Christian Support Club

[Crystal]

That IS an incredible video. I was kind of wondering where it was going, but yeah, 4:34 was really moving.

[Komori]

Oh, my church did that skit a couple weeks back! It was the first time I had seen it, I'm pretty sure I was crying by the end of it. X3

[Deleted]

may I join please? =)

[Komori]

icecradle said:

may I join please? =)

Of course! ;D

[Bacon]

Join.

[Komori]

seduphe said:

Join.

^__^ Added.

[Tk ∆]

I'd like to add to the prayer list...

Tomorrow, my best friends eleven year old brother is having back surgery, we just want everything to go well...

[Komori]

Tk, I've added you to the list. I'll be praying for everything to go well! <3

[Bacon]

ghostkomori said:

For anyone who'd like to listen to some really great Christian rock, there's an online radio station called Air1. The music isn't corny, and it's not your Gregorian chanting or hymns, it's real music you could hear on the normal radio, only with a positive message. I actually was never much into Christian music until I learned of this station, but now I'm hooked.

Check it out if you'd like. ;D

www.air1.com

I also recommend www.kvrk.com and www.klove.com .

KVRK, AKA 89.7 Power FM in North Texas/South Oklahoma(in OK it is on an identical wavelength to the Christian Rock station 89.7 The House, as me and my sister found out by accident once) is a Christian Rock station, so it's mostly rockier stuff. Ya'know, Anberlin, Disciple, Family Force 5, Skillet, that sort of thing. Good decent Christian music.

KLove is almost identical to Air1 in terms of music style, although I like its format and the DJs better.



On a slightly related topic, I like all the negative stereotypes attached to Christian Music because they're completely baseless, considering how:

A. In one year, Boom by P.O.D.(Payable On Death) was used in two movie ads, one for a Dungeons and Dragons movie, another for some surfing movie; in the same year, Alive by P.O.D. was used in a SeaWorld Orca show. More recently, Shine On by... somebody... was used in ads for The Last Mimzy, which if you watch, is not Christian, but more of a mix of Atheistic and Buddhist.

B. This is Your Life by Switchfoot, We Live by Superchick and more have been used in ads for TV shows. And not Christian TV shows, either.

C. This is the Slam by Tobymac has been used in ads for X Games.

D. Many Christian Rock songs' lyrics, such as Thrice's Image of the Invisible, have strongly religious messages and are accepted by the masses anyways, often, as best I can understand, because the masses are blind to the message like people told parables in Jesus' day. Look at how many music videos for Image of the Invisible there are on YouTube, then read the lyrics and see for yourself the Christian message in this popular song.

[podgeb]

seduphe said:

ghostkomori said:

For anyone who'd like to listen to some really great Christian rock, there's an online radio station called Air1. The music isn't corny, and it's not your Gregorian chanting or hymns, it's real music you could hear on the normal radio, only with a positive message. I actually was never much into Christian music until I learned of this station, but now I'm hooked.

Check it out if you'd like. ;D

www.air1.com

I also recommend www.kvrk.com and www.klove.com .

KVRK, AKA 89.7 Power FM in North Texas/South Oklahoma(in OK it is on an identical wavelength to the Christian Rock station 89.7 The House, as me and my sister found out by accident once) is a Christian Rock station, so it's mostly rockier stuff. Ya'know, Anberlin, Disciple, Family Force 5, Skillet, that sort of thing. Good decent Christian music.

KLove is almost identical to Air1 in terms of music style, although I like its format and the DJs better.



On a slightly related topic, I like all the negative stereotypes attached to Christian Music because they're completely baseless, considering how:

A. In one year, Boom by P.O.D.(Payable On Death) was used in two movie ads, one for a Dungeons and Dragons movie, another for some surfing movie; in the same year, Alive by P.O.D. was used in a SeaWorld Orca show. More recently, Shine On by... somebody... was used in ads for The Last Mimzy, which if you watch, is not Christian, but more of a mix of Atheistic and Buddhist.

B. This is Your Life by Switchfoot, We Live by Superchick and more have been used in ads for TV shows. And not Christian TV shows, either.

C. This is the Slam by Tobymac has been used in ads for X Games.

D. Many Christian Rock songs' lyrics, such as Thrice's Image of the Invisible, have strongly religious messages and are accepted by the masses anyways, often, as best I can understand, because the masses are blind to the message like people told parables in Jesus' day. Look at how many music videos for Image of the Invisible there are on YouTube, then read the lyrics and see for yourself the Christian message in this popular song.

I know exactly what you mean! When my friend sent me some Thousand Foot Krutch songs, telling me they were christian metal, I was fairly dubious, but had a listen, and they were amazing!
Since getting back into religion recently, I find myself appreciating the lyrics more and more, especially the lack of profanity!

[Komori]

Ohh, thanks for the additional links! I think I've heard KLove on the radio back home in Virginia, though when I'm down in Savannah, Air1 is the only one I can pick up in my car's radio.

I also agree, I love how a lot of the music can be uplifting spiritually, yet not beat you over the head with "Jesus is awesome!" lyrics. (Though those songs are still awesome. "Jesus Freak" is still one of my faves. :3 ) In fact, I had heard some of those songs on secular radio stations, before I ever got into Christian rock. Then I heard them on Christian stations and was like, "Ohhhhhhhh, so that's what those lyrics really mean! XD"

I've never heard of Payable On Death, maybe I'll check them out. :3 Some of my fave bands are Casting Crowns, Tobymac, Jars of Clay, and the Newsboys. But I'm such a newbie when it comes to that sort of music, I've only been listening for a few years. Thankfully my roommate has lots of cds I can borrow. ^^

[Bacon]

ghostkomori said:

Ohh, thanks for the additional links! I think I've heard KLove on the radio back home in Virginia, though when I'm down in Savannah, Air1 is the only one I can pick up in my car's radio.

I also agree, I love how a lot of the music can be uplifting spiritually, yet not beat you over the head with "Jesus is awesome!" lyrics. (Though those songs are still awesome. "Jesus Freak" is still one of my faves. :3 ) In fact, I had heard some of those songs on secular radio stations, before I ever got into Christian rock. Then I heard them on Christian stations and was like, "Ohhhhhhhh, so that's what those lyrics really mean! XD"

I've never heard of Payable On Death, maybe I'll check them out. :3 Some of my fave bands are Casting Crowns, Tobymac, Jars of Clay, and the Newsboys. But I'm such a newbie when it comes to that sort of music, I've only been listening for a few years. Thankfully my roommate has lots of cds I can borrow. ^^

Payable On Death is the band's full name, but all their CDs and songs etc. say just P.O.D.

I've grown up listening to P.O.D., Audio Adrenaline, and DC Talk, and sincerely wait for the day the lattermost reunites, which surely they will sooner or later. (Tobymac is actually one of the solo careers of DC Talk's three members, the others being TAIT and Kevin Max, if anyone didn't know.)

I love all the bands you mentioned, but I'm also recently into Skillet, Sanctus Real, Building 429, Day of Fire, Pillar, and a really good one man Indy Christian rock band called The Rocket Summer.

Oh, and upcoming artist Brooke Barretsmith. I saw her on tour with Pillar, Building 429 and Wavorly. She's really good, but her debut CD isn't out yet. I preordered it at the concert, though.

Sorry if this music discussion is a bit off-topic, I just have a passion for Christian Rock.

[Komori]

So, does anyone know of a good place to get some nice Christian tshirts or patches?

Air1 links to this crazy Christian gear site:
www.c28.com/
The stuff looks cool, but it's just too X-treme for me. :3

[Deleted]

I would like to join, please. ^^

I'd also like to make a note that St. Anthony has been a great help to me. Every time I prayed to him asking him to intercede on my behalf so that I could find something I lost (I end up doing this about once a week ^^;...) I always, ALWAYS end up finding it. (The one exception was when I lost my graphing calculator in another city and didn't find out until I got home. I prayed and prayed that I would find it, but I didn't. I expected Dad to be FURIOUS- but he didn't get angry at me. He just told me "These things happen" and we got a new one.)

[sarahleeadvent]

My parents are going through a really messy divorce right now (actually, they have been for the last two years) and we're in the middle of a custody battle. My sisters and I want to stay with mom, but most of the people involved in the situation don't want us to. Due to an appallingly biased social worker's report, and a judge who was willing to take her blatant lies about our family and basically treat everything that she and my dad said as uncontested truth, we just lost my youngest sister to my dad. (Technically, all three of us are supposed to go live with him, but since I'm eighteen and one of my sisters is fifteen, the two of us are safe.)

My dad is extremely narrow-minded and in-the-box, and is totally willing to put tradition and his comfort zone above the hopes, dreams and needs of others, his offspring included. For example, he's so obsessed with making sure that we're 'normal' that, when my middle sister and I were in our early teens (or maybe a little younger- I forget), he bribed us to wax our legs without any supervision. (MAJOR ouch! I still have bald spots on my legs because I managed to hurt them enough that the hair won't grow back.) Even now, he claims that leg hair is 'unnatural', and is so upset that we have it that he brought it before the legal system as a sign of social ineptitude. Welcome to my dad's mindset.

Also, mom's trying to teach my sisters and I to make money through business, investing and publishing our novels, so that we don't end up having to spend most of our lives working in a dead-end job that has nothing to do with the things we're passionate about. But since that's not 'normal', dad's response to it is to say that plan is 'cockamamie' (he'd rather we got jobs at McDonalds), give us a condescending look, and claim that 'that is why you need counseling'. Actually, 'that is why you need counseling' seems to be his response to many of the opinions my fifteen-year-old sister and I put forth. He also accuses mom of being mentally unstable, but refuses to give any reason that will hold water. And he accuses my sister and I of social ineptitude (despite the fact that he has seldom ever seen us interacting with other people, and doesn't have a clue how we actually handle social situations). Basically, it seems he'll say anything he wants to in order to make us look bad and get what he wants, regardless of whether or not it's true.

Furthermore, he has been known to try to talk me into wearing a bikini. (For whose benefit would this be?) And he bought a pink, lacy nightie for my sister and claimed to look forward to seeing her in it.

I could go on an on, but the point is: I want my seven-year-old sister to be raised well and to have a good life, which I doubt is going to happen in his hands. And judging by the Emails I've gotten from my cousins, who blindly and vigorously defend dad's position without even attempting to see my side of the story, we've probably got dad's entire side of the family praying against us, which might be part of the reason for the uncanny power of persuasion that dad seems to have over the legal system. All in all, we're fighting an uphill battle, and we really need help. Please pray that, when we appeal the court's decision, they change their minds and give my sister back.

Thanks.