“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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I hopped into our minivan the other day and U2’s How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb CD was in - yes I have a cool wife. I hadn’t listened to it in a while and it always amazes me how, over time, songs that you once over looked can speak to you with a life of their own. The last song on the CD was Yahweh. I can’t tell you exactly why, but it was moving me.

Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes
And make them fit
Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt
And make it clean, clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul
And make it sing

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I’m waiting for the dawn

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Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill
Take this city
If it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart
Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break

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I think that if we’re really followers of Christ, we should be a restless bunch. Searchers. Seekers. Explorers. We should always be striving to follow after the wildness of Christ. Are we meant to be stable or stagnant? Hardly. It’s a journey that we’ll never fully arrive on, but one in which we must keep moving. We have to keep moving. Our soul depends on it.

I was working today and listening to the radio (www.pandora.com) and heard an old song by U2 - I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. It really spoke to those restless places in my heart. So how many of you are searchers and seekers? How many are burdened by the feeling that ‘there’s more.’ I love the fact that the Gospel is too big to live in our hearts and constantly forcing us to search and seek and live bigger. Let us not settle. Let us keep exploring.

I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing fingertips
It burned like a fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the eternal angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I believe in the Kingdom Come
When all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes I’m still running

You broke the bonds
And you loosened the chains
Carried the cross
Of all my shame
all my shame
You know I believe it

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

Well not really, but it’s amazing and FREE. There’s a new website called Pandora (www.pandora.com) and it’s a customizable internet radio station for your listening pleasure. It’s run by the Music Genome Project which I have no idea what that means, but it’s an amazing service.

You simply pick an artist you like and it plays music from that artist and others like it. As you listen to songs, you rate them and it customizes them to your preferences. And you can also mix genres as you listen. Right now I’m listening to a combination of U2, Dave Matthews Band, David Crowder Band and Matthew Good. Like I said, it’s amazing.

Go here for Pandora.

So what’s your top 5 songs in rotation in your IPOD? Or MP3 player, CD, Jukebox,8 track or gramophone. I don’t care what you’re playing it on… it’s all about what you’re listening to. So what is it? What music is moving you right now?
Mine:

1. U2 - Window in the Skies

2. Tobymac - Made to Love

3. Ryan Adams - Two

4. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

5. David Crowder Band - Everything Glorious

(note: all links go to the artist’s myspace account where the songs can be heard with the exception to Crowder which is linked to a youtube video with the song. )