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Well thanks for all the comments sarcastic and helpful about my back and it’s pain.  We just got back from vacation to Suz’s parents place in Indiana (where we left Jaden for two days while we spent two days in Chicago.

First of all.  Chiropractors are amazing.  I went to my in-law’s guy and he told me it was my ribs, not my vert.  So he popped my ribs back into place, sounds painful, but it actually felt really great.

Secondly Chicago.  Go eat at El Nuevo Mexicano.  Amazing resturant. Located the the Lincoln Park District.

Thirdly.  I’ll respond to your emails now.

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I’ve thrown out my back.  I think it was from softball somehow, but it was accented at lunch yesterday while trying to swallow an ice cube at the Peanut Barrel.  Now I can’t sneaze, burb, breathe deep, hiccup, yell, do flips etc… without feeling quite a lot of pain.  Anyone know of any good chiropractors?

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Two songs for you. “Stones” is about sin, morality, judgement etc… Check them out

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Like Ben Stiller’s charactor, “Mr. Furious”,  in the movie Mystery Men, I think many of us would consider our only super power to be the ability to get “really, really angry.”

There are so many good reasons to be angry.  Their really are, especially with the state the world is in right now.  This helps us feel justified in our anger.  There is a “just” anger against oppression, against evil, against sin.  Jesus got really freakin’ angry, more than once.  It’s hard to read the bible and not notice the wrath of God on many things “unholy.”  It seems like we have every  reason to live pissed off at the world, at injustice, at people etc…

At the same time, we are told that our anger can be pretty dumb.  I am sitting here in my “office” (the 4-5 year old room at church), and I notice the memory verse for the week:  “Anyone who is patient has great understanding. But anyone who gets angry quickly shows how foolish he is.” Proverbs 14:29.

So often we act in anger, instead of wisdom.  Yes, that person has done you wrong and probably needs to be corrected at some point.  It’s the HOW that matters though.  Are you on some personal vendetta?  Is your “correction” motivated by personal hurt instead of graceful justice? Where did their action come from?

Many times people need to get some breaks.  People make mistakes, people are living out past hurts, and I’m not saying that doesn’t need corrected, it does.  It’s all in the how.
This is something I’m still trying to figure out and learn.  This is tough because my anger usually isn’t wrong.  It just  turns into something wrong when I let it.

So now it’s time to memorize the kid’s memory verse for the week.

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By the way, our first brew is about done.  Brett and I cracked open a couple cold ones last night and it was amazing stuff.  Suzanne and Melissa loved it also.  Good stuff.  I think we are going to start brewing again this week sometime.

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Here is a link where you can download my teaching. I also wanted to include the timeline that Travis Swan at Rockworship.com put together (I added only a few things).

History of Worship Music

313 AD – The Edict of Milan makes Christianity the formalized national religion.

373 AD – Ephriam from Syria writes songs, takes secular melodies and puts orthodox lyrics to them
-there are still 400 hymns that he wrote that exist today
-He wrote many of these hymns to combat heresy in the church.

600’s – Gregory the 1st (Pope Gregory) compiles priests’ chants – Gregorian chants established, still used in Catholic mass today

900’s – Mass is in place as the accepted form of taking communion and worship

9th century - Someone in Ireland writes Be Thou My Vision as a protest song to Viking oppression

1520’s - Martin Luther stands up to Rome (who had reduced worship to paying dues) and writes songs of personal experience in Christ

Later in the 1500’s - John Calvin says Luther’s hymns are too much about personal experience, begins to chant Psalms with no instrumentation

1680 – Bach is sick of congregational singing, so he composes instrumental and chorale music to be experienced in church

1707 – John Wesley brings personal hymns back in, writes a ton of hymns and adds instrumentation (Methodists).

Wesley brings hymns to America, colonists don’t like the English melodies, so they set the hymns to simple American tunes – each note only one note away from the other.

1890 - Dwight Moody’s soloist Ira Sankey creates a new song form – simple chorus, soloist that sings the verse – Gospel music begins

Same time - Fanny Crosby writes 9500 songs – Gospel song becomes song form of the day for the protestant church in America
Crosby was blind, but was never bitter about her disability. At the age of nine she wrote these verses about her condition:

Oh what a happy soul I am,
Although I cannot see;
I am resolved that in this world
Contented I will be.

How many blessings I enjoy,
That other people don’t;
To weep and sigh because I’m blind,
I cannot, and I won’t.”

She later remarked:

It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.

She also once said, “when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior!”

Early 1960’s – Catholics after Vatican 2 use acoustic guitars in mass – “Folk Mass.”

1969 – Hippies - Jesus Movement in Southern California hits. Guitar enters the protestant church.

1980’s - Integrity music decided Jesus movement songs talked “about” God – and coined “Praise and Worship,” songs that talk “to” God.

1995-The move into Christian pop culture, and growing popularity of megachurches, was marked by the popularity of Hillsong, which in 2005 broke Australian records by selling more CDs on the week of the release of the CD than all other CDs in the pop market combined together.

1990’s- Passion Network introduces “pop rock” worship leaders such as Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman and David Crowder.

2000’s- Riverview Church begins Folk Worship and Post-Hardcore. Approval and complaints from church members abound.

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Well, I just got done with teaching at Riverview this weekend.  The band sounded great, Jeremy, Mark, Sean and Chaz all were amazing.  They are pushing the limits in a great way with their style of music.  I feel the teaching went ok, I feel decently good about it. I’ll post a link to an mp3 as soon as Kristie gets it up there.  I also got some discouraging email from people which is good.  But overall, I’m glad to have the weekend over. I love teaching, but it’s not a natural environment for me so it’s good to be done with it.

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Well it’s been a crazy week. Suzanne’s parents were in town through the weekend, they watched Jaden while we were gone. My friend Dan and Andi came and visited for a couple days, which was very cool to see them. They are headed to New Mexico!

I’m teaching tonight at Riverview and The Difficulty is playing, so it’s going to be a different kind of service. Come to church!

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