An annual tradition on my blog - My Top 100 Songs of the Year. But this year as we wrap up a decade of music I ranked my top 200 favorite songs of the 2010's. To further explore amazing music, here are my (946 favorite!) Best Songs from the 2010's (click “Follow” at the top of Spotify if you want to add any of the playlists to your sidebar of … [Read more...] about Top 200 Songs of the 2010’s
My Top Books of 2019
A key to reading more is to read good books. Good books are hard to put down. The way to find good books? You want book recs from people who read A LOT. I'd highly recommend all of these books listed below. They're all good. Overall, here's my Top Books I read in 2019: Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture - Mark … [Read more...] about My Top Books of 2019
Frozen 2: The Terrible Freedom of Writing Your Own Script
[warning: if you haven’t seen Frozen 2 yet, there are minor spoilers ahead] As I watched Frozen 2 at the theater with my kids this week, it struck me that the movie is 100% about GenZ decision making. Frozen 1 was a frozen winter. Frozen 2 is about autumnal change- the changing, swirling leaves are a key metaphor throughout. This review is spot on: Frozen 2 … [Read more...] about Frozen 2: The Terrible Freedom of Writing Your Own Script
Good Clean Fun Music Playlist
If you've ever tried to make a playlist for a College Ministry meeting, you've found that it's not easy to find fun songs that are clean and that appeal to an ethnically (and spiritually) diverse college student audience. Notice any pattern in the Top 50 songs? According to Newsweek's article How Songs with Explicit Lyrics Came to Dominate the Charts, more than 2/3 of the … [Read more...] about Good Clean Fun Music Playlist
My Top Books of 2018
I’m a book pusher. If I’m around you for more than 5 minutes, I will probably recommend a book to you. I can’t help it. I really think reading might be the antidote to much of what ails us as a society. In our distracted age, book readers almost possess superhuman ability- the ability to think deeply. The classic dystopian book Fahrenheit 451 ends with a tiny glimmer of … [Read more...] about My Top Books of 2018