Unique Christian art and artists - Enter the Worship Circle, and Waterdeep
There is a collective of Christian artists who record really unique music, both wonderfully organic worship music and music that touches on marriage, life, death and everything in between. There are three albums under the series called “Enter the Worship Circle” that are so different from the vast majority of the worship albums available. The music is much simpler in terms of the recording process and much less “produced” than most of the records being released in this catagory of music. (more…)
I am convinced that God is about to bring a new day of evangelism to Lamb of God, and to many of the churches we have been walking with in the Cry for Awakening. I have noticed within myself, and in our prayer meetings a new urgency and growing desire to see the Gospel be proclaimed. The prayers of the people are increasingly reflecting earnest petition for God to break the shackles of the fear of man from all of us. We have had a number of new converts to Christianity in the past few months (New believers not necessarily intergrated into the congregation, but I suspect will be soon). I am convinced in my heart that this is only the beginning. 
Yesterday, Gail and I and a few friends went to see the movie, Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace is the story of William Wilberforce and his effort to have the slave trade outlawed in England. First; the movie is well done, well acted and engages from the very beginning. It tells a good story. The characters are not superficial and the story is paced in such a way that even though you know that Wilberforce was ultimately successful in getting the British Parliment to outlaw the slave trade you still watch the drama of the story unfold. Ioan Gruffudd is outstanding as William Wilberforce (you may recognize him as Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four movie). Albert Finney plays the aging John Newton (former slave trader and author of the hymn Amazing Grace). The scenes between Wilberforce and Newton are some of the best acted in the film. It gets a very respectable 69% on 
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Denizens of the Lamb… Pay close attention… Our very own Ben + Vesper have had their not yet released album given a preliminary review on the very prestigious online review sight called Pitchfork. You may not be familiar with this sight - but it is a very important place to receive attention from if you are a recording artist.
Tuesday and Thursday morning we have a prayer meeting. Both of these are devoted to praying for revival. I have come to love them dearly. This morning was really encouraging. Much of the prayer was devoted to evangelism. There were several elements to those prayers. First, there is the overall problem of the fear of man. I think everyone present understood that the US church pretty much cowers in the corner when it comes to evanglizing people. The idolatry of not wanting to be thought of as “extreme” or “fanatical” has done a through job of scaring most Christians right back into the closet, so to speak. There was much prayer about boldness, and breaking the hold which the “fear of man” has on American Christianity.