Monday, May 24, 2004
Home again
now playing: caedmon's call - lead of love
Visited O-town this weekend. Took the bus - 3 1/2 hours there on Saturday morning, 4 1/2 hours back Sunday night. I took a CD/MP3 player, and one of my brother's cds, but it turned out that only about 10 of the songs would actually play properly. So... i listened to the 10 songs. A lot. And then listened to them again, following one instrument at a time. And i must say that i had never realized how beautiful the strings are in three doors down // here without you. What is that, a cello? I also had never realized how monotonous the guitar's part is. The strings make the song, and i had never even noticed them.
Hats off to Shroom's church - everyone was incredibly friendly and welcoming, there was lots of singing (about 6 hymns & as the deer - i thought of you, sickens), they let the charismatic (well, charismatic by the Baptist norm) speak instead of hiding him, he used the ESV (i think someone might've told me once or twice that it's a decent version), and quoted Calvin, Sproul, Piper, and someone else (i THOUGHT he said 'Soren Kierkegarde', but somehow i'm not sure that i believe it). Very Baptist, of course - you can tell as soon as they start going through the announcements: you just KNOW that there's at least one committee behind every change from the regular schedule ;). But all in all... solid teaching, members seemed to be open and loving, small-group setup looked good, they've even got a plurality of elders going on. If i ever move to Ottawa, looks like i'm 'turning baptist'.
Oh, i'm having a party on tuesday. Dinner, movies, chocolate, and coffee (in various forms). So if you read this blog and know where i live, you're probably invited. And if you haven't been personally invited, it's probably because i've been out of town - don't take it personally. So call/email me and let me know you're coming, and i'll see you then.
Quote of the day: "The Welsh are a strange tribe of people - the only people stranger are the Scots."
- speaker at Grace Baptist Church, Ottawa
Visited O-town this weekend. Took the bus - 3 1/2 hours there on Saturday morning, 4 1/2 hours back Sunday night. I took a CD/MP3 player, and one of my brother's cds, but it turned out that only about 10 of the songs would actually play properly. So... i listened to the 10 songs. A lot. And then listened to them again, following one instrument at a time. And i must say that i had never realized how beautiful the strings are in three doors down // here without you. What is that, a cello? I also had never realized how monotonous the guitar's part is. The strings make the song, and i had never even noticed them.
Hats off to Shroom's church - everyone was incredibly friendly and welcoming, there was lots of singing (about 6 hymns & as the deer - i thought of you, sickens), they let the charismatic (well, charismatic by the Baptist norm) speak instead of hiding him, he used the ESV (i think someone might've told me once or twice that it's a decent version), and quoted Calvin, Sproul, Piper, and someone else (i THOUGHT he said 'Soren Kierkegarde', but somehow i'm not sure that i believe it). Very Baptist, of course - you can tell as soon as they start going through the announcements: you just KNOW that there's at least one committee behind every change from the regular schedule ;). But all in all... solid teaching, members seemed to be open and loving, small-group setup looked good, they've even got a plurality of elders going on. If i ever move to Ottawa, looks like i'm 'turning baptist'.
Oh, i'm having a party on tuesday. Dinner, movies, chocolate, and coffee (in various forms). So if you read this blog and know where i live, you're probably invited. And if you haven't been personally invited, it's probably because i've been out of town - don't take it personally. So call/email me and let me know you're coming, and i'll see you then.
Quote of the day: "The Welsh are a strange tribe of people - the only people stranger are the Scots."
- speaker at Grace Baptist Church, Ottawa
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