Wednesday, January 31, 2007

"Time After Time"

Thanks again to Pandora, I found another great song (and band). Quietdrive's version of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" is quite possibly the best new cover of an 80's song. It's definitely the best I've heard. Check it out at myspace.

PS - this makes me want to rock with Sylvie and SDay at the Berkley again! Let's do it!

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Monday, January 29, 2007

How the Cross Does It All

Tim Keller and others gave some wonderful talks on how the cross converts, changes, and unites us. Keller's last one on the cross uniting us - basically on the church - is a can't-miss.

Check out the page here, and thank God for the wonder, the amazement, and the power of the cross of Jesus.

(HT: JT)

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Monday, January 22, 2007

Pandora Radio

Pandora is a great website service for those of us who like to rock at work. You get to make you own radio stations according to the bands you like. Just pick a band, and Pandora makes a radio station based on that band's music, just for you. Not only do you get to hear your favorite bands, but you get to meet new bands in the same genre. You can then approve or disapprove of the new music and change what the station plays. Check it out for a while, then the registration is free and simple.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Better than Fiction?

My wife and I went to see Stranger than Fiction at the local $1.50 (that means, second run) theater the other night and were happily surprised. Not only was the movie well-made, subtly hilarious, and mentally engaging, it was thematically mighty as well. I suspect that most people went because Will Ferrell stars in it, but I doubt that many left thinking about his comedic performance.

No, what was most striking in the end of a sometimes-confusing movie was the evident desire it left its audience to live well. Surprisingly for the film's ho-hum, nobody-loves-me lead character Harold Crick, the film itself actually pictures him, in its finale, as a Christ figure. Yes, that's right, a Christ figure.

Go see it for yourself. See how Harold Crick knowingly and willingly approaches his own death. See how he has "read the script" for it (note the Biblical implications) and still goes straight to it. See how he thinks and ponders and cries over it but never complains. See how he sacrifices his own life for the life of another - one who is weaker and smaller and more foolish than he. Listen to how his narrator says that his kind of hero - the kind who sacrifices for others, even in death - is the kind you want to live. See how he is "resurrected." And see what kind of implications his sacrificial love has in the end.

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