Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Eric Clapton "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day" (Sessions 2004)

Eric Clapton "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" (Sessions 2004)

God is in Control

Are you facing some trial right now? Something that is overwhelming you? I declare to you the very heart of biblical Christianity, that the God whom you know in Jesus Christ sits upon the throne of the universe and all power, all authority in heaven and earth belongs to him, is controlled by him and is subject to him. The world has not gone mad it’s gone very sinful. But God is in control. The government does not rest upon Satan’s shoulders, it does not rest on some political leaders in Washington, or London, or Moscow or Beijing or the Middle East, the government of this world rests firmly on the shoulders of Jesus Christ so “WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID, O YOU OF LITTLE FAITH?” This question applies to Christians today as much as it did to those disciple that were in the boat with Jesus. I listen to Christians who have have listened so much to the news media that they do not remember that Jesus is in the boat with them. Christians have no need to live in fear about what is happening to this country or any other country because Our God is in control of every nation.

Hillary on The War On Women


Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2008)

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Everything Is Broken - R. L. Burnside - Dylan Cover

Hallelujah, I’m ready to go - Bob Dylan

I’m ready [hallelujah] Hallelujah [I’m ready] I can hear the voices singin’ soft and low Hallelujah [I’m ready] I’m ready [hallelujah] Hallelujah, I’m ready to go. Dark was the night Not a star was in sight On the highway headin’ down below I let my Saviour in And He saved my soul from sin Hallelujah [I’m ready] I’m ready [hallelujah] I can hear the voices singin’ soft and low I’m ready [hallelujah] Hallelujah [I’m ready] Hallelujah, I’m ready to go. Sinner don’t wait Before it’s too late He’s a wonderful Saviour to know. I fell on my knees He answered my pleas Hallelujah, I’m ready to go.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

The Safety Of God being For Us

Paul is not saying that God is on our side in the middle of our struggles but that God is “FOR US” and that has nothing to do with something in us (our merit) or something we do (our works), it is his attitude to all who are in Christ, all who are his children. Our hearts are weak and we are prone to legalism and unbelief and at times we have a hard time receiving the words, “God is for us”. God is for us; we have failed but He is for us. We are ignorant but He is for us. We are struggling but He is for us, we are doubting but He is for us. We are weak but He is for us. We are not as fruitful as we should be but He is for us.

Some Christians wonder if they can put themselves outside of God’s grace by committing some terrible sin that will nullify God’s redemptive work in them. Tragically some churches teach that this is possible. But if we by our own power or effort were not able to save ourselves or to free ourselves from sin or to make ourselves God’s children, how could it be that by our own power and work we could nullify the work of grace that God himself accomplished in us? Let your heart and mind surrender to the fact that God is eternally for those who believe and he has eternally committed himself to you - without conditions and without requirements. Your life does not affect the fact that God is for you. “MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE: I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME. I GIVE THEM ETERNAL LIFE, AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH; NO ONE CAN SNATCH THEM OUT OF MY HAND” (John 10:27-28).

Freddie King - Sweet Home Chicago

Albert King - Driftin' Blues

Crossroads - Joe Bonamassa w/ Zakk Wylde - Dolby Theatre - Los Angeles CA - Dec 13, 2013

I Threw It All Away - Bob Dylan

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Joe Bonamassa - Lonesome Christmas - Offical Music Video

B.B. King- Merry Christmas Baby

The Christmas Blues - Bob Dylan

What does it mean that God is “FOR US”?

What does it mean that God is “FOR US”?
The goal of grace is to create a love relationship between God and us who believe the kind of relationship we were first made for.
The revelation of the New Testament is that God is our heavenly Father, we are His children and He is “FOR US”. We could say that how well a person understands Christianity is related to how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and having God as his Father. If God being your Father doesn’t motivate, and control your worship and prayers and your whole outlook on life. You don’t understand Christianity very well.
God being for me has nothing to do with my ability, my performance, or my obedience. Once you set qualifications for God being for you, you have left grace and have put yourself back under the law. If you don't know or believe that God is for you because of what God decided about you in eternity past and then sent his own son to become a man and take your place, pay for your sins on the cross and rise from the dead to secure your justification and secure your place in the Father's family. Then you don't really know the God of the bible and you will live in fear and insecurity. I get up every day thanking God that he is for me!

Friday, December 4, 2015

The Cross Our Only Hope.

If Christ had not come there would be no forgiveness for sin or victory over sin. “WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS” (Heb.9:22 NASB). The Bible says that He came to seek and save the lost. He saved us from the guilt of sin. The only thing that can take away the burden of guilt is the blood of Jesus. “SO, BY VIRTUE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS, YOU AND I, MY BROTHERS, MAY NOW HAVE CONFIDENCE TO ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES BY A FRESH AND LIVING WAY” (Heb.10:19 J.B. Phillips). Man has always tried to provide his own atonement but only Christ can wipe the slate clean and blot out the writing which is written against them. Only He can remove the heavy burden of guilt that causes so many people to live under a gray cloud. Only Christ can forgive sin and give victory over sin. The cross is our hope.

Muddy Waters - She Moves Me

Foo Fighters - Congregation - Live from Austin City Limits TV 2014

Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral, My Trial

Muddy Waters - I Want to be Loved - 1955

Monday, November 9, 2015

Jesus Is In Control Of All Of Life

Jesus calms every storm, every wind, and every wave. This is symbolic that he is in control of all of our life. God never promised his people an easy life, just read church history or biblical history. There are mysteries in his providence that we will never understand in this life. That’s why we’re called to live by faith and not by sight. This scripture teaches us that the mystery of God’s providence is to motivate us to exercise faith not to drive us from faith. The great difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is that all the storms, trials, troubles, difficulties, sorrow in this life, the Christian, even though he doesn’t have an answer for each of them, has an over-reaching answer that God will work all things together for good to those who love God

Susan Tedeschi - Lord Protect My Child (Live at Farm Aid 2005) - Dylan Cover

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bonnie Raitt - Dylan Cover

Bonnie Raitt - Million Miles - Great Dylan Cover

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

What Do You Know About God?

“Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives. As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesmen to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave him, as one who knew nothing of English or England, to fend for himself, so we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it .The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfold, as it were , with no sense of direction, and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

The EPA Gets A New Name


Eric Clapton "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day" (Sessions 2004)

Eric Clapton - Kind Hearted Woman, Sessions for Robert Johnson

Questions | Songs | Tommy Emmanuel

It's Never Too Late | Songs | Tommy Emmanuel

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Working Of God's Word

"In short, I will preach it, teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such loses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything." Martin Luther

Our confidence must be in the Word of God not our ability, or our programs, or our music, or the latest bestseller, or our advertising, only the Word of God can accomplish God's purposes and change lives.

Outlaw Blues - Bob Dylan

John Scofield Trio - Trio Blues [2010]

"Pick Up The Pieces"- Alan Gorrie - Daryl Hall

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The Only Way People Can Be Saved

‘For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.’                 Let us look first at the positive statement. Here is his assertion positively, that we are Christians entirely and solely as the result of the grace of God. Let us remind ourselves once more that ‘grace’ means unmerited, undeserved favor. It is an action which arises entirely from the gracious character of God. So the fundamental proposition is that salvation is something that comes to us entirely from God’s side. What is still more important is this, that it not only comes from God’s side, it comes to us in spite of ourselves—‘unmerited’ favor. In other words, it is not God’s response to anything in us. Now there are many people who seem to think that it is—that salvation is God’s response to something in us. But the word ‘grace’ excludes that. It is in spite of us. The apostle, as we have seen, has already been very much concerned to say this. You notice the interesting way in which he, as it were, slipped it in in the fifth verse. He interrupted himself, broke the symmetry of his statement, and was guilty of a serious blemish from the standpoint of literary style. But he was not interested in that. Listen to him: ‘Even when we were dead in sins, he hath quickened, us together with Christ’, and then, instead of going on to the next step—in parenthesis ‘(by grace ye are saved)’. Here, he puts it a little more explicitly. Salvation is not in any sense God’s response to anything in us. It is not something that we in any sense deserve or merit. The whole essence of the teaching at this point, and everywhere in all the New Testament, is that we have no sort or kind of right whatsoever to salvation, that the whole glory of salvation is, that though we deserved nothing but punishment and hell and banishment out of the sight of God to all eternity, yet God, of His own love and grace and wondrous mercy, has granted us this salvation. Now that is the entire meaning of this term ‘grace’.                 BY MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

Jeff Beck Group - Going Down

Shame, Shame, Shame - Jimmy Reed

Little Walter's Jump - Little Walter live

LITTLE WALTER - TAKE ME BACK

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Which Woman Should Be On The New $10.00 Bill


“Hot Tub Religion”

I was reading a book by J.I. Packer called “Hot Tub Religion”, in the book, Packer is dealing with crucial questions that Christians may not be clear on. The title of the book is from a chapter that deals with a theology of pleasure. His choice for the most fitting symbol of contemporary western culture is a hot tub.

When I hear the words “hot tub” it reminds me of the Eddie Murphy skit on an old Saturday Night Live show called “Celebrity Hot Tub”. Murphy enters playing James Brown dancing to James Brown music saying “Hot Tub”. If you were a James Brown fan you can hear his voice in your head saying the words “Hot Tub”. Packer retells his first experience in a hot tub with some of his student advisers from Regent College. Packer said, “As I sat there savoring hot-tubness, cracking small jokes and adjusting to the feel of being bubbled over from all angles it struck me that the hot tub is the perfect symbol of the modern route in religion. The hot tub experience is sensuous, relaxing, floppy, and laid-back: not in any way demanding whether intellectually or otherwise, but very, very nice, even to the point of being great fun.”

“Many today want Christianity to be like that, and labor to make it so. The ultimate step of course would be to clear church auditoriums of seats and install hot tubs in their place; then there would never be any attendance problems" This was written 30 years ago and you could add a lot of descriptions to the current Christian hot tub experience. But sometimes I wonder if what the Church is doing is caving in to the low level of biblical intelligence in the people attending the services. Instead of building people up in their most holy faith, we spoon feed them self-help Pablum and some “How to” messages— how to prosper, how to feel better about yourself, how to have a great marriage, how to raise swell kids, how to have it all, and it remind's me of the sleazy salesman Art Fern from

Tommy Emmanuel - Michelle

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Mary Had A Little Lamb - Philadelphia Blues (Bootleg)

Monday, May 18, 2015

The Humbling Reality of Being Indwelt by The Holy Spirit

R. A. Torrey in his book, “The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit” tells us,
 “The conception of the Holy Spirit as a divine influence or power that we are somehow to get hold of and use, leads to self-exaltation and self-sufficiency. One who thinks of the Holy Spirit and who at the same time imagines that He has received the Holy Spirit will almost inevitably be full of spiritual pride and strut about as if he belonged to some superior order of Christians. One frequently hears such persons say, ‘I am a Holy Ghost man’ or ‘Holy Ghost woman’. But if we once grasp the thought that the Holy Spirit is a divine person of infinite majesty, glory and holiness who in marvelous condescension has come into our hearts to make His abode there and take possession of our lives and make use of them, it will put us in the dust and keep us in the dust. I can think of no thought more humbling or more overwhelming than the thought that a person of divine majesty and glory dwells in my heart and is ready to use even me.” (Pg. 8-9)

KENNY BURRELL, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You

The Double Standard of ABC News


KENNY BURRELL, Wavy Gravy

Kenny Burrell - "Soul Lament"

Friday, May 15, 2015

B.B. King ft. Eric Clapton | Riding With The King ( official video and lyrics)

Eric Clapton - Every Day I Have The Blues - Live in Hyde Park (1997)

Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89


Riley B. King, the legendary guitarist known as B.B. King, whose velvety voice and economical, expressive style brought blues from the margins to the mainstream, died Thursday night.
I have always told people I was mentored by the Kings, B.B. Albert and Freddie. I taught myself how to play blues lead guitar by sitting in my room with my record player, Electric guitar and amp. I would listen to B.B. King's album "Lucille" and play along with B.B. When I was living in Chicago in the early 70's and playing in the Sam Lay Blues Band I saw B.B. play live. One of my favorite songs is "Every Day I Have The Blues" One of my favorite albums is "Riding With The King" by Eric Clapton and B.B. King. I still play the blues and I still love the blues, my soul is colored blue.
I almost forgot B.B.'s guitar was named LUCILLE, The lead singer for the Sam Lay Blues Band was LUCILLE Spann widow of the great Otis Spann legendary blues piano player, I owned a B.B. King Lucille guitar and my wife's name is Lucille.

BB King - Every Day I Have The Blues [Live At Nick's 1983] HD

Thursday, May 7, 2015

"Will The Circle Be Unbroken" - David Letterman - Steve Martin, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Mark O'Connor and Amos Lee

Remember "deflate-gate"?

Remember "deflate-gate"? After the Patriots beat the Colts, 11 of the 12 footballs were found to be deflated. The NFL today released a report. They found the Patriots probably did it on purpose. Now we have to get Tom Brady to promise to never do it again, I guess.

I hope deflate-gate is a good lesson for kids. If you cheat and don't play fair you will be the MVP of the Super Bowl and marry one of the most beautiful women on earth. Remember that.


From Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Who Saw This Coming?


Norah Jones: "Don't Know Why" - David Letterman

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Automatic Taxation Machine


The Good News Of God

The exclusive claims of Jesus Christ to be “THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE” are sealed when he adds, “NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME” (John 14:6) Since mankind is absolutely dependent on Christ for their knowledge of redemptive truth and also for the spark that causes that truth to live in their souls (and for their souls to become alive to that truth) it follows that no one can come to the Father but through him. When Christ is removed there can be no redemptive truth, so there is no eternal life, resulting in no way to the Father.

This is our human condition— we are alienated from God, ignorant of the truth, and condemned to spiritual and physical death. The wonderful truth of Christ’s claim is that it’s the divine answer to our problems on three levels. Instead of alienation there is a “way” to God. Instead of ignorance and error there is “the truth”. Instead of death there is “the life”. So this scripture is actually the gospel the good news of God.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Goin' Down Slow

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Driftin' and Driftin' - Live

Eric Clapton - Driftin'

Eric Clapton - Blues Leave Me Alone

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

"Goin' Down" - Jeff Beck with Beth Hart - Crossroads 2013 - Madison Square Garden - April 13, 2013

Jeff Beck - I Ain't Superstitious

Hillary Recycled Ideas


God Is Love

Dr. J. I. Packer in Knowing God makes an interesting contrast in two statements he makes about “God is love”. First of all he says that “God is love” is not the complete truth about God so far as the bible is concerned. Secondly he says that “God is love” is the complete truth about God so far as the Christian is concerned. “God is love means that His love finds expression in everything that he says and does. For instance in Romans 8:28: AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. Paul is declaring that every single thing that happens to him expresses God’s love to him and comes to him for the furthering of God’s purpose for him”.

Stevie Ray Vaughn - The Things That I Used To Do (Lorelei, Germany '84)

Joe Bonamassa, Dusty Hill, Derek Trucks and Billy Gibbons - Going Down - Freddie King Tribute Live

Monday, April 13, 2015

The Nature Of Sin

Oswald Chambers wrote, "The nature of sin is not immorality and wrongdoing, but the nature of self-realization which leads us to say, "I am my own God." This nature may exhibit itself in proper morality or in improper immorality, but it always has a common basis--my claim to my right to myself." This is our problem we all claim to have a right to our-self. No one can tell us anything because we know what is best for us and God help the person who gets in our way! C.S. Lewis put it this way, "Pride is the ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration on self"

Lord deliver me from myself, and help me to see how much I get in the way of making any spiritual progress.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze

Tom Petty - Call Me The Breeze - 1999 Hamburg

John Mayer - Call Me the Breeze (Albuquerque - 10/01/13)

Gov't Mule - Simple Man

Gov't Mule's cover of the Lynyrd Skynyrd hit "Simple Man" off the album "Under the Influence" (tribute to Skynyrd cd with various artists)

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Pat Metheny Group - Have you heard

Saved by grace alone or not saved at all!

“I AM PRAYING FOR. . . THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME FOR THEY ARE YOURS” John 17:9 Jesus values them simply because they belong to God. Jesus is saying I am praying for these people because they are yours and I am concerned for what is yours. We are God’s personal possession, Jesus is praying for us because we belong to him. How ridiculous for Christians to worry and fear when the shepherd and caretaker of their souls is caring for them. “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price’ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Believers are the Father’s love gift to the Son. It is unthinkable that the Father would permit this gift of love to fail by one believer being lost. Salvation is totally of God’s grace. If we could not be saved by our good works why should we be condemned after we are saved by some sin or act of disobedience? If God who knows all things knew that we would fail, why would he have given his son in the first place? Either we are saved by grace alone or we are not saved at all!

Bill's Title In A Hillary Administration


Wes Montgomery - Round Midnight

Joe Pass - All the Things You Are

Thursday, March 26, 2015

BIZ vs GOVT.


Contrasts Between Law And Grace Part 2

Let these contrasts between law and grace really sink into your heart and mind and praise God that you are now under grace:

1. The law stops us from coming to God - Grace invites us to come just as we are. “Just as I am, without one plea”.
2. The law condemns the sinner - Grace redeems him.
3. The law says, “Do this and live” - Grace says, “It is done.”
4. The law says, “Try” - Grace says, “It is finished.”
5. The law curses the sinner - Grace blesses the believer.
6. The law kills the sinner - Grace saves him.
7. The law shuts every mouth before God - Grace opens the mouth in praise to God.
8. The law condemns the best man - Grace saves the worst.
9. The law says, “Pay what you owe” - Grace says, “It is paid.”
10. The law says, “THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH” - Grace says, “THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE.”
11. The law reveals man's sin - Grace atones for man's sin.
12. The law brings the knowledge of sin - Grace provides redemption from sin.
13. The law was given by Moses - Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
14. The law demands obedience - Grace gives power to obey.
15. The law was written on stone - Grace is written in the heart.
16. The law was done away with in Christ - Grace abides forever.
17. The law puts you under bondage - Grace sets you free.


I want you to know that I will never give up my position under grace to put myself back under the curse of the law. I will never give up my security in Christ to go back to trying to keep myself saved by good works.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Chitlins Con Carne"

Kenny Burrell - Chitlins Con Carne

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Cream - White Room (Royal Albert Hall 2005)

The Next Storm


The Contrast Between Law And Grace

The Contrast Between Law And Grace (2 Corinthians 3:5-18)
Paul is speaking about the law in its narrowest sense referring to the Ten Commandments. Paul is contrasting the law with grace, by giving this description of the law:

1. The law is “the letter” - not “of the spirit” (v.6).
2. This “letter kills” but “The Spirit gives life” (v.6).
3. The law is “the ministry of death . . . carved in stone” accompanied by a temporary glory (v.7).
4. The “The ministry of the Spirit” has a greater permanent glory (v.8).
5. The law was “The ministry of condemnation” (v.9).
6. Grace is “The ministry of righteousness” (v.9).
7. The law was “being brought to an end” (v.11, 13).
8. Grace is “permanent” (v.11).
9. The law was a “veil” that prevented approach to the presence of God (v.14-15).
10. Under grace “When one turns to the Lord the veil is removed (v.16).


In the light of this why would any Christian want to go back under the law? Why go back under the ministry of condemnation and death? Anyone who wants to go back to the feasts, to observance of days, to dietary laws etc. does not understand the law and does not understand grace.

Gov't Mule with John Scofield - Hottentot (John Scofield)

Eric Clapton Have You Ever Loved a Woman Live - November 24, 1999 at the Kanagawa Yokohama Arena in Japan.