Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Happy Easter
Last week I was walking and hit my big toe against a stone and it started bleeding. Actually I was surprised the cut was as deep as it was because this kind of thing happens to me quite regularly. But it bled and me being me, well I got light headed. I can't stand blood, usually its just an uncomfortable feeling but that day I felt like I was going to faint. Thankfully there were people with me and a first aid crew, we were on a camp.
Today in church as the video of Jesus' crucifixion was showed, I wondered if Jesus can stand blood. I remember the pain I was in, it was a small but deepish cut yet still painful yet this man took many cuts to his body for me.
I was just thinking how I miss my mummy and how I'm so far away from home, how I have less friends around, feeling sorry for myself but this day is not about me. Its about this man.
I've been trying to learn the song amazing love (you are my king) on my guitar and a little chord called Bminor is not cooperating with my fingers :) Its all about him him him him. Not about me me me me me.
Happy Easter.
-ONWARD
Today in church as the video of Jesus' crucifixion was showed, I wondered if Jesus can stand blood. I remember the pain I was in, it was a small but deepish cut yet still painful yet this man took many cuts to his body for me.
I was just thinking how I miss my mummy and how I'm so far away from home, how I have less friends around, feeling sorry for myself but this day is not about me. Its about this man.
I've been trying to learn the song amazing love (you are my king) on my guitar and a little chord called Bminor is not cooperating with my fingers :) Its all about him him him him. Not about me me me me me.
Happy Easter.
-ONWARD
Friday, April 08, 2011
bigger
There's so much I wish I could write here but alas I must wait for the right time.
Bigger
I must remember that You are bigger than all these things. I must remember that nothing surpasses You. Please help me remember.
Wedding
You know you are old when all your friends are getting married. Wishing Angela and Ben a wonderful married life ahead. I still remember when she was jumping up and down in bethany because she got to go to KL to study, she was so excited and now she's getting married in a matter of days. Awesome stuff.
Streamyx
After oh I don't know a month? of using maxis broadband and their 3GB quota and almost losing my mind, I'll be getting streamyx (read no quotas) internet. To be fair, the speeds are decent when you are within your quota but in this day and age its no where sufficient. I use up the darn thing in 6 days and for the rest of the month have to suffer less than dial-up speeds well no more.
Oh yeah I got a guitar. Yay, I guess. Aaand thats it. Enjoy your life because "this is it".
-ONWARD
Bigger
I must remember that You are bigger than all these things. I must remember that nothing surpasses You. Please help me remember.
Wedding
You know you are old when all your friends are getting married. Wishing Angela and Ben a wonderful married life ahead. I still remember when she was jumping up and down in bethany because she got to go to KL to study, she was so excited and now she's getting married in a matter of days. Awesome stuff.
Streamyx
After oh I don't know a month? of using maxis broadband and their 3GB quota and almost losing my mind, I'll be getting streamyx (read no quotas) internet. To be fair, the speeds are decent when you are within your quota but in this day and age its no where sufficient. I use up the darn thing in 6 days and for the rest of the month have to suffer less than dial-up speeds well no more.
Oh yeah I got a guitar. Yay, I guess. Aaand thats it. Enjoy your life because "this is it".
-ONWARD
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Love You by The Free Design
Just watched Stranger than fiction again and this song ended the credits. I like it.
Give a little time for the child within you,
don’t be afraid to be young and free.
Undo the locks and throw away the keys
and take off your shoes and socks, and run you.
La, la, la...
Give a little time for the child within you,
don’t be afraid to be young and free.
Undo the locks and throw away the keys
and take off your shoes and socks, and run you.
La, la, la...
Run through the meadow and scare up the milking cows
Run down the beach kicking clouds of sand
Walk a windy weather day, feel your face blow away
Stop and listen: Love you.
Roll like a circus clown, put away your circus frown
Ride on a roller coaster upside down
Waltzing Matilda, Carey loves a kinkatchoo
Joey catch a kangaroo, hug you.
Dandylion, milkweed, silky on a sunny sky
Reach out and hitch a ride and float on by
Balloons down below catching colors of the rainbow
red, blue and yellow-green: I love you.
Bicycles, tricycles, ice cream candy
Lollypops, popsicles, licorice sticks
Solomon Grundy, Raggedy Andy
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, home free.
Cowboys and Indians, puppydogs and sandpails
Beachballs and baseballs and basketballs, too.
I love forget-me-nots, fluffernutters, sugarpops
I’ll hug you and kiss you and love you
La, la, la... Love you.
-ONWARD
Give a little time for the child within you,
don’t be afraid to be young and free.
Undo the locks and throw away the keys
and take off your shoes and socks, and run you.
La, la, la...
Give a little time for the child within you,
don’t be afraid to be young and free.
Undo the locks and throw away the keys
and take off your shoes and socks, and run you.
La, la, la...
Run through the meadow and scare up the milking cows
Run down the beach kicking clouds of sand
Walk a windy weather day, feel your face blow away
Stop and listen: Love you.
Roll like a circus clown, put away your circus frown
Ride on a roller coaster upside down
Waltzing Matilda, Carey loves a kinkatchoo
Joey catch a kangaroo, hug you.
Dandylion, milkweed, silky on a sunny sky
Reach out and hitch a ride and float on by
Balloons down below catching colors of the rainbow
red, blue and yellow-green: I love you.
Bicycles, tricycles, ice cream candy
Lollypops, popsicles, licorice sticks
Solomon Grundy, Raggedy Andy
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, home free.
Cowboys and Indians, puppydogs and sandpails
Beachballs and baseballs and basketballs, too.
I love forget-me-nots, fluffernutters, sugarpops
I’ll hug you and kiss you and love you
La, la, la... Love you.
-ONWARD
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Consumed
Consumed is a worship album, not the type they make these days but they type they should make more of.
I have never really listened to Jesus Culture, I always thought they made a different kind of music than what I experienced in Consumed, their album from a few years ago.
The album reminds me of the early years of planetshakers. In this album, I feel like I'm there, in the room of a small group of people just giving their worship to God, nothing special, nothing complicated, no fighting over chords or thinking how to make it sound better, just simple playing and worshipping. I've missed this in most of the mainstream music bands. I still enjoy worship from Hillsong and I have more of their albums than any other but I guess this is more intimate. Most songs are over 4 minutes long but I doesn't feel draggy. If anything you just want it to go on.
My thoughts on some specific songs.
Heaven is Here
This song reminds me of parachute band. I think its a similar style to the New Zealand band. Heaven is Jesus. Sometime we forget but it really is true. Its not about the streets of gold or the mansions, but its all about Him. Love the voice of the lead singer though :)
Holding Nothing Back
First contact with this song was from Tim Hughes' album by the same name. It sounds different, I'm not sure if I like JC's cover better but I think it has its place :)
Revelation Song
I must say if I have a favourite song from the album it would be this one. It has a familiar feeling to it. Its one of those songs you can just flow with immediately even though you have never heard it before. A pure worship songs declaring the Majesty of the King. Be my everything.
Oh Lord You're Beautiful
This song reminds me of Terry MacAlmon, I don't know why but in my mind I imagine him singing it as he plays the piano as he does so very well. It sounds like a hymn, something someone wrote years ago while pondering the ways of God. It is beautiful. The first verse of this song,
Oh Lord, You're beautiful
Your face is all I seek,
And when Your eyes are on this child,
Your grace abounds to me.
could well be the only verse and I won't lose its potency. It feels like prayer, you know, the types that don't make you feel like your prayer is too short but those that are simple, from the heart, short and concise.
Obsession
This song reminds me of Delirious? I checked the songs I have of the band but couldn't find the song, but it feels like I've heard it before somewhere. A quick google search reveals my suspicion to be correct. That voice, its unmistakable. At first glance, I feel this song paints the picture of a good christian, someone whose heart burns for the King yet it also reveals our frailty, its like Paul saying the things I want to do I don't do, yet the things I don't to do I do. Still my heart burns for you. Even though
I am so filthy with my sin
And I carry pride like a disease
my heart still burns for you. I don't think we can ever understand the extent of God's grace and mercy.
I've got the album on my phone, on my computer and I've been listening a lot, and I have been drawn closer to the King. So thank you Jesus Culture, and thank you Shellyn for the introduction.
-ONWARD
I have never really listened to Jesus Culture, I always thought they made a different kind of music than what I experienced in Consumed, their album from a few years ago.
The album reminds me of the early years of planetshakers. In this album, I feel like I'm there, in the room of a small group of people just giving their worship to God, nothing special, nothing complicated, no fighting over chords or thinking how to make it sound better, just simple playing and worshipping. I've missed this in most of the mainstream music bands. I still enjoy worship from Hillsong and I have more of their albums than any other but I guess this is more intimate. Most songs are over 4 minutes long but I doesn't feel draggy. If anything you just want it to go on.
My thoughts on some specific songs.
Heaven is Here
This song reminds me of parachute band. I think its a similar style to the New Zealand band. Heaven is Jesus. Sometime we forget but it really is true. Its not about the streets of gold or the mansions, but its all about Him. Love the voice of the lead singer though :)
Holding Nothing Back
First contact with this song was from Tim Hughes' album by the same name. It sounds different, I'm not sure if I like JC's cover better but I think it has its place :)
Revelation Song
I must say if I have a favourite song from the album it would be this one. It has a familiar feeling to it. Its one of those songs you can just flow with immediately even though you have never heard it before. A pure worship songs declaring the Majesty of the King. Be my everything.
Oh Lord You're Beautiful
This song reminds me of Terry MacAlmon, I don't know why but in my mind I imagine him singing it as he plays the piano as he does so very well. It sounds like a hymn, something someone wrote years ago while pondering the ways of God. It is beautiful. The first verse of this song,
Oh Lord, You're beautiful
Your face is all I seek,
And when Your eyes are on this child,
Your grace abounds to me.
could well be the only verse and I won't lose its potency. It feels like prayer, you know, the types that don't make you feel like your prayer is too short but those that are simple, from the heart, short and concise.
Obsession
This song reminds me of Delirious? I checked the songs I have of the band but couldn't find the song, but it feels like I've heard it before somewhere. A quick google search reveals my suspicion to be correct. That voice, its unmistakable. At first glance, I feel this song paints the picture of a good christian, someone whose heart burns for the King yet it also reveals our frailty, its like Paul saying the things I want to do I don't do, yet the things I don't to do I do. Still my heart burns for you. Even though
I am so filthy with my sin
And I carry pride like a disease
my heart still burns for you. I don't think we can ever understand the extent of God's grace and mercy.
I've got the album on my phone, on my computer and I've been listening a lot, and I have been drawn closer to the King. So thank you Jesus Culture, and thank you Shellyn for the introduction.
-ONWARD
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