My wife and I were skimming through tonight’s episode of American Idol which we recorded. We really only cared about who got voted off, so we just started skipping past the Idol Gives Back recap, but we were soon caught completely off guard when we saw the contestants start to sing “Shout to the Lord”. (As a sidenote, we discovered that they sang this song last night as well.) As the song was sung, we were left babbling quick utterances such as “wha–?”, “y–!”, “bu–…ahh!” and the like. I’m still trying to figure out why it was so odd to watch them sing the song. Do any or all of them know Jesus to the extent that they would call Him “Savior”? Although we didn’t watch last night’s perfomance, I understand that the opening lyrics were changed from “My Jesus” to “My Shepherd”, but tonight the original lyrics were sung.

It also makes me wonder who made the decision to sing the song in the first place, let alone a second time with Jesus’ name blatantly proclaimed as Savior. Did they take some flack for leaving it out the first time? Or did the producers receive some positive feedback from Dolly Parton’s “Jesus and Gravity”…enough so that the most contraversial name on earth would be safe to put on the most-watched show on television? Very intriguing, to say the least. So much so that I couldn’t go to sleep without writing about it…and I typed all this on my iPhone.

P.S. I’m bummed that the Australian chap was voted off.

I AM ALMOST POSITIVE THAT THIS GUY WRITES ALL OF HIS EMAILS IN CAPITAL LETTERS, WITH EXTENSIVE USE OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!

I’m listening to U2 right now. They are really good. I would like to make a prediction: U2 is going to hit it big someday.

You heard it here first.

(As a side note, I think Adam Clayton looks like Bill Gates in this picture. You heard that here first, too.)