Bill Newton

@Ineverglow Thx for all your work on this—album tournament idea was great! 👏🏻🎉👊🏼 Random thought I had the other day: what if did tourney on solid “one & done” albums. May not be 64 worthy (32? 16? maybe mini-tournament?) but thinking Eathsuit, Zilch, Reality Check, etc. 🤔

Championship Match! Jars of Clay - Jars of Clay / The Beautiful Letdown - Switchfoot

Championship Match #CCMTournament2026 🗳️ Voting is in this thread. 📊 Polls will end in 5 days. ❤️ Vote by clicking the name of the album you subjectively like best in each match 🥇 Winner is the champion! 🎶 Spotify Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/0dWlQ… Apple playlist (thx @roadcrew1): t.co/ZvUB2DLWnS

@Ineverglow Yes-100%! The Morningstar album is especially great!

I have to buy these, right? It feels like an obligation.

@JamesBryantWX Scheduled to fly into LR later tonight. Any idea on time it moves out?

3:30 PM UPDATE... ROUND 2... The first round has left us and we are warming back up! Storms in southeast Oklahoma will make their way into western and southwest Arkansas this evening. Large hail, high winds, and tornadoes are possible. We'll also need to watch for any other storms that develop in western Arkansas. Have a way to get warnings this evening!

This is hilarious (sadly)… 🫣🤣

@ATRightMovies Easy: @nunobettencourt (I’d say he’s even better than Clapton) 🎸 🤘

@Ineverglow @jarsofclay @RichWMullins @switchfoot @relientK That’s a solid Final Four!

The final 4 is set! @jarsofclay @RichWMullins @switchfoot @relientK

@JBay_AllTheWay BTW: Appreciate and love all your work on this. Fun prompt to revisit some of these and have found some new ones from your annual “best of” list I really enjoy I wouldn’t have otherwise gave a shot (Jon G & Andy S in particular for this year). So thanks for all the work!

@bnewton116 I do like it, the specifically. It just hasn’t aged well enough for me to make a Top 20, which is crazy b/c it’s a great album. Just not as great as these others. I was also bummed I couldn’t find a spot for The Elms.

Was 2006 the best year of Christian Music in the 2000s? #CCMtwitter open.substack.com/pub/joshbalogh…

@JBay_AllTheWay Chess Hotel is hit or miss for me but the tracks that hit hit hard, especially the title track. Yes, FF5 album does sound dated but do love it still (maybe it more emotions/memories tired to it 🤷‍♂️ but it’s fun to crank loud!)

@JBay_AllTheWay Queen @ #20=insane! How in the world are they not top 5? All 4 members wrote songs that were huge hits, 3 of them sang lead, drummer plays AND sings lead and harmony at the same time(!), HUGE rock influence Also, I’ll get killed for this but the Beatles are waaaay overrated. 🙄

@JamesBryantWX Just wait til they hit 12 or 13. Warp speed! #bewarned :)

Everyone tells you how quickly time moves when you have kids but it ACTUALLY moves at the speed of light now. 2.5 years gone in about 5 minutes!!

The persecution continues. But, you know, Islam is a religion of peace… 🙄 Pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ…

@EW That’s def not a female. Should say “from his husband…”

'Diff'rent Strokes' star Todd Bridges has filed for divorce from his wife, Bettijo B. Hirschi, after three years of marriage. ew.com/todd-bridges-f…

@CalebTheSpy Ian is such a brilliant lyricist. Shows up well on this debut!

Per Apple Music (although I'm not super confident in the date), All Star United the debut album by All Star United was released April 4th, 1997. What do you appreciate about this album? #GoListenToThisRecord #CCMTwitter

"But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. He is now waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. "-Hebrews 10:12-14 #PassionWeekVerses

"Yet he himself bore our sicknesses, and he carried our pains... But he was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities... He was assigned a grave with the wicked, but he was with a rich man at his death..."-Isaiah 53:4, 5, 9 #PassionWeekVerses

"...He emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross."-Phil. 2:7-8 #PassionWeekVerses

@ERCboxoffice 🫣🤣

In a historic first, Keanu Reeves has signed off on his Post-Mortem Rights: allowing Lionsgate to manage his likeness and image for 69 more JOHN WICK films and/or spinoffs after his death.

"But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."-Romans 5:8 #PassionWeekVerses

"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”-Mark 10:45 #passionweekverses