Tim Hughes and his Worship Central crew have made available a free acoustic worship album for download.
Tim is best-known for penning popular worship anthems such as Here I Am to Worship (Light of the World), Beautiful One and Happy Day.
The Worship Central site has loads of free chord sheets, video tutorials (for guitar, drums, etc.) and worship-related articles. Merry Christmas, friends!
I find it increasingly difficult to keep up with all the music being released these days. And, perhaps due to my increasingly crotchety old man disposition, I find myself favoring old-timey indie rock (although, I still enjoy plenty of current music, as you’ll see below).
So, without any further caveats, here is some of the music (and music-related) stuff I liked from this past year:
Santa’s not the only bearded gift-giver this Christmas! Get your fill of free hirsute holiday music (oh, there will be banjos)…
From the folks at Sounds Familyre records, get yourself a free Christmas album (or two, even). Not your standard muzaky holiday shopping soundtracks…
At The Record Machine, get all woodsy with a free copy of The More The Merrier Christmas.
And, this one’s neither Christmas-y nor beard-y, but you can download alternate versions of songs from A Thousand Shark’s Teeth by My Brightest Diamond via Asthmatic Kitty.
I often hear complaints about the state of praise & worship music these days (including Jesus is my boyfriend–type lyricism, blatant commercialism, bland musicianship, etc.). While much of this criticism is warranted, the question before us is How do we move forward? I continue to believe that connecting and worshiping God through music is important for individuals, families and churches — so, how do move from a posture of frowning critique into constructive adaptation?
This summer, somehow, I ended up seeing more films than I have in the past five or six years combined. Since most of these films were from the summer-blockbuster variety (Star Trek, Wolverine, GI Joe, etc.) I ended up seeing many of the same trailers over and over. I feel like I’ve already seen some of those films, even though they haven’t been released.
However, it might have been before District 9 (which was super-intense, by the way; I’m stressed just remembering it!), I saw this lovely trailer for Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are:
headsparks* 