bible based meal replacer

Let’s be honest, the music industry is seriously lacking these days. They will blame it on downloading, but the truth is, the music just isn’t any good. From R&B, which has been cranking out the same song (for the most part) for the past thirty-years, to rappers who all seem to be living the exact same life (same girls, same cars, same jewellery, same song), to country music…which is no longer all that country, to rock…which is no longer all that rocky (and, btw, what ever happened to cool rock voices?), to pop which…well, let’s be honest, pop is still pop, and finally to the Christian industry which is so bad (for the most part) that it really should take a couple of years off and regroup. I swear, if one more rock band or golden oldie comes out with another worship album, with the exact same ten songs on it (that have been out for ten or more years), I’m going to start a campaign to boycott worship albums (…now THERE’S an idea). Seriously, how can a singer songwriter (Michael W. Smith) not be able to come up with his own material for a worship album?

Anyway, while I was in Oklahoma for the holidays, I visited the local Christian mega-store and listened to as many CD’s as I had time to listen to. For the most part, they were still bad, but I did come up with one rare gem. Lyrically, it may be the most relevant, smart, original, and important Christian album to come out since Just Visiting This Planet (Larry Norman, 1972). The name of the artist is Derek Webb and the name of the album is Mockingbird. Just take a look at the lyrics to his song A King and a Kingdom;

(vs. 1)
who's your brother, who's your sister
you just walked passed him
i think you missed her
as we're all migrating to the place where our father lives'
cause we married in to a family of immigrants

(chorus)
my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man
my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
it's to a king & a kingdom

(vs. 2)
there are two great lies that i’ve heard:
“the day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die”
and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
and if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him

(bridge)
but nothing unifies like a common enemy
and we’ve got one, sure as hell
but he may be living in your house
he may be raising up your kid
she may be sleeping with your wife
oh no, he may not look like you think

Grab this album before it’s banned! : )

In the meantime, check out this other crap I bought at the Christian mega-store. Seriously. And we ragged on the Catholic church for selling indulgences?