Thought Quotient

There’s lots of Bethany Dillon news to report:

She was at the recent L.A. premiere of the Dreamer movie…

More info can be found in her online journal.

Look for her on CNN this Sunday morning on the ‘Faces of Faith’ program. Also, she’s featured in this week’s TIME magazine…

Dillon, 16, who wrote songs for Dreamer, starring Dakota Fanning, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, picked up the guitar at 10 and a record contract at 13 when a producer heard a CD she cut at home in Ohio. The Christian singer remains unaffected. “I come home from touring, and my parents are like, ‘Hey, Beth, how was it? Can you unload the dishwasher?’”

Related links:

• Official movie site
• Free DREAMER Activity Guide
• Bethany Dillon Dreamer music video
• An interview with Bethany Dillon shortly after the release of her debut album back in April of ‘04.

Did you miss the free outdoor show that was part of Wayfest in Nashville this year? Don’t worry, we’ve got some pics from the afternoon in our photo gallery.

Wayfest 2005 album

What an awesome afternoon. Inhabited, Everlife, Plumb and Joy Williams all performed a few of their fan favorites and hung around after it was over to meet the crowd.

Check it out!

• MP3 audio of Plumb talking about a song on her forthcoming album - Chaotic Resolve.
  

Elizabethtown is a love story. The entrance of the love interest is such an important part of romantic comedies, and Claire enters onscreen to the sounds of Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker?s song, ?It Will All Work Out.? Crowe explained how he chose what song should introduce Claire.

‘I remember that the song stood out from 80s album from Tom Petty [Let Me Up - I’ve Had Enough]. ‘It Will All Work Out’ is the personal philosophy of Claire’s character [a stewardess who never gives up]. Kirsten auditioned to that song and as soon as she entered, we knew she was perfect for the part.’

Psalm 32 offers a strong personal philosophy: ‘Blessed is the person whose sins are covered, in whose spirit is no deceit.’ How will things all work out? Verse 5 suggests, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the guilt of my sin.’

(more…)

Elizabethtown opens with a surprising musical choice, ‘Jesus Was A Cross Maker.’ This haunting song about a ’sweet silver angel’ compliments images of a helicopter coming in for a landing at a shoe company’s headquarters. Why did Crowe choose it?

I always loved it. It is evocative of Judee Sill, a great singer who’s been forgotten. This was her classic. The Hollies [a British pop band] covered it. This is their caffeinated, poppy version. I liked the contrast of something authentic being said in an almost inauthentic way. Just like our lead character, Drew Baylor. Things with Drew will get deeper and the songs will get even truer. — Cameron Crowe

Psalm 139. It is a prayer, asking God to search us and know us and reveal the aspects of our lives that may be inauthentic. Efforts to hide our true selves from God are futile because wherever we go, God’s Spirit is already there. In fact, no one knows us better than God, the one who created us.
(more…)

A human encounter with holiness is devastating. It refuses to allow us to be impressed with the things of the world we’ve been chasing. It refuses to allow us to remain comfortable in our sin. It refuses to allow us to remain on the throne of our lives. And it leads us to a relationship with the only One who can perfectly love us, who can forgive all our sins, and who can make us into His likeness. Our encounter with His holiness is our devastation. And our devastation is our salvation. - Todd Agnew

Read the rest of Todd Agnew’s thoughts on Isaiah 6 on www.myspace.com/toddagnew
in his blog post titled:
Isaiah 6-This is the start to a 12 week Devotional on the CD

Scripture References: (thanks to battlecry.com for the compilation)

I am born again through the living and enduring word of God (1 Peter 1:23)
I am a child of God (John 1:12)
I am saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9)
I am loved by God and he gave his one and only Son for me (John 3:16)
I am a new creation in Christ; the old has gone and the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
I have peace with God (Romans 5:1)
The Holy Spirit lives in me (1 Corinthians 3:16)
I have access to God’s wisdom (James 1:5)
I am helped by God (Hebrews 4:16)
I am reconciled to God (Romans 5:11)
I am not condemned by God (Romans 8:1)
I am justified (Romans 5:1)
I have Christ’s righteousness (Romans 5:19; 2 Corinthians 5:21)
I am Christ’s ambassador (2 Corinthians 5:20)
I am completely forgiven (Colossians 1:14)
I am tenderly loved by God (Jeremiah 31:3)
I am the sweet fragrance of Christ to God (2 Corinthians 2:15)
I am a temple in which God dwells (1 Corinthians 3:16)
I am blameless and beyond reproach (Colossians 1:22)
I am the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13)
I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)
I am a branch on Christ’s vine (John 15:1,5)
I am Christ’s friend (John 15:5)
(more…)