Anyway, I could go on…but I’d rather you just come and experience it with us. You can join us for just the Saturday and/or Sunday evening worship events if you’d like. Doors open at 6:30. Cost is $10 at the door. For more information, like directions, click here.

Here is some great camping info:  do you need to rent sleeping bags, or tents?  REI in the Springs rents all kinds of camping gear: Tents, pads, stoves, etc. They just don’t rent out sleeping bags. For a 3 man tent it’s around $20 for members of REI from Friday to Sunday and $25 for non members. Their phone number is (719) 260-1455.

Also, mark your calendars for Worship@8500, June 25-27, in Divide Colorado. Bring your instruments, your hacky-sacks, your tents and sleeping bags and join me (Laurie), Tim, Aaron, and many more of our Worship Circle friends for an entire weekend of worship jams, encouraging talks, and Colorado mountain hang time.

Click the poster for more information! The full day of worship music featuring Karla Adolphe, Aaron Strumpel, Ben and Robin Pasley, and more TBA. The gathering is going to be casual and packed with value. You might never get a better chance to revel with and engage us in our hometown…er home mountain…pass…area.

“Food From The Raven” t-shirts

Themed after a lyric from “Too Proud” off the Fourth Circle CD, our new shirts are designed by just for us by local artists, and are sweatshop-free Alternative Apparel. They also have The Blackthorn Project web address in small print on the back (in the spot where you can’t scratch).

The mens’ style is super-comfy and soft heathered navy (the very top image on this page shows the color contrast best), while the womens’ is a lighter blue “destroyed t” which is like your favorite 5-year old shirt, complete with some fraying around the collar.

Free Shipping Until After Christmas!

We’ve also turned off shipping in our entire store until after Christmas, and we’ll guarantee delivery by Christmas within the 48 states if you order by midnight on Wednesday, Dec 17th.

You get to support local artists, sweatshop-free manufacturing, artist ministers (that would be us!), and delight someone with a cool, unique shirt. You can order here: http://www.theblackthornproject.com/merch/

This video has lived on Youtube for a while but I’m retroactively posting it here a year later. Video from the house concert featuring Tim and Laurie Thornton (The Blackthorn Project, Ben and Robin Pasley (Enter the Worship Circle) and Barry and Michelle Patterson. The song is “Trouble Won’t Go” by Timothy Floyd Thornton, Aaron Strumpel, and Robin Pasley, from Enter the Worship Circle: Fourth Circle.

Here’s another picture from the recording session, with Robin, Laurie, and the back of Aaron’s head. Be sure and visit Enter the Worship Circle to find our more, and to hear other great collaborative and solo worship recordings!

If you’ve not yet ordered, there’s no time like go time. Click here to get there.

Relevant magazine has recently remarked that Fourth Circle is good and even gave the Thorntons some specific props. We thought you might like to read the review. Click to view it on our press page where we’ve captured it forever more. If your cursor turns into a magnifying glass, it would be good to click the image, unless you have bionic eyes. Or you can click here to read it at Relevant online while the link endures.

Recorded at Bongo Billy’s Salida Cafe on March 22, 2008, “Too Proud” was written from Psalm 81 by Aaron and the Thorntons. When we read the words, we thought about how akward it is–and how reluctant we sometimes are–to approach the divine, but the glorious miracles that can happen when we approach in belief. I like this song because even if I’m not in a place where I feel like I can sing to God, I can ask “Can you sing over me…?”

Visit theblackthornproject.com where the audio recording of this song is now available on a CD called Fourth Circle. Tim, Laurie, and Aaron collaborated with many other great musicians on the album–it’s in the series of Enter the Worship Circle projects–more at entertheworshipcircle.com. Aaronstrumpel.com will tell you more about the guy with the mic in front of his face. Mysterious.

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You are going to freak out over this music. It’s live worship that’s raw, comes from scripture, and is the best note-for-note value in the music-industry universe. The album is a collaborative effort featuring us (Tim and Laurie) as songwriters and performers. Ben and Robin Pasley, Aaron Strumpel, and Jacob and Lily also appear. Be sure and go to entertheworshipcircle.com where lots of resources and cool things like chord charts and lyrics for the songs will soon be appearing.