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The road to hell is paved.

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The road to hell is paved. period. It’s smooth and spacious. It’s easy and it works. It invites you in to do what’s tried and true. It’s a life that’s offered up to you, but never truly yours. It’s hard to make a mark on a path that’s well traveled. Hell is that place where [...]

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Haiti – broken | beautiful

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The next Solar Crash Event will be emerging from the rubble this Saturday evening at the El Mocambo night club downtown Toronto. As with every event there will be great local artists along with new experimental elements.  We’ll be exploring themes of beauty amidst brokenness.  You can still RSVP yourselves on the FB event page. [...]

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Next Solar Crash Event: brokenbeautiful

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Emerging from the rubble once again, the next live solar crash event will be on April 10th, 2010 at the El Mocambo Night club. Join the Facebook page and see http://event.solarcrash.com with more details to follow.

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U2 – One

Did everyone catch the live streaming U2 rose bowl concert? They should be rebroadcasting it here soon. I got a ton of hits from people searching for song lyrics and meanings. There’s so much great stuff in One, but did you ever notice the lyrics in this verse? It’s too late tonight to drag the [...]

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To talk like this, and act like that

Without a doubt my favorite U2 album of all time remains Achtung Baby. It’s gritty layers went really well with my early teenage angst years. A completely underrated song in the Album is Acrobat. Here’s a snippet: No, nothing makes sense Nothing seems to fit I know you’d hit out If you only knew who [...]

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A letter from God to Man

This is a great song and video by Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. I love the radiohead sampling in particular. If you can’t quite catch all the lyrics you can find them here.

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Can the church regain it’s glow?

A couple weeks ago I preached a message working through Van Gogh’s art and the inbreaking of the Kingdom of God. It was a really fun one, partly inspired by this book. My favorite bit was on Van Gogh’s famous Starry Night painting. Van Gogh was really intentional with his colors using blue for mystery [...]

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Poets prophets preachers – Recap

* Update – Poets, prophets, preachers is available for download at robbell.com Also see my rob bell messages & videos page for more Wifi was severely limited Limited at the conference so no live blogging – plus I didn’t bring my laptop around with me for the first time in my life… the iPod touch [...]

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