Seemed like old times

Well what was to be a busy weekend was cut way in half with all of the beautiful snow that we got, and yes I am excited about the accumulating snow that will be here tonight and tomorrow. The weekend was to inculde a MC boys basketball game Friday night (postponed until tonight), radio on Saturday (unable to go because of said snow), Bud Shootout Sat. night (great to see racing again can't wait until next weekend), church (rocked the house), and a Super Bowl 44 party out at the McAllisters (great food, great friends, not the outcome on the game we expected). So only missing 2 events wasn't so bad, I'll let you know depending on the outcome of the MC - Winchester game tonight. I kind of liked being stuck here at home with nothing to do but watch it snow and even didn't mind going outside to shovel, thanks to my bud Kenny Marquis of the town for a little help on that. We were going to have worship practice at 9 on Sat. morning but that got pushed back a little later and ended up being held at 7 pm. Lots of fun sharing the stage again with Ryan and Mandy. When they both stepped down I didn't think I'd ever get to share the stage with them again but now I have and who knows maybe I'll get to do it again in the future.

Just sitting here waiting on the next snow storm and the ball game and for this crazy cold to run its course, if I could sing I'd sound like Barry White right now. Also a little anxious and ready to go do a little Solid Rock Friday Night again this week with some new Toby Mac to play. Also waiting word on something pertaining to SRF that if it happens is going to be totally awesome, like fer sure.

Sunday Set List:
How Awesome Is The Lord Most High - Chris Tomlin
Prince Of Peace (You Are Holy) - Micheal W. Smith
All For Love - Hillsong United (good to pull this one out again)
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus - ?
Forever (Nails In Your Hands) - Can't remeber who wrote it but Delirious did it.
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin
Mighty To Save - Hillsong

Ahead of schedule

As mentioned before I'm doing the newthru30 which is a reading program that reads through the New Testament in just 30 days. Yesterday I actually got ahead of schedule by reading an extra chapter of Matthew, that's cool. Today I will finish up Matthew and head into Acts by reading the first 4 chapters. I'm enjoying this program and to be totally honest with you I thought man I'll never be able to read that much at a time but I tell you it has been very enjoyable and a breeze so far. It also helps that we've been studying Matthew at the Branches the past couple of months so as I was reading those chapters I was reminded of the messages that PK has brought. Hopefully you are reading your bible daily and maybe even joining me in the newthru30 program.

I've been listening to Air1 alot lately here at home online, it is a radio station that is owned by K-love and they play alot and I mean alot of the artists that I like - Kutless, Pillar, Red, Me In Motion, Disciple, Anberlin, and so on and so on. They have stations all across the US but none real close to us that we can pick up in the car unless you head to Dayton. If I could start a station or be program manager I would play alot of the same stuff. Who knows maybe someday.

I'm excited for today because there is a marathon on TNT of my favorite TV show, Leverage, this afternoon and the new episodes start tonight at 10 so I'm pumped for that. Got to speak at the Monthly Meeting tonight about a serious topic and am trusting God to give me the words to say and to follow His lead as we lay it all out on the table. Praying not only for the words to say but the attitude and way to say it without losing control. If any of you want to throw up a prayer I thank you in advance.

False start

OK so I was going to start reading my bible at the start of the new year and try to make a new habit, you know the 21 day thing I mentioned. Well I kind of laxed and haven't started but no fear. During the first week of the year I found this site. It is newthru30.com from Elevation Chruch which is Steven Furtick's church in NC. What they are doing is reading through the New Testament in 30 days. They have reading plans, study guides and other resources on that site so check it out. The reading plan starts tomorrow or actually it can start whenever you want it to. So I'm doing this tomorrow, yes I am no kidding. Come join me if you want.

21 Days

It's been said that it takes 21 days to break an old habit and 21 days to form a new one. So with that I'm giving myself and you all a challenge - to form a new relationship with God and by that I mean setting aside time each day for the next 21 days to 1) read my bible, 2) spend time in prayer with God, even listening to Him not being the one to always speak, 3) maybe even keeping a journal and taking it way beyond the 21 days. So that my friends is a challenge that I'm up for and I hope you are as well to start off the year going deeper and continuing throughout the whole year. If you need a little help or something on paper to help you out go to deliberatepeople.com and they have all you will need. Now saying that I will let you know that for the bible reading they have is a good one but it jumps around. By that I mean they have you read something from the Old Testament, Psalms, Proverbs, and the New Testament each day. Sometimes it might just be a verse or two and some might be a whole chapter. I did that once and for me it was a bit hard to try and keep everything in perspective and remember so I'm going to start in the New Testament and go from there. Feel free to start however and wherever you want.

21 days is not a long time, just 3 short weeks, but the results will be monumental. So are you up for it? If you are lets all be encouraging to each other and hold each other accountable for the challenge and track how we are progressing. This is gonna be cool.

One good thing

There is one good thing about being laid off at this time, I don't have to get out and drive with all the maniacs out there when it's slick outside. I love this type of weather as many of you know, the more snow the better, but I don't like driving in it and the main reason is all the other people out there driving. I can't drive them and me at the same time just not possible. Some drivers think that no matter the conditions they can drive the same but that is just not the case, and I've always said that if you go flying by me on days like today I'd wave as I went by while your stuck in the ditch. I really have been enjoying this since yesterday, hey give me a break, there will be alot more days of sunshine and temps above 75 then there will be days with snow so get over it. I hope that there is more on the way but we will see.

Good final service of the year yesterday, where did this year go, and a good little set list for worship as well. This year has flown by and I'm looking forward to 2010 to see what it holds. Gonna be a lazy last week of the year here at the homestead but I expect things to pick up next week. Not sure yet how we'll ring in the new year but I'm ready for some NCAA football on New Years Day though.

Sunday Set List:
Not To Us - Chris Tomlin
Open The Eyes Of My Heart - Paul Balachoe
Burn For You - Steve Fee
Let My Words Be Few - Matt Redman
Just As I Am - Daniel Baker
Saviour King - Hillsong United

December's post

Well maybe there will be more than one post in December but we have to wait for the last half of the month to see. Been a few weeks since the last post so here in a nutshell is what has happened so far in the month. Meetings, practices, performances, church, youth, relaxation, and a few bout's of boredom. That has been what this month has been so far. Meetings are going to be getting cut in half at least which right now is a good thing. I have stepped down from clerk of M&O but have reconsidered the offer to remain on M&O, still haven't heard if that has been accepted or not, so that means that only the meeting on the first Wednesday of the month will be the only one I have to be at. I've had an enjoyable few practices with the worship team the last few weeks and I might add that worship has been pretty cool and downright amazing the past few weeks. Youth has also been really good the past few weeks. We've started a new 4 part series called Why Jesus by David Nasser. Good stuff.

Went to 3 performances, 2 for Taylor and 1 for Tyson. Both are in band and are enjoying it very much. Taylor has really taken off in it, she played in Winchester as part of the Honor Band I believe and it was cool to see what all these kids from the area could do in just 1 day of practice and then a performance the following day. Then there was the Winter concert out at the school which was good. Tyson has his first ever band performance last week and during the band part it was very good, then came the main act: the rest of the show. All I need to say is that quite a few people came up to us after the performance and said that they couldn't stop watching Tyson. Why you ask? Because of his "performance" of singing and a few dance moves while sitting down. It was quite the experience. The one year we don't tape it and he goes all out. Oh well you'll probably be able to see him do stuff like that sometime in the future on some comedy show somewhere.

Relaxation and some boredom has set in now as I got laid off for the second time this year, I liked it so much I thought I'd do it again. We kinda knew that it was going to happen, just didn't know when. So now its back to filing for unemployment and back out searching for a job. I do know that God has that perfect job out there for me, just have to be patient and wait for it which as many of you know sometimes can be nerve racking. So thats whats been up for the last few weeks.

Need more 4 day weekends

Weekends are my favorite days of the week like I've posted before, I enjoy each one of them. 3 day weekends are even better although they are few and far between. But a 4 day weekend is absoulte bonus, paydirt, excellente', fabulous, any other great adjective you can think of insert here. And of course this one was a great one, plenty of food and football on Thursday with Thanksgiving, watching crazy people on Friday with a little shopping action, radio yesterday, and church and some more football today.

Thanksgiving was good and pretty much all of the food is gone except for a little turkey that will become turkey manhattans Monday night. Had my grandma and uncle over, Mom and Dad got some as well as Mom was a little under the weather that day, and we had fun just relaxing most of the day. Friday was off to face the crowds in BLACK FRIDAY, which for some odd reason is fun. Got some shopping done then came home got the kids and went back for seconds. During that time at the mall Tyson and I were in Game Stop getting him some games for Christmas when we got to the counter he said he wasn't feeling real good so we were trying to hurry to get out of the store got our stuff and was heading out when he went down to his knees and sorta passed out for a quick second. I think he just got to hot because there were a ton of people in there packed in. Carried him out of the store and he was fine then. Then later the power went out which was kinda cool.

Today we do my song again at church and I hope to keep it together a little better this time. It wasn't planned for us to do this song but due to circumstances beyond our control we had to replace a couple of the songs we were going to do and add a couple and mine happened to be one of them. We also get to do everyones favorites, Christmas music starts today. Those songs are wild because alot of them have chord changes on either every word or everyother word which makes for fun playing them......NOT!!!!!!!!!

Today's list of songs:
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
All Because Of Jesus - Fee
It's Not About Me - Me and Nate & Nate
You Are My Portion - Darrell Evans
Draw Me Close/ All In All - Name escapes me
Joy To The World - Three Dog Night (OK I'm kidding on that one)