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. )

This is a great video piece that cuts together concert footage, Bill Hybels Leadership Summit interview, and Bono’s prayer from the national prayer breakfast.

I’ve always been a fan of Bono and the boys. I own all their albums and I actually liked Pop (I know it’s hard to believe).  What I haven’t liked is the U2 Eucharists many churches have put on where they use U2 music to worship (and attract people) - but, hey, that’s not U2’s fault.

I know many people like to poke holes in Bono’s beliefs, politics, and occasional salty language, but man he’s out there trying to change the world. And he’s’ trying to change the world wearing his Christianity showing on the outside.  How many of us can say we’d done that? How many of us as Christians would rather scrutinize those doing instead of doing it ourselves. That is one of the great sins of Christianity.

[Video link compliments of the coolest preterist with glasses from Ohio that I know - Virgil]

U2 + Green Day +  a good cause = sweet goodness

Folks, I wish I was making this up.

“Ushers handed out earplugs and fluorescent glow sticks for the “U2 Eucharist,” a communion service punctuated by the Irish rock band’s music. Episcopal parishes from California to Maine have hosted similar events, weaving U2’s tunes — laced with biblical references — into the liturgy.”

Now, I’m a big fan of U2 and a bigger fan of Christ. My only problem with this is that it’s a whole service focused around U2. Now detractors may say that it’s all in the lyrics. The lyrics glorify God. But I just think that something in all of this gets lost in the translation. The focus is off.

For more go here.