We’re continuing in the Good Song Sunday tradition this year, and you can look forward to a new video every first Sunday of the month. So even though we’re technically two days late this month, we’re excited to roll out February’s Good Song Sunday!

LOVE DON’T LEAVE ME ALONE

Clap your hands, raise up your voices
Beat your drums, get out your guitars
We love the Lord, He loved us first
So stomp on the floor and rattle the earth

Love don’t leave me alone (love don’t leave me alone)

He opened his mouth, out came the heavens
And the moon and the stars that go on forever
He opened his hand, out came the earth
Rain for the rivers and food from the dirt

Love don’t leave me alone (love don’t leave me alone)

Our road has been long, our minds full of worry
Our road has been long, our minds full of worry
Our road has been long, our minds full of worry
But he won’t forget no one who hopes in his mercy

Love don’t leave me alone (love don’t leave me alone)
from Reckless
Tim F Thornton (Bricklayer Music Publishing, ASCAP) and Aaron Strumpel (Thirsty Dirt Records, ASCAP)

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Lookout Mountain Community Church

When: Sat, Dec 4, 2010 5:30 PM
leading worship for ‘olah service

When: Sun, Dec 5, 2010 10:30 AM
leading worship

When: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 6:00 PM DINNER 7:00 PM CONCERT
christmas concert and dinner | Poster

“Celebrate together at our Christmas Concert & Dinner, featuring The Blackthorn Project and Debbie Milligan/Kerry Conner. Join us for dinner in the Fellowship Hall. Tickets are available in the LMCC Bookstore or call Diane Urbano at 720-746-4106. Cost: $5 Concert, $10 Dinner & Concert, and $25 Family Dinner & Concert (any number). Dinner begins at 6:00 p.m., and the concert at 7:00 p.m. Childcare provided for Nursery to 4-years old at 6:45 p.m.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/133684

This Saturday, Nov 13, 2010 7:00 PM!
2502 West Colorado Avenue Suite 301, Colorado Springs, CO
The Loft Music Venue – 719.201.2209
Colorado Springs, CO
$5 advance
$8 door
With special guest Barry Patterson

Yes, please mark your calendar now to join us. The ridiculously talented Barry Patterson will open with a singer/songwriter set from his new album 7000 miles.

The Blackthorn Project will then play songs from Reckless, with Steve Holley manning the upright bass.

We know you’ll want to bring home our new CD, so we’ve made it the show very inexpensive (especially if you buy a ticket now–see below). So it would mean the world to us if you would retweet, like, forward, or use your God-given voice to invite a friend or two who you think would enjoy our music. See you soon!

Sat, Nov 13, 2010 7:00 PM
2502 West Colorado Avenue Suite 301, Colorado Springs, CO
The Loft Music Venue – 719.201.2209
Colorado Springs, CO
$5 advance: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/133684
$8 door
With special guest Barry Patterson

With Todd & Ashley Warren

We’ll be playing songs from Reckless and brand new Reckless CDs will be available. The well-dressed Steve Holley will be joining us a bass large enough to provide a home for a stray animal. Miss it not.

In fact, we’ve heard that quite a few of you are using the videos for your own personal worship or corporately in small groups and Bible studies, and that is such an honor for us!

So, I’m excited to announce that Tim and I are widening the scope of Good Song Sunday so that we can introduce you to more of our songwriting friends and bring you more new and original worship songs. So the videos will not always be of the two of us; they will often be our friends and their beautiful faces and songs.

So, meet Julie Presley, one of the most fabulous women I know. Julie has an enormous heart for worship and is full of love and tenderness. I wish I could point you to an album to buy, but, alas, it is still in the works and not available for purchase yet. However, you can keep up with her and her adventures in mommy-hood on her blog, and you can listen to one of her songs on this cd of worship music put out by her fellowship.

Here is what she has to say about this song:
Sometimes when I come to the Father, I feel like the only thing I have of value to offer him are my tears, because they speak of something that runs so deep within me, I can’t vocalize it. Those tears can come from so many different places, and for this song, they came out of a place where I was acting out as an abandoned, abused child, and that is contrary to who the Father says I am! This song is a journey from that place, to the cross where he uses my tears to water the soil of my life, and continually accepts me as his daughter.

You Come
Sometimes all I have
are the tears that fall
from the corner of my eyes
I turn my face to you
tell you I’ve come unglued
can you fix me one more time?

Oh you come
And you heal
And you whisper in my heart

I know you’ve never left
And that you’ll never change
But sometimes it’s hard to hear the truth
But in your words I find
it’s easier to believe
That you can make me more like you

Oh you come
and you heal
and you whisper in my heart

So I cling to you
And see that you hold
every tear I’ve cried
I watch as you pour them out
At the foot of a blood stained cross
Where my life began

Walk with me
Hold my hand
I know I’ll fall again
But now I’m trusting in your voice
So now I fight to see
The way that you see me
I’m not an orphan I’m your child

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.

1. Visit http://music.theblackthornproject.com

2. Preorder Reckless by entering enter your email, shipping address, and electronic payment. You’ll be among the first to get the new album when it comes out.

3. Check your email to start immediate download of the “Mud Song” rough mix

3-b. Fun notes on this version of “Mud Song”: In the Reckless session, the recording of “Mud Song” takes on a bit of Andean influence since the Simple Series release. This is a result of Tim’s recent trips to Peru where he was given a charango. The song features Steve Holley on upright bass, Karla Adolphe, Aaron Strumpel (also producer of Reckless), and Ben and Robin Pasley from Enter the Worship Circle: Fourth Circle on group party vocals! Tim and Aaron do the lo-fi percussion.

4. Realize you are a part of something very special. Many things, actually. Be thankful you are on the earth. It needs you.

House Concert at the Wiltons’ | Lafayette, CO
When: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 7:00 PM
Where: Old Town Lafayette, CO
Open to the public. Please email St.Ida@me.com to RSVP and for directions.

The Loft | Colorado Springs, CO
When: Thu, Apr 22, 2010 7:00 PM
Where: 2502 W Colorado Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80904
$8 advance ($2 service fee), $11 at the door
The Loft is Colorado Spring’s great new intimate listening room. We do expect the show to fill up fast so advance tickets are encouraged–check “upcoming events” on theblackthornpoject.com for a ticket link soon.

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.