Month: April 2026

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One step forward, Two steps back

Several weeks ago I mentioned my life’s work Timothy – a musical according to revelations. No, not the book of ‘Revelation’, but the many revelations from the Lord about Himself that have greatly influenced my walk with Him. It’s been a solitary work with occasional help from unlikely sources. For example, several songs feature instrumental parts played by friends who are not believers. When asked why help me, they simply said “because we love you, Jack”. I was stunned. It was Matthew 25:31-46 in action – unbelievers showing themselves to be sheep by helping a son of God.

The bigger obstacle in recording and mixing music has always been hearing impairment. Where my chief complaint is tinnitus, hearing tests were dismissed with the recommendation “learn to live with it”. Thus my hearing has never been tested. Recently I hired a professional studio engineer to teach me through mixing and mastering the song Resurrection Power, which is the finale of Timothy.

Listening to my young friend’s remix of Resurrection Power, I was unable to hear the subtle changes he would make to affect the sound, nor the cymbals he recorded on the new drum track. In the end, I simply had to trust that he’d delivered a better sounding mix than I can do myself. After our session, I remembered an earlier conversation where he recommended an app that would test a listener’s hearing and plot an equalization curve to correct for any hearing deficiencies. Once installed, I ran the calibration routine, applied the correction curve and replayed the song. The difference was astounding.

Listen to the new mix of Resurrection Power below or click the 3 vertical dots to download the Mp3:

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Whitewashing Babylon

At the time of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001, I belonged to an online discussion group frequented by believers who had followed the Holy Spirit’s call to come out of man’s religious system unto Jesus who is outside the camp of men (Hebrews 13:12-14, Revelation 3:20, et al). Several members were a great encouragement to me as I sought to untangle from tradition and rule-bound religion to embrace my freedom in the Spirit. Sadly, following the attack on the WTC the faith of many became a prideful amalgam of politics and religion, often expressed with lust for vengeance. My spirit was sickened by the abrupt and toxic turn from fellowship of the Spirit to fellowship rooted in the bastard child Christian Nationalism that emerged in virulent form immediately after that tragic event.

The experience caused me to reflect on my political views, some of which were shaped through my former employer: Boeing. My support of several Department of Defense projects was brief and peripheral since I worked mostly in the space and computing divisions. Nevertheless, my income was subsidized by the military industrial complex whose influence was inescapable in the work place. That is, until the day the Lord called me to resign and devote myself to the work He had for me. In the years that followed, the Lord gave me an eyeful of the world by holding it up to His Word which proved life changing for me. Where once I would say with confidence “I’m a Presbyterian and a Conservative”, there is no apt description of what Jesus has made me, unless it’s to say “I’m a follower of The Way” (Acts 9:2, et al).

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