j.

Absalom - Foley

2010-09-22T12:09:00.001-04:00

This is from when we played at the watershed last month

it was fun.

How Great You Are

2010-09-13T18:06:00.001-04:00

How Great Thou Art by Ascend The Hill--- go listen

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur
And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

Pray for the Bohra people

2010-07-14T07:57:00.004-04:00

People Name: Bohra
Country Name: India
Population: 1,025,000
Primary Language: Gujarati
Primary Religion: Islam
% Evangelical: 0.00
Status: Unreached - have never heard the Gospel

Joshua Project

free music

2010-07-09T10:25:00.006-04:00

you can download Foley's - Depravity EP for free

somewhere between cola and boston 4am-ish

2010-07-07T12:02:00.002-04:00

2010-07-06T22:57:00.002-04:00

2010-07-06T22:42:00.002-04:00

silent giants

Q&A –How Do We Move Away From “Worshiptainment”?

2010-06-16T17:15:00.000-04:00

Q&A –How Do We Move Away From “Worshiptainment”?

The Holiness of God by Francis Chan

2010-05-26T22:32:00.000-04:00

Baptism

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Baptism 4/25 @ Brookland Baptist from Patrick Coker on Vimeo.

mothers baptized daughters
fathers baptized sons
brothers and sisters
baptized brothers and sisters
the Father was glorified
the Son has saved us.

pictures by my friend and amazing photographer Lauren Gossett.

radical

2010-05-13T15:09:00.000-04:00

About Radical from David Platt on Vimeo.

Hannah Miller so good

2010-05-12T10:30:00.002-04:00

I'm The Moon - Hannah Miller from patrick coker on Vimeo.

if you're in Greenville tonight, go see her at the Handle Bar

accepted at my worst.

2010-05-05T12:28:00.000-04:00

“Amazing as it sounds, we come with remorse and guilt over one thing and the Bible tells us we are far worse, much guiltier than we could have ever imagined. But surely this only confirms the accusation that the Christian faith is psychologically unhealthy. How are we ever to recover any healthy self-esteem with an attitude like that? What would ever possess a person to call a message like this ‘good news’? The fact is that in the cross God demonstrates the deepest law of acceptance. For to be convinced that I have been accepted, I must be convinced that I have been accepted at my worst. This is the greatest gift an intimate relationship can offer—to know that we have been accepted and forgiven in the full knowledge of who we are, an even greater knowledge than we have about ourselves. This is what the cross offers” (Rebecca Manley Pippert, Hope Has Its Reasons)

via Adam Gibson

so good

2010-05-03T14:08:00.003-04:00

Valley Maker

via scenesc and patwright

my family is so talented

2010-04-27T11:55:00.003-04:00

At My Best - Hannah Miller from patrick coker on Vimeo.

Pew Shuffle from Jeremy Lethco on Vimeo.

2010-04-12T13:00:00.000-04:00

throughout my life i've had songs that i think back on and remember how important they were to me at the time. these are songs that i listened to over and over and over again. literally on repeat.

i believe these songs shaped my life because the of the way they hit my heart at the time.

dmx - ruff riders anthem 1998

i remember being on the basketball team in middle school and my friend Ed Copes was rapping this song and I thought it was incredible. I listened to it and memorized every word, came back the next week and spit the whole song with him. it was sick. being the only white kid on the team, this helped me out a good bit.

mos def - oh no 2001
just listen to this song.. its so sick.

Black Rob - Let's Get it (video) 2002
P Diddy/Gdep/Black Rob - Special Delivery Remix (video) 2002

these two beats and videos i pretty much ran into the ground learning how to dance. Ed copes told me to listen to and watch "Let's get it" to learn how to shake, so I did. I'm positive there is some embarrassing footage, back home, of me recording myself dancing to it in my room.

nas - one mic 2003

dashboard confessional - screaming infidelities/best deceptions - senior year 2003
when i first heard dashboard, i was on a church bus, laying in the floor, coming back from carowinds, with my friends headphones on, i kept repeating it, i didn't want to give him his cd player back, i remember how heavy it made my heart feel, and how i never had heard anything like it...

bright eyes - halieh halieh haliegh - sophomore year 2004
the anger the angst and clever songwriting, and the disregard for creating music that the masses eat up, conor oberst didn't seem to care what most people think, but he wrote music that was in his heart... and that was so intriguing. it wasn't pretty but it was real.

label kills - doc sommers band - sophomore year 2004

taking back sunday - this photograph is proof - sophmore year 2004
my first taste of yelling and back and forth vocals, so amazing. my heart still jumps when i hear that D being plucked out. that whole album was such a staple in my jeep riding around clemson with crawf.

these are the songs that i remember before i left clemson and transferred to anderson.

more to come....

2010-04-12T10:55:00.001-04:00

Sweet Disposition from Fabio Barbato on Vimeo.

via wello

pumpin

2010-04-09T10:50:00.001-04:00

ichatfistpump

oh my soul.

2010-04-02T11:23:00.002-04:00

"is this my savior?
oh my soul.
my shame is crimson.
what faithless mocking."

- northern conspiracy

help haiti

2010-03-27T10:10:00.003-04:00

keep an eye here.

the haiti poster project

all proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders, there are a ton of prints. go buy one.

Diana Sudyka

2010-03-26T10:55:00.002-04:00

Diana Sudyka has some pretty awesome prints

love, mercy and grace.

2010-03-24T10:34:00.000-04:00

Twas Love that gave at greatest cost
A Life, that mine should not be lost
The Love that died in deep despair
My debt fully satisfied there

It was love that took my place
On the cross of Calvary
It was grace, redeeming grace
That paid my ransom full and free
Over sin, without, within,
I have the victory
Thro’ grace, marvellous grace
That lives in me

The Love that freely all forgives
In fullness now within me lives
Thro’ every trial this I see
His grace is sufficient for me

God’s love His mercy and His grace
Combine to raise a fallen race
His hand is ready, ere we call
Held out with forgiveness for all

oh yes.

2010-03-15T13:33:00.001-04:00

i used to watch these videos all the time when i was in high school. i almost teared up with joy when i found them again. 10 years ago.

it's all vanity but God

2010-02-23T22:15:00.005-05:00

"trahunt desideria sensualitatis ad spatiandum: sed cum hora transierit,
quid nisi gravitatem conscientiae, et cordis dispersionem reportas?"
- Thomas A Kempis

"The desires of sensuality draw us to take a walk; but when the hour shall have passed,
what do you have to report except a heaviness of conscience and a scattering of the heart?" - (literal translation)

"Our sensual desires promise us a promenade but deliver us only a dragonnade"
- Bill Griffin's translation of Kempis

"What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun?
All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. Is there a thing of which it is said, "see, this is new"?It has already been, in the ages before us.
The people of long ago are not remembered
nor will there be any remembrance of people yet to come by those who come after them."

- Ecclesiastes 1.1-14 on the vanity of this world.

praise him

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beautiful

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APRICOT, short film by Ben Briand (sponsored by his incredible actors and crew) from Moonwalk Films on Vimeo.

via dylanknight

someone should buy this

2010-02-20T11:11:00.002-05:00

Brett Aronson

2010-02-20T01:00:00.002-05:00

my words mean less than i could even say

2010-02-20T00:25:00.001-05:00

obey

2010-02-16T13:55:00.002-05:00

thank you @jack_mcdowell

random shots from the weekend

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colour revolt

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they've got some pretty cool deals going on..
they started a label and need some money

honestly

2010-02-09T23:38:00.002-05:00

i thought i would hate this album when i first bought it..
but i haven't stopped listening since.

walk

2010-02-09T15:54:00.001-05:00

"nothing is so hurtful to the life of a Christian as acting;
nothing so blessed as when our outward efforts cease and our attitudes become natural,
when our words, prayers, our very life, all become a spontaneous and unforced expression of the life within"

- watchman nee

chandler

2010-02-08T11:54:00.003-05:00

article on chandler.

take your time

to read.

toro y moi

2010-02-06T14:17:00.004-05:00

just bought this. enjoying columbia's own.

http://www.myspace.com/toroymoi

embracing accusation

2010-02-06T12:12:00.001-05:00

via mattc

The father of lies
Coming to steal
Kill and destroy
All my hopes of being good enough
I hear him saying cursed are the ones
Who can’t abide
He’s right
Alleluia he’s right!

The devil is preaching
The song of the redeemed
That I am cursed and gone astray
I cannot gain salvation
Embracing accusation

Could the father of lies
Be telling the truth
Of God to me tonight?
If the penalty of sin is death
Then death is mine
I hear him saying cursed are the ones
Who can’t abide
He’s right
Alleluia he’s right!

Oh the devil’s singing over me
An age old song
That I am cursed and gone astray
Singing the first verse so conveniently
He’s forgotten the refrain
Jesus saves!

i love these boys.

2010-02-02T14:43:00.002-05:00

2010-02-02T14:16:00.002-05:00

2010-01-30T10:39:00.000-05:00

something something chezburger

psalm 51

2010-01-29T15:46:00.001-05:00

"a broken and contrite spirit, He will not despise"

psalm 51.17

contrite - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins.

the album leaf

2010-01-29T14:24:00.002-05:00

nice

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here

haiti

2010-01-19T05:14:00.005-05:00

support haiti, get a poster.

here

or support haiti, and get on team Co-Co
here

diggin

2010-01-17T10:42:00.002-05:00

nick gentry and his vintage canvas'.

ohnine

2010-01-15T09:29:00.000-05:00

(somewhat in order)

-performed in front of people for the first time (fam vacay)
-discovered a passion for improv and acting

-lost a roommate.
-gained a roommate.
-went to florida 3 times
-saw mewithoutYou 3, maybe 4 times (cola, fla, philly)

-went surfing for the first time.

-got stung by a jellyfish
wrote a rap.

-went to DC and had the best frounder ever.

-felt the effect of sin in my own life.
-felt the effect of sin in other people's lives.
-grew closer to Jesus.

-hung out with and loved my family more.

- learned how to trust again.
- felt more encouragement than i thought possible.
- found a love for reading.
- witnessed Jesus passionately pursue people's hearts.
-witnessed life change.
-multiple times.

-closed a chapter of my life.

-learned what leading worship is like.
-felt the fear of it.
-learned more about worship with my friends (no matter how out of tune or off pitch)

-learned to slackline.

-played in some mud with my friends.
-performed originals for the first time with my friends.

-drove from 11am to 4am to boston for the first time.

-drove to philly to see mwy with friends, had my first philly cheesesteak.

-had the best new years ever.

in 2009 Jesus pursued me, and allowed me to know Him more.
He blessed me beyond belief, with the opportunities, experiences, family, friends, relationships, pain and bliss.
I learned that God is faithful even when I'm not.

"He does not deal with us according to our sins,
or repay us according to our iniquities"
- psalm 103.10

Praise God.

good God

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change my heart,
tell it what to feel,
love how you love,
know how you heal.

i am nothing

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apart from you i am nothing
Lord empty me
slay my selfish thoughts
you were on your knees
before you died you washed their feet
King without a crown
God who walked the earth
serving those who cursed your name.
God who you gave it all to take the blame.

- lilies and the sparrows (go download it)

SZYMON ROGINSKI

2009-12-22T16:47:00.004-05:00

SZYMON ROGINSKI

bah

2009-12-16T00:10:00.000-05:00

to santa, or not to santa

2009-11-26T17:18:00.006-05:00

"The flames took up all our memories,
and the seat you used to warm now sits alone."

"All I need is face in hands…
they creep towards the surface.

randy mcquien jr

2009-11-25T08:58:00.002-05:00

i like this guy.. not so much this picture.. but the others he has done.

thirtyeight

2009-11-24T18:29:00.001-05:00

"my heart pounds and my strength fails me,
and the light has also gone from my eyes.
i am feeble and crushed;
i groan because of the tumult of my heart. "

pslam

beautiful i'm not

2009-11-03T10:34:00.002-05:00

I give out my love to the closest and first taker
Completely consistent in my desire for anything but you.
How much longer will I see and not change what I do?

God change my heart from not your to yours,
from dirty to beautiful. i need you to take me and
shake me and change me. God stop me, God please stop me.

My heart desires itself not truth,
hate not love, me not you
God have my voice and rebuke my not in my sin
But, I pray you’d kill me if you'd receive Glory again.

You are beautiful and glorious and good
I’m a brute beast who praises your name much less than I should.

I constantly search for contentment and salvation with the offering I bring
I convince myself I can see when you are the only thing I’ve ever seen.

2009-10-24T02:05:00.002-04:00

i wish i hated sin like i should.

God help me.

awesome.

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i can't wait.

i'm a fan

2009-10-14T22:49:00.006-04:00

click here

2009-10-14T09:47:00.001-04:00

from wooster

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dan mccarthy

2009-10-07T11:45:00.003-04:00

dan mccarthy

end of the day

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thanks boatwright

Fifty People, One Question: New Orleans from Benjamin Reece on Vimeo.

oh precious

2009-10-01T23:44:00.001-04:00

Hey holy and dearly loved,

2009-09-29T04:28:00.001-04:00

"clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience."

- Colossians 3:12

edina tokodi

2009-09-28T11:27:00.001-04:00

dan grzeca

2009-09-28T01:06:00.003-04:00

and this

i've got some serious

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issues. and some work to do.

here we go.

just when you thought...

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it was safe,
my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered (ps 73.21).
oh God i was wrong.

as i round the corner to my new satisfaction
filling my heart with things that won't fill.
i realize my fault.... and i tell myself -
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
He is my fortress, I will not be shaken. (ps 62.6)

You are good, and i'm not even close.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside quiet waters
He restores my soul. (ps 23.2-3)

He restores my soul.
He will restore my soul.
He will restore my soul.
He will restore me.

my soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord.
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (ps 84.2)

my soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord.
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (ps 84.2)

my soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord.
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (ps 84.2)

my soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord.
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (ps 84.2)

my soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord.
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (ps 84.2)

oh God, the living God you are.

how soon is now?

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There's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand
and you leave
and you go home,
and you want to

come on and trust

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he will not, abandon you.

john 14.18

psalm 84.2

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My soul yearns, even faints,
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God.

2009-09-02T06:23:00.001-04:00

these idle moments are death to my soul.

mogwai - bat cat

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hmm.

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jay ryan.

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drew millward - mogwai

2009-08-03T13:16:00.003-04:00

2009-07-25T11:29:00.001-04:00

and my response is

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kill me,
punish me,
take my life,
give me what i deserve!

let me feel the pain, let me take the wrath and the judgement,
my own justice. take the blood from my nerves!

my sin is constantly surrounding.
your grace is painfully overwhelming.

my God, you don't deserve my punishment, my sin...
how could i accept your grace offering?
yet how can i not?

forgiveness is what i plead.
regret and disdain, i must grow, i must lead.

my thoughts have betrayed me.
but your strength will sustain me.

you're all i need,
and everything i shouldn't receive.

i should never be able to continue,
because i'm 100% the opposite of you.

God help me.

etsy.

2009-07-22T22:31:00.000-04:00

Jeff Lamm

2009-07-14T17:00:00.003-04:00

july 14 2009

2009-07-13T21:36:00.004-04:00

not as bad as i once was,
worse by any standard,
saved by grace,
i'll run to and from and see what it does,

understanding the strain my fault
i'll taste what is good,
then back to the dirt
my face is stained from the trough.

now i'm fading, and falling, an empty swell.
covered by an accented calling, a seemingly empty shell.

You're here, i know it, i know it, i know.
blindness i see, but Lord i'll go.

God of my salvation, why don't you deny me Your presence.
why don't I get what I deserve?
You're good, You're good You're good, i know and i've heard.

Your taste is good and ever so sweet,
none to compare,
even in the throws of this uncertainty.

dawn will shine again, and then return to dusk.
one day my friend, we all will trust.

it'll be good.

the void

2009-06-19T07:58:00.002-04:00

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/6749/rhea-jeong-void-lp-player.html

2009-06-14T09:59:00.002-04:00

you're welcome.

2009-04-28T22:35:00.002-04:00

a desire burning
it cries out. but i'm silent
is it You i'm longing for
could there be anything else
yet you said
it is not good
but it had been before
and now it's different
to be alone.

2009-04-27T22:05:00.001-04:00

thanks matt

it's close

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and it pierces my heart.

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I resisted coming here, to open the harbors that guard my heart (Jeremiah 23:24). Abide with me, fast falls the even tide. This darkness deepens, Lord with me abide. And what does not flow freely from You? Am I convicted of what I say? Forgive me of this pride that knows Your redemption yet shamelessly walks away. And now my life ebbs away. Night pierces my bones, and these gnawing pains never rest. And how I long for that day (when I will return to ashes and dust)(Job 30:17-19). If my steps turn from the path, or if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled, then may others reap what I have sown (Job 31:7-8). Better that I dwell in the house of the Lord who upholds all those who fall than reap this harvest of a life waged in the flesh. And what do I gain but the exchange of the truth for a lie? And a heart conditioned not to feel, callused by the nature of my pride? And now my life ebbs away.

here

wet tears

2009-04-08T10:06:00.001-04:00

love is hell

2009-04-06T14:20:00.000-04:00

2009-03-25T22:56:00.001-04:00

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2263

jwhite.

2009-03-15T10:01:00.000-04:00

sigur ros

2009-03-03T19:58:00.003-05:00

soothes my soul in a sea of raging waters.
and i fall away like button broken from its thread.
a doll torn from it's head.
all we run back to you like daughters to their fathers.

2009-02-21T23:51:00.002-05:00

and lord how much more pretending to be strong?
for this unknown intimacy i will long.
"you brought me here, now take me home."

you gave me hope.

2009-02-10T23:22:00.004-05:00

thought it rather strange to see me smile...
as I don't do too much smiling these days
constantly grasping for attention. selfishly digging my own grave.

2009-02-03T23:36:00.000-05:00

"i’m a far loss. As she picks the twig over the tree."

messes of me.

2009-01-10T23:57:00.001-05:00

We keep our confessions long and when we pray we keep it short
I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back

silencer

2009-01-03T01:50:00.003-05:00

"don't waste your lips on words... i've heard before." - mewithoutYou

more love.

2008-12-28T15:58:00.001-05:00

vintage love

2008-12-24T23:30:00.005-05:00

so i got to spend some time with my mom going through old photos.

pops

mom and pop

if you're still free start running away

2008-12-23T11:37:00.003-05:00

because we're coming for you.

c-minor

2008-11-28T01:37:00.004-05:00

do whatever makes me love you more