My roommate, Aaron, aka He Who Never, plays piano for Jamison Murphy and makes a brief cameo in his new music video for the song "Chapters." Enjoy!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Newsboys Your Love Never Fails Lyrics
New Newsboys CD God's Not Dead coming November 15! They're previewing singles on their Facebook page if you preorder. Here's lyrics for the first single, titled Your Love Never Fails.
Your Love Never Fails
by Newsboys
Nothing can separate
Even if I run away
Your love never fails
I know I'll still make mistakes
You have new mercy for me every day
Cause Your love never fails
Oh no, no, no
You stay the same through the ages
Your love never changes
There may be pain in the night
But joy comes in the morning
When the storm and the water's deep
I'm not alone here in these open seas
Cause Your love never fails
The chasm is far too wide
I never thought I'd reach the other side
Your love ever fails
Oh no, oh no
Yeah, You stay the same through the ages
Your love never changes
There may be pain in the night
But joy comes in the morning
And when the oceans rage
I don't have to be afraid
Because I know that You love me
Your love never fails
You make all things
Work together for my good
(God, You never fail me)
You make all things
Work together for my good
(no You never fail me)
You stay the same through the ages
Your love never changes
There may be pain in the night
But joy comes in the morning
And when the oceans rage
I don't have to be afraid
Because I know that You love me
Your love never fails
Cause Your love never fails
Lyrics reproduced here for educational purposes only, based on the recording available at http://www.facebook.com/newsboys.official Lyrics are property and copywrite of their owners.
Newsboys The King Is Coming Lyrics
New Newsboys CD God's Not Dead coming November 15! They're previewing singles on their Facebook page if you preorder. Here's lyrics for the single previewing today, titled The King is Coming.
The King Is Coming
by Newsboys
Make a way for
Make a way for
Make a way for the King
The King is coming
Empty hearts are filling up
Wicked ways are coming undone
Every eye is looking out for You
City lights are burning out
Freedom's song is ringing loud
Dead men waking up to the sound of You
And all our hearts can sing
All our hearts can sing is…
Make a way for
Make a way for
Make a way for the King
The King is coming
Make a way for
Make a way for
Make a way for the King
The King is coming
The King is coming
Split the sky with Your glory
Bring to life an awakening
Burn away everything that's not for You
Hear our voices crying out
We won't stop til the heavens come down
We won't stop til every knee bows to You
And all our hearts can sing is...
Make a way for
Make a way for
Make a way for the King
The King is coming
Make a way for
Make a way for
Make a way for the King
The King is coming
Open up the doors
Open up the doors
Open up the doors
Our King is coming
Open up the doors
Open up the doors
Lift your eyes to see
Our King is coming
Make a way for
Make a way for
Make a way for the King
Our King is coming
Make a way for
Make a way for
Make a way for the King
Our King is coming
Our King is coming
Our King is coming
Lyrics reproduced here for educational purposes only, based on the recording available at http://www.facebook.com/newsboys.official Lyrics are property and copywrite of their owners.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Peter Furler - "I'm Alive" Lyrics
New single available on iTunes off of former Newsboys' lead singer Peter Furler's upcoming solo release, On Fire. I don't see the lyrics online yet, so here they are. Enjoy! Comment with any corrections...
I'm Alive
from On Fire
by Peter Furler
When I was locked inside my head
When I was lost in a maze of doubt
You called my name and woke me up
You called my name and let me out
And when I chased one more mirage
'til I was tired and parched again
You gave me one more cup to fill
And sent me one more desert rain
I'm alive
I'm on fire
And my spirit burns with desire
You set me alive
But I am with nowhere to hold it inside
I wanted to thank you
thank you, thank you
I was sure of all I knew
I knew the world was mine to claim
I had directions printed out
And then I hit a world of shame
Out there alone and left to die
Caught out from You, my sole supply
You shed your tears for me and then
You took my hand and raised me high
I'm alive
I'm on fire
And my spirit burns with desire
You set me alive
But I am with nowhere to hold it inside
I wanted to thank you
thank you, thank you
Lyrics produced here for educational purposes only, Lyrics are property and copyright of their owners.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Newsboys Save Your Life Lyrics
Brand new free download single from Newsboys called "Save Your Life." The lyrics I found online weren't quite right, so hopefully these are closer. Here's the lyrics...enjoy! Please comment with any corrections...
Save Your Life
by Newsboys
Dear friend, you been trying again
Doing whatever it takes to fit in
Falling, for the lies of the world
You tell me you’d pay anything just to not hurt
What you want, I ain’t got
What I have, can’t be bought
There’s something better I can give
If you surrender you will live
Just gotta taste and, see it’s good
I’d make you see it if I could
It's gonna save your life
It's gonna save your life
Dear friend, I’d be lying to you
If I told you this road that we travel would be smooth
Sometimes, you just wanna give up
Trying and trying, but nothing is ever enough
Chasing things, but what for, (what for?) you’ve seen it all but want more
There’s something better I can give
If you surrender you will live
Just gotta taste and, see it’s good
I’d make you see it if I could
Gonna save your life
Gonna save your life
I can see now you want this
And you know that you need this
Get away from the darkness
Get away from the darkness
I can see now you want this
And you know that you need this
Get away from the darkness
Gotta know who Christ is
There’s something better I can give
If you surrender you will live
Just gotta taste and, see it’s good
I’d make you see it if I could
It’s gonna save your life
(It doesn’t matter with this life)
It’s gonna save your life
(There's nothing better in this life, oh)
It’s gonna save your life
(There's nothing better in this life)
It’s gonna save your life
(It doesn’t matter with this life)
It’s gonna, it’s gonna save your life
Lyrics produced here for educational purposes only, based on the freely available recording at newsboys.com/saveyourlife, and modified and corrected from http://www.wowlyrics.com/wowlyrics.php?aid=22474&wow=2334158. Lyrics are property and copywrite of their owners.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Europe Day 13: Merry Old England
We left our hotel in Torino on schedule early in the morning, and got our luggage down the tiny elevator (6 loads? 7?)
Then we encountered the Torino airport. 8:00 or so on a Sunday morning...shouldn't be that busy of a time...and it wouldn't have been, if they had had any sort of organization. I don't know if it the crowds and delays there are typical or not, but I can't imagine how it must have been during the Olympic games. As it was, the security line stretched around the first entry room of the airpot past the luggage check lines and to the street door. Once we finally got through security, there was a passport line that merged into a line for our flight gate. Once they announced the free-for-all that is Ryanair unassigned seat boarding (half an hour late), we went out the gate expecting an airplane, and found...a bus. Stood in the very crowded bus for a good 20 minutes, then finally were driven to the airplane.
Once we were on the airplane, the flight actually was decent, and arrival in England was smooth. They did actually check passports (after Torino had check passports literally 5 times), and we all made it via our chartered bus to the hotel. In London, we stayed at the Royal National hotel in Russell Square, which, while hardly a 5 star hotel, was an immense improvement over Torino. I like this hotel...It also turned out that Luther uses the Royal National for all their J-Term classes in London, so there was another class staying on the 5th floor besides ours on the 1st floor. Took the tube to Leicester Square for dinner (Burger King), then nearly all of the class went to a service at Westminster Abbey commemorating the one year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, mostly because it's free to get into the Abbey during services.
I, however, really wanted to visit Holy Trinity Brompton, the church that created the Alpha Course, which is a basic introduction to the Christian faith class that Ascension, my church in Fond du Lac, has used. I think I've spent something like 72 hours of my life watching videos of Nicky Gumbel (the Vicar at HTB and founder of Alpha) speak, so I was eager to visit the church in person. I had a Google map to where the church was, so I allowed an hour and a half to get there, and figured I'd be in plenty of time for the 6:30 cafe before the service at 7. However, once I finally started to figure out London street signs, I wandered around and around a block looking for a church, and not finding one. At 6:40, I finally found a little door in a row of offices with a tiny sign saying Holy Trinity Brompton and Alpha International. Quite confused, I attempted to go in, but found the door was locked, and no one answered the buzzer. Eventually, a man came out, and I asked him if there was a service. He was quite nice, and gave me directions down the street and around the corner to the actual church of Holy Trinity Brompton, and I made it there about 6:57, just in time.
The service was great. Very similar feel to Focus (my contemporary service at school), but with about 300 people, and in a cathedral. I was greeted at the door and immediately handed an Alpha brochure. I really enjoyed the contemporary music and feel of the service in a historical cathedral. There was an 11 piece band, including drums, guitar, cello, upright electric bass, violin, and vocals. After a couple of songs and sharing of the peace, during the offering collection, they played a video with "HTB News," the announcements for the week, then Nicky came and interviewed 3 people who had gone on the Alpha course and invited anyone who had not come on the course yet to come check it out. The Alpha talk took about 20 minutes, followed by a 25 minute or so sermon, and then closing songs, with an invitation for prayer ministry after. Also an invitation for refreshments afterwards in a pub down the road, which was a bit different...I was a little surprised that there was no scripture reading in the service beyond the one verse that the pastor directly talked about, and slightly disappointed that there was no communion, but the service took about about 1:45 as it was. Excellent service...I'm really glad I went. I'm now all excited for Alpha...even though I won't be at home for the course...
Went to hotel, went to bed. Yay for a country where they speak English!
Then we encountered the Torino airport. 8:00 or so on a Sunday morning...shouldn't be that busy of a time...and it wouldn't have been, if they had had any sort of organization. I don't know if it the crowds and delays there are typical or not, but I can't imagine how it must have been during the Olympic games. As it was, the security line stretched around the first entry room of the airpot past the luggage check lines and to the street door. Once we finally got through security, there was a passport line that merged into a line for our flight gate. Once they announced the free-for-all that is Ryanair unassigned seat boarding (half an hour late), we went out the gate expecting an airplane, and found...a bus. Stood in the very crowded bus for a good 20 minutes, then finally were driven to the airplane.
Once we were on the airplane, the flight actually was decent, and arrival in England was smooth. They did actually check passports (after Torino had check passports literally 5 times), and we all made it via our chartered bus to the hotel. In London, we stayed at the Royal National hotel in Russell Square, which, while hardly a 5 star hotel, was an immense improvement over Torino. I like this hotel...It also turned out that Luther uses the Royal National for all their J-Term classes in London, so there was another class staying on the 5th floor besides ours on the 1st floor. Took the tube to Leicester Square for dinner (Burger King), then nearly all of the class went to a service at Westminster Abbey commemorating the one year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, mostly because it's free to get into the Abbey during services.
I, however, really wanted to visit Holy Trinity Brompton, the church that created the Alpha Course, which is a basic introduction to the Christian faith class that Ascension, my church in Fond du Lac, has used. I think I've spent something like 72 hours of my life watching videos of Nicky Gumbel (the Vicar at HTB and founder of Alpha) speak, so I was eager to visit the church in person. I had a Google map to where the church was, so I allowed an hour and a half to get there, and figured I'd be in plenty of time for the 6:30 cafe before the service at 7. However, once I finally started to figure out London street signs, I wandered around and around a block looking for a church, and not finding one. At 6:40, I finally found a little door in a row of offices with a tiny sign saying Holy Trinity Brompton and Alpha International. Quite confused, I attempted to go in, but found the door was locked, and no one answered the buzzer. Eventually, a man came out, and I asked him if there was a service. He was quite nice, and gave me directions down the street and around the corner to the actual church of Holy Trinity Brompton, and I made it there about 6:57, just in time.
The service was great. Very similar feel to Focus (my contemporary service at school), but with about 300 people, and in a cathedral. I was greeted at the door and immediately handed an Alpha brochure. I really enjoyed the contemporary music and feel of the service in a historical cathedral. There was an 11 piece band, including drums, guitar, cello, upright electric bass, violin, and vocals. After a couple of songs and sharing of the peace, during the offering collection, they played a video with "HTB News," the announcements for the week, then Nicky came and interviewed 3 people who had gone on the Alpha course and invited anyone who had not come on the course yet to come check it out. The Alpha talk took about 20 minutes, followed by a 25 minute or so sermon, and then closing songs, with an invitation for prayer ministry after. Also an invitation for refreshments afterwards in a pub down the road, which was a bit different...I was a little surprised that there was no scripture reading in the service beyond the one verse that the pastor directly talked about, and slightly disappointed that there was no communion, but the service took about about 1:45 as it was. Excellent service...I'm really glad I went. I'm now all excited for Alpha...even though I won't be at home for the course...
Went to hotel, went to bed. Yay for a country where they speak English!
Europe Day 12: Egyptians and Catholics and Zombies, Oh My!
Self portrait:
Somewhat surprisingly, Torino has the second largest Egyptian museum in the world (behind Cairo), so we spent Saturday morning as a group touring that.
We had a guided tour...saw all the usual things associated with Egyptian history...mummies, statues, pottery, really really old bread, etc.
Above: Really really old bread.
Nice museum, not related to the Olympics, but worth going to, I suppose.
Following the Egyptian museum, we split into groups to explore more of the city. The group I was with saw the Roman ruins in Torino:
Then, we went literally across the street to see the shroud of Turin. Perhaps I shouldn't admit this here, but I had not quite connected that since the shroud of Turin is in Turin, and since Turin is the same place as Torino, therefore the shroud of Turin is in Torino...anyway, gorgeous cathedral, of course, and impressive shrine to the shroud. My understanding is that the shroud of Turin is supposed to be the burial cloth of Jesus. I believe I've read substantial evidence that the cloth itself is not old enough to actually be authentic, but I don't really know much about it, and the Catholics at the cathedral certainly seemed to believe it.
The shroud itself is obviously very valuable and delicate, so what we actually saw was the shroud of the shroud of Turin, but it was impressive nonetheless. Unfortunately, no pictures allowed directly...
Above: a glimpse of the shroud of the shroud of Turin (Torino)
fate
In the spirit of trying new foods, I ordered veal at the small restaurant we went to for lunch...it was good, but apparently when you order veal, you get...veal. Two little pieces of veal. And nothing else. Tasted good, but not much food...
After lunch, we went to the National Cinema Museum. The cinema museum is located in a huge building that was constructed in the 1860s as a Jewish Synagogue, but after extensive cost overruns, the Jewish community backed out of paying for it, so the structure was never used as a religious facility. It was apparently the tallest masonry structure in the world, until part of the top collapsed, at which time it was rebuilt not out of masonry.
The museum itself was really cool. It started out with displays on the history of cinema, including optical illusions, magic lanterns, shadow puppets, stereoscopic photography, etc.
After the history of cinema technology displays, we moved into the main dome, where the museum sort of wrapped around the walls of the dome. The featured displays were on vampires, zombies, ghosts, and mummies in film, so there were posters and history from hundreds of films about the undead.There were also very elaborate displays on parts of the process of filmmaking, notable films, etc. Amazing museum...I think our group's only complaint was that with clips playing from movies around every corner, a lot of the playing films weren't labeled...but the rest of the museum was awesome!
Props
In the center of the dome was an elevator to the observation deck atop the tower. This elevator was unique to me in that it was only suspended on cables. Never seen anything quite like it.
We went up and had fantastic views of the city of Torino from the tower.
For our class group dinner, we went to a cafeteria down the street from the hotel, where I ordered a pizza with some toppings listed in Italian. Turned out to be good, but...different:
Yes, that's French fries and pepperoni. And...that about covers our last day in Italy!
Somewhat surprisingly, Torino has the second largest Egyptian museum in the world (behind Cairo), so we spent Saturday morning as a group touring that.
We had a guided tour...saw all the usual things associated with Egyptian history...mummies, statues, pottery, really really old bread, etc.
Above: Really really old bread.
Nice museum, not related to the Olympics, but worth going to, I suppose.
Following the Egyptian museum, we split into groups to explore more of the city. The group I was with saw the Roman ruins in Torino:
Then, we went literally across the street to see the shroud of Turin. Perhaps I shouldn't admit this here, but I had not quite connected that since the shroud of Turin is in Turin, and since Turin is the same place as Torino, therefore the shroud of Turin is in Torino...anyway, gorgeous cathedral, of course, and impressive shrine to the shroud. My understanding is that the shroud of Turin is supposed to be the burial cloth of Jesus. I believe I've read substantial evidence that the cloth itself is not old enough to actually be authentic, but I don't really know much about it, and the Catholics at the cathedral certainly seemed to believe it.
The shroud itself is obviously very valuable and delicate, so what we actually saw was the shroud of the shroud of Turin, but it was impressive nonetheless. Unfortunately, no pictures allowed directly...
Above: a glimpse of the shroud of the shroud of Turin (Torino)
fate
In the spirit of trying new foods, I ordered veal at the small restaurant we went to for lunch...it was good, but apparently when you order veal, you get...veal. Two little pieces of veal. And nothing else. Tasted good, but not much food...
After lunch, we went to the National Cinema Museum. The cinema museum is located in a huge building that was constructed in the 1860s as a Jewish Synagogue, but after extensive cost overruns, the Jewish community backed out of paying for it, so the structure was never used as a religious facility. It was apparently the tallest masonry structure in the world, until part of the top collapsed, at which time it was rebuilt not out of masonry.
The museum itself was really cool. It started out with displays on the history of cinema, including optical illusions, magic lanterns, shadow puppets, stereoscopic photography, etc.
After the history of cinema technology displays, we moved into the main dome, where the museum sort of wrapped around the walls of the dome. The featured displays were on vampires, zombies, ghosts, and mummies in film, so there were posters and history from hundreds of films about the undead.There were also very elaborate displays on parts of the process of filmmaking, notable films, etc. Amazing museum...I think our group's only complaint was that with clips playing from movies around every corner, a lot of the playing films weren't labeled...but the rest of the museum was awesome!
Props
In the center of the dome was an elevator to the observation deck atop the tower. This elevator was unique to me in that it was only suspended on cables. Never seen anything quite like it.
We went up and had fantastic views of the city of Torino from the tower.
For our class group dinner, we went to a cafeteria down the street from the hotel, where I ordered a pizza with some toppings listed in Italian. Turned out to be good, but...different:
Yes, that's French fries and pepperoni. And...that about covers our last day in Italy!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
