“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”  Luke 19:40

 

OK, ok – it’s been almost a month without a post.  I apologize.  Life has been busy.  Every time I get ready to post, something else comes up.  You know what I’m talking about…and if you don’t your wife or girlfriend does because they have a list of stuff you haven’t done yet.

Confession Time -

I admit it, I watch American Idol, I even Tivo it so I can watch it when I get home from Matt’s baseball practice and community group on Wednesday nights.  It’s sad I know, but I have admitted it and I feel much better.  Believe it or not, this post is about American Idol.  Tonight, in utter amazement, Karen and I watched as the contestants all together with a choir sang “Shout to The Lord.”  It’s a song we have done a few times at Sonterra.  It was written by Darlene Zschech from Hillsongs Austrailia and has awesome words.  As we watched, I realized that here we were watching the most pitiful show in the world, which by the way is being viewed by MILLIONS and had just been on the previous night with all of Hollywood to raise 100 Million for charity.  And now, they open with Shout to The Lord.  It reminded me of Luke 19:40.  Jesus tells the pharisees (as they complain about the loud crowd praising Jesus) that if the crowd keeps quiet, then the rocks will cry out.  I couldn’t help but watch those “IDOLS” and wonder about my week at work and on the baseball field as a coach thinking, maybe…..just maybe tonight, the rocks cry out in my place.

 

So now that I have confessed that I watch Idol, and that I even was moved by a performance on an episode, I am going to go sharpen my knife, or clean a gun to regain my manhood.