What’s Playing On My iPod This Week?

This week was not a big music week for me. However I’ve been listening to the weekly White Horse Inn podcast for a few months now and I highly recommend it. The White Horse Inn website describes the program in this way:

[The White Horse Inn] is a nationally syndicated radio broadcast featuring regular round-table discussions on faith, culture and apologetics. Hosted by Michael Horton, Ken Jones, Kim Riddlebarger, and Rod Rosenbladt, the White Horse Inn aims each week to equip Christians to “know what they believe and why they believe it.”

Though the hosts have different denominational and ethnic backgrounds, the White Horse Inn unites itself on the principle slogans of the Protestant Reformation, such as the sufficiency of Scripture, salvation by grace alone through faith alone by Christ alone, and the importance of a God-centered, rather than human-centered outlook. By renewed attention to these classic and central themes on a weekly basis, it is the aim of the White Horse Inn to bring health and vigor to a church that appears to have in some ways lost its sense of missions.

This year’s theme on the White Horse Inn is “A Time for Truth” which means the hosts discuss aspects of the “Solas” of the Reformation in each episode. If you want to get a feel for the show I suggest checking out the episode from August 19th entitled “Sin & Grace in the Christian Life”. The show’s producer interviewed attendees at a Christian conference and asked them what would happen to a Christian who died with unconfessed sin.

Links: The White Horse Inn Official Site, The White Horse Inn @ Oneplace.com

Tags: podcasts, theology, Christianity

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I was reading through the liner notes of Derek Webb’s (myspace, iTunes) newest album, The Ringing Bell, and noticed something very interesting. After a blurb about the type of guitars Derek uses there’s the following statement:

“I wholly support and encourage the free distribution and consumption of music. Please share this record.”

I love when artists and record companies aren’t afraid to do something like this.

Download: The Ringing Bell by Derek Webb (zip file, 30 MB).

Tags: free music, Derek Webb

A few months back a friend pointed me toward a free download of an acoustic EP from Andrew Osenga, a member of Caedmon’s Call. I found myself listening to it more than once this week.

At Andrew’s site you can listen to more of his music and get a copy of the acoustic EP mentioned above.

Tags: free music, Andrew Osenga

Tristeza (official site, iTunes) - instrumental, post-rock, and from San Diego. What more could you ask for?

I’m really liking their 2005 album, A Colores. Last.fm has a few tracks you can download or stream if you’re interested.

I’ve only recently discovered Rocky Votolato (official site, iTunes), but he’s been getting a lot of play time on my iPod lately, especially “Postcard from Kentucky” and “Whiskey Straight” from his newest album The Brag and Cuss. Below is the video for “White Daisy Passing”.