Dance On A Volcano (An Analysis by Rick Beato)

The brilliance of the band Genesis is on full display during the writing and performing of the album, "Trick Of The Tail", especially when you realize they had just lost what many considered the creative genius of the group, Peter Gabriel. 

Expectation VS Anticipation

After three days God resurrected Jesus’ body and his spirit returned to it. For the next forty days Jesus appeared to many (1 Cor. 15:3-8). After which, in the presence of the disciples, he ascended to heaven to await his second coming (Acts 1:6-12).

Based on this historical fact and the promises of God, it is the believers’ great hope that when we die our spirit will also go to heaven to be with Jesus. There we will wait for the end of this age and Jesus’ second coming, when God will raise up our physical resurrection bodies to be united with our spirits (1 Cor. 15:51-52). There we will live in a physical new heaven and new earth with Jesus forever.

"The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish." - Proverbs 10:28

Genesis - The Duke Suite (1980)

This live performance by the band Genesis, in my opinion, is musical brilliance! This clip is from their album, Duke, which captures the band at the height of their powers in 1980. And at the risk of repeating myself, each time I listen to this album, I'm transported to the Red Food Store parking lot on Lee Hwy, thunder and rain pounding down, where at the end of our shift, we are both doing the homework for our phycology class the next day, listening on my buddy Steve's custom Pioneer audio system in his 81' Chevy Camaro.

It truly just seems like yesterday . . . 

Genesis | Duke | 1980

"What It Means To Me" by David Jeremiah

Did you hear about the professor who invented a complicated but finely-tuned machine in his garage? The contraption was years in the making. Finally one day an inquisitive neighbor persuaded the inventor to let him peek at it. There it was—an enormous apparatus with gears and belts and flywheels and electronic components with their flashing lights and digital readouts. 

With a push of a button, the machine hummed into motion with seamless precision, all the moving parts operating together like a miniature galaxy. The neighbor was hypnotized by the synchronization of the parts, then he asked, “But what does it do?”

“What do you mean?” asked the professor.

“I mean, what does it do? What is it good for?”

“Oh,” said the scholar, “it doesn’t really do anything, but look how wonderfully it works.”

That’s a picture of much of today’s thinking. Scholars have elaborate theories, and we all have lots of opinions, but sometimes we never get around to application. We can accumulate information, explain ideas, and discuss data, but left unanswered is the question—so what?