GREEN HILLS, TN - Jed "Janky" Edgarson felt the dreaded "throat tickle" late Saturday night as he prepped for worship. Fearing the worst, he called the pastor of Hope Baptist Church to see if he could wrangle up a substitute worship leader at the last minute.

Luckily, Pastor Jack had just the thing: an old, broken CD player in the church storage closet. The minister dusted it off and burned a CD of the next morning's setlist. (A CD is like a round, flat smartphone that only streams 15 preselected songs or 30 pop-punk songs).

"Let's all join in this powerful time of worship," the pastor said before pressing "play" on the strange device.

But despite the congregation's misgivings, the skipping CD player did a great job. The CD player garnered rave reviews for its ability to repeat a chorus

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