. The original Hillsongs charts are a mess, and the other versions I found floating around weren’t much better.

So, if you’re running into the same problem, here’s a chart you can use:

My Redeemer Lives

I know this breaks like 5,000 different copyright laws, so don’t tell anyone, OK? We’ll be fine unless they somehow manage to get the internet in Australia.