It’s Wednesday. The [work] week is half way over (or half way started depending on how you look at it). Here is your mix to get you through.

For the Love of Wednesday Mix

So here is my blessing to you:

May you do more than merely survive this week.

May you find the Lord in the mix of your crowded lives.

May you find His flow of the day and not your own.

May you take time to breathe and listen to the Lord.

May you have peace in knowing that He knows you.

I was taking kids on a hike today and we were rocking out on some sweet 80’s tunes. So… it got me thinking about what were the greatest 80’s movie theme songs. Here’s my top 5 (plus 1) list of the Greatest 80’s Move Theme Songs:

1. The Breakfast Club - Don’t You (Forget About Me) [Simple Minds]
2. Flashdance - What a Feeling [Irene Cara]
3. Say Anything - In Your Eyes [Peter Gabriel]
4. Footloose - Footloose [Kenny Loggins]
5. St Elmo’s Fire - St. Elmo’s Fire [John Parr]
6. Back to the Future - The Power of Love [Huey Lewis and the News]

Any additions? Any arguments?

Go to: www.great80s.muxtape.com to enjoy a listen.

Ah, the Dove awards. Wow, let me congratulate you artists for winning awards in a genre so niche that you couldn’t compete in the mainstream against real, respected musicians. Aren’t there any artists who follow Christ and can be mainstream? Is that too hard to ask?

And don’t’ get me started. Best rock song: Everything Glorious by The David Crowder Band!?! I love Crowder, but rock he is not. What a joke. The Dove Awards only goes to show you that the Christian way to fight culture is to make a culture of your own, only just less original and less talented. And by being a bad carbon copy of culture, minus the swear words, doesn’t make us different. It makes us cheesy.

So we’ve achieved being more like Wayne Newton than Jesus. Bravo to those of you who spent your hard earned cash to buy a WWJD bracelet or anything by Jeremy Camp. Let me applaud you for running the baseball diamond with Rick Warren or giving Kirk Cameron more than his five minutes of fame (really who can I thank for this!).

Why can’t we just be about doing the work of Christ on this earth, to make it a better place, to love, and to save the lost. Why do we need our own bookstores piled with idiotically trite bumper stickers and crap paintings of anything by Thomas Kincaid? Is this Christian walk? Hardly. But is this what the world sees? Absolutely. So why would anyone who’s not a believer ever want to believe if this is the lifestyle that we show them. What do they have to believe in?

Wednesday hits and here’s your mid-week pick-me-up.  So what do you need? Pure 80’s baby.

Enjoy.

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“I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God. It’s almost like religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building.” - Bono

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