Love these stories.
Strong Medicine has always been like a prayer for me. It grips me.
Stand In My Place is true worship that is powerful.
And your rap is cool and fun.
I still think you can rap when you let yourself just go with it haha.
I think it is divine design that Strong Medicine & Stand In My Place is on the same project.
Your music blesses me. Thank you SFOM.
What?!? No tip jar? I remember traveling with a children’s ministry to San Antonio, Texas and we went to the address the Pastor had given for his church location. It was his business card. I turned out to be an empty lot. We did the crusade in a rec -center. We were helping our children’s evangelist friends do a children’s workshop that the pastor charged his own people to go to, using material he’d gotten from a national children’s ministry earlier in the year. He blacked out the actual ministry name and wrote his in above it.
Anyway, after all the work was done, his people all loaded up and left the rec-center in a hurry, not even saying goodbye, leaving us standing in the parking lot looking a bit foolish. We ended up going to dinner on our own dime, and then they went back to their flea bag motel. I remember my friend calling it the
“Rat-Us-In”
We found out later it was a sex motel. The pastor said it’s where he put his mother in law when she was in town. That should’ve been the first warning sign.
Tip jars should be mandatory, and everyone should have to drop in a little something.
LOL I gotta remember that hotel name Rat Us In! ROFL I got my first case of athletes foot stayin in an abandoned sports facility we were put in to spend the night once!
This album came out at the exact time a friend of mine, at age 24, succumbed to a long illness. I listened to the title track repetitively for weeks. Thank you.
My wife sometimes says to me, that some of the things that come out of my mouth makes her wonder….
Our pastor reminds us that we give Satan too much credit for what we do… corporate Christianity or any religion for that matter, with all the ceremony, and do this and this. Is all put together by the church fathers, or in my case Rabbis, to control our every move. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Makes you think how much is faith and how much is routine???
I bought Strong Medicine around Christmas time, I remember I got it as soon as I saw it at Valley Book and Bible (No longer in existence in my neck of the woods) and I was a Mall Santa, reminder, if you haven’t heard Paul Aldrich and Friends Rockin’ Christmas album featuring Phil Keaggy, there is a hilarious parody of Queen about mall Santas. So to pass the time and also in the CD player of my car I would either sing the songs in my head, until the little beasts would come and give me double pneumonia, true story, but the CD was a comfort somehow, I loved the groove. Can’t wait until you talk about Confessions of a Lunatic Friend that is still my favorite.
I love this project. Many of the songs are my favorites but I have to say that the one that touches my heart the most is “Hand It Over”.
These stories are so fun to listen to…
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I appreciate your candidness and honesty, and of course enjoy these nutshells. I can identify with many of them.
Be sure to tell yer wife how impressed my wife was with her Handwriting! LOL
Love these stories.
Strong Medicine has always been like a prayer for me. It grips me.
Stand In My Place is true worship that is powerful.
And your rap is cool and fun.
I still think you can rap when you let yourself just go with it haha.
I think it is divine design that Strong Medicine & Stand In My Place is on the same project.
Your music blesses me. Thank you SFOM.
thanks.. I wasn’t sure where I was going on this project.. now it seems Divinely inspired for sure
Agree with that!!!
always love hearing the stories behind the music
good to hear from ya John… look like a music professional yerself
What?!? No tip jar? I remember traveling with a children’s ministry to San Antonio, Texas and we went to the address the Pastor had given for his church location. It was his business card. I turned out to be an empty lot. We did the crusade in a rec -center. We were helping our children’s evangelist friends do a children’s workshop that the pastor charged his own people to go to, using material he’d gotten from a national children’s ministry earlier in the year. He blacked out the actual ministry name and wrote his in above it.
Anyway, after all the work was done, his people all loaded up and left the rec-center in a hurry, not even saying goodbye, leaving us standing in the parking lot looking a bit foolish. We ended up going to dinner on our own dime, and then they went back to their flea bag motel. I remember my friend calling it the
“Rat-Us-In”
We found out later it was a sex motel. The pastor said it’s where he put his mother in law when she was in town. That should’ve been the first warning sign.
Tip jars should be mandatory, and everyone should have to drop in a little something.
LOL I gotta remember that hotel name Rat Us In! ROFL I got my first case of athletes foot stayin in an abandoned sports facility we were put in to spend the night once!
One of my favorite CDs! So many great songs.
This album came out at the exact time a friend of mine, at age 24, succumbed to a long illness. I listened to the title track repetitively for weeks. Thank you.
glad I had a song you could find strength in! thanks for sharing!
My wife sometimes says to me, that some of the things that come out of my mouth makes her wonder….
Our pastor reminds us that we give Satan too much credit for what we do… corporate Christianity or any religion for that matter, with all the ceremony, and do this and this. Is all put together by the church fathers, or in my case Rabbis, to control our every move. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Makes you think how much is faith and how much is routine???
I bought Strong Medicine around Christmas time, I remember I got it as soon as I saw it at Valley Book and Bible (No longer in existence in my neck of the woods) and I was a Mall Santa, reminder, if you haven’t heard Paul Aldrich and Friends Rockin’ Christmas album featuring Phil Keaggy, there is a hilarious parody of Queen about mall Santas. So to pass the time and also in the CD player of my car I would either sing the songs in my head, until the little beasts would come and give me double pneumonia, true story, but the CD was a comfort somehow, I loved the groove. Can’t wait until you talk about Confessions of a Lunatic Friend that is still my favorite.
Thanks for sharing yer story JE, just finished the next episode ‘moving To Word” it’s the start of Lunatic
I love this project. Many of the songs are my favorites but I have to say that the one that touches my heart the most is “Hand It Over”.
These stories are so fun to listen to…
thanks Beth for your endorsement of my story book! LOL