Stuff I Find

All this sound with only three guys

With Everything (Elevation Remix) – by Hillsong United from Elevation Worship on Vimeo. The quality of music coming out of Elevation Church is truly remarkable especially when you consider many of the risks they take regarding instrumentation. Check out their Vimeo page to see more.

Follow the (Crazy) Leader

Leadership takes guts and authenticity. Lead well and you’re unstoppable.

Pants on the Ground

The latest Internet video phenomenon has come from American Idol. It’s the song, Pants on the Ground! ATL 10 @ Yahoo! Video “Neil Young” has even done a rendition of this new hit:

Cooperation Makes for a Good Day

Found at this other blog. Quoting the original article: This unexpected, spontaneous, and scripted dance (aka Flash dance) was performed by over twenty thousand people. How did they do it? Planners recruited 800 people using Facebook and Twitter Choreographers taught a simple dance to these 800 “dancers” Dancers were planted amongst the crowd, who then […]

The Power of the Cross

Oh to see the dawn of the darkest day. Christ on the road to Calvary. Tried by sinful men, torn and beaten then Nailed to a cross of wood. This the pow’r of the cross. Christ became sin for us. Took the blame, bore the wrath, We stand forgiven at the cross.

I was (not) in a motorcycle accident

On Monday, August 24, 2009, our local newspaper printed the following: Accident Closes McCarty For 3 Hours A Lafayette man was taken to the hospital and McCarty Lane was closed for nearly three hours Sunday night after a motorcycle accident. According to Officer Nicholas Amor of the Lafayette Police Department, Jeffrey Mikels, 28, of Lafayette […]

Marriage on the Rocks? Read this!

An article recently posted on psychologytoday.com is not approaching marriage from a Christian perspective, but it is an excellent assessment of what has happened to the relationship between men and women in the past 40 years or so. Here’s the gist: Men today grew up in a world where it was largely okay for a […]

More on Homosexual Recovery

This week, CNN posted an article describing a recent report that attempts to help homosexuals “recover” do more harm than good. Since I wrote an article on this very topic (see Is There Recovery for the Homosexual?.), I thought it would be good to have a link to this new article here and to add […]

Big Contact Podcast Player

I just discovered http://bigcontact.com, and I’m posting it here so I remember it.

Tangle Replaces GodTube

YouTube imitation site GodTube has rebranded itself as tangle and now is trying to imitate MySpace. I think I need to explore this more. After all, Mark Driscoll from Mars Hill Church in Seattle seems to be using it, but I’m not sure what I think about it. Not only do I generally dislike Christian […]

Feeling Spiritual Can Be Idolatry

Gleaned From: That Worship Feeling. “Sometimes, contemplatives think that the whole end and essence of their [spiritual] life is to be found in meditation and interior peace and the sense of the presence of God. They become attached to these things. But recollection and meditation are just as much creatures as an automobile. The sense […]

What is the Recession For?

John Piper, pastor, author, and founder of Desiring God Ministries, this week preached a sermon with a powerful message about the overall purpose of God in the midst of recessionary times. It’s 45 minutes long, but unbelievably insightful! watch it hear it read it

Jeff Mikels