Sharpe’s little blog

Speaking of music that I’ve been into lately, my old friend Alex Mejias recently released a CD of new hymn tunes that’s really great. He had our mutual friend Justin Rosolino produce and pulled in a few session musicians from Nashville to round out the sound. It features a couple of originals from Alex and his bandmate, some nice reharmonizations of traditional tunes, and even a previously unrecorded Greg Thompson tune that’s GREAT.

Speaking of Greg Thompson (this blog is starting to resemble Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ stream-of-consciousness writing), Trinity finally added a podcast feed. That leaves 2 churches that I listen to that have yet to get on the podcast bandwagon. Sadly, Phil Smuland and the crew at Pinewood have a hard enough time just getting sermons up in the first place - much less keeping them up-to-date. But Chuck Holliday at River of Life has no such excuse.

I keep meaning to put together a post of all the podcasts that I have in my ITunes. Rather than spend forever doing an annotated list, here’s a quick run-down. Just search in ITunes and you’ll find them in no time.

Church at Brook Hills (David Platt)
Christ Church Berkeley (Johnny St. Clair and Brad Garrett)
Desiring God (John Piper)
GraceDC (Glenn Hoburg)
HCBC UT (Denny Henderson)
Imago Dei (Rick McKinley)
Mars Hill Bible Church (Rob Bell)
Mars Hill Church (Mark Driscoll)
New York Times Popcast (music reviews)
NBC Nightly News (previous night’s national news)
Paste Culture Club (music news)
Seven Rivers (Ray Cortese)
Trinity (Greg Thompson)
Village Church (Matt Chandler)

The obvious question is which of these do I listen to the most. I hate those questions. I’m going to go with my first gut reaction and say Ray Cortese and Matt Chandler are my current favs, although Rick McKinley and Greg Thompson are close behind. It’s actually been a while since I’ve listened to Driscoll or Piper. Driscoll’s files are too big to fit comfortably on my little 120MB player, and Piper’s been talking about marriage for too long (I’m single and I think about that enough already, thanks). I still listen to Bell, but he’s gotten a little tiresome this Lent, which is disappointing as last year’s series was great. Hopefully he’ll get back in swing after the whole XYZ thing gets rolling and can stop feeling like he has to hype it up every week.

For those that are wondering, I use my MP3 player almost exclusively for sermon listening. And I use it whenever I work out at the gym or jogging or whatnot. That’s how I get through about 10 or so sermons a week.

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