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JACKED ABOUT THIS!!!

July 8, 2010 · 3 Comments

sooo, i am excited to announce that i’m teaming up with willrock4food one month from today for a night of worship…we will be coming together to worship ONE God, with ONE voice, ONE night…and in doing so we will be taking the opportunity to reach out and help a national organization, royal family kids camp, that works here locally…they do an amazing job of reaching out to troubled children here in our area and just loving on them each summer…

i beg you to mark your calendar…there are some AMAZING musicians joining me that night to ROCK the UNOH Event Center…you will want to be there!!!

i’m…

JACKED ABOUT THIS!!!

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those…

June 29, 2010 · 3 Comments

sooo, cooper has been working on four molars all at once…the process has been up and down with fevers and runny noses…and those diapers…you know the ones you can smell from the other side of the house…yah…

those

in fact, right now he is on a 5 day streak…for the last 5 days he has produced one of those to start his day right…it’s not something he can fix…it’s not something he can clean up for himself…it’s something that he has no control of…and no matter how bad horrible those are, daddy cleans him up…

(if you know me…you know that i think a little differently…and of course you know that this would get me thinking…)

sooo, i’m thinking about how similar this is to life…countless times during my life there have been those things that happen…it’s not something i can fix…it’s not something i can clean up for myself…in some cases it’s not something that i have control of…and of course in some most cases it’s something that i have had complete control of…but regardless of how/why those things happen…it just flat out stinks!!! you have any of…

those

i’ve been reminded of the fact that no matter what is going on…no matter where i find myself…no matter how it is that i got there…no matter how bad it stinks…i have a Dad that is there to clean me up…He is there to take care of me…

the coolest thing during this streak we have going, is cooper’s response…he’s obviously not happy…he’s usually crying and screaming when he realizes what has happened…he keeps it up as i’m cleaning him up…but then when i’m done…there’s a smile on his face like no other…he is READY TO GO…

sometimes i can get out, “one, two”…and he responds with “teee” as i pick him up…but other times he just starts saying “teee” as soon as i’m done…and he keeps saying it until i pick him up…he wants to get up and get going again…he doesn’t have time to sit there and think about what has taken place…he doesn’t have time to sit there and think about how bad it stunk…he’s READY TO GO!!!

that’s where i need to be right now in life…i need to be saying “teee”…i need my Dad to pick me up and get me going…even if i would say that this time in life is one of…

those…

sooo, my word for today…and the days to come “TEEE”!!!

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you never know…

May 27, 2010 · 6 Comments

sooo it’s almost been two months since i’ve done anything here on the blog…how sad is that???

but i’m back this morning with a little video for you…i decided a while back to enter a talent contest…part of me really dislikes talent contests….i never know what to sing or what style they are really looking for…and this contest is even harder to figure out because it’s not necessarily about music…

sooo i went with a song that is ministering to me…right where i am…at this point in my life…just trusting God no matter what…

thanks to my friend john zerbe for helping record and post this on youtube…i won’t be getting any record deals out of the video…in fact i’m sure that the infamous judges of our day would call it “pitchy” in spots…but maybe it will land me a stop in the top 7???

you can listen in tomorrow to see if i am one of the top 7 finalists or you can check out the website for  wbcl

you never know…

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can i see your toes please???

April 2, 2010 · 2 Comments

sooo, i have been thinking a lot in the last week or two about something…this time every year “church people” start talking about easter…there is a push to invite people to come to our weekend services…churches will go all out on decorations…on music…on drama…on special effects…

because this is one of two services all year that many will come to…really???

the thought that i have been kicking around…do these individuals only come because we’ve put all this extra time, energy, thought, prayer, fasting, sweat, and finances into these services…HAVE WE CREATED THIS???

why don’t we go all out every weekend??? why don’t we put the same amount of time, energy, thought, prayer, fasting, sweat, and finances into every weekend??? because let’s be honest here…WE DON’T!!!

at this point, i am not solidly standing on either side of this question…but i have to say i felt God asking me…

can i see your toes please???

there was a little pain to this idea…or to this thought…my toes were being stepped on here…and not just a little…A LOT!!!

sooo, my question is…in reading this…do you in any way hear God asking you…

can i see your toes please???

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sunday setlist…2010…take six…

April 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

sooo, this is another post submitted as a part of the craziness which is now being hosted over at the worship community…it’s a weekly hot spot for worship leaders to blog about what all happened in their weekend services…GO CHECK IT OUT!!!

this past weekend was our PALM SUNDAY weekend…i was  in the LIVE services at lima community church…and God is continuing to work in the lives of people!!!

i kicked things off by reading psalm 66:1-2…it was a challenge that God had given me to praise Him for WHO He is…not just for all of the things that He does…and i asked the congregation to greet others and share WHO God was to them this week…

1. here is our King…by david crowder band

2. marvelous light…by charlie hall

then our host for the services came up and intro’d the video announcements and set up the offering time…

3. everlasting God…by lincoln brewster

4. sweetly broken…by jeremy riddle

5. arms open wide…by hillsong united

there was a roll-in video to the message given by our discipleship pastor, mike huckins…

6. arms open wide…a shortened reprise

then we had a time of prayer and announcement for our new off-site video venue…the first service for that venue will be on EASTER sunday…

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this past weekend was pretty CRAZY…limacc hosted a community wide palm sunday service, on sunday evening…this meant having a very large set of risers on stage…sound equipment was being used to the max and had to be reconfigured for what we would need during our services…but it was all worth the extra work in the end!!!

the band was prepared and things really seemed to flow well during the services…i have to say that i never cease to be amazed at how God works out the setlists in advance…and then pulls them together with the message, even when i have NO CLUE what it’s going to be like…and this was just one of those weekends!!!

i challenged the musicians on sunday morning with psalm 66:1-2…the challenge was to take 5 minutes and simply right out WHO God is…nothing to do with what He does for us, simply WHO He is…it was awesome to hear the pens writing away and to see how fast the 5 minutes went by…then i tried to incorporate that at the beginning of the services…i just couldn’t really take the time to do it justice in the services…

then as we did the songs…it was great to see all kinds of things pop in my head about WHO God is…sooo many lyrics that just played right into the idea…it was cool to go back and talk about what everyone had written and even to hear how God was revealing more and more things to each of us…

if you want to view any of the weekend services of limacc, go check out our livestream page

sooo there you have it…

sunday setlists…2010…take six…

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