Archive for April, 2009

My Blog Has New Home and Theme!

Joshua Wagner Online now has a new home. The blog is now being hosted on DreamHost and is powered by WordPress. I’ve been working on the new theme for about three weeks now, and I think it works pretty well. I’ll be adding to it here and there for probably a few weeks. I’ve called [...]

I Went to Church Online

On Sunday, I went to church online. I had seen and been told about LifeChurch.tv and this week my wife and I decided to check it out. Here’s what I thought. The message was great. I think God reminded me of a few things. I liked that the worship music was included in the service. [...]

Technology and the Future

I sat down and watched Michael Hyatt’s presentation at O’Reilly Tools of Change Publishing Conference on “Blogging as a Tool of Change.” If you haven’t watched it, you should. And it got me thinking on how we use all this new tech. One thing that he said in the presentation really struck me. “You’re not [...]

Looking for Meaning in Music, Part II

In my previous post, I said that music is essentially a vehicle of meaning. Music communicates emotions, but can only communicate so many before something else is added. Adding Layers Adding words to a song makes it more specific. The sounds of music are like broad strokes on the canvas. Lyrics are the details. They [...]

Looking for Meaning in Music, Part I

Music as Language Music is powerful to us humans. We consume – no, devour – music for everything. We play it for celebrations, we use it for sorrow, we use it to vent, we play it to romance. Music at its core is a language. Compare it to a spoken/written language. Music has letters (notes), [...]

The Place of Art in the Church Part II

The purpose of all art in the Church is to glorify God. When the Church creates art, it is expressing what the soul wants to say to God. It is our expression of what God has revealed to us to be Truth (as in absolute Truth). This can be in a worship song of adoration, [...]