Checking in from Nashville

Right now I’m sitting in a teeny little pizza joint that seems to be located around the block from “music row”. Andrew Osenga is playing an acoustic set, and the local Nashville brew Yazoo is flowing (I’m imbibing “Dos Perros”, which for those of you who don’t habla Espanol, means “Two Perros”). Osenga started [...]

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Splendor of holiness, revisited

A couple weeks ago I suggested that the commands concerning the elaborateness of the tabernacle and the priestly garments was God’s way of beginning a new creation, complete with striking echoes of the original sumptuousness of Edenic paradise. I also suggested that the priests represented federally the renewal of service to God Adam’s race [...]

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In the Spirit on the Lord’s Day

This morning I preached for the second time this month at Arsenal Hill Presbyterian Church here in Columbia. The church was actually a plant in late mid-nineteenth century out of First Pres, and was for some time called Second Presbyterian. (Sometime later this week, I believe my sermon will be up on their [...]

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A cool and funny peek at Paul Eckberg’s studio

One of our favorite singer-songwriters, Andrew Peterson, is recording a new CD right now. He’s been posting funny updates of his recording experience at his blog. You should visit it for two reasons. One, he’s cool and the people he’s recording with are cool. Two, he’s recording at Paul Eckberg’s studio, [...]

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Ellie’s record-in-the-making

Ellie has begun recording her first CD in Nashville this week with a favorite musician of ours, Andrew Osenga. Thursday she and Andrew recorded basic acoustic guitar and vocal tracks, mostly for the purpose of giving the drummer and bassist something to play along with (“scratch tracks”). They recorded at Sputnik Sound (click [...]

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Hymns for twentysomethings (?) (!)

Here is an interesting interview with Matthew Smith, one of the guys who’s spearheaded Indelible Grace over the years. IG began as the Belmont University RUF band, and they’ve re-written the music to dozens and dozens of hymns. Matthew Smith discusses the reasons he sees behind the surprising response IG has had among [...]

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Get your sleep Saturday night…

…for the Bible tells you so!
I am reading through the Westminster Larger Catechism’s section on the Law of God for my ethics class. In the section where they outline the sins forbidden by the 4th commandment (Sabbath), they proclaim to be sinful “all omissions of the duties required, all careless, negligent and unprofitable performing [...]

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In the splendor of holiness

I was reading through the instructions for the priestly garments and the decorations of the tabernacle, altar, mercy seat, etc. today in Exodus. There were a couple of things that really struck me.
First, how remarkable that the priest would go in to meet with God (in Moses-speak, to “minister before the LORD”) wearing [...]

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