We showed the following video on Sunday morning at The Gateway Church.  It pretty much wrecked me when I first saw it last, and again when I heard it on Sunday morning paired with Paul’s message.

The performance was originally done live by a guy named Mike Perez, and then he recorded it and made this video.

It is a call to just worship.  Not “just” in the sense of “hey man, why don’t you just worship.”  But in the sense of our worship being just.

The entire thing is ridiculously powerful, but the lines that really broke me are these:

me way drown in justice
and may we be resuscitated with hearts transformed
with hearts that mute the musics noise
because they long for a worship that responds
to the angelic callings of the orphan and the widow
a worship that feeds
a worship that quenches thirst
a worship that isn’t irritated by visiting hours or prison doors
a worship whose sense of smell can stomach
the stench of urine and unbrushed teeth
whose sense of sight can bare an urban crown of thorns;
lice filled hair and bloody nails
whose sense of touch and embrace can loosen the grip of domestic violence
whose sense of hearing and concern can fill the void
shaped by the held-back “i love you’s” that
turned dreams into nightmares and nightmares into realities
a worship whose purpose is to shine outside the dry walls of the church
where a world waits, and a God watches
the question, the challenge; will you worship

So yeah…chew on that for a few days.

~chris

A Cypher, Wrapped In An Enigma, Smothered With Secret Sauce.

That’s what Justin Timberlake is to me.

I really can’t stand about 98% percent of his music, but he is an incredible performer.

He hasn’t been in any good movies, but he is a decent actor.

He comes off kinda doofy, but he’s pretty hilarious and doesn’t care if he looks like a fool. (proof, proof, and proof.)

In fact, there is an entire website dedicated to his SNL skit videos:

Anyhoo, I stumbled across this video of him performing at the Hope For Haiti Now event, and it kinda blew my mind.  It’s him and Matt Morris doing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”  And I really love the ending.

~c

Another fun video for you fine folks that are trying to not do anything productive

For some reason it seems like whenever there is a comedian on a late night talk show, they aren’t that funny.

I don’t know why that is.  Maybe because they are usually up-and-coming comedians or something?

Every once-in-a-while I’ll see a comedian on a talk show that is actually really funny and original.

This was the case with Myq Kaplan when he appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

Enjoy.

~chris

Seriously.

~chris

PS: Conan’s skit where he claims to be the new Oprah is hilarious.  Every time.

Sooooo I’ll probably have to turn in my man-card for this, but I really wanna see this movie.

Also, note the baby at 1:14 – cause that totally looks like me when I was a kid haha.

This made my weekend.

And it’s been a pretty great weekend.

You’re welcome.

~kretzu

So I decided that I want to redesign my blog.  I am working on that in my free time (ha!).   It will probably be pretty quiet around here until I get that finished.

But until then, you can enjoy this:

Every entrance made by Kramer in the entire series.

~chris