Went to a concert with Sarah and Kim Friday in Calgary. Thousand Foot Krutch and Alberta boys Jake opened for the Newsboys. I felt mostly like on observer until Newboys did an extend version of Breakfast during their "encore" set. That rocked. I surprised that all the kids in the crowd knew that song as it dates back to 1996. Breakfast is a Steve Taylor song that he wrote for them for Take Me To Your Leader, which Taylor produced. In my humble opinion Steve Taylor is a genius. Who else could write a funeral song that becomes a signature song for a pop/rock band?

I saw some very cool t-shirts in the crowd from, Rock For Life. I think I'll spend some time on their web site to see get a better feel for them as a group. Personally I think there is more to being pro life than just being anti abortion, but that's good place to start. One of thing I do like about Rock for Life is that they understand that the Pro Life / Abortion struggle is first and fore most a culture struggle, and the laws won't, can't change in any meaningful way until the culture does.

As Sarah was getting autographs, I got to ask the Toby,lead guy from Jake what he thought about The Disciples, a CBC Witness documentary on Christian Rock focusing on Jake. He was pretty non committal, answering that some people liked it and some people hated it. Talk about a non answer. Of course the autograph line isn't the best place to get into a serious discussion. One of the scenes in the in The Disciples shows Toby dying his hair blue and how the record label people freak out, and force him to change it back. I mentioned that I liked the blue hair and he laughed saying he thought it was a good idea at the time. So while I wish I'd gotten a strait answer on The Disciples episode, I'll give him kudos for having a sense of humor.

-Peace

True North Email

As I mentioned earlier Kevin Frank has started a new syndicated comic strip called True North. True North is now available on line. You can even sign up to receive it by email. I loved yesterday's strip on strong decaff coffe.

-Peace

I haven't been on for a week and Dave complained

I guess I've been blogged down.

(there are some worse puns on the net)



I have had a tough week spiritually. I've been quite depressed about my lack of progress as a Christian.

I found a site to remind me of who Jesus has called me to be.



I have also been working on our church's website.



Well, have a good one everybody.

At this point we could rename Ideola "Three Guys and an American". Jolene Schneiderman has agreed to join us canuck guys in this blogging experiment. I met Jolene in Edmonton where she was studying at NABC/EBS (now Taylor University College) On top of being a trained minister, she’s got great taste in music, she’s funny and not too hard to look at :). Yeah I know Chistian - happily married - guys aren’t supposed to notice, but oh well. Welcome aboard Jolene!

-Peace

I'd like to welcome Steve Page to Ideola. Steve and I grew up together in Fredricton NB. I wrote my first usefull program with Steve on my Comedore 64 to track our badminton scores. I still remember hundereds of lines of code to just open a file. We never did add the feature to track the number of rackets that Steve broke :) We also did shows together at CHSR, Steve did a clasical music show, I did the Wild Frontier (Chirstian Rock) show, we did the New and Improved Show (eclectic, comedy) together When I moved to Edmonton Steve took over the Wild Frontier.

Steve's got a masters of comp sci and a masters of divinity, I'll let him explain the connection. Welcome to the blog Steve :)

From the gee that makes me feel old dept. After giving Mike’s MP3.com page a couple of spins, I’ve been checking up on some favorite bands at MP3.com The Choir has new box set covering the first 20 years.

20 years! I guess that mean’s they’re not the Youth Choir any more. I’ve been listening to The Choir since Jr. High School. That’s over half a life time a go now. Oh well at least I wasn’t a Michael Jackson fan in the 80’s :)

Speaking of favorite bands on MP3.com here’s a quick list
Michael Fox - Cause he’s my friend! And because his art is honest and raw and touches me in away only the art of close friend can
The Choir – smart honest music/poetry about life, love and faith
77’s – Rock and Roll about ...
Daniel Amos, DA – the real old men of Modern Alternative Christian music :) Creative, funny, and deep, oftern all at once. You’ve got to love thease guys.
The Lost Dogs – Guys from the Choir, 77’s and DA do country rock.
The Echoing Green – I first heard these guys on MP3.com, Thier CD SuperNova kicks! It’s great power techo pop with an energitic message to match
Via Voce - Friends of the Echoing Green, an unpretensious alt rock band.

-Peace

I read about the Student Cross Canada Photography Exhibit (Winner of the Longest Domanin Name Award) in the Toronto Star this week. There’s the usual stunning scenery. But what caught my attention were the photos that were a bit more creative/humorous. Great use of shadows by Audrey Brown and Chelsea McCauley. Shannon McCauley has a creative angle.

I’m headed out of the city to go camping this weekend, with folks from the Freeway, so I hope to see some of this scenery myself

-Peace

Mikes prayer log: Today is Tuesday and I pray for a group of people who are going to be doing intercessory prayer for the community, church, city, country, and other needs.

If it sounds redundant I can only say that I believe it is very important to cover prayer with,.. well,.. prayer.

So I pray that God will prepare their hearts and bring to their minds those things that He would have them mediate for in prayer.



We can pray that because Jesus is the great mediator 1 Timothy 2:5

and we are called to do what Jesus did (1 Cor. 11:1)

Just a quick post, Must say I love Mike's MP3.com page. That made my day :) Mike you will have to post here when you update the page, or get news about it (stats, awards, you know, whatever) I'll add your page to the recomended list.

I've told just about everyone that would listen that my goal for this summer is to do 1000 km on my mountian bike (it's a brodie) As of yesterday (May 31) I'm at 185 km on my CAT EYE ENDURO 2. I did 26 km before getting the bike computer installed, for a total of 211 km. My goal was 250, but I'm still happy with that. So for June I want to do 250 plus make up the 39 short fall. I'm doing 13 km a day, each time I ride to work. I'll update my progress again at the end of june.

-Peace