Here’s a post to my blog.

It’s been a while.

A ton has happened.

Literally.

A TON.

I’ll get to all of that in a little bit.

Thanks for paying heed.

Jesus loves us all.

The day is here…”In Our Pardon” has finally been released on iTunes and Bandcamp!  It’s a huge day, personally, and I hope that you will share in that with me.

If you’ve got $10 bucks and/or if you like electronic music and/or if you happen to want to hear something about Jesus, click the link below:

iTunes

Also, in the sidebar, you can have a listen to the album first on Bandcamp.  If you don’t have iTunes, you can get it from there as well.  And if you don’t have $10, well, e-mail me and I’ll just send you a copy.  I’ll have hard copies coming, but this has all been pretty piecemeal and expensive, so I’ve got to wait a little bit until more can be printed.  Your support is needed (production costs aren’t cheap!) and always appreciated.

I hope God blesses you in listening to this music as much as He has blessed me in making and producing it.  This is all a huge departure from where I had planned on, but I’m excited that it ended up where it did.  I learned a ton about electronic production and even more about Biblical ideals through the process.  I’m pretty proud of most of this, but, more importantly, I feel like it’s got a lot of solid Gospel truth that needs to be heard as much as possible.

So, I’ve been on my first vacation in about 2 and a half years for the past couple of days, and it’s been a complete joy having family and friends up at a rental house here in South Jersey (Ocean City, actually). I had to bid most of them “Adieu” earlier today, amidst tears and sorrow. I am blessed to have the greatest extended “family” I’ve ever heard of and they are all doing completely awesome things in their own lives, furthering the Kingdom and having a great time in their own lives.

But, back to work!

First off, some recent stuff…I preached at Mission Point a couple of weeks ago while Pastor James was off retrieving his 2 new adopted children from Ethiopia (who are awesome, I might add!)…if you missed it, or just want to hear some ramblings about hell, heaven, and love, have at it:

Questions – Week 6 – Do Heaven and Hell Really Exist? from Mission Point Church on Vimeo.

BUT…the bigger stuff is this…..my new album, “In Our Pardon”, is coming verrrrrrry, very soon…I’m getting the masters back as we speak and artwork is in the process.  This site will be going through a complete redesign over the next couple of weeks, as well.

In the meantime, however, here’s a couple of the mastered tracks for you to take a shot at:

In Our Pardon by chinomage

Off Beat by chinomage

My Heart, Your Palace by chinomage

Harmonics by chinomage

And there’s an entire album on the way!  I’ve been praying that God has His way in all of this, that He is the true heart of all of this, and I hope that shines forth in everything that happens going forward.  On top of all of that, though, I’m just excited to have this project almost completed and out the door.  It’s been fun learning new production techniques, as well as learning how to combine Scripture, prayer, and worship music into something that resembles an electronic album.  It may not be the best, but it’s a perfect representation of where I feel worship music could be headed.

Plus, this stuff is just plain fun to make and play live.

Oh, happiness!

Yeah, it’s that time again….I’m into the mixing and final touches on some pretty different stuff (for me, at least….it may be pretty standard for someone else). It may be cool or it may totally stink like Indian food wrapped in a dirty diaper. I can’t quite tell yet.

Here’s a couple of demos, in the meantime…again, they are just demos (and only a couple of them, at that) and, as such, no real mixing or EQ’ing has gone into them yet, so be warned: they may totally hurt your face and make you want to punch little cute things.

In Our Pardon – DEMO HarmsAdded by chinomage

Song of Storms – Demo by chinomage

We Will Rise – Demo by chinomage

Harmonics – Demo1 by chinomage

My Heart Your Palace – Demo by chinomage

This has been done….over and over and over again….atheists saying, “There is no God.”  Theists responding, “Yeah, riiiiiight.”  Arguments.  Fist-fights.  Bottles broken.  Shootouts and whatnot.  But here’s my foray into it.

I believe in God, the Creator, Sustainer, Father of all things, Lord of Lords..  I believe in Jesus Christ dying as the propitiation for all of our sins.  It’s fairly simple, really, and yet infinitely complex all at the same time.  I’ve been in school at Liberty Online for a bit now, trying to finish up some stuff and fully complete this degree.  One of my latest courses is a frustrating little devil called “Philosophy of Religion.”  I say frustrating not because the work is hard or anything along those lines, but because it consumes my thought processes.  Take this paper, for example….we have been assigned to do 1500 words responding to “On Being An Atheist,” a famous article by H. J. McCloskey who supports his atheistic perspective from a number of different angles.

Day and night I would be thinking about the best way to argue down each point this Australian intellectual would raise; it scattered me for quite a while, I must say.  It was as if I was battling against myself for certain control from an atheist alter-ego, although I knew which side would eventually win.Finally, the paper was done and I could move on to some different topics.

This paper, and the subsequent intellectual battle that was waged, have left scars (the good kinds, the ones chicks dig……at least, that’s what I’m told).  If you’re in the mood, have a read….there’s a download link below.  Beware, however, that you may need to read “On Being An Atheist” first to fully see where this dude is coming from (also linked below).

On Being An Atheist

My Response

Bon voyage.