Colorado man creates Tebowing snowman

Yes, this thing is huge.

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Eye-opener from being sick — JCTV

The last four days I’ve been knocked out from a sinus infec­tion, too out of it to read so I turned to the boob tube for company/entertainment. And what I found out is that reg­u­lar TV (major net­works) does­n’t have much to offer.

I found myself watch­ing NGEO (Nation­al Geo­graph­ic), PBS, Ani­mal Planet…then I stum­bled on KPJR, which tele­vis­es JCTV — a hip, cut­ting-edge sta­tion that shows Chris­t­ian rock music videos. It’s focus or tar­get audi­ence is teens, 20-some­things, and, well up to 40-some­things, because I became a quick fan. I dis­cov­ered some excel­lent musi­cians, who project a pos­i­tive image.

The videos on JCTV fea­ture top-notch, short-film fea­tures such as Trip Lee and Jai’s hip-hop, “The Inva­sion” and New­World­Son’s “Work­ing Man” and high-qual­i­ty videos from Third Day’s “Chil­dren of God” along with con­cert videos.

In the next cou­ple of posts, I’ll high­light some of the videos that I enjoyed. Below is New­World­Son.

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Hawk Nelson frontman Jason Dunn to leave group

Jason Dunn, the founder and front­man for Hawk Nel­son, is leav­ing the group May 15 to work on a solo project.

Dunn will release his first solo project under the name of Lights Go Down some­time this year.

Hawk Nel­son will release a‑best-of album “The Songs You’ve Already Heard: Best of Hawk Nel­son” on March 27.

I will miss play­ing music on stage with my friends, but real­ly look­ing for­ward to the future with Lights Go Down,” Dunn said in a press release. “I wish Hawk Nel­son the very best with their future endeav­ors.”

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New music video from Everfound

http://youtu.be/K76yo79qP5I

New music video of “Par­adise” from Ever­found — the band of Russ­ian broth­ers from Arva­da, Col­orado. If you have been fol­low­ing this band, you can hear the band’s evo­lu­tion from raw tal­ent to more pol­ished musi­cians and singers. I like this song, it’s more alter­na­tive rock than pop.

They look cold. I’ll have to find out where it was filmed and how long they were out there in the snow.

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Newsboys video features Denver footage

The News­boys newest video “God’s Not Dead” fea­tures scenes from the Win­ter Jam con­cert at Mag­ness Are­na in Novem­ber. The live footage is at the end of the video.

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Newsboys get mtvU votes

You vot­ed and the News­boys are win­ners. The Chris­t­ian rock band earned the right to be in heavy rota­tion on mtvU’s “The Fresh­man,” when the band’s video “Mir­a­cles” beat out Dominic Bal­li. Fun­ny I just heard Bal­li for the first time yes­ter­day.

You can catch News­boys in Col­orado Springs on March 1 at Rocky Moun­tain Cal­vary Church. Join­ing the News­boys are The City Har­mon­ic, Anthem Lights, Aban­don, Bob Lenz and Daniel Bash­ta.

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Denver footage on Newsboys’ video

The News­boys newest video “God’s Not Dead” fea­tures scenes from the Win­ter Jam con­cert at Mag­ness Are­na in Novem­ber. The live footage is at the end of the video.

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Newsboys make MTV inroads

You vot­ed and the News­boys are win­ners. The Chris­t­ian rock band earned the right to be in heavy rota­tion on mtvU’s “The Fresh­man,” when the band’s video “Mir­a­cles” beat out Dominic Bal­li. Fun­ny I just heard Bal­li for the first time yes­ter­day.

You can catch News­boys in Col­orado Springs on March 1 at Rocky Moun­tain Cal­vary Church. Join­ing the News­boys are The City Har­mon­ic, Anthem Lights, Aban­don, Bob Lenz and Daniel Bash­ta.

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Dominic Ballie & P.O.D.‘s Sonny Sandoval

Came across Dominic Bal­li this week­end. Reg­gae meets Calie Rock — surfer, skater music with a ras­ta flair. This video fea­tures P.O.D.‘s Son­ny San­doval.

This song “Amer­i­can Dream,” was writ­ten after Bal­lie found suc­cess and bought a house. He said he became wrapped up in liv­ing the Amer­i­can dream — striv­ing for the big house, more stuff to fill the house, etc. and real­ized that that is not what life is about. Enjoy

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Seventh Day Slumber’s “Wasted Life” & tour info

Sev­enth Day Slum­ber is hit­ting the tour trail in sup­port of “The Anthem of Angels,” and is bring­ing along Man­ic Dri­ve, anoth­er high-ener­gy band, and Ilia, an all-female group.

If you like hard, dri­ving rock this SDS is a band to check out. Right now Col­orado is not on the tour, but there is a link on the web­site and Face­book to show your sup­port of the band.

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Anti-abortion ads to run during Super Bowl

Activist Ter­ry Ran­dall, a long-time Repub­li­can, is run­ning for pres­i­dent as a Demo­c­rat so he can run anti-abor­tion ads dur­ing the Super Bowl on Feb. 5.

The ads are graph­ic and accord­ing to the FCC Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act net­works must air the cam­paign ads and can­not alter the con­tent. Grand Junc­tion is on the slate for one of 13 mar­kets in which the ads will be aired.

Ran­dall got the idea after a blog­ger — Sophia Bru­ga­to — cre­at­ed #10forTebow on Twit­ter to urge read­ers to donate $10 to pro-life efforts for every touch­down Tim Tebow scored. The blog­ger, who if I read this cor­rect from a CNN report, got preg­nant as a senior in high school, elect­ed not to have an abor­tion and chose moth­er­hood. The blog­ger has since received death threats and hate mail.

What are your thoughts on this on the anniver­sary of Roe vs. Wade?

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Meeting for coffee or church, which is better for you?

Is attend­ing reli­gious ser­vices bet­ter for your health than meet­ing friends for cof­fee?
If you attend reli­gious ser­vices reg­u­lar­ly you are less like­ly to be depressed than nonat­ten­dees, accord­ing to a study in the Jour­nal of Reli­gion and Health. Reg­u­lar atten­dees also have a more opti­mistic out­look on life.

But the study only sur­veyed women 50 and old­er. I think that’s odd. But some of the find­ings are inter­est­ing and I think they trans­fer to gen­der and age. It makes sense that if you attend a spir­i­tu­al gath­er­ing (be it in a church, a yoga stu­dio, a syn­a­gogue, etc.) you are mak­ing social con­nec­tions, which also increas­es opti­mism and health.

What do you think? Is it any dif­fer­ent than reg­u­lar­ly meet­ing a bunch of friends for cof­fee?

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Coffee or church? Which is better for you?

Is attend­ing reli­gious ser­vices bet­ter for your health than meet­ing friends for cof­fee?
If you attend reli­gious ser­vices reg­u­lar­ly you are less like­ly to be depressed than nonat­ten­dees, accord­ing to a study in the Jour­nal of Reli­gion and Health. Reg­u­lar atten­dees also have a more opti­mistic out­look on life.

But the study only sur­veyed women 50 and old­er. I think that’s odd. But some of the find­ings are inter­est­ing and I think they trans­fer to gen­der and age. It makes sense that if you attend a spir­i­tu­al gath­er­ing (be it in a church, a yoga stu­dio, a syn­a­gogue, etc.) you are mak­ing social con­nec­tions, which also increas­es opti­mism and health.

What do you think? Is it any dif­fer­ent than reg­u­lar­ly meet­ing a bunch of friends for cof­fee?

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Did “Tebow” commericial bother you?

This com­mer­cial by Focus on the Fam­i­ly first aired dur­ing the Bron­cos game against the Patri­ots in an AFC divi­sion­al game Sat­ur­day. Here’s the sto­ry behind it.

Focus pres­i­dent and CEO Jim Daly said the ad was in response to mil­lions of peo­ple search­ing the Inter­net for John 3:16 after Tim Tebow and the Bron­cos beat the Steel­ers in over­time dur­ing the play­offs. He said it took 2.5 days to make and the chil­dren in the ad are chil­dren of FOF employ­ees.

Did the ad both­er you? Not me after see­ing ads for Mor­mons in recent months. What is your take?

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Matthew West: Happy Day After Christmas

This is so true. Keep the spir­it all year long. Don’t let the Christ­mas melt down.

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