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I was going to hold out and not buy the new single from David Crowder Band. Get it when the whole album comes out in September, I thought. Then I heard it here.

So much for holding out …

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Life After People, if you've never seen it, is a History Channel program which documents what happens to all the creations of humanity if humanity were to suddenly disappear.

The program is at this moment documenting the potential for the destruction of the Golden Gate bridge, the Mona Lisa and the Declaration of Independence. On the last episode, I saw the Space Needle crash to the ground and New Orleans be reclaimed by the Mississippi delta.

The single constant among all of the above is that without humans to keep nature in check these achievements of technology, architecture, art and thought will vanish, brought down by something as simple as moths, mold, trees and rust.

While the show's premise indicates a differing view from my own theology - that is, the Bible does not offer a scenario in which the entire human race simultaneously disappears from the earth - it nonetheless reminds me of what is essential. What we build, what we think and what we create will not last. If we put our hope in these transient pursuits, we will be bitterly disappointed in the end. There's only One in whom we can put our hope and know our treasures will last. He is the One who told us: 

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal." (Matthew 6:19-20)

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I nearly forgot that Coldplay was supposed to be on 60 Minutes last night. Granted, most of the time, I forget 60 Minutes is still on television! In any case, I caught the last half of the interview and learned something … for the umpteenth billionth time.

Posts to the blog have been few and far between since I’ve started doing the Twitter thing. Twitter is so easy. Think it. Type it. Post it. Done. Into my brain, out of my brain in three easy steps.

Blogging is so much a different animal, requiring more thought, more effort in composition and more time. I can’t begin to enumerate how many times over the past couple of weeks a nugget of a post has popped into my brain. During my drive to work (pick a job, either job), I can usually map out the post in my head and even come up with a few nicely-crafted lines. Then, I hit the door. Whatever or whoever is at my desk or on my computer wins the day and the nicely-crafted lines are long gone.

What, pray tell, does this have to do with Coldplay? In the interview, Chris Martin reveals that he writes even the briefest of thoughts onto whatever is handy — even the piano! When he is finished, he just repaints the piano.

Write it down. I need to do that — not just for blog posts, but for youth group ideas and any other creative thoughts that cross my path. I need to write it down before it gets sucked into the vortex of the mundane. Sometimes I wonder how much more productive and/or creative I could be if I did something so simple as writing things down or recording them on my cell phone or something.

I’m not going to write anything as good as Viva La Vida, but you never know …

Why Hershey? I haven’t the foggiest idea why the sixsteps gang picked little ol’ Hershey as the starting point for the Hello Love tour, but I’ll take it!

Let’s start with Israel and New Breed. In a set lasting less than an hour, I learned three things (probably more, but let’s just go with these):

1. If all you know about Israel and New Breed is Friend of God, you don’t know enough. You need to go to the web site or one of their social networking sites and listen to more (i.e. their Virb page).

2. Israel is himself an eloquent pro-life message.

3. To paraphrase Chris Tomlin, you might think you’re cool but then you see Israel …

Tomlin kicked off his end of the evening with Sing, Sing, Sing and Your Grace Is Enough. Beyond that, I lose track of the order. Despite the few photos I took, I was there for the worship so I don’t remember exactly what songs were done in what order. All the same, I do remember that Tomlin brought a taste of the Passion World Tour to his leading of How Great Is Our God, singing the chorus in a couple of languages while reminding us that there is one God who is over all. He also led the gathering in what have become standards — Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), Forever — as well as songs from the Hello Love CD including God Almighty and the favorite from recent Passion events, God of This City.

Christy Nockels came along for the ride, singing a song from her upcoming sixsteps debut CD, Life Light Up. If that was a taste of what is to come, I can’t wait until the CD comes out in June.

For me, the interlude during which Tomlin talked about onemillioncan.com was much, much more than a break in the singing or a plea to assist in a cause. He recalled the challenges set before the college students at Passion 07 and the overwhelming response to that challenge which ultimately gave birth to onemillioncan. For a few precious moments, I remembered standing in the Georgia World Congress Center hearing the challenges set before the students and then being privileged to see the celebration when the challenge had been more than met.

From that interlude, the band went into my favorite track from the new CD, I Will Rise. Everyone had taken their seats during the presentation of onemillioncan. I was ready to jump up at the first chord, but managed to contain myself until the bridge:

And I hear the voice of many angels sing,
“Worthy is the Lamb”
And I hear the cry of every longing heart,
“Worthy is the Lamb”

Israel rejoined Chris for the final song of the evening, leaving us, appropriately, with the words, “all the way my Savior leads me.”

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I’m sitting here in front of a lovely Mac with a lovely camera with odd pictures on an xD card. Alas, I have no USB cord to move the pictures from the card to the cord and my camera has a specialized connection so I can’t just borrow one. I did take pictures yesterday, honest!

This gives me the opportunity, however, to mention that I will be away from a regular internet connection over the weekend. Truth be told, I will probably be shoveling what a Twitter-friend of mine (@thesnuffy) calls the “fluffy white spawn of Satan”. I’ll be taking the pictures so watch for a series of backdated posts to go up sometime on Monday.

Til then …