They let you do it twice a day if you need to.

Well, my first STRAG session went great. I changed a couple of things about my setup to make tomorrow go even smoother. My friend Paul Sell will be elated to know that I've raised the mic so that I will now sing standing up instead of sitting on my couch hunched over my coffee table.

I also started prepping for tomorrow. I've got words for the next two and a half songs, so I hope to get all three sung by tomorrow evening. Finishing off the scratch vocals for the first song made me a little excited about the whole thing. It's true that they just don't feel like songs to me until they have words. I'll never start with the backing tracks again.

One of the songs for tomorrow is kind of a funny song about how Christians have gotten accustomed to using certain pat phrases over and over. Doing a little research, I just read this on someone's blog: "Join a prayer team. It is a treasure trove of Christianese vocabulary. Intercessors are the literati of Christianese. They wield a command of the nuances of the language that most Christians never understand. They can combine ordinary words like “walls, standing, tearing, gathering, anointing, clouds, heavenlies, earth, wind, fire, rain, and eagles” in ways that will give you goosebumps even though you have no idea what just happened."

Does anybody have any favorite "Christianese" clichés? I'm working on lyrics for this song and I am, of course, drawing a blank. Just throw anything out...things like, "traveling mercies" and "hedge of protection"... those things that roll off our tongues so easily and mean nothing to the majority of the world. I promise it's not going to be a mean song. Maybe a little mean. It'll be kind of like telling someone the truth in love. OOH! That's a good one!

Not that mean.