$5 Albums for December

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Sale Here are my 23 recommendations out of Amazon's $5 albums for December.

Music Monday 11.29.10

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Pay what you want for Dunham Van Durham's Christmas album, Christmas From the Heartland. That's my photo on the cover. And seriously, we really enjoy the album each Christmas in our home. You need to check it out, stream it, download it.

Bradford Cox of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound offers four albums of demos for FREE: Atlas Sound Bedroom Database. I've heard about a dozen songs and I'm loving it. Atlas Sound: Logos is one of my favorite albums to listen to while working ($8.99).

I shouldn't have to say how fantastic The Suburbs by Arcade Fire is. It's outstanding. Did you know you can get it today for $1.99? Yeah. Also Neon Bible is $5.99 & Funeral is $5. Here's the Spike Jonze directed video for "The Suburbs," which visualizes a very near, dark future for the burbs.

I just love the Bing Crosby/David Bowie TV duet of "Little Drummer Boy." Get Bing Crosby: I Wish You A Merry Christmas today only for $1.99. White Christmas is only $3.99. Awesome.

Amazon Black Friday Music Deals 2

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Black-friday-2010-deals-roundup-0 Here are the hottest Black Friday music deals still going as of 9am on Saturday, plus a few extra audio related things. "Lightning Deals" could be done in minutes, so go now. For these the price looks like the old price until you go to pay and will see the lightning deal discount. Other prices are good until Amazon takes them down. Tons of stuff I love here.

* = means I may not recommend, but I know some would like to know the deal is out there

MP3 Downloads (most $1.99!)...

CDs...

Other audio related items...

Amazon Black Friday Music Deals

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Music Monday 11.22.10

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I'm guessing no one would think I'd talk about Robyn's music. I don't own any of it, though her album, Body Talk, is only $3.99 today (Pitchfork 8.5/10). But I've seen her live performance of "Dancing On My Own" several times now and just love it. It's what pop music can be at its best. It has to be easy. Nothing complicated. And it hits some emotion or feeling. She puts you in a relationship scenario: She hears her old boyfriend has a new girlfriend and she needs to see for herself. So she goes to the club and is dancing and watching them together, wondering why he doesn't notice her. It's energy. It's pain and loneliness, but it's strength and healing. Don't just listen, watch. It's a great performance unlike much in the world of pop music. 

I found Eisley a long time ago. Their music is a joy, full of striking melodies and harmonies. It's at times soothing, yet often haunting. They recently played at my favorite venue in Milwaukee and I came across this video. Check out "Telescope Eyes" from Room Noises.

Coming Attractions 11.18.10

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Coming_attractions-786898 Here are a few things in the works...

1. Ads: You can see that I'm gearing up for some advertising on the right sidebar. I've thought about it for a long time & had some advertisers express some interest. I'm going to give it a go. It would be financially helpful for my family during tight times. If you are interested, click on an "Advertise Here" link. 

2. Links: I also want to add that whenever you see a link of mine to a book or music on Amazon with the Reformissiona-20 tag on it, that means I get a small cut for recommending it. It adds nothing to your cost. It's the same as if you went straight to Amazon. Essentially by buying products with my link you get same good price and help supply my book budget. I have no other book budget than this. Thanks for supporting it. And I work very hard not to just point you to anything in the hope of making some cash. I skip over recommending many deals that I don't personally want to recommended.

3. Reviews: I have reviews coming on Tim Keller's new book, Generous Justice, and Jim Elliff's reworking of Pursuing God. Both are great. Hope to get to both very soon.

4. Writing Projects: I have several blog articles in the works that have been fermenting for a while and that I'm excited about. I want to get a regular schedule for posting articles in the next couple of weeks. Look for that. I'm saying it publicly so I feel guilty if I don't get it started. :)

5. Phriday is for Photos: I haven't been very active in photography lately, but I'm also planning on getting it kicking again. 

6. Molly: I know it doesn't seem like a very cool "coming attraction," but expect more soon about my wife's battle with Chiari I Malformation. The blog has helped her to connect and minister to many women who are suffering the same things and scared. 

7. Tim Keller Resources: It's been a while since I seriously worked on my TK Resource page. Without doing anything a few things there look broken. I hope to get it back in shape for your resourcing pleasure.

Tim Keller: Urban Plant Life PDFs

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13_logo Here are PDF's of talks Tim Keller gave at the Urban Plant Life conference in London a couple of years ago. You can also check out the audio/video or grab the podcast. But having documents you can print and search is very helpful. Thanks to @BradAndrews for the heads-up.

1. Gospel Renewal
2. Church & Culture
3. Contextual & Missional
4. Gospel Theology
5. Integrative Ministry
6. Gospel Preaching
7. Gospel Theology
8. Movement Dynamics
9. Church Planting

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Arcade Fire on SNL

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Arcade Fire played SNL again, and were great. Here's "We Used To Wait" & "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)." By the way, the worst thing about Arcade Fire, and maybe the only bad thing, is Win Butlers hair. Truth in love.

 

Ligonier Commentaries (Keith Mathison)

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Music Monday 11.15.10

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Jónsi was on Fallon playing "Sticks & Stones" from the soundtrack of How To Train Your Dragon. His album, Go, is more of the same beauty & awesomeness.  

I've thoroughly enjoyed (and reviewed!) Miranda Dodson's album, Change A Thing. New music popped up recently on YouTube from Miranda and I've been looking forward to passing it on to you. Here's "They Will Write a Book." I dig it.