Sony’s Thoughts: Reflecting

“If you could see where He brought me from to where I am today, then you would know the reason why I love Him so.” This past week, I’ve been thinking again about what my life used to be: a life of hopelessness, trudging through each day dutifully without joy or peace. I cried a lot and...

A new #1

Most of the time when I am playing music, I am doing it through iTunes. This has been my standard practice for the last several years, over nearly all the time I have been listening to this genre. I have expanded iTunes’ default top 25 list to track the top 200 songs I most frequently listen to. For...

Giving Away LPs

A friend recently gave me a stack of LPs, most of them Christian music of one sort or another. I have gone through and pulled out the ones I want; here are the rest. If you would like one or more of these, and are willing to cover the cost of postage and have a PayPal account to do it electronically, comment...

Sony’s Thoughts: What is Love?

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and...

Testing a New Design, #1 (version 2)

EDIT 2 (2/14/10, 7:13 P.M.): We just may return to this one, but for now the poll and comments are closed, to avoid confusion with the theme that’s about to launch tonight. EDIT (2/13/10, 9:08 P.M.): I made the main page text larger and darker to give you a better feel for the theme’s...

Post of the Day: Open the Eyes of my (Face), Lord

We’ve probably all heard the jokes about Praise & Worship music. The 24/7 joke comes to mind—that a praise song is 7 words repeated 24 times (or 24 words repeated 7 times, depending on who you ask). Some of this reputation is deserved. But fortunately, like just about everything else, the view...

Sony’s Thoughts: True Success

The other day, I was thinking about success and what it really is. Dictionary.com defines it as          1. the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors. 2. the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like. 3. a successful performance or achievement.  But is that the true...

Joining Crossroads

I have never measured my value as a Southern Gospel journalist by the distance I maintain from the genre. Some hold that the more distance you keep from your topic, the more accurately you can write about it. But I incline toward the opposite view: The more contacts and friends I make, the more accurate I...

Sony’s Thoughts: Don’t Stay as You Are

“The way He’s changing my heart proves that He loves me too much to leave me just as I am.” ~Jim Brady It seems like most sermons I’ve heard have focused on “come as you are” instead of “don’t stay as you are.” Yet, over and over Scripture makes it clear,...

Do you access this site on a smartphone?

Do you ever/sometimes/frequently access this site on a smartphone? I know I have one reader who does; I’m just not sure if any others do. I have been contemplating whether I should do anything to make the site easier to navigate by someone with a tiny screen, but I didn’t know if anyone would be...