I haven't seen the movie.  They scorn Chilean merlot???? I guess that's why the Bible warns us about the scornful. They are a bunch of psychos!

Los Vascos and Santa Rita are a couple of reasonable favorites. Salut!

Ahh Hahhhhh! That all makes sense, and I'll bet you're right. Thanks guys.

Welcome aboard, TimMX! OR is it Bienvenidos?

Steven Lawhead's book "Patrick" is excellent.

Steve, what did you think of the music in Friday Night Lights? It's by an Austin band called Explosions In The Sky.

I love anything Lawhead writes but I have to say I favour the Song of Albion series. I have just picked up Grail so I'm working my way through The Pendragon Cycle series again. (It's only my fifth or sixth time because I love these books too. Books are like old friends, right? Anyhow, Merlin made me cry, even on this last read.)

Dan, can you start a book club thread and move these posts above to it? It's pretty cool that Steve has answered so many questions, and I'd like to hear more about the CHoir's music, not their taste in books. Can I get an Amen?

Ditto on that one. Why, oh why? And why track listing on "Let It Fly?"

First, I just wanted to thank The Choir for the great music for all these years.  I first heard you at a concert in Dallas in the mid-eighties (I think you might have been warming up for Steve Taylor?).  I immediately decided that you replaced The Beatles as my favorite all-time band, and I've bought pretty much everything you've done ever since.

God's timing is incredible.  Two days after I received O How the Mighty Have Fallen in the mail, I found out that I'm being laid off from my teaching position due to a "reduction in force."  On the way home from work the afternoon they told me, I was listening to the CD in my car.  "Nobody gets a Smooth Ride" came on, and it was almost as if God had you write the song specifically for me.  The words cut right through the "funk" I was in, and I realized that what I am going through is normal.  Then, "Enough to Love" comes on, and again, the words cut through me like a knife.  I realized that, at least in part, God has allowed this to happen to me in order to teach me to trust Him more.  I played both of those songs over and over and over.

A few days later, I really listened to the words of "To Rescue Me" for the first time, and again, it was as if the words had been written specifically for me.  I really felt like I was dangling from the end of a rope, like in the cartoons, as the strands started popping and breaking one at a time until there is only one strand left holding the rope.  The song has reminded me that God's the One in control, not me.  God will rescue me.  I'm not alone. 

I've come to accept that God is moving my life in a different direction, although I don't know where.  I feel a bit like Abram, who God told to go to a place he would show him.  I know God has a specific plan, and that I just need to trust Him to get me there.

Side note - O How the Mighty Have Fallen is the first Choir album my wife actually likes.  She's more the Sandi Patti / Amy Grant / Twila Paris sort of person, and has at best tolerated my constant listening to The Choir for all these years.  I actually caught her listening to O How the Mighty Have Fallen on her walkman the other day.  Her favorite songs are "To Rescue Me" and "We Give We Take."  Congratulations!  With God, all things are possible!

Hang in there, Rich. We're pulling for you.