Sick Bass Guitar Solo

This is a sick bass guitar solo I saw on you tube a while back. Check this out.

Snow shoes

Ya thats right. Pink snow shoes. We saw them at LL Bean today and they were only 20 bucks. Kyndal wouldn’t let us leave the store with out them. So they sit on my counter….pink as can be. My Mom and Dad think we should all have a pair incase we can’t make it up our hill in storm. I am thinking more about changing the stinkin’ sign all winter long. JK. Any body want to go snow hiking???

Challenge

This is my journal entry from today. Was a really good one that God really spoke to me through. Hope you like.

Mark 4:40

He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith.”

In this passage, Jesus has just taught many different parables and then told the disciples to push off and head for the other side of the lake. When they did, Jesus fell asleep. A large storm came up quickly and the disciples were scared and thought they were going to drown. Even though Jesus had told them to go to the other side. When they woke Jesus up, He told the wind and the waves to calm down and then ask them this question. Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith.

I am somewhat likening this to the sermon Kevin preached on Sunday. As I was driving home from my Moms house tonight, I had what seamed to be a face to face encounter with God. I felt like He was challenging me. Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith? Why don’t you just trust me and let everything else fall as it may? Give, Save, Live on the rest. It sounds so simple but yet so scary. Could it really work? The dumb thing, as God pointed out to me tonight, is that I have seen it work time and time again in my own life and in other peoples lives. But still I am to scared to just step up and do it. So tonight, I feel like I finally let go. I don’t care anymore what happens with my bills. If I have enough money to pay the rent, then praise God. If I don’t, praise God. I feel like God challenged me to lift up every pay check to him. To thank him for every pay check I receive, individually. Then to give 10%, save 10% and live of the rest, of each check. Not one lump sum for the week or even the month. I think this will help me to get a better perspective that every dollar is given to me by God. So now paying my bills is no longer up to me. It is up to you God. I will do just what you asked me to do tonight. I will no longer get scared with the storm comes. I will just sick back and go along for the ride. You are in control. Show yourself strong to me and my family so that we may be a testimony of your greatness. Amen

My Girls

\You ever stop think how fast your kids grow. I mean sure, they aren’t getting older any faster than you, but they are. Or at least they seam to be. I look at this picture that was only a month and half ago. Ally couldn’t even walk then. Now I she is almost ready to run away with out me.
Oh how those little girls make me smile. Some times you don’t have to look very far to see heaven. Sometimes its right in front of your face.

Money

Money, its a funny thing. Have you ever stopped to think about how much time money takes from your day. Aside for the obvious, that we are all working to make money, how often are we thinking about it, budgeting, thinking, spending, thinking, paying bills, and did I mention thinking……about it.

I know I sure think about it a lot. How many times in a day do I check my bank account to make sure that some one hasn’t stolen my identity and went running off with all my money. We worry about our credit score and wonder if we will be able to buy a house. Will I have a retirement of will my kids be able to go to college. If I get thinking about this stuff to long, I can really get myself depressed, fast.

Philippians 4:6 (The Message)
6-7Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

I really like how The Message puts this verse. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers. It is interesting to me that God ask for ten percent of our income as a tithe. It really is not a lot but it is just enough to hurt. If we could only realize that it is about our heart, and that as we obey God in this, our heart attitude toward money will change and we will not be thinking about money all the time but rather on God. What a great day that will be.

God, ruin me and my money. Make me only be able to rely on you for my every need.

That is my prayer, as scary as it may seem.

Misguided Energy

I have been sitting here the last couple days, trying to pull out the one thing from Catalyst that I can implement right now. That is a very hard thing to do seeming I have multiple pages of notes to pull from.

As I was looking through, there was one question that was asked that I can’t seem to keep my eye from coming back to. Its kind of like those stinking cupcakes in the office, I just keep going back to eat another one. Anyway, on Friday afternoon, in our last session, Andy Stanley asked this question,

“Where are you manufacturing energy?”

“Where are you putting effort into something that you really don’t want to be doing.”

Such a crazy thought to me. I don’t know if I even have an answer for it yet. What part of my ministry is basically fabricated? Is any of it?

These are the questions that I will be posing to my team. I only pray we have the courage to change.

Here is another video of the worship at Catalyst. Enjoy.

Another Great Song by Steve Fee

Hey there, Since I am worship leader, you guys will just have to get used to posting songs on here. This is another great song by Steve Fee we learned at Catalyst this year. Enjoy.

New Song by Steve Fee

To anyone who might actually read my blog, I heard this new worship song at Catalyst this year and it blew me away as it did to the rest of the group I was with.  I will be working it into my worship set this Sunday and I thought I would pass on this video of it.  It is a really simple song to play.  If you like it and can’t figure it out, send me a message and I will send you the chord sheets for it.  Enjoy.

Catalyst 08 Day One

 

Today was the first day of The Catalyst Conference.  I am came into this time, expecting to be let down by the lack of spiritual depth.  What I got was exactly the opposite.  You could say that I am just being emotional because I was worshiping with 12,000 other church leaders and I would have to say that plays a role for sure.  But the Spirit of God fell heavily, many times through out the day.  We started of with some worship lead by Fee which was great but ironically my least favorite worship time of the day.  Andy Stanley spoke after that about moral authority and really challenge me personally to get my financial life in order.  To be able to step forward and ask people to give faithfully to the ministry I am apart of, I first need to have my stuff worked out and be doing it right myself.  Seems simple, but how many of us do it.  We then were challenge by Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, to be a level 5 leader.  A leader who is humble but willing to make the tough decisions and a leader who’s ministry is not his identify but yet  a vision.  One that if we were to leave, it would continue the same or even better.  There were a couple speakers after that, first was a women that I don’t even remember her name.  I am sure she had good stuff to say, but none of it captured me and I struggled to follow.  After her was a young guy named Steve Furtik.  Steve is a 28 year old pastor in Charlotte who started a church 18 months ago and it has grown to over 5000 people.  He was very dynamic and compelling and challenged us to hold on to what God has promised us even if we do not see anything pointing to the promise coming true.  Then there was Steve Godin.  He is not a christian and I didn’t seem to gain much from him other than we are leading what he called a tribe and that we need to challenge them.  Create a culture for them among many other things. Then came the most powerful session of them all.  Craig Groeschel challenged us and asked us if we had “it”.  Whatever “it” was that made people like our church or contrastly not like it.  He asked us if we had had it when we started ministry, had we no along the way lost it and made it more about ourselves than about God and His glory.  It was an amazing time where the Spirit ministered to each of us in different ways, followed by a short but one of the most amazing times of worship that I have been apart of in years.  Through out the day, we surrounded by things constantly happening, from a acrobating basketball team jumping of trampolines, the popper from “So You Think You Can Dance,” to a pig coming out on stage with a banjo player.  We made the largest floam ball in the history of the world and had many good conversations with the guys around me.  God is doing great things here in my heart.  He is confirming callings in my life and refreshing me to continue in what I am doing.  I can only pray that tomorrow is half of what today was but I anticipate greater things.  Check out this floam ball.  Talk to you tomorrow.