Category: Life

  • Hooked

    Featured song: I’m Hooked On A Good Thing, by Gary S. Paxton, from the 1977 album More. Update September 2016: Gary passed away in July of this year, and his live website is off line now. The link below points to the Wayback machine archive of it One of the earliest Jesus music writers and…

  • Strength

    Featured song: Strength Of My Life, by Leslie Phillips, from Dancing With Danger, 1987. Life can be incredibly difficult. No matter how good things may seem to be, we live in a world that is broken, and that brokenness may impact me at any time. It could be something that affects me personally, or it…

  • The Poet

    Featured song: Annie The Poet, by Michael Omartian, from his 1976 album, Adam Again. I grew up during the 1960s, and began to pay attention to the phenomenon of rock & roll music by the middle of the decade. I remember many summer afternoons swimming at the community pool down the street from our home,…

  • I Was There

    Featured song: Met In The Stairwell, written by Stacey Randall, read by Bob Holiday, from late 2001. Eight years ago today, our world was changed profoundly. By the actions of some very lost men with a very great hatred, many lives were taken in a tragedy that affects us still today. As an adult, I had not previously…