Prayers for Steven Curtis Chapman

Just heard on the news that Steven Curtis Chapman lost is five year old daughter yesterday. It seems his teenage son was backing out of the driveway and did not see his little sister and ran over her. I am one who has been deeply touched by Steven's music over the years and the least I can do for him is pray grace on his family during this very troubling time.

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School Is Over

Today was the final day of school for my kids. It was a long and sometimes stressful year trying to teach both Lemuel and Brayden. And although we are planning on entering them in public school next year, I will miss helping my kids learn and unluck their potential. There is something rather fulfilling about teaching your kids and watching excel in things. I would recommend to anyone if they had the time and the patience, to seriously think about being part of their children's education.

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My Life and Christian Music

When I was fifteen, I was invited to a church youth group. Before this time, I had went to church approximately 5 times. I knew about God, but most of my ideas were rather skued growing up in a strong LDS community.

The person who had initially invited me to youth group, Brandy, introduced me to Christian music. He recorded me a tape full of WhiteHeart songs from albums dating from "Emergency Broadcast" on back. So it was nothing really hard and rocking. I asked him if he had anything else that might be a little on the harder edge. At that point, he handed me a tape by a group called Petra. The name of the album was "On Fire!" From the first second (fired up!!!!) I knew I had finally found something that could rival what I was listening to on MTV. At least it had electric guitars! Petra soon became one of my favorite bands ever and still holds a special place in my heart. Not only was their music pretty cool (for the time) but it had a strong biblical message backed up by bible verses that you could reference. I dare you to find a band that does that anymore.

Up next...Jesus Northwest

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When I was about 13 years old, my aunt in California sent me a tape of a band named Mylon and Broken heart. I was not a Christian at this point and was rather skeptical about this Christian rock music thing. After listening to the tape, I must say that I wasn't very impressed. There was something about the songs that just didn't seem to flow very well. Being 13, I really didn't know how to describe it, but now looking back I realize that the songs just weren't well produced. I think part of it too was Mylon had his roots in Southern Gospel (as well as writing gospel songs for Elvis) and he really wasn't that good of a rocker. He was an excellent evangelist and singer but not that great of a rocker. However, having said that, there were some hilights with Mylon and I really didn't even think about the fact that his music and Christian music in general would have a tremendous impact on my life.

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