For a limited time I’m going to offer a free mp3 from my upcoming “Strings EP” (which is almost done!!!!).  The song is “Empty Faith”.  You can grab it at my bandcamp site:  http://brianwahlband.bandcamp.com/track/empty-faith-strings-version

Or, you can just get it here:

The “Strings EP” is coming soon.  I’m planning on 5 tracks, and 4 of them are ready to go.  There will be at least 3 new songs (maybe 4), and for sure one song that has been previously released.  All songs have a common theme – orchestra strings.  The concept is to strip the songs down to two main elements:  acoustic guitar and orchestra strings.

I hope to get this done in the next few months, and you’ll be able to download the tracks from everywhere you can think of (iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, etc), and I’ll have it available from CD Baby as a full album download for only $4.

Also, I’d like to say a special thanks to Nelson Fitch (http://nelson.ex-ps.com/) for supplying his awesome photography for the cover.  Here’s a peek at what the cover will probably look like:

I’m a Youth Pastor at the Memorial Road Mennonite Brethren Church in Edmond, OK.  I don’t preach all that often – about 4 times a year, but I really enjoy preaching.  I preached my last sermon at MRMBC on Sunday, July 12. Well, my last sermon as the Youth Pastor there.    My wife and I will be moving to Durham, North Carolina in just a few weeks (more info on that here).

Anyway, I preached on a passage that’s been on my heart for a while – Luke 7:36-50.  It goes like this:

• Jesus is invited to a dinner party.
• The host (a Pharisee named Simon) is incredibly rude to Jesus.
• Somewhere along the way a “woman of sin” (probably a prostitute) shows up and starts washing Jesus’s feet with her tears, then pours a bunch of perfume on his feet.
• Simon doesn’t like the fact that a prostitute is pouring her perfume on his floor, so he starts complaining.
• Jesus doesn’t like that Simon is complaining, so he calls him out.
• Then Jesus proceeds to blow everybody’s mind talking about forgiveness and sin.

Basically, Jesus breaks every Middle-Eastern-AD-30 social rule in the book according to their culture and defends a prostitute in a room full of church leaders.  It’s a crazy story, and it’s implications should literally change our lives.

Here is the sermon audio:

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Download the mp3