Show T Page 20 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday April 20' 2000 y-- By Scripps Howard News Service dom and the invincibility of what we MEMPHIS Term — Wearing shiny silver vinyl pants and straggly blond hair John Cooper looks like a science fiction hero when he's singing onstage with his band Skillet But instead of singing about gala ies aliens and space ships Skillet is singing about God " "People think our music sounds " said Cooper 24 who also in the Christian rock band bass plays it's cool A lot of times you "Really can get religious' ideas through sci ence fiction Everybody always felt that 'Star Wars was kind of spiritual And movies like 'Dune' (have) a lot of spiritual ideas There's sci-fi- always ii Messiah That kind of V"thing Skillet which also includes Cooper's wife Korey 27 on keyboards Kevin Haaland 21 on guitar and Lori Peters 26 on drums recently released "Invincible" its third CD r ‘‘Invincible' is the theme of the new album Cooper said "1 got it from the movie I’m kind of a science fictim guy There’s a part group of men find out that Mulder is learning too much So one of them says ’Well should we kill him?’ And The Smoking Man says ’No if you kill him one man’s quest will become a crusade’ "I thought ’Wow That’s so cool man’ As Christians that's what our lives are like Like even to the death of point you can’t stop what we stand for So the theme of the whole rccoifd'is the unshakable king- - : stand for" A native Memphian John became a Christian as a child "I always lived for Jesus as much as I thought I knew how I wasn’t allowed to listen to rock music growing up because my parents thought it was from the devil" When he was in the sixth grade he got his first Petra recorc which didn't go over well with his parents "They thought I was going off the deep end’’'--- ' r - But '‘I always knew what I’d be doing was Christian music I always felt like God had a destiny for me as far as preaching the words like that" Korey who was born in Kenosha Wis said "My parents never had a - : problem with rock music I was raised in a charismatic church so you pretty much have rock and roll in your worship times That was never an issue for me I always felt God had called me to do something in music Since I was 13 1 would always write music or practice and play" Korey and John met in church in Memphis She moved here in 1997 Skillet began four years ago John and Ken Stcorts who were in different Christian bands met at Covenant 'I " Scripps Howard photo ’ v-’-i1- a lasting purpose" John Cooper insists lAeYe just not a rock and roll band Skillet is “doing something with They thought the band would be a: board player to enhance their new good way "to get a lot of people in at sound Haaland joined in Octobers ‘‘I me time to share the Gospel mid talk was looking for somebody that not about what God has done id our only docs the rock stuff but that can' life" John said “That was the idea play real ethereal stuff real U2-is-h John said' “I for it It took off a lot faster than we and Radiohead-ish- " had planned was like ’Wow that’s really good If “The name "Skillet" meant “getyou can play the rock stuff that'd be ting all these people from different great too’ So we talked and he said groups and throwing them together in yeah he used to be a metal-hea- d a big skillet" guyWith his spiked hair Haaland also Skillet was still a side project for g John and Steorts when Ardent was the guy he interRecords signed them The music was viewed said John raw grungy rock John said Now it’s A native of Salt Lake City Utah industrial Haaland said he'd been playing a rock" computer "very lot the less band two Korey joined aggressive more melodic" years than Skillet's style of musk J ago John decided they needed a key Community Church Rick Miller now pastor of Grace Covenant Church told them they should join - forces and start a band ' "They- - were both creative but they coolest-lookin- ' were unable to find people (in their bands) that also were creative that enabled them to have full expression" said Miller now Skillet’s man- - : ' r v By Scripps Howard News " A i V J churches should take “This has bccomcour year I to celebrate 2000 ycarsof Christianity" snid4ial-Ndenin 'director of lbeUS Catholic Bishops Office for the Jubilee Year "The whole year 2000 seems to have H - become a great opportunity to invite men and women of faith to have a personal reflection of where their lives are heading to take issues" Pope John Paul II declared a 2000 a ’’Jubilee year” rcfcrence lo a custom in set free confiscated lands were restored and debts were forgiven once every 50 years ‘‘Two thousand years after enced by the notion that Chris- tianity is entering its third millennium Several groups — sometimes motivated by a i States and other nations to Monetary Fund the United for-- give billions Of dollars of debt incurred by nations like Haiti Bangladesh and Bolivia the birth of Christ in this Jubilee year we especially that Christ's second tic programs to spread the' Gospel Chuct Colson i? former i fcloaand foundanf John Paul wTote ihe letter last month while meditating in a medieval-er- a memorial in Jerusalem on the presumed site of the upper room where Jesus presided in a ceremonial Last Supper with his disciples" World Bank the International : AU Show Biro ence expected to attract 10000 evangelists' from 185 nations meeting in the Netherlands in tlw'Msoa istries has teamed up with e Franklin Graham vice chairman of his father's Billy Graham Evangetislk Association to create "Operation Starting Line” The goal is to preach the gospel of Christ "to every prisoner in every state over the next five years" as a means of reducing crime' "Without a moral and spiritual change of heart released inmates will likely return to temptations associations and activities that stimulate more criminal actions" Colson said i Colson and Franklin Graham will meet Easter Sunday (April 23) at the Sussex Correctional Institution in George- town Del to launch the For Free Confidential help with domestic violenca OaVol $4mm RnuxN TO Mi 42J70J25SaKAnH 205 Gods Aimt 4J57T5 f la IMAr I4UH A1 £ ' v "i "vi -U-5- v (' in-m- i : 35i5riMn?K‘ 430 7:10 M Krawo ThiJaith m t Ttckat S800 Bvfor 9pm MSO hlLJtSa M3l 7M Wlirv “proclaiming Christ boldly until he comes" r UTAH §7523072 U JAM t CHILDREN fc hUHK 430 ADULTi ‘i AvailabliIoI HkQirt Book suffer- -' recently ret a theme that the mission of the conference is ii CxM ONTODgWriWSlAlB and also ' North Mairrlfi (2450 Recording 787®943 Call inll Graham it' movies spRH open Daily 3:45 SatliM FOR ABUSE The Rev Billy Graham meanwhile is spending his Easter planning a massive “Amsterdam 2000" confer- coming could be imminent are launching major evangelis- - years of the church's history and it will do so until the end ' of time Today we want to become more deeply aware of this presence our hearts filled ecumenical “Jubilee 2000'-wercampaign calling upon the ancient Israel in which slaves program whkh is intended to operate in every prison peni- tentiary and correctional facility in the United States Evangelical Protestants also have been profoundly influ- - the pontiff labored to make a personal pilgrimage-- ' Triie to the sprit of the classical Jubilee Christian leaders worldwide are promoting an issues and to look at the global WESTATES THEATRES Ali Seats Despite Parkinson's disease and other frailties of old age upmeaning-of-lif- e seek-mus- "- Wednesday is Discount Day has accompanied the 2000 conviction dinary reflection about the direction Roman Catholic Orthodox and Protestaiit f THERE'S need to remember and ponder the truth of what we might call his eucharistk birth" the pontiff wrote in an Easter letter to the Catholic priesthood “This eucharistic presence Nearly 2 billion Christians worldwide will celebrate the first Easter of the new millennium amid a mood of cxlraor- - d The transition wasn’t difficult 4K grown up on hard rock " he said Peters had been in Alchemy with 7 Korey "I already knew what she was 5 like and where tier life waswith God Which is a big issue" Korey said Peters' who once was a Catholic said "I knew God had given me this' talent For a girl to he a1 drummer 1 knew it was something special' John who writes most of the lyrics said “Best Kept Secret'’ is "about the kind of dichotomy that you can't : prove that God exists but that you look around creation and you can't deny that he exists God has hidden himself in creation and we by ing after him discover it” f a 'A : Sx4'U?iUVhl : in Skuus ewm THi ObVd A 20 7W - it n ft2D&4M2H : hi IHS ' NunAItenrxiUM Wink UM IjGREAT SEATS Imh GREAT SOUND GREAT PICTURE WftiK Walt Disney Presents Toy Story 2 - ‘'I 1 ThurFrb25445 All 28 Days 04A35 7:10 Shu SJ OO WlBNIIMV Live Comedy Thursday - im-u- i V 115 I fclllSAA-'- ” Um ItoaovKH w He 430 700 V30SeM2O 80m - Tni Road Hypnotist 8:50m Hs 420 m to El Dorado Sot 109 Mdn 705 Y00 MOV II HOTLINE 7534444 untNniinuMuwM!ii llUtli apufls romuna w jl LhH HnHFlKtlTYm DoVat 700 to celebrate Easter month occurring on or next By Scripps Howard News : What day should Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus?- - Few dates have had such a confusing influence on the world's calendar as Easter The timing of the celebration has sometimes been set by local priests sometimes by imperial or papal edict and sometimes by astronomers The New Testament says that Jesus was arrested on the night of the celebration of the Jewish Passover He was tried convicted and crucified the following morning and died that same day Air four Gospels record that he rose from the dead three days later on Sunday morning During the first centuries of Christianity local priests and bishops followed one of two rules in calculating Easter: it was celebrated at the begin- : after March 21 So complicated had the cal-- : culation iff Easter become that many clerics relied on the calculations of others to produce widely distributed charts of future dates for Easter rather than try to calculate the time of the holiday each year A Scythian monk and scholar named Dionysius Exiguus was trying to produce just such a chart in the sixth century when he became famous for a mathematical oror The monk probably correctly calculated the dates of Easter but he miscalculated the year of Jesus birth Modem scholars believe the founder of Christianity was boro between 3 and 7 BC The calculation of Easter ning of Passover (no matter what day of the week that was further complkated by the development of the Gregorian calendar in IS82 to March 20 according to astronomical observation (Errors in the Julian system produced a calendar 10 days off) was years refused to acknowledge the new calendar ordered by occurred) or on a Sunday nearest to the first day of Passover When Christianity embraced as the official faith of the Roman Empire stan- dardization of the date was thought necessary for such a government The calculation of Easter was based on the Julian calendar calculafar-flu-ng tion of the "Paschal Full Moon" which eventually came to mean the 14th day of a lunar Llik Wklk AM re-ali- gn Protestant countries for Y 10 Sal kill RAX 415 Makn200 - 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