The people are growing restless, dare I say angry that John Mark’s stuff has been taken down from Amazon and iTunes. Please everyone lay down your pitchforks, I just spoke with John Mark and here’s the deal.

• singles will be released in March and May
• Album + bonus tracks available July 6th

He’s on a new label (Integrity) and on tour now so go catch a show and buy one his vinyls. And while you’re at it, buy one for me and send it to me…pretty please. Keep up to date with his blog, website and twitter. And of course stay tuned here for all your JMM breaking news.

When I first started leading worship in high school I led worship with a hat on backwards once. It was the nineties cut me some slack, plus I was an idiot. Anyway someone left the church because of that. Now reading that this guy stabbed his own son for just being in church with a hat on makes me feel soooo thankful that all that person did was leave. To add insult to injury, the dad stabbed him in the butt.

My pal Scott has argued for sometime that Obama is not the anti-christ, but actually *a* messiah, not *the* messiah, sort of a midget-messiah. Obama even has his own worship song. That’s pretty good for any US senator I’d say, I’m pretty impressed. But I’ve stumbled across some evidence that may change his mind. The winning lottery numbers in Illinois on Obama’s victory day were 666, no joke. Now excuse me while I go steal some mormon family’s rations out of their bunker and hike my family up into the mountains Red Dawn style.

p.s. no I don’t really think Obama is the anti-christ, that’s silly. But whoever won the lottery with those numbers I’m not so sure about. If it’s Rezko I’m going to flip out.

A big thank you to all my readers and subscribers. A few weeks ago we crossed the 100 subscriber barrier, a point I had hoped to reach by the end of the year. So thank you to everyone who has subscribed to the blog either via RSS or email and also thank you to our new podcast subscribers.

This success of this blog depends on you guys blog evangelizing and spreading the word. So if you know of friends, family, co-workers that might enjoy the blog please encourage them to subscribe. For all you silent subscribers make sure and comment so I can meet you, hit me up on facebook, stumbleupon or twitter.

Here’s to passing 200 in much shorter time!

Nebraska Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God in Sep. 2007 seeking a permanent injunction to prevent God from committing acts of violence, like hurricanes, tornadoes and other tools God has at his disposal. Failing to recognize that hurricanes and other natural disasters are anything but a direct and hostile attack against humanity, Ernie thought his only recourse at this point in history is to take God where he is out of his element and that is Judge Marlon Polk’s court room.

Unfortunately for Ernie, Judge Polk found a minor detail that forced him to throw out the case, and that is that Ernie can’t prove he served papers on God. If that’s not a technicality I don’t know what is. Ernie had one of the greatest objections on record to this decision, “If God is omni-present then he is here in Douglas County and in this courtroom.” I don’t even know where you go from there accept to say, “good point. Now get out of here you old bat.”

Judge Polk dismissed the case with prejudice so the case cannot be refiled. If you think that’s the last of Ernie Chambers you don’t know Ernie and his commitment to absurdity. He plans on filing an appeal.

Although the title of Delirious’ last single, ‘Love Will Find a Way’, is a bit Bette Midler, what better way to go out than release a new song? Delirious is closing out their final tour in the UK and as previously reported won’t be taking any more bookings.

‘Love Will Find a Way’ hits digital stores November 17th and you can pre-order the release at http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/ . For you brits you can also pre-order an exclusive live version by texting LOVEWILL and your email address to 81088. Pre-orders cost £1.50, UK only (lame).

I’m pleased to announced that Our Rising Sound will now be contributing on the Worship.com blog. If you haven’t been over to Worship.com make sure and subscribe to the blog feed, there are a lot of great articles and a wide variety of contributors including, Bob Kauflin, Scot Longyear (I follow your lead) and the Resurgence. I’ll certainly need to dress appropriately and behave myself over there with that crowd. There is no change of content on this site, business as usual here, but now some of the posts will also appear on Worship.com.

I’m happy to introduce Brett Ernenputsch (pronounced “Erne-whatever”) our new contributor dedicated to everything hip-hop. Here’s what I know and love about Brett

1. He loves Jesus
2. He loves hip-hop
3. He loves this blog

What else do you need to know? Those are the three elements of a successful, abundant life. In addition to those 3 points he is one of the leaders at our church, is currently going through our Movement Internship program and has a bunch of tattoos which is enough street cred for me. I’m looking forward to Brett’s insight into the world of hip-hop, how it’s impacting or being impacted by the church and our culture.

Thanks Brett for bringing another musical dimension to this blog!