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Top 25 Favorite Tooth & Nail Albums
I often think of alternate realities or parallel universes that contain all the possibilities and nuances of different decisions. Is that just me? Maybe I’m more influenced by the MCU multi-verse than...
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50 Album Recommendations for 2023
This has been such a strong year for music. 2023 has proven to be fertile ground for just about any music listener. This list is the Top 10 ranked in order of how much I liked them in five-ish...
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Steven Curtis Chapman: Ranking his Fifty #1 Songs
Repeat after me. Fifty #1 songs. Yup. CCM icon Uncle Steve (aka Steven Curtis Chapman) has fifty number-one songs in his career to date. Crazy. So I thought I’d celebrate his most recent...
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The Jukebox Junkies Top 50 Songs of 2023
As a precursor to my final (probably) post of Top 20 albums, here is a list of my Top 50 songs with a linked playlist if you’d like to listen along. Truth be told, it’s really a Top 100 songs of all...
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The Jukebox Junkie’s Top 20 Albums of 2023
The best Christian Albums of 2023. It’s the most wonderful time of the year—end-of-year list season! Here is my annual contribution to my favorite topic—music. This post will detail 20 favorite faith...
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1999: 25 Christian Albums Turn 25
Was 1999 the greatest individual year of Christian music?! Personally I don’t think so, but it certainly was a highly transitional year for the genre. It happens to coincide with major transition in...
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Top 10 Songwriters of Christian Music
Christian music. Whatever that ever meant or means now. Songwriters. After much thought and shuffling of the list I’ve decided on a Top 10. These lyricists have played a part in shaping my thinking on...
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Top 30 Most Influential Worship Songs (1994-2024)
The worship song “Shout to the Lord” is how old?! Yup, if you can believe it, the tune that some say started the turn of CCM to its current worship bent, is celebrating thirty years in 2024. To be...
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Michael W Smith vs. Steven Curtis Chapman
I love them both, but just for fun and the kind of impossible question I like to address, I decided to present the facts. If I was trying to decide which one of these CCM icons I thought has had the...
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Mt. Rushmore of CCM
What an agonizing list to make. With so many great and essential options how do you whittle it down to four?! I waffled, edited, swapped out, and finally settled on my four. I’d love to hear yours as...
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Gileah Taylor – Slow Parade
Slow Parade is an AOTY candidate. Indie artist Gileah Taylor and her album Slow Parade is the type of record I find myself increasingly drawn to. The slow burn variety. Music that is nuanced and...
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2004: 20 Christian Albums Turn 20
In the year of our Lord 2004 I graduated college, turned twenty-three, and began dating (and got engaged) to the woman that would become my wife. It was all soundtracked by some incredible albums. Two...
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Top 100 Favorite Albums of All-Time
These are the records that made me. The ones I’ve returned to again and again over the course of my life. The Top 100 Albums of All-Time. The ones that have soundtracked the various stages and...
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Friendly Fire: Deconstruction, The Christian, and Christian Music
The recent rash of high profile Christians deconstructing their faith and/or walking away entirely is heartbreaking to watch. Whether a worship leader at a mega church, a career CCM singer songwriter,...
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These 5 Albums “Altared” the Christian Music Industry
Was it a good thing for Christian music? A bad thing? Just another swing of the pendulum? One thing’s for sure, the industry was never the same after this major pivot in the late 90s/early 00s. These...
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2014: Ten Albums Turn Ten
In the year 2014 I was 33 and deep in NextGen Pastoring work. Father of 3 young kids and slightly less immersed in Christian music than I would become a few years later. I’m sure I was listening to...
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Christianity: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
If you know me, you know that The Princess Bride has long topped my favorite movies of all time list. One reason I love the movie so deeply is the abundance of quotable lines that fit so many...
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Best Christian Music of 2024 so Far…
I’ll save the longer preamble for my year-end list, so for now…these are my recommendations from Christian (and faith adjacent) music at the halfway point of 2024. I went with 25 Albums and 25 Songs....
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100 Greatest Christian Albums of the 80s
This 100 Greatest Albums decade list like the ones before it has a twofold purpose: 1. To attempt as a fan of all things Christian music to be as well-rounded in my listening of the entire history of...
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Let Your Whimsy Loose!
So I have to tell you about one of my favorite days, and it wasn’t a holiday of any sort…it was just a day. There was nothing inherently special about it. The day started off as many Friday’s do for us...
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