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So, I received my first issue of Collide Magazine (Nov/Dec 07 issue).

First off, this issue is great! I give it 2 thumbs up.

As a whole, I believe I’m going to really benefit from the subscription. The writing is fresh and Collide really tackles the creative and philosophical side of media in ministry in an informative manner. I have subscriptions to Worship Leader and Church Production that are extremely interesting each issue from a technological standpoint, but Collide seems to fill in the gaps from the “right-brained” creative side.

From this issue, my favorite articles are:

Murdering Rembrandt: How to Kill Artists in Your Local Church by Gary Molander. This article takes a look at how to encourage and develop artists (contrary to the sarcastic title).

Visual Worship by Camron Ware, which is a nice 2-page article about using fonts, colors, and projectors to create visual environments.

Sermon Graphics in Ten Minutes by John Falke which is a great resource for small churches or designers looking to modernize their sermon series graphic presentation slides and print media that goes along with it.

Overall, I definitely recommend a subscription if you haven’t already. It’s an easy to read, yet informative and inspirational read. The design is fresh and clean. The ads are relevant. Good stuff.

Check out the website and blog at: www.CollideMagazine.com

If you’ve been around the worship leader blog block lately you might have come across the “re-emergence” of a terrible rendition of the Christmas song, “O Holy Night”…

(Do a google search on “bad O Holy Night”)

which was attributed to Fred McKinnon, one of my friends who is a worship director in Saint Simon’s Island, GA. Today, in a series of clips of a phone interview Fred reveals the true “singer” behind the now infamous rendition.

Head on over to Fred’s Blog to check it out.

O Holy Crap Revealed

Also be sure to check out the ENTIRE series to get all the HILARIOUS background information. Including a radio station out in San Fran who back in 1994 2006 ran it in a bad Christmas song competition claiming that Fred was the singer the whole time.

Worship confessional for Sunday November 11, 2007.

Set list:
Everlasting God
Better Than Life
Your Love is Beautiful

Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)

If you’re viewing this in a reader head over to the blog to view the video.

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Martin Luther B-Day!

Martin Luther

I’m not a “Lutheran” but I am a “Protestant” so a big thanks to Marty for taking a theological stand when the established “church” had evolved into a muck of non-biblical politics and corruption.

500ish years ago and the profound impact of Luther’s stand is still the backbone of the way a huge portion of Christianity is lived out today.

Thanks, bro. May we all have the courage and confidence to stand when others won’t.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

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Hey, I thought I’d share a little of the behind the scenes action here at Ordinary Radical. Obviously, we all know that the blog world is made up of people who network and with that in mind I’d like to list the top 3 referrers to my blog for last month.

This doesn’t include blogger.com or google (they were the top 2)…

1) Ragamuffin Soul
2) The Worship Community
3) Just A Girl

Thanks guys for visiting and continue to visit these great blogs and forums!

Also, please visit these blogs/websites who were also referrers to Ordinary Radical.

House of Joy
Cries of the Heart
Milestone Worship
Fred McKinnon
Billy Chia
AC180
Mudpuppy
Shaun Groves

Again, thanks for visiting, and keep on networking!!
God’s Best…

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