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I C God N U! (I am totally convinced that Christ is alive and real and living in people today!)

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Steve Simms

Christ is as real and as close to me as my own consciousness. Even though I can’t “prove” that I am conscious or that Christ is real through a science experiment; I am totally convinced of the reality of both! … Continue reading →

Posted in Music City, music videos, Nashville | Tagged apologetics, Christ is alive, Christ is real, East Nashville, Lara Landon, lite Christianity, music, Salvation Army, worship | 1 Comment

Life’s A Buzz

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Steve Simms

Life is a series of billions of moments buzzing past now, in single file, and vanishing. The future’s not here to stay. Today is tomorrow’s yesterday. There is no permanent housing. Our position is constant transition. We need God’s GPS! … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandra Bracken, best university, Eva Burrows, GPS, greatest university, life, quotation, Quotations, quote, Quotes, Salvation Army, time, waiting on God, wasting time | Tagged entertainment, Erykah Badu, Johnny Cash, music, philosophy, spirituality, time management, Time's a wastin | 1 Comment

The Christmas season without the living Christ is like a song without a tune.

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Steve Simms

Posted in birth of Christ, Christ, Christmas carols, Christmas greeting, Christmas is about Jesus, Christmas music, Christmas shopping season, Christmas traditions, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Merry Christmas, Messiah, Music City, musicals | Tagged Christmas, Happy Holidays, music | Leave a comment

Making Music With Body Parts (God’s Symphony)

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Steve Simms

This blog is not about finger snapping, hand clapping, knee slapping, toe tapping, and/or armpit playing. It’s about the church, the body of Christ, functioning as God’s symphony. The New Testament teaches that the church is like a human body … Continue reading →

Posted in armpit, Berry Street, Berry Street Worship Center, Bible, biblical, biblical Christianity, Biblical concept, church meetings, church services, clergy, conductor, finger snapping, God, God's symphony, hand clapping, instrumental, instrumental music, instruments, knee slapping, musical solo, New Testament, organic church, paralyzed, pastor, prayer, preacher, priest, Salvation Army church, Salvation Army Corps, Salvationists, solo, song, symphony, toe tapping | Tagged armpit music, Body of Christ, body parts, Christianity, church, music, musical instruments, Nashville | 5 Comments

The World’s Most Unusual Ringtone

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Steve Simms

There is a sound, not measured in decibels, not carried by waves through the atmosphere; beyond music, words, or noise; sounding in human hearts. This ringtone in the human heart is so familiar that it is often habitually ignored, hidden … Continue reading →

Posted in atmosphere, awe, Catholic mystics, Christian, customized, devotion, forgiveness, glory, God, guidance, harmful habit, hearing God, hearing Jesus, heart-felt love, hidden in plain sight, music, mysticism, ringtone, salvation, servece, service, smartheart, smartphone apps, smartphones, soul music, sound proof, spiritual, spiritual awakening, spiritual formation, still small voice, The Voice, voice activated, voice of God, voices, waves | Tagged Christianity, decibels, music, mystic, ringtones, smartphones, soul music, sound | 6 Comments

Modern Myth #2 — Casual Sex

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Steve Simms

Like the ancients, we moderns have our myths and our gods. Modern Myth #2 is the “casual” sex myth. It says: Random sex with various partners is a meaningless recreational activity with no significant consequences and should be encouraged and approved … Continue reading →

Posted in American, boundaries, casual sex, gods, life, lifestyles, morality, morals, myths, popular culture, self-image, sex, sin, television, Uncategorized | Tagged abandoned children, act, activity, Acts, addiction, alcohol, altar, ancients, anything, approved, betrayed, bill boards, blindly, bondage, bought into, breaks the heart, call, captured, casual sex, cheapo, college professors, coming out of the closet, commitment, compulsions, consequences, cravings, create, culture, deep, desires, drug use, dying, emotional bond, encouraged, experience, experiences, following, get set free, God's, government, guilt, habitual, harped, health, health care costs, health clubs, health departments, human, human being, hurting, increases, intense, intimitate, killing, life, like the, lives, magazines, meaningless, medical doctors, moderns, movies, music, myths, newspapers, no, parental example, partners, person, pervasive, playing, pleasure, poverty, power, profound, promoted, public health problems, random, recreational, regard, Russian roulette, scientists, self-destructive behaviros, Senate, sexually transmitted disease, shackin' up, significant, sikovision, slaver, slavery, society, suffer, surrender, toy, using, various, White House, worship | 10 Comments

Negro Spirituals — A Message We Desperately Need!

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Steve Simms

“Over my head I hear music in the air, There must be a God somewhere.” –Negro spiritual. Those words were written and sung during the most difficult of days, a time of great oppression and evil — a time of bondage, … Continue reading →

Posted in black history, Christian history, church history, education, freedom, God, history, life, lifestyles, meaning, music, mysticism, negro spirituals, Oh my God, prayer, race, racism, religion, revelation, salvation, social justice, spiritual, thoughts, What is church? | Tagged able, African American, awareness, beyond, bondage, breathing, caught up, days, deprivation, despair, different, discover, disrespect, Don't, drudgery, economic, emotions, eternal, even more, evil, express, fear, forefathers, get, God, great, heart, hold on to, hope, hopeless, human beings, I hear, in and out, in order to, in the air, in the midst, injustice, insight, intellect, life, look beyond, man's inhumanity to man, meaning, meaningless, melodies, mind, more than, most difficult, music, mystery, Negro spiritual, nothing, oppression, over my head, pain, personal, perspective, pleasure, pursuit, revelation, rock, security, sense, situation, slaves, someone, somewhere, somewho, strenght, strong, struggles, suffered, suffering, sung, survive, there must be a God, time, told, truths, tune, understanding, unshakable, violence, wake, words, written | 2 Comments

Things That Stir My Soul

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Steve Simms

Here are some things that stir my soul to sense the spiritual reality that surrounds us — that create a sense of awe in my heart. These things motivate me, inspire me, and help me be aware of the reality … Continue reading →

Posted in apologists, Bible, biography, books, Civil Rights, Creator, God, history, life, lifestyles, music, mysticism, organic church, prayer, Quotations, Quotes, self-help, social justice, Uncategorized | Tagged Amazing Grace, aware, awe, beauty, Bible, biographies, books, breakthroughs, Brother Sun, children, Christian, classics, collecting, common, concerns, conserns, create, creativity, etc., experience, expressing, favorite, flowers, focusing on, Gandhi, getting, God, growth, heart, help, helping somebody, hills, His, his/her, history, holding a baby, Holy Spirit, in my heart, inspirational, inspire, interacting, It's A Wonderful Life, Jr., Les Miserables, lives, manifest, Martin Luther King, meeting, message, mind, motivate, move, movies, music, nature, needs, observing, ocean, of others, openly, partcipating, passionately, people, personal, Philokalia, presence, publicly, quotations, quotes, rainbow, reading, reality, revivals, sense, share, Shenandoah, Sister Moon, small, social justice, songs, speeches, spiritual, spirituality, squirrels, stary sky, stir my soul, stories, story, sunset, surrounded by, surrounds us, take over, the, The Arthur Blessett Story, The Cross, things, To Dream The Impossible Cream, uplifting, watching, What God is doing, William Wilberforce, within me, woods, worship, writing | 2 Comments

Talk About Expensive Gas!

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Steve Simms

Recently I pulled up to a gas pump in Nashville prepared to pay almost $4.00 per gallon. As I got out of the car I was bombarded with very loud music coming from the car on the opposite side of the pump. … Continue reading →

Posted in biography, brain chemistry, Civil Rights, criticism, human rights, lifestyles, music, Nashville, self-esteem, self-image, social justice, thinking, thoughts, Uncategorized | Tagged $4.00, attitude, bad stuff, barge, bombarded, brain, car, CD, conscious, contortionist, demonic, ears, evil, f-word, fight, filth, for a tank, gas, hear, high prace, Jesus, loud, loudly, mental, music, n-word, Nashville, nasty, negativity, nozzle, obscenities, occupied, pay, per gallon, pollution, pounding, profanities, pump, pumping gas, pumps, spewing, spiritual, vehicle, vulgarities, words, worman | 7 Comments

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I C God N U! (I am totally convinced that Christ is alive and real and living in people today!)

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