Good news! U2 is releasing a new album soon! The title will be "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb." Alright, I know that may be old news for some people, but I didn't hear about it until tonight. Intriguingly, the final track of the new album is reported to be titled "Yahweh." I'm curious about the lyrics for that song!

I've been a fan of U2 for years. The first U2 record I remember listening to was "Achtung Baby". I must have been 15 years old when I first got it from the public library. When I first heard the song "So Cruel", I think my spine shivered. It sounded that good.

Then I went on a short term missions trip in the summer of '99, a program called Street Invaders. I remember being in a room in the Apostolic church in Moose Jaw with Adam Moore and Israel. It was the last day of the mission, and I was waiting for my family to pick me up. Adam was saying to Izzy, "You've got to listen to this," and he played the "Joshua Tree" record. And I remember, later that morning, Izzy sitting at the piano, playing the chords for "Running to Stand Still." I headed home, knowing that I needed to listen to U2. To buy their albums. To find out everything that I could about them.

That's probably one of the most important and life-changing lessons I learned on the whole mission trip.