Greg Loesch (compulsiveguile) – Blog

I recently became one of Thomas Nelson’s “Book Review Bloggers” (BRB) and here is a brief review of the book The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns.

The Hole in Our Gospel proved to be a very challenging book to read, as I somewhat expected.  However the difficulties were slightly different than the ones I predicted I might come across.  The purpose of this book is, without a doubt, to force the reader to take a look at the heart and take a look outside of the typical life here in the United States. It’s a pointed finger at Christians and the reality that we, as followers of Christ, often fall short of all that God has commanded of us. Having said this, I expected to be convicted and brought to tears occasionally. While I definitely experienced conviction, I never really felt anything I read “tugged on my emotional heart strings.” I honestly struggled greatly with what seems to be my hardened heart and cynicism when reading this. Read more…

So I was listening to Prisoner of Hope (Closer EP) by Jars of Clay, (follow them on twitter -> @jarsofclay) a longtime favorite band of mine, and I realized that GimmeSomeTune – Mac app that automatically fetches and embeds lyrics in iTunes – couldn’t find the lyrics for the song. This happens occasionally, so I quickly Googled (and even “Bing“ed – will that ever catch?) for “Jars of Clay Prisoner of Hope lyrics.” Nothing.

I found myself in a similar situation not too long ago with the song Closer from the same album, and my solution was to do the work myself.  Sure enough, that’s what I did for Prisoner of Hope. In case any of you Jars fans are interested, here are the lyrics.

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