O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Performed by the Urbana 2000 Worship Team.

I'm back!

I have the internet again! You'd think I'd have a great many posts saved up in Microsoft Word, and would now be posting them. I don't, although there have been things I've wanted to write about. I will mention one of those things, however, no matter how long after the fact this is--

Susan Boyle, what a voice! I just heard her for the first time on YouTube, and I'm amazed! There are many, many videos of her on YouTube, but this is the absolutely best one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OcQ9A-5noM&feature=related

Sorry I can't imbed it. Watch it in high quality.

Steve Hayner, the former president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, while speaking at Urbana 2000 talked to us about Heaven. We can't comprehend it fully in this life, but we get glimpses of it, sometimes through a lovely smell (lilacs come to mind), a moving bit of art, a great musical masterpiece, and sometimes simply by a humble, church-attending woman near London just doing something she enjoys.

A Game Father Jim Tucker used to play...

...at his now defunct blog, Dappled Things.

Random iPod Playlist.

1. (We Like the) Cars that Go Boom - Old School Players
2. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
3. Wannabe - Spice Girls
4. Animaniacs Main Theme Title
5. God Is In Control - Twila Paris
6. One Man Gets Around - Charlie Peacock
7. The Marriage of Figaro Overture - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
8. Star Trek: Voyager Main Theme
9. O For a Thousand Tongues - Urbana '96 Worship Team
10. Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake

The rules, for bloggers who want to play:

Get your iPod or media-player of choice, select your whole music collection, set the thing to shuffle (i.e., randomized playback), then post the first ten songs that come out. No cheating, no matter how stupid it makes you feel!

Also, as a courtesy, you may want to provide links to a place where the songs can be downloaded. The Urbana '96 CD is no longer available from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship :-(

Same song, two videos.

Warning! This song can get stuck in your head for WEEKS!!!!

Those crazy Brits!



Those crazy Trekkies!

Random Ipod Shuffle (Modified)

Modified because the closest I come to an Ipod is Windows Media Player. Don't laugh! I plan to buy an Ipod. Until then...

The rules, for bloggers who want to play:

Get your ipod or media-player of choice, select your whole music collection, set the thing to shuffle (i.e., randomized playback), then post the first ten songs that come out. No cheating, no matter how stupid it makes you feel!

I was hoping to link to places where one could download the songs, but decided to link to the CD on Amazon, instedad.

Got this idea from Father Jim Tucker at his blog Dappled Things.


1) Holy, Holy, Holy – Hymnstyles Praise Ensemble
2) Shepherd Moons – Enya, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya
3) What Did He Die For? – Twila Paris, Where I Stand
4) L'elisir d'amore, opera Act II: Una furtiva lagrima – The World's Greatest Arias
5) Enter In – Twila Paris, He Is Exalted, Live Worship
6) Into the West – Annie Lennox, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Limited Edition
7) The Good Way of the People – Instant Zen, Ambient Amazon
8) A'machair – Iona, The River Flows Anthology, Volume One (Disc One)
9) Milonga De Mis Amores – Tango Lorca, World 2004 (Disc One)
10) Do I Trust You Medley – Twila Paris, A Heart That Knows You