I just discovered this one on the compilation "A Very Special Christmas 3" (which also has a very fine version of "I Saw Three Ships" by Sting, by the way) - but the "Christmas Song" by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds just blew my socks off.
I'm used to the understated power of their guitar works - very simple progressions that are actually very difficult to phrase - but the lyrics really knocked me out. This is what a Christmas Song should be: the story of Christ's birth, and life, and death, told in a way that anybody speaking English today can understand it.
There is true power in the simple poetry of this modern-day retelling of the Nativity, Message, and Crucifixion. Just listen to it and you'll know.
Wow. That just about sums it up. Wow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-717PJf8YAU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbdylEE-0e4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33XlnWWfaI&feature=related
(By the way, I couldn't find a YouTube with the same power as the cut on the CD, so I just put a few links here - look around, you'll find one that fits just right!)
She was his girl; he was her boyfriend
She'd be his wife and make him her husband
A surprise on the way, any day, any day
One healthy little giggling dribbling baby boy
The wise men came, three made their way
To shower him with love
While he lay in the hay
Shower him with love love love
Love love love
Love love was all around
Not very much of his childhood was known
Kept his mother Mary worried
Always out on his own
He met another Mary who for a reasonable fee,
less than reputable was known to be.
His heart full of love love love
Love love love
Love love was all around
When Jesus Christ was nailed to his tree
Said "oh, Daddy-o, I can see how it all soon will be
I came to shed a little light on this darkening scene
Instead I fear I've spilled the blood of our children all around"
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children's all around
So I'm told, so the story goes
The people he knew were
Less than golden hearted
Gamblers and Robbers
Drinkers and Jokers, all soul searchers
Like you and me
Like you and me
Rumors insisted he soon would be
For his deviations
Taken into custody
By the authorities less informed than he.
Drinkers and Jokers all soul searchers
Searching for love love love
Love love love
Love love was all around
Preparations were made
For his celebration day
He said "eat this bread and think of it as me
Drink this wine and dream it will be
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children's all around
The blood of our children all around
Father up above, why in all this anger do you fill
Me up with love, love, love
Love love love
Love love was all around
Father up above, why in all this hatred do you fill
Me up with love, fill me love love love
Love love love
all you need is love
you can't buy me love
Love love love
Love love
And the blood of our children's all around
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Overseen on iPad left at Booth 2: Jesus Christ Forbids War
Why did Jesus come to Earth?
http://www.anabaptistchurch.org/Why_did_jesus_come_to_earth.htm
Why Did Jesus Come To Earth?
John wrote: "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work." (1 John 3:8)
Peter said: "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil" (Acts 10:38)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Here are the reasons given in the Gospels why Jesus came to earth.
Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 4:23 Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.”
Matthew 9:13 “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9:35 Jesus went through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.
Matthew 10:7 “Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”
Matthew 10:34 “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
Matthew 11:27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
Matthew 11:29 “Learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls.”
Matthew 18:11 “For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.”
Matthew 20:28 “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom* for many.”
Matthew 24:14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mark 1:14 Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
Mark 1:38 “Let us go to the nearby villages so I can preach there also. That is what I have come to do.”
Mark 2:17 “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom* for many.”
Mark 16:15 Jesus told them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
Luke 4:43, 44 “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.” And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
Luke 5:32 “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 9:2 He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing.
Luke 9:11 The crowds followed Jesus; and welcoming them, He spoke to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who had need of healing.
Luke 9:56 “For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them.”
Luke 9:60 “But as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.”
Luke 12:49-51 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.”
Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
John 3:17 “God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”
John 6:38-40 “I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
John 6:51 “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 9:39 “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
John 10:10 “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
Jesus 12:31 "Now the prince of this world will be driven out."
John 12:46 “I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.”
Jesus 16:11: "The prince of this world now stands condemned."
John 18:37 Pilate said to Jesus, “You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
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* To many Christians, the word "ransom" sounds like sacrificial language, for we sometimes speak of Jesus as the ransom for our sins. But it almost certainly does not have this meaning in the two places that it is used in the Gospels. The Greek word translated as "ransom" (lutron) is used in the Bible not in the context of payment for sin, but to refer to payment made to liberate captives (often from captivity in war) or slaves (often from debt slavery). A lutron is a means of liberation from bondage.
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The guy reading what's on his iPad screen says:
Wow! He came to serve and save. I don't see a dang thing in there about killin' Muslims, Communists, Russians, Arabs, terrorists, gays, liberals, intellectuals, transsexuals, lesbians, athiests, satanists, witches, or progressives. Nope. Not a word. Looks like Jesus is just about as loving as you can get . . . now why y'all trying to make him out to be some sort of Charlton Heston NRA big-business-lovin' kill-the-forests wipe-out-bambi rape-the-earth and Marine-sendin' type of bloodthirsty mass murderer? Huh? Explain it to me!
http://www.anabaptistchurch.org/Why_did_jesus_come_to_earth.htm
Why Did Jesus Come To Earth?
John wrote: "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work." (1 John 3:8)
Peter said: "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil" (Acts 10:38)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Here are the reasons given in the Gospels why Jesus came to earth.
Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 4:23 Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.”
Matthew 9:13 “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9:35 Jesus went through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.
Matthew 10:7 “Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”
Matthew 10:34 “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
Matthew 11:27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
Matthew 11:29 “Learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls.”
Matthew 18:11 “For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.”
Matthew 20:28 “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom* for many.”
Matthew 24:14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mark 1:14 Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
Mark 1:38 “Let us go to the nearby villages so I can preach there also. That is what I have come to do.”
Mark 2:17 “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom* for many.”
Mark 16:15 Jesus told them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
Luke 4:43, 44 “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.” And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
Luke 5:32 “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 9:2 He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing.
Luke 9:11 The crowds followed Jesus; and welcoming them, He spoke to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who had need of healing.
Luke 9:56 “For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them.”
Luke 9:60 “But as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.”
Luke 12:49-51 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.”
Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
John 3:17 “God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”
John 6:38-40 “I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
John 6:51 “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 9:39 “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
John 10:10 “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
Jesus 12:31 "Now the prince of this world will be driven out."
John 12:46 “I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.”
Jesus 16:11: "The prince of this world now stands condemned."
John 18:37 Pilate said to Jesus, “You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
* To many Christians, the word "ransom" sounds like sacrificial language, for we sometimes speak of Jesus as the ransom for our sins. But it almost certainly does not have this meaning in the two places that it is used in the Gospels. The Greek word translated as "ransom" (lutron) is used in the Bible not in the context of payment for sin, but to refer to payment made to liberate captives (often from captivity in war) or slaves (often from debt slavery). A lutron is a means of liberation from bondage.
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The guy reading what's on his iPad screen says:
Wow! He came to serve and save. I don't see a dang thing in there about killin' Muslims, Communists, Russians, Arabs, terrorists, gays, liberals, intellectuals, transsexuals, lesbians, athiests, satanists, witches, or progressives. Nope. Not a word. Looks like Jesus is just about as loving as you can get . . . now why y'all trying to make him out to be some sort of Charlton Heston NRA big-business-lovin' kill-the-forests wipe-out-bambi rape-the-earth and Marine-sendin' type of bloodthirsty mass murderer? Huh? Explain it to me!
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Overheard at Table 1: The Kinks' "Father Christmas"
I had forgotten about this little gem - about a department store Santa who gets rolled over by poor street urchin in a 20th century version of a Dickensian Christmas.
Here's a video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xEopHCtEUo&feature=related
The sound quality is good, video quality not so much, but it's a good watch anyway.
Lyrics:
When I was small I believed in Santa Claus
Though I knew it was my dad
And I would hang up my stocking at Christmas
Open my presents and I'd be glad
But the last time I played Father Christmas
I stood outside a department store
A gang of kids came over and mugged me
And knocked my reindeer to the floor
They said:
Father Christmas, give us some money
Don't mess around with those silly toys.
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys
Don't give my brother a Steve Austin outfit
Don't give my sister a cuddly toy
We don't want a jigsaw or monopoly money
We only want the real McCoy
Father Christmas, give us some money
We'll beat you up if you make us annoyed
Father Christmas, give us some money
Don't mess around with those silly toys
But give my daddy a job 'cause he needs one
He's got lots of mouths to feed
But if you've got one, I'll have a machine gun
So I can scare all the kids down the street
Father Christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys
Have yourself a merry merry Christmas
Have yourself a good time
But remember the kids who got nothin'
While you're drinkin' down your wine
Father Christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
Father Christmas, please hand it over
We'll beat you up, so don't make us annoyed
Father Christmas, give us some money
Don't mess around with those silly toys
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys
What makes this an excellent Christmas song is because it portrays the emotions that many kids feel at Christmas, and I especially love the line "give my dad a job" because here are kids rolling this fake Santa, and right at that moment, there is the hint, the barest hint, of belief. The desire to believe that there is some magic in the world.
Definitely more powerful a song than it presents itself to be.
Here's a video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xEopHCtEUo&feature=related
The sound quality is good, video quality not so much, but it's a good watch anyway.
Lyrics:
When I was small I believed in Santa Claus
Though I knew it was my dad
And I would hang up my stocking at Christmas
Open my presents and I'd be glad
But the last time I played Father Christmas
I stood outside a department store
A gang of kids came over and mugged me
And knocked my reindeer to the floor
They said:
Father Christmas, give us some money
Don't mess around with those silly toys.
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys
Don't give my brother a Steve Austin outfit
Don't give my sister a cuddly toy
We don't want a jigsaw or monopoly money
We only want the real McCoy
Father Christmas, give us some money
We'll beat you up if you make us annoyed
Father Christmas, give us some money
Don't mess around with those silly toys
But give my daddy a job 'cause he needs one
He's got lots of mouths to feed
But if you've got one, I'll have a machine gun
So I can scare all the kids down the street
Father Christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys
Have yourself a merry merry Christmas
Have yourself a good time
But remember the kids who got nothin'
While you're drinkin' down your wine
Father Christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
Father Christmas, please hand it over
We'll beat you up, so don't make us annoyed
Father Christmas, give us some money
Don't mess around with those silly toys
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys
What makes this an excellent Christmas song is because it portrays the emotions that many kids feel at Christmas, and I especially love the line "give my dad a job" because here are kids rolling this fake Santa, and right at that moment, there is the hint, the barest hint, of belief. The desire to believe that there is some magic in the world.
Definitely more powerful a song than it presents itself to be.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Overheard at Table 2: New York Millionaire's Tax Break
- I think it was a win.
- For who?
- For everybody.
- How's it for everybody? The rich get a reduction!
- They would have had to pay nothing. This way, the state will bring in $1.9 billion in revenue.
- But they WERE bringing in $4 billion.
- But when that tax expired next month, they'd be bringin' in nuthin' - somethin' is better than nuthin' right?
- See, that's why we're all so messed up. It's like a bully who comes out and pokes a sharp stick in your eye, and then expects you to be thankful that he didn't poke it in both!
- I dunno. The way I see it, the rich still get taxed somethin'
- And I say it's not enough.
- Well, how much do you wanna tax the rich the, anyway?
- Tax 'em so much 'till they don't have enough left to hurt nobody else, anymore.
- For who?
- For everybody.
- How's it for everybody? The rich get a reduction!
- They would have had to pay nothing. This way, the state will bring in $1.9 billion in revenue.
- But they WERE bringing in $4 billion.
- But when that tax expired next month, they'd be bringin' in nuthin' - somethin' is better than nuthin' right?
- See, that's why we're all so messed up. It's like a bully who comes out and pokes a sharp stick in your eye, and then expects you to be thankful that he didn't poke it in both!
- I dunno. The way I see it, the rich still get taxed somethin'
- And I say it's not enough.
- Well, how much do you wanna tax the rich the, anyway?
- Tax 'em so much 'till they don't have enough left to hurt nobody else, anymore.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Overheard at Booth 3: Ann Coulter on the Open Desire to Kill Innocent Protesters
Bill: All I can say is that this woman is creepy-evil.
Steve: Downright dirty evil. I used to think that she was just stupid, but actually calling for the military to gun these Occupiers down. Man, that's cold. That's just stone cold.
Marcus: Makes me wanna puke and never stop, I'll tellya. But what's even worse is that there is no public outcry. If she had said about, oh I dunno, the drug crime in DC "Well, you know in the 40's, a coupla good lynchings took care of that!" she'd be run out of the country. But she talks about murdering people who are exercising their First Amendment rights, and not one single word drifts across the airwaves.
Bill: Creepy-evil.
Steve: Stone. Cold.
Steve: Downright dirty evil. I used to think that she was just stupid, but actually calling for the military to gun these Occupiers down. Man, that's cold. That's just stone cold.
Marcus: Makes me wanna puke and never stop, I'll tellya. But what's even worse is that there is no public outcry. If she had said about, oh I dunno, the drug crime in DC "Well, you know in the 40's, a coupla good lynchings took care of that!" she'd be run out of the country. But she talks about murdering people who are exercising their First Amendment rights, and not one single word drifts across the airwaves.
Bill: Creepy-evil.
Steve: Stone. Cold.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Overheard at Table 3: Apple Haters
Listen, I just want to move my songs from my iPod to my iPad, and I plug the pod into the computer and all that it comes up with is the stupid camera . . . and this isn't even an iPod that HAS a camera! Seriously, and it won't let me in to get any of the songs, and I bought the dang songs with my own money and I should be able to move them where I want to!
. . . and no, don't try to give me any of that "cloud" business, because when I purchase something I want to be able to move it where I want to - whether it's on my laptop or any other device.
Geez, I miss the days of record collections!
. . . and no, don't try to give me any of that "cloud" business, because when I purchase something I want to be able to move it where I want to - whether it's on my laptop or any other device.
Geez, I miss the days of record collections!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Overheard at Table 2: A Very Bublé Christmas
Man I skipped eating lunch today so I could go out to Best Buy, I was looking for that Michael Bublé Christmas CD my wife's always talking about, she really likes his version of All I Want for Christmas is You, but man all I could find in Christmas music was the Muppets and Mannheim Steamroller. Oh yeah, and Bob Dylan. Man, you know it's over when Bob Dylan breaks down and does a Christmas CD.
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