Thanks, I will check it out.

Hey brother love you can see their video here: http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/videos.asp?artistID=1099354

and their homepage is of course as I have said before: http://www.acrossthesky.com/

Hope and Faith - The band that Kerry Livgren, the guitar player and writer of the majority of Kansas songs, formed along with the Dave Hope who was the bass player for Kansas, is called "AD". They are one my favorites too, along with Petra, REZ, Deagarmo & Key, and others mentioned here.

This Mother's Day evening Greg X. Volz, the former lead singer for Petra, will be at our Church here in Louisville Ky. We are very excited!

Glad you brought up Kerry Livgren. His album seeds of change which is a Christian record features among others Black Sabbath lead singer, Ronnie James Dio, in the songs live for the king and the mask of the great deceiver.

That album rocked. Can't find it on vynl anymore though.

Do they have a web-site?

Try this one which will give you a sampling: http://www.grassrootsmusic.com/artist/acrossthesky1/acrossthesky1

or their home page at: http://www.acrossthesky.com/

When I open my eyes is my favorite.

Another you can find on that site (grass roots) is "old man shattered" doing Sentimental time which is good as well.

Sounds like a Christian version of “Jackass” or “The Tom Green Show.” I'll no doubt check it out for Kicks.

I'm kind of on outs with TBN... when a preacher says God told him to divorce his wife and marry a woman down the road, AND THEY LET HIM STAY ON THE AIR, I kind of try to avoid them.

The other guy in this video is a guy named Ray Comfort. After listening to him for awhile now I can tell you that he is not one of the TBN crowd. I think it came down to who would put it on the air more than they wanted to associate with that sort. Anyway if you don't blieve me go to his website http://www.livingwaters.com and listen to his sermon entitled true and false conversions.

Peace

My favorite right now is Across the Sky. When I was a kid it was the resurrection band

Oh and by the way it isn't okay if it is a Christian cd and it is for the church. Our choir ran into this recently. I am the only one with a burner.

The choir director asked me to make copies for all the people in the choir so we could practice it. I said, if you get permission from the publisher then I will do it. I got growns and moans of people saying hey we did it last year, and I could almost hear the "legalistic label" being slapped on my forehead.

Anyway by next choir practice I was told to go ahead and make them up in lue of it being done. Got to choir, and they hadn't called for permission.

Now, the cd says you must call and get permission and once you do, you can copy them, but must destroy the copies afterwards. It doesn't say just take it for granted that you can, it says do this... They didn't call as i said and were making me look like the bad guy when I was ticked off at them.

Technically what I had done was illegal and immoral, and they blew it off. I suggest that they buy a cd burner of their own next time.

Another newbie chiming in. I agree with the last post and I to voted yes.

The local library allows you to check out up to fifty cds a week (if you are so inclined) and I spent many hours and dollars duplicating them, for my own enjoyment. I also spent countless hours downloading songs from Morpheus and Bear Share. I must have had  four thousand songs.

Now, why do I consider it stealing? Because I received something that I did not pay for.

Here is what I mean. If I go to a library and read a book, I am using something I didn't pay for. But the publisher has allowed this for whatever reason. But, if I never return the book, that is considered stealing, right? What if i make a copy of the book and send back the original, aren't I still in possession of the book in some form (This is comparable to copying cds by the way because they are never the same quality just like a zerox copy of a book is not the same as the original)? The music manufacturers have not given you any rights to make copies for anyone but yourself (from what I understand).

The point is not whether it is wrong for the companies to charge so much for the music they put out. The question is should we be denying them the money that they are due?

So is copying wrong? I can't see that it is according to copyright law. Is sharing wrong? Yes because it is against copying law. By the way I deleted all the songs and got rid of the cds.