Rick on January 4th, 2009

When you play in a praise team band, you have to have the ability to change everything on very short notice. Therefore, I propose this as the new praise team mascot and motto for all denominations that have more than a piano player/organist on the platform on Sunday mornings.

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Rick on December 6th, 2008

I’m a little slow sometimes to make what to others are the obvious connections, and so it was with this snippet of lyric from one of my favorite singer/songwriters. Humor me for a few moments while I try to string a few thoughts together into a post worth reading.
“Every ghost that calls upon us brings [...]

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Rick on November 22nd, 2008

In yet another example of the useless posthumous that so many institutions seem to feel the need to put out these days, the Vatican has announced it has forgiven John Lennon for his remark about the Beatles being more famous than Jesus. The comment caused an uproar, no question - but I think the folks [...]

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Rick on November 13th, 2008

It has been a little while since I’ve listened to Don Henley’s solo work, but the title of this post (from the song of the same name on his The End of the Innocence disc) says a lot about where I’m at right now. Bear with me - this might be entertaining for some of [...]

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Rick on October 12th, 2008

It must be an age thing - while I have iTunes installed on my PC’s, I don’t currently own an iPod. Lugging a PC around (even if it is a Mac laptop) to listen to music might seem like overkill, but I at least can do other things on it, and the screen is far [...]

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