Happy Easter!

Late slip - My favorite Christian albums of 2008

(I meant to write this post, like, three months ago, and just forgot. But what the heck.)

I bought Run Kid Run's "Love At The Core" album yesterday off iTunes, and have been loving it to death for the last 24 hours. That got me thinking of some of my fave Christian music from last year. Looking through my album collection, I'd have to narrow it down to three albums:

Newsboys - Houston, We Are Go
Downhere - Ending is Beginning
Starfield - I Will Go

The Newsboys live album produced what was my favorite song of the year (and, actually, the year before, too, seeing as they've done several versions of it) in "I Am Free." It's a great rocker and it sounds awesome live.

Downhere put together was I think was, front to back, my favorite album of the entire year. It's the album that I can put in my car stereo any time and enjoy it.

But Starfield produced a fantastic album that had my favorite worship song of the year in "Reign In Us." Plus, about half the songs on the album are now part of the worship signing in our church.

Starfield's "My Generation" played on handbells

This is absolutely fantastic!

Starfield sweeps Covenant Awards

GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION CANADA - News

CALGARY, AB ─ It was a Starfield sweep at the 30th Annual Covenant Awards on Friday, October 24.

Duplicating what fellow British Columbian Brian Doerksen accomplished only last year, Starfield won all six categories in which the band was nominated.

Healing continues following church floor collapse

CanadianChristianity.com has an excellent article catching everyone up on the fallout from the church floor collapse at the April 25 Starfield concert in Abbotsford, B.C.

Starfield speaks about Abbotsford concert accident

More on the Starfield concert accident in Abbotsford

Here's a TV report about the concert. Footage of the floor collapsing appears about 45 seconds into the clip.

EDIT APRIL 29: Sorry, folks, the video has been taken off YouTube.

Starfield's Facebook page has a lot of first-hand accounts of the accident.

It's a miracle that no one died, although one person is reportedly seriously injured. But after looking at the TV footage, it's apparent that it could have been a lot worse. God was at work even in that bad situation.

EDIT MAY 11: Because Google is still directing anyone searching for Starfield concert accident information here, I should note that a new video of Starfield addressing the accident is linked here.

Church stage collapses in Abbotsford, B.C.

A disturbing story from the Starfield concert last night in Abbotsford, B.C.

Starfield - Reign in Us

My current favourite song.

Starfield - Son of God

An appropriate video for a Sunday morning. Enjoy!