Reformed Rap August 26, 2007
Posted by Jeremy in Music, Thoughts and Theology.add a comment
Not sure how many of you have heard of Curtis “Voice” Allen. If you haven’t I encourage you to check him out. I have been spending the past several days listening to him and needless to say I am impressed by his music. There are few artist that I can say that about when I first heard them.
So, I thought I would make available some resources that I have seen on the web and let you read through and listen to them. Thought this would be more effective then anything I could say.
1) His feature in WORLD magazine, February edition.
2) An article from Curtis Allen about his struggle with personal humility. You should definitely read it.
3) His podcast called napcast. It’s basically him following the road to the New Attitude conference with Josh Harris and Eric Simmons.
4) Justin Taylor’s interview with Curtis on his blog, Between Two Worlds.
5) He has two CD’s out, “Progression” and “Crucible”. As he describes inside the CD, this album is “a bit different” from his previous CD, “Progression.” “The music is not the same style, nor is the delivery. Progression was more live instrumentation and acoustic guitar, where The Crucible is more traditional Hip-Hop with an East Coast rap soun. This is more my roots musically and so I am excited about this album.”
6) The video of when he rapped at Bethlehem Baptist Church (John Piper’s church).
Here’s a YouTube video of Curtis Allen rapping “Unstoppable” at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Let me know what you think about him
Housekeeping August 25, 2007
Posted by Jeremy in random.2 comments
So I decided to make some changes to the blog. I basically overhauled it’s look. Hope you all like it. I just wasn’t feeling the other “look” of the blog. I like this one better. I’ll probably be adding some other slight changes to the page, hopefully in the coming weeks.
A good friend of mine, Jeff, showed be this rapper he has been listening to some so I have started to check him out. He is pretty solid, I’ll probably be posting something about him soon.
Talking to children about race August 9, 2007
Posted by Jeremy in Thoughts and Theology, race.add a comment
Talking to children about race has has been that I have thought about recently as my son is about to be born into a world that struggles so deeply with the topic of race and really struggles with racial reconciliation. My wife and I desire very much to care for our child in a way that he will have a heart to serve not just people that look like him but people who look different as well and to be able to point them to Christ. That we will be able to impart a God that cares for more than just America, but for Asians, Latinos, Blacks, Mexicans, Whites, African-American, Caribbeans, Russian, Jews, etc.
So I came across this post by Thabiti Anyabwile about speaking to your kids about race. I encourage you to read it….even if you don’t have kids yet. I would love to create some dialog about this. En joy!
