The Newfangled Sequence

Verse Take a walk outside these enemy lines When everybody said Don’t be taking it there cause you’ll just scare Anyone with worldly sense...

Verse 1 So many times i forget how to find my way back home...

Verse 1 Feel this groove right now If you feel your life is greatest And even if you don’t...

I’ve started a new blog where I’m keeping my lyrics and free downloads. Feel free to go check it out: newfangledlyrics.wordpress.com    

Well, Christmas is finally here and just as we said a couple weeks back, we have a special surprise for you...

So I wrote a secular Christmas song quite awhile back which I have now taken and updated to make both secular and Christian. My good buddy Stefan “The Boz” Bozman had asked me to play it for his youth group’s service at Westland Free Methodist Church. Watch the video if you feel like it...

Lately I’ve learned that in order to pray in miraculous ways, you just have to ask God to be able to do so. For the longest time I have believed in a God who works supernaturally and while I haven’t always understood it, I’ve really wanted to...

From Taylor Keating: I recently watched some Dawkins footage of him reading his hate mail. What surprised me was all the hate mail was from Christians. Let me tell you, the mail was not pretty...

The worship service I have planned is related to the Tabernacle in the Bible. I have created a journey from the Inner Court of the Tabernacle into the Holy of Holies...

Take a minute and think about what our world could accomplish if we all spoke one language. Think about all the things we could share with one another without this barrier. It’s hard to comprehend really...

Time for a quick lesson on family trees in the Bible: The fate of the world was left in the hands of the passengers of Noah’s boat. God had flooded the entire Earth and 9 and a half months later drained it back to land level...

Taylor and I went to check out this new documentary yesterday called “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” which follows Ben Stein as he investigates the ideas behind evolution and creation. And what a movie. Seriously, go check it out...

Well, it’s the end of another semester, which means I have written quite a few papers and have quite a few thoughts to share. Here’s a paper I wrote on the Holy Spirit, coming out of John 14:15-31. Hope I have some thoughts to share with you...

Another post from Taylor Keating. For more ideas on posts like this go get the book “Lord, Save Us from Your Followers” or check out the movie when it’s in theaters in the upcoming months...

Author: Taylor Keating Here’s a post from Taylor Keating, one of my fellow band members who writes on here from time to time. How the heck did “Pokemon” get so big? Its just Japanese nonsense. It even sent 635 Japanese kids into seizures. How did that become a media empire...

I’ll keep it short. This morning’s dream: In a prison cell in front of me was another me. Except the other me was green faced and a demon. I spent the entire dream trying to expel this demon. The best part was that I wasn’t even afraid of it...

In this particular dream my Dad and I went into a building to get a job. When I came back to my car I realized it had been left on in a drive other than what is typically used in cars, yet the car wasn’t moving anywhere...

Written October 3rd, 2007 So what would it look like if I were to sum up my 8 hour, 65ish mile bike ride yesterday into one paragraph...

It’s quite funny really… We wake up every morning and gaze out onto the face of what we call earth and we take it all for granted. Scientists try to create theories of how all of this just “happened.“ But take a minute and think about it...

“I will, however, qualify my judgement somewhat. Frankly, there is a certain monotony about CWM that detracts from the overall freshness of the style. I once subscribed to the monthly tape service of one CWM publisher, but I canceled that subscription after a year or so...

“I will, however, qualify my judgement somewhat. Frankly, there is a certain monotony about CWM that detracts from the overall freshness of the style. I once subscribed to the monthly tape service of one CWM publisher, but I canceled that subscription after a year or so...

  Mark 14:12-26  A story of the presence of God within any group of christians. The presence that convicts and gives grace.  

It’s true. I was sitting at a worship service called “Consuming Fire” at my school (Spring Arbor University) and in between songs the Holy Spirit had quite a few people laughing loudly and uncontrollably. One girl even snorted...

Do we ever really need little cameras on our cell phones? No, but our culture digs it anyways and I feel that this kind of visual technology can be used to churches advantages. After all, we’re attracted to technology are we not...

Today’s post is based off a book called “Preaching in the Spirit” by Dennis Kinlaw. I have identified myself with what he has to say and what he has to say is highly important. If you are going in to ministry or even a Christian at all, I highly suggest going out to buy this book...

I had a dream this morning I have been trying to figure out and I feel that I might have a pretty good grip on how it was supposed to be interpreted. The main focus of this dream was a spider. And I’m not talking about your typical long legged spider- no this spider wasn’t that big...

I don’t believe that songs should be based upon emotions, however I can’t help feel that if we are truly worshipping God there would be some kind of emotion there. After all, isn’t worship a form of love and love a form of emotion?   I struggled a long time with this...

Question for thought: If the singing of hymns were to cease, what (if anything) would be lost? I’m curious if in 500 years people will ask the same question about contemporary worship music (or what they will recognize as hymns to their generation)...

Here’s some dialogue between me and Heather Pillette on the post I made called “Hymn Cease.” I did not answer Heather’s second reaction as of yet, but feel free to learn from our ideas.   From Heather Pillette: Hmm, you raised some very interesting points and questions...

So we know that Jesus had a conversation with a criminal that hung on a cross next to him that ended like so: Criminal: ”Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”...

I wrote a song with my band The Newfangled Sequence awhile back called Questions in Silence which was inspired out of spending time in silence to hear the voice of God. I found that it was really hard to quiet my voice...

Last week at church we had all of the children join us in “big church.” They all came to the front to do some motions and sing and let me tell you- these kids were awesome. The part that stands out to me the most however, is the reaction I got from the kids after explaining to them Psalm 8:2...

Very VERY brief thought that came to my mind when I was driving yesterday:   God made nature. God chilled out in a tent. God loves the smell of fire.

/:Defining Celestial:\   There is much imagery as to what it will look like, many disagreements on how life will be lived there, and it was what Jesus talked about more than anything else:   Heaven...