Samuel Arthur Haist

From now on I'm posting on Wordpress.

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:18:23 -0500

And you can find my new blog here.

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Dig into the Psalms at Doxologist.

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:51:42 -0500

Tim Smith, the worship pastor at Mars Hill Church in Seattle has put together a site to help people dig into the Psalms. You can find it here.

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Noisetrade is now up and running.

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:24:47 -0500

Derek Webb is not only one of my favorite songwriters, he is also a brilliant, brilliant man. Around a year ago, he announced Noisetrade:

"The site will provide a market for an ostensibly mutually agreeable "trade:" the consumer will get music for free, in exchange for making "noise" about the artist by sending emails to friends to let them know about the music. The consumers may also use the site to find new and different kinds of music at no cost, utilizing user recommendations and forums to learn of new artists. The artists will also be able to use the ZIP code information collected to help book shows in areas with larger numbers of fans and potential fans. (Wikipedia)"

For those of you who, like me, love to explore new music, this is great. You can find it here. Derek Webb's "The Ringing Bell" and his wife, Sandra McCracken's "Gravity Love" are already available, as well as many others that I will be checking out soon.

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Current Jamz

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:06:49 -0500

Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest

Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

and still...

Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

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Miscellania (6/25/08)

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:59:51 -0500

As some of you may know, I am an intern this summer at the Willow Creek Association. Today my boss and I were interviewed by a guy from Gospel Communications (the people who do biblegateway.com) for an upcoming podcast about internet ministries. It was pretty awkward because I was just sitting in and wasn't expecting to be interviewed, but all of a sudden he turned and asked for my opinion. Needless to say my first answer wasn't the best and I kind of rambled, but from there on out it went well. I'll put up the link once it comes out.

If you don't already know about TIm Challies, you probably live in a hobbit hole. He is, like, one of THE dudes in the evangelical blogosphere (I hate that word and I will reprimand myself later for using it). He also has a book out called The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment. I just started reading it last week and I'm digging it a lot. I just finished chapter 8 which is called "The Dangers of Discernment" and it alone was worth the price of the book. I would highly recommend it.

Peace out homedawgs.

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Whoops...

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:15:33 -0500

I am removing the links to the online version of Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology. Here's why.

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Interview with Ed Stetzer

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:40:21 -0500

Good stuff.

Ed Stetzer Interview with Adrian Warnock

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New Coldplay album.

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:00:58 -0500

So far I'm liking it a lot. I wasn't sure what to expect going in and they have exceeded my expectations. Coldplay is one of those bands that impacted my musical tastes a lot in high school, but for the past few years I haven't really payed attention to - that will change with this album. Lately it's really cool to rip on Coldplay, but I will be the first to say that this is a great album. "Lost!" gets the vote for most likely to be sampled by Kanye West.

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Good music is in the air.

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:50:01 -0500

Although I've had the record for a while, last week I just started to pay attention to Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. It's a great album and everyone should go listen to it. I can already tell that it's turning into my "summer album". Every summer it seems that there is an album that stands above the rest. Last year's was Sky Blue Sky by Wilco.

The new Coldplay album comes out tomorrow.

The new Amos Lee album comes out next Tuesday.

The new Ray LaMontagne album comes out in September.

Ryan Adams is working on his new album.

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One more thing...

nobody@vox.com(Sam Haist) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:38:18 -0500

Not to seem like I'm copying Steve McCoy at Reformissionary, but Tim Keller posted his summer reading list. I would second his reccommendations of In My Place, Condemned He Stood by J.I. Packer & Mark Dever and The Cross of Christ by John Stott. Both have been deeply formative in my own theology and are essential reads.

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