The Piano Guys

{Program note:  Come to the book signing tonight! See yesterday’s post.}

Rich Mullins once said, "The thing that's cool about music is how unnecessary it is. Of all things, music is the most frivolous and the most useless. You can't eat it, you can't drive it, you can't live in it, you can't wear it. But your life wouldn't be worth much without it."

I play the stereo, and that’s about it. But I love music, and I love sharing about musicians and any artist who I feel excels at their craft—mostly judged by if it impresses or moves me, even if I don’t necessarily like it.

So it is with real excitement that I can share The Piano Guys with you. They are basically a duo who came up with a name before the second guy came along. (I know this sounds backwards, but it is part of their charm.) Jon Schmidt is a classically trained pianist, and Steven Sharp Nelson is a classically trained cellist (as in, not a pianist, yet he is a Piano Guy.)

The Songs of Creation

Originally, this was going to be a Lagniappe item as I sometimes do. But as I watched it again with one of my students, I decided it was worth a full post. Louie Giglio is a well-known evangelist who likes to find cool things in science that seem to support Scripture. While he is clearly not a scientist, this is a particularly interesting and cool synthesis of whale song, pulsar signals, and a praise song.

What I like about this is how it shows a dimension of Creation that is just now accessible to us as creatures. God promises in Scripture that His wonders are beyond even the conception of our imagination. Honestly, I questioned this given the fertility of our imaginations through literature such as fantasy and science fiction that bring truly fantastic things to life.

Then, we discover something like this. All of a sudden, I am very curious and excited to see what manifold dimensions of wonder He awaits to reveal to us. We have all of eternity. He promises it will be worthwhile. I’m starting to believe it.

SDG