Monthly Archives: September 2008

Music, The List

The List: 10 Albums For A Desert Island

I don’t like playing the “desert island” game. It is fair and it certainly it isn’t nice to play favorites especially in the case of choosing the absolute, definitive list of albums that would accompany me to a secluded island never to be heard from again. Thankfully my iPod (assuming that I could rig it for solar power) has all these albums and then-some already in a pre-selected-ready-for-the-plane-to-crash desert island mix. Like always, there is no particular order to this list. The only real criteria is that I like 90% or more of each album and that I can listen to each of these albums from start to finish. Enjoy and feel free to leave your desert island mix in the comments section.

1) August and Everything After, Counting Crows
2) Fumbling Toward Ecstasy, Sarah McLachlan
3) Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
4) Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
5) In Between Dreams, Jack Johnson
6) Live at Luther/Live at Radio City, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
7) O, Damien Rice
8) Offerings, Third Day
9) The Blue Album, Weezer
10) All That You Can’t Leave behind, U2

Bonus:
Jars of Clay, Jars of Clay
Unearthed Box Set, Johnny Cash
Achtung Baby, U2
Boy, U2
S&M, Metallica
Garden State Soundtrack, Various
Trouble, Ray LaMontagne

Faith in Action

The Good News

““We tell you the good news: What God promised our ancestorshe has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm:

“‘You are my son; today I have become your father.’


God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said,

“‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’


So it is also stated elsewhere:

“‘You will not let your holy one see decay.’


“Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed. But the one whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

“Therefore, my brothers and sisters, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:

“‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for I am going to do something in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”

As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath. When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.” (Acts 13:32-43 TNIV)