hmm...

Here's a challenge...

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:43:21 -0800

Exegesis: an attempt to discover the meaning of the text objectively, starting with the text and moving out from there

Eisegesis: to import a subjective, preconceived meaning into the text

The bottom line is that we can easily pursue just about any lifestyle we desire, then find Scriptures to show everyone it’s all right to live that way. But what would it look like to live exegetically? If we were to start with Scripture and allow it to dictate our actions, how would we live?
~Francis Chan, Forgotten God, pp 23,24

That’s a challenge to all Christians out there.

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Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:52:38 -0800

Donna

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:16:18 -0700

For most, Donna’s another name among the billions of individuals in this world, among the millions in the United States, among the hundreds of thousands in the state of California. But just as this name is as unnoticeable among all these other names, it is this name (and many others) that God chose to include in this grand plan. The God, the Father that created heaven and earth, and created stars as numerous as the sands on the beach, He chose to make this one name, this one person significant. I’m lucky enough to tell this small, short instance of time. Perhaps completing its purpose in my life, or just sowing the seeds what will entail, this is her story.

This was the week preceding The Hill, a conference in LA, a conference I looked forward to attending. Leading up to the conference, a thought lingered in my prayers: Why am I going to this conference? It was not a lack of excitement, nor a nervousness, nor a dreading of the six-hour drive down, but a loss of direction/purpose. Even as I prayed for myself and this event, I did not know how to prepare for the event.

It was October 4th. I was grabbing dinner before heading over to a friend’s house for a NBA 2K12 game launch. I walked into the Jack with this ridiculous song stuck in my head, so my head was bobbing/bouncing to this tune. As I walked to and waited in line, there was a homeless woman finishing on her sourdough jack. She noticed my head bobbing, got my attention and we started exchanging comments and thoughts. I planned to drop off a portion of my fries to her before heading of to playing virtual basketball, but I did not expect what came next.

When I poured out half of my fries on her tray, her eyes completely lit up, almost in shock. With these glistening eyes, she followed to ask, “Do you know Him?” I answered an acknowledgement of the great Jesus Christ….. and suddenly I started seeing tears pour from her eyes as she shared how precious Jesus was to her.

“When Jesus fell down, I fell down. Like how God picked him up, He picked me up also.”

…………
Her whole face out-poured this radiance as she spoke about God. As she shared, I find myself in admiration, holding back the tears I wanted to share alongside in that Jack lobby. It’s been a while seeing someone so overwhelmingly excited to talk about the Lord Jesus to a completely stranger, much less a person like myself. I instead find myself equally overwhelmed with an awe. Even after leaving, I could not stop smiling, holding back those same tears and unable to wipe this huge smile off my face. I could not stop thanking the One for crossing paths with Donna, knowing that God will take care of her long after that night.

Little did I know, God softened my heart that night. He softened my heart so that I might hear His message at the Hill; that I may be excited to sing praises to my Father alongside other brothers and sisters; that I may want to. What will result from Donna? The Hill? He knows what, and time’ll tell that tale in eternity.

This came the same day a great passed away, along with others whose lives were cut short in. While their future are unknown to me, one thing is certain: God sees Donna as His precious child.

Donna, I love you. While a simple statement of gratitude will never do His work justice, it will have to suffice.

Thank you

theunresolved7th: I was literally smiling and bobbing my head...

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:41:59 -0700

theunresolved7th:

I was literally smiling and bobbing my head through the whole thing. cobus is awesome!

pretty sweat

rediscovered old song. oh sweet presence

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:33:21 -0700

rediscovered old song. oh sweet presence

"If Jesus wasn’t executed there’s no celebration."

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:19:00 -0700

““If Jesus wasn’t executed there’s no celebration.””

- Lecrae, Shadows

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Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:20:41 -0700

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Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:46:05 -0700

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Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:45:18 -0700

mmmmm=D

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:12:12 -0700

mmmmm
=D

never thought of it that way before…

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:59:22 -0700

never thought of it that way before…

I'll miss ya David Crowder* Band =(

Fri, 27 May 2011 18:30:00 -0700

Important News From Crowder Band

We have several things to let you know about.

First of all, we can’t begin to express how excited we are getting about The 7 Tour this fall. If you haven’t heard yet, we’re doing a national tour with some of our favorite artists ever. Gungor, John Mark McMillan, and Chris August are joining us, and we cannot wait to be in the same room with these folks night after night. We’re pretty sure you’ll want to be at every single one of these get-togethers. “Unreasonable!” you say? Well, not to us. That’s why we’ll be there every single night. Seriously, we, the band, are all getting on a bus and following the whole thing around for like 3 months. It’s going to be awesome.

Now, another reason we are sure this will be one of the most meaningful tours we’ve ever been on is because it will be our last as a band. This is why we so cleverly named it The 7 Tour. We’ve always hidden this little number here and there in our music and artwork, sometimes it would appear in the sum of the numerals 3 and 4, and other times it would be sitting there outright, but it’s always been with us. As you know, the number 7 has often been used to represent completion, and that feels exactly where we are as a band.

The David Crowder*Band was formed in the year two thousand; it was the dawn of a millennium, Y2K was upon us, and out of this chaos was born the DC*B. That sounds way more epic than we intend it, but it is fact. We signed a 3 album deal with our friends at sixstepsrecords who are part of the EMI/CMG family. We didn’t want to be presumptuous, presuming there would be more than those first three albums, but we hoped. And so we began discussions about building a 6 album set, the second three, if we were ever to have the great privilege of recording them, would be loosely associated with the first three, you know, sort of like how in the creation story day one is related to day four, as in, first there is light, then on the fourth day the sun and moon and stars appear. We do these things because we are quite nerdy and also because we hope to inject meaning wherever and whenever we are able. We also like structure, and this seemed a pretty nifty structure to work within, since, well, it is one of the greatest stories ever. And sure enough, we have had the happy fortune to record five full-length albums and are hard at work on the 6th right now.

The problem, or the beauty, is that we’ve never been able to see past album 6. In the meantime, a lot of life has happened. It is now 2011 (this is for anyone who may not have been paying attention) and in eleven years there have been many twists and turns. Each of us has gotten married. New humans have arrived as a result of these marriages, 5 to be exact. We have also lost some really good friends to death along the way and have gotten to celebrate together that death is not the end of things. It’s really crazy to think that we have lived over a decade of life together. And, in the middle of all this life, we have gotten to make music that was a reflection of what was happening among us. We have attempted, to the best of our ability, to insert all of these twists and turns into our music, hoping that our responses to God in the midst of these moments would be an aid to others.

At the first of this year we began discussing what was next. For a long while, we have had a good idea what we were going to do for album number 6; we were going to record a Mass. Ambitious, maybe, but we had been working out the details of how it would connect to A Collision, you know the one with the boy and the atom on the cover. Mass happens to be a term used in physics, and this was exciting to us. But we also began conversations about what was to follow this sixth album. Some of us discussed maybe going back to school. Some of us talked about how great it might feel to be home with family more. Some mentioned maybe writing for a living, or at least getting to give more attention to it. Some talked about more music to be made and who they might enjoy making it with and how great it would be to have more diverse options open to them and the excitement they felt when thinking about those options (as in, if this was to be the period at the end of a sentence, they couldn’t wait to read the next paragraph!) And, out of these discussions, the decision was reached that this sixth album would be our last. None of us is sure what’s next, but we’re not afraid. We’re, in fact, really, really excited! And we’re sure that music will play a role in the future for most, if not all, of us, since, well, we wouldn’t know how to not have it a part of our lives. To what extent that will be, none of us is sure. We are hopeful and expecting, and praying that what is ahead of us deepens our need and experience of redemption and multiplies our ability and effectiveness in expressing the story of God in light of the call he has on each of our lives.

We are forever grateful for the support we have had from our church community, both local and extended. Really. It has been beautiful, all of it. And we will most definitely keep you informed as things progress and life’s new twists and turns start to make themselves more apparent.

In the meantime, as you can imagine, this album we’re working on is pretty special to us. Fittingly enough, it seems our little Mass has turned itself into a Requiem. We’d love your prayers as we endeavor to put a period at the end of this sentence. And obviously it was not overstated when we said The 7 Tour will be a thing you may not want to miss. We would love for you to join us for one last evening together, singing these songs that God has allowed us to carry.

With Love and Gratitude,
The DC*B

From: davidcrowderband.com

rocketboom: Space Invader Chairs how AWESOME is that?!

Wed, 25 May 2011 21:25:37 -0700

rocketboom:

Space Invader Chairs

how AWESOME is that?!

Period of Questions

Tue, 17 May 2011 19:05:07 -0700

Sorry for disappearing from blogging for so long. its been crazy keeping up with school: papers, midterms, homework, Pulse. =)

If you don’t know already, I will graduate in a few weeks. Its been a long journey during the past six years. Now that I’m actually weeks away from walking through the graduation ceremony, hearing those speakers talk for three hours, etc etc… Almost surreal, but so excited to start working for the rest of my life. mwuhahaha =P

As school comes closer to ending, people have asked me various questions in curiosity: ‘What are your plans afterwards?’, ‘Do you have something lined up afterwards?’ Alongside those are questions unrelated to academics: ‘Will you be moving?’, ‘What will you miss from school?’, ‘Will you miss Pulse?’ among others.

I’m fortunate enough to not have answers for all these questions. I say fortunate because my dependency is not on knowing the answers. Sure, I have some idea of what I want to do as a career. Sure, I’d like to continuing serving at my home church and grow myself and the congregates there. But honestly, the answers I have are not clear and distinctive. This stems back to my final major change to economics. Basically, God led me to this major and wanted me to stick to it, not knowing what career it’ll lead to. And basically, I followed His lead.

While so many questions remain inconclusive and unanswered, I have completely trust in His provision for me in all aspects of my life: relationships, career, His greater calling for me in a church and also His people.

Will be a great time, just have to get there. =)

fuck-yeah-tumblrs-best-posts: Submitted...

Tue, 17 May 2011 19:03:41 -0700

fuck-yeah-tumblrs-best-posts:

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those little joys =)

MY SISTER'S COMING HOME IN TWO WEEKS

Sun, 15 May 2011 20:41:06 -0700

A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you're a great guy, but I don't like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we're not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we're going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn't work out, we'll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.

Sun, 15 May 2011 19:39:25 -0700

justinchien:

coffeeinmy:

very-anonymous:

-LOL soooo true!

management sucks, huh

wtf. freaking girls. -_-

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bah not again...

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:36:10 -0700

http://www.car-insurance.com/what-determines-my-car-insurance-rates-infographic.html

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:14:33 -0700

http://www.car-insurance.com/what-determines-my-car-insurance-rates-infographic.html:

information yay!

You ARE with me

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:11:28 -0700

You ARE with me