5 Landmark Worship Albums

There is a program on BBC’s Radio 4 called ‘Desert Island Discs’, in which guests can nominate which ten music albums they would like to be stranded with. They then play a track from each album with a comment from the guest about why they chose that recording.

I always wanted to be a guest on that show, but instead, I’ll settle for blogging about ‘my 5’ landmark worship albums (not in any order). It may not represent your top 5… you may offer those as comments, but let’s get started!

  1. Delirious “Glo” - (1999) – What artist could possibly get away with combining passionate God-focused lyrics with a musical blending of Gregorian chant and razor-blade searing electric guitar parts?? While there are many great songs on the CD, one in particular stands out: God, You’re My God’.

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Have Yourself Committed

I was listening to a fantastic lecture yesterday. The speaker was talking about 2 Samuel 9 where David shows kindness to Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth even though every person in his kingdom would have been advising him to do the opposite. Kings in that day stayed in power by usually eliminating the entire family of their predecessors.

As Saul’s grandson, Mephibosheth would have had a rightful claim to Israel’s throne and thus the reason why he was hiding out in Lo-Debar, hopeful that David would never know about him. David did find out about him, though, but not because he wanted to kill Mephibosheth. Rather, he wanted to be true to his commitment to his friend Jonathan – that he would care for his family.

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So, what are you watching these days?

So I went to one of these huge electronic stores the other day looking to buy a memory stick. Like a kid in a candy store I was fascinated by the electronic gadgets on display. My eye caught a huge sign in the store which read, “Home Entertainment Section”. That section had every TV imaginable. Big ones, small ones, flat screens, you name it… it was all there! It wasn’t long before I began fantasizing about how I would someday buy a particular television that matched a certain home theatre system. Salesmen soon noticed my hankering and chose to periodically interrupt my fantasies seeking to make a quick sale.

Looking at the entertainment systems on display, I was reminded of a sermon I heard where the preacher likened a television to a sewer disposal pipeline. “That’s rather harsh”, I thought, but the preacher went on to ask the congregation to imagine themselves going to city hall and asking the city council to hook a sewer disposal pipe into their living/family rooms. What is more is that you would have to pay the city for the “service”. According to that preacher, TV does more harm than good to a person/family/community because it promotes values that are contrary to God’s Word.

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Punjabi Bibles

I just want to thank those who gave funds for Punjabi Bibles on the Sept. 5/6 weekend. 

We were able to give Pastor Sahota over $3200 towards the purchase of Bibles.  They have to order them in batches of 1000 to get the cheapest price so the money given will help towards this. 

I am constantly amazed at the generosity of Northview people.  Thank you for being open to using your finances to further the Kingdom of God.

For those of you interested in some special Indian snacks…

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Holy God!

I have been reading a really fantastic book over the last few weeks called, The Courage To Be Protestant by David Wells. It is a summary of four other outstanding books he wrote during the 1990s and early 2000s about the evangelical church and how it has interacted (and often absorbed uncritically) the hopes and dreams of Western culture. I wanted to pass along a quote from him that I think summarizes why we struggle with many of the problems that we have in our churches today.  Here it is…

Our situation today is not that different from what pertained in much of Israel’s history. The Old Testament people of God were religious, but often their religion made little difference. This, apparently, is exactly what we have in the born-again sector in America today. The ancient Israelites’ religion was not an impediment to idol worship or to a whole assortment of pagan practices. They had the written law and the temple worship. They had the prophets. They had all they needed to please God, but so often they would not listen. They would not reckon with his holy will. They became careless, living as if he were not there, living as if their ways were nothing more than a lifestyle choice, always hearing but never understanding, seeing but remaining blind – hearts hard, ears deaf, eyes blind. And the problem? The problem was that again and again, with monotonous repetition, they lost sight of the holiness of God. And they paid the painful consequences for this, again and again.

 

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