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Top 200 Songs of the 2010’s

January 7, 2020 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

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

Good Clean Fun Music Playlist

August 1, 2019 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

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

Good Clean Fun 2018

August 14, 2018 By Tim Casteel 2 Comments

What’s the first thing students encounter when they come to your event? The music that you’re playing. The problem - finding good music that's not explicit. So here’s a Good Clean Fun Spotify playlist. Full of upbeat, fun songs that are clean and that appeal to an ethnically diverse college student audience. It’s a mix of Christian rap, dance, popular … [Read more...] about Good Clean Fun 2018

Top Songs of 2017

January 14, 2018 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

An annual tradition on my blog - My Top 100 Songs of the Year. To further explore amazing music, here are my Top 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 playlists)   If you follow indie music at all, you'll find that most "Top Songs of The Year" are trying really hard to be cool and … [Read more...] about Top Songs of 2017

Winter Conference Music Playlist

January 4, 2017 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

Bookmark this and save it for your next conference (or weekly meeting). It's not easy to find good, upbeat, CLEAN music. Look at the top songs of 2016 - 1 out of the top 10 could be played at a weekly meeting. The rest are explicit. I put together the playlists we play before and after meeting at our 2017 Cru Winter Conference. And I thought it might save you all a lot of … [Read more...] about Winter Conference Music Playlist

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Top 10 Books of the 2010s

January 26, 2020 By Tim Casteel 13 Comments

My Top Books of 2019

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My Top Books of 2018

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The goal of this blog is to share resources, best practices and strategy. Inspired by others who have taken the time to share their thoughts/learnings/resources, I decided to stop merely consuming and start contributing to the conversation.

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