(resonance of reforming)
the blog of Jerry Bolton
Currently listening to: “All The World Is Mad” by Thrice
Thrice’s newest, “Beggars”, will go down as their best to date. I’m in love.
John Piper is a pretty regular guy. A pretty regular guy who is passionate about Jesus Christ. He writes books, drops heart-piercing sermons, likes to hyphenate words together, and has managed to gather a lot of biblical wisdom into his noggin over the years.
Last week he did a live version of his “Ask Pastor John” [APJ] series – in which he fields questions and does his best to answer them biblically and pastorally. With almost no reservations, I enjoy APJ. Thus, I enjoyed watching him respond live as questions came in via Twitter.
My hope is that you can enjoy it too, now that the segments are posted on DesiringGod. Check them out here:
Currently listening to: “Suddenly” by BT
I actually only started listening to BT because Celldweller did a remix of this track for the Suddenly EP. Once I checked out some of his catalog, I discovered a lot of really great electronic stuff – and honestly, that’s about as specific as I can get, because this guy [...]
January 6, 2010 - 4:01 PM
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Currently listening to: “Circles” by Thrice
Thrice recently did a session at Daytrotter, and the results are stripped-down, sparse, largely acoustic, and predominantly wonderful. If you’ve ever wondered what a masterful rock band would sound like when given a room with a bunch of instruments in various states of being, this is a great example. You [...]
October 19, 2009 - 2:25 PM
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I’ve been wanting to do this for years.
Welcome to a new look, a new name, a new location, and a reinvigorated sense of purpose.
There’s a lot of work left for me to do, but I trust this early iteration will be both helpful and appealing. If you have any suggestions or comments, please let [...]
Current Tunage: Fee – Glory to God Forever
It’s strange to me to hear a recorded song that up until now I’ve only heard in church. Usually it’s the other way around.
I was introduced to Dr. John Piper when I was in Bible College and his manifesto on Christian Hedonism (”Desiring God”) was our text for [...]
August 26, 2009 - 11:11 AM
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Current Tunage: Oh, Sleeper – Son Of The Morning
New record out, sporting an inverted, “horns cut off” broken pentagram on the cover. Heavy material. Apparently it’s a concept album, where all but the last song on the record is voiced by Satan – and the last song (”The Finisher”) is God’s response. Check out an [...]
June 26, 2009 - 4:45 PM
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Current Tunage: Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster – Waiting On My Deathbed
Maylene’s new record, “III”, is stellar southern hardcore. Nobody does it better.
Yesterday, Michael Jackson died. I’ll be truthful – most of my exposure to him was through Weird Al (”eat it”) and Disney stuff when I was a kid. Never much cared for [...]
Just a quick post. I just got a hold of the unedited audio from John Piper’s recent Q&A (which he never does) at the Basics conference last week. The version that was up on their site was edited and pruned for time and stuff, and was missing the question I was most interested in (and [...]
April 20, 2009 - 9:09 AM
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Current Tunage: Tunnel Rats – Line Finish
1 Corinthians 9:23-27 ESV
I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? so run that you may obtain it. Every athlete [...]
April 16, 2009 - 9:59 AM
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Current Tunage: Mars ILL – Flirt With Fame
Rockin’ some Pirate Radio this morning, courtesy of the mighty mighty mars ill crew – dust and manchild grinnin’ big.
I’ll keep it brief, since I’m studying for my FINAL UNIVERSITY EXAM (on Shakespeare, if you’re curious). I thought this “Ask Pastor John” video was brilliant. I mean, the [...]
March 7, 2009 - 1:41 PM
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Current Tunage: Thrice – Digital Sea (Live)
Thrice’s recent live record is an exmaple of a live album done right – 25 tracks on 2 discs from 1 show, a DVD of the concert including an extensive and downright interesting interview with the band, and *excellent* recording quality. Not to mention they played a great show, [...]