10,000 hits and counting…

Well, the Rapture Song video has reached 10,000 views at YouTube. Clearly, 990,000 short of one million (Topher, Kevin and I are looking for that dinner you owe us), but it’s received much more attention than I thought it would get. The responses have been funny and sad. And there truthfully have been some that we just couldn’t post. Either because they were just plain inappropriate or didn’t help further intelligent discussion on the matter.

There were a couple of interesting developments this weekend that I thought you might enjoy:

• I understand from Paul Clark, that Larry Norman saw the video. After viewing it, he chuckled and said, “That’s cute.”
• This past Sunday at ‘mega-church’ Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot, Colorado. Special guest speaker Mark Scott, Academic Dean at Ozark Christian College, led off his sermon, “The End Is Near”, with The Rapture Song video. After it finished, he began by saying, “In the words of Larry the Cable Guy, ‘That’s funny, I don’t care who you are.’”
• Meryl is working on Randy Bonifield and the Left Behind Tour t-shirts. I’m looking forward to seeing the design and the itinerary.

It’s really sad that I will be known from here on as the YouTube Rapture Song guy….

Left Behind (The Rapture Song)

Here is a video from a performance of a song that I wrote recently about the shaping of my views of the end times through the films and songs of the ’70’s. We used this at my church this past Sunday.

This really resonated with a lot of folks so Kevin Harlan and I posted it on YouTube. Enjoy it, share it, blog about it, email it to a friend. I am really amazed at the number of people blogging about it already. Hopefully, you find this for what it’s meant to be: humorous self discovery with a bit of sadness mixed in. I wrote it to precede the sermon our senior pastor, Tom Nelson, delivered on prophecy and the book of Daniel.