I have been playing ‘Attributes of God‘ by Shai Linne a lot lately and loving it. As I shared this with some others in our church, I learned that some people have some wrong assumptions about the music that pastors listen to.

Since I’m a middle-aged white male, I apparently am limited to only enjoying 80’s music, classical, or contemporary Christian. Nobody told me that, so, for full disclosure, here’s a sampling of my playlist from today:

• Clocks – Coldplay
• Empire State of Mind (part ii) ~ Alicia Keys
• Rolling in the Deep – Adele
• The Glory of God – Shai Linne
• Background – Lecrae
• Don’t Know Why – Norah Jones
• Beautiful Day – U2
• Lovefool – The Cardigans
• Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae

Usually I like a couple tracks on an album, but occasionally a whole album is excellent.  The complete albums that are currently in my regular rotation are:

• Mirar Tu Rostro – Daniel Salcedo
• Awaken the Dawn – Keith & Kristyn Getty
• Aman Iman – Tinariwen
• The Attributes of God – Shai Linne

When studying the Word or when I’m writing, I can’t really listen to music that I can sing with (because that’s incredibly distracting!), so I typically listen to Spanish-language and International albums, like the two above.

PS — While talking about music, I want to say that I love Spotify – an awesome way of listening to all kinds of music.