* a sampling
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can that faith save him?
If a brother or sister has nothing to wear
and has no food for the day,
and one of you says to them,
"Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,"
but you do not give them the necessities of the body,
what good is it?
So also faith of itself,
if it does not have works, is dead.
Indeed someone might say,
"You have faith and I have works."
Demonstrate your faith to me without works,
and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.
You believe that God is one.
You do well.
Even the demons believe that and tremble.
Do you want proof, you ignoramus,
that faith without works is useless?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works
when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
You see that faith was active along with his works,
and faith was completed by the works.
Thus the Scripture was fulfilled that says,
Abraham believed God,
and it was credited to him as righteousness,
and he was called the friend of God.
See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
For just as a body without a spirit is dead,
so also faith without works is dead.
When the crazy gets to be too much, I get in a mood for the music equivalent of comfort food. I'll bet you do, too.
My happy place lies in the memories of radio when I could still count my age on two hands and a foot. My happy place is filled with all kinds of music . . . a wonderful world of music that's every bit as satisfying as a plate of fried chicken -- or pan-fried steak and onions -- with a slice of apple pie for dessert.
The comfort music of 3 Chords & the Truth comes from the "misty water-colored mem'ries of the way we were," from AM radios playing Top-40 tunes, from the middle-of-the-road stations on the kitchen radio . . . from trailblazing weekend magazine shows like Monitor on the NBC Radio Network.
ACTUALLY, Monitor was about the only magazine show on network radio before National Public Radio borrowed heavily from the formula beginning in 1971. Only Monitor was much more diverse, ran hours a day all weekend long and played a lot more music.
"Grown-up music," to be sure, but some of it was pretty snappy. In a misty, water-colored mem'ry kind of comfort-foody way.
That's where we're going on the Big Show this week. It's not the first time. Probably won't be the last. Linus had his security blanket; I got this.
And now you got this, too. Enjoy.
IT'S 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
Thanks, Elon Musk. We needed this.
Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster, which launched on top of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy earlier today,
is going farther out into the Solar System than originally planned. The
car was supposed to be put on a path around the Sun that would take the
vehicle out to the distance of Mars’ orbit. But the rocket carrying the
car seems to have overshot that trajectory and has put the Tesla in an
orbit that extends out into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
This is an unusual edition of the Big Show, which this week explores the whole notion of . . . home.
Was Thomas Wolfe right in his posthumous 1940 novel, You Can’t Go Home Again? And what if you can’t go home again — sometimes — even when you never left?
And have you ever had the sick feeling that the country you call home suddenly feels like it’s anything but? You thought you knew your country . . . your people. But what if you were mistaken?
DID YOU change? Did it? Did they?
Yep. That's where we're going this time on 3 Chords & the Truth.
And . . . what about the American Dream? What about your hopes and expectations for your home — your life, your family, your place, your country?
As Bruce Springsteen wrote, "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?"
IN DONALD TRUMP'S Amerika, are you still feeling like you’re at home? What if your dreams are crashing down around you?
We have questions this week on the Big Show. Maybe we do or we don't have answers, but we sure have a lot of music to make you think.
I don’t care who you are, there’s one constant in this vale of tears: One way or another, nothing will break your heart like home. Yet home is what we always yearn for.
It's the damnedest thing.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
The lights are out in Washington.
The lights grow ever dimmer across America. Darkness has come upon our land.
Screw that. Shine a light and push back the shadows of our demons and dysfunction.
Shine a light. Sing our songs. Listen to the music.
Screw Washington. Push back against the hatred and nativism and racism and anarchists in tailored suits.
Fight the power. Sing of the light amid the darkness. That's what we try to do on this -- and every -- episode of 3 Chords & the Truth. When we're doing that, even a little show can be the Big Show.
Word.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
