There IS More

Recently, after I mentioned at dinner that I choose not to listen to secular music, my beloved niece responded with rolling of the eyes "Uncle Mike, you don't HAVE to listen to just Christian music!".

Oh, how I have failed, or maybe she is still responding to her "cool" uncle's severe hair cut of a few years back, but one of my main purposes is to show folks that while it is not a church teaching that all must pay tribute at the altar of CCM, it is still much better than the church of Top 40.

"Everything is permissible"—but not everything is beneficial.
"Everything is permissible"—but not everything is constructive."
1 Corinthians 10:23

While I don't equate listening to most Christian music with that of Bible study or Patristic reading, I would prefer silence to most of the Billboard 100. I guess the best comparison is that if I was in need of a snack in between meals, Christian music would be to me more like a handful of Trail Mix or a Clif Bar, and most secular music more like filling up on Funyons or HoHos. . . . . . .mmmm HoHos (oh, but I digress . . .digest?).

Anyhoo, complaining is not the answer, but hopefully demonstrating again, that there is soooo much great Christin music out there, and more than enough to get you through to that next meal .

With that in mind, I bring you Candlefuse, another new band of Christian rawkers, who have on their website this Mission (which me thinks is better than "babes and booze" of yer typical bands)

"With purpose, poetry, and passion, Candlefuse chooses to follow Jesus Christ and the ministry example He set: To go out into the highways and hedges and compel souls to come in."