A little humor

A little weather humor, some of you might not find it as funny because of the snow but I get a kick out of it.


I'm glad that the kids never tried anything like this.

Calvin and Hobbes had alot of funny cartoons, I enjoy going back and "reading" these collections that I have and have even passed it on down to Tyson who gets a kick out of them. Enjoy.

ThankfuIness

I am thankful for the following things:

Family. I have a wonderful wife and two awesome children who are a blessing. I also have two great parents and a pretty cool brother who help me out and make sure I'm living like I should. I also have a pretty cool "married" family the Crabtree's. Although we are missing one, she is not forgotten.

Church. We are blessed to have the pastorial staff that we have at FFC, they are great. Also have a great worship team and leaders. Pink, Nate, Brent you all do a awesome job.

There are many others that I will get to later but I just wanted to put that out there.

The weekend that was

I know its Tuesday and I'm just getting around to recaping the weekend but I took a glorious day off yesterday and it was nice. My 9 days off are shrinking but there is still lots of time to enjoy. This weekend was fun and enjoyable and at times it was one of those where did the time go kind of things. Taylor was invited to play in Winchester on Sunday with 99 other 7th, 8th & 9th graders from East Central Indiana in a high school band thingy that was really cool. I didn't know what to expect going into it but after spending time over there Sunday it was really good. They all sounded good, even though I had no idea what they were playing, and they did a great job. Hopefully we can get a video of the performance to relive those memories. Only bad thing was and now we know, sit up higher so you can see all of the kids instead of just the front row, we could barely see Taylor. Had to miss youth and the doorbell ditching but I really enjoyed hanging out with the family and watching Taylor preform.

Sundays service was another good one and PK and Pink both brought it. I love the passion in which both of those individuals have and when they share that with us. We are blessed to have them and all the other pastors on staff leading our church. I absolutely enjoy playing Let God Arise and Mighty To Save, I could play them a couple times a month and not get tired of them and I think that the congregation enjoys them as well. My fingers had a mind of their own again on the begining of Your Grace Is Enough, that is 2 or 3 times in a row now and its frustrating, I can nail it all day long here at home and at practice but during service they forget what they are doing, guess I have batting practice fingers.

Sunday Set List
Let God Arise - Chris Tomlin
Days Of Elijah - Twila Paris
Prince Of Peace (You Are Holy) - Micheal W. Smith
Your Grace Is Enough - Chris Tomlin
Mighty To Save - Hillsong
Majesty - Jack Hayford
Oh Come Let Us Adore Him - ?

5 minutes (in the garden) - KJ-52

A little something different but I think if you take just a few minutes to watch it and follow along you'll like it as well.

Thanksgiving comes early

Tuesday night Thanksgiving came early as we went with Tammy's dad and his new wife to the Sirloin Stockade and had a Thanksgiving meal buffett style. It was alot of fun and there was plenty of good food which yes I ate too much, but it was a warmup for next week. Lots of laughs and just a good time. They are off to Tenn. for the rest of the month so it was fun to be able to have a get together even if it was a week in advance.

Ready for worship team practice tonight and another ball game for Taylor which I'll be just a bit late to but it should be a great evening. Found out yesterday that I probably will not be working next week, they are shutting the shop down except for a few hot jobs so even though I won't get paid for it I am still going to enjoy a few days of rest and relaxation and maybe even get a few things done around here.

Hillsong - You Are Here (The Same Power) - With Subtitles

Another one of those songs that would be cool to do some Sunday. It's just the chorus but its powerful. The worship team at "The Sticks" conference did this song when we took communion and for me it was one of those whoa moments.

First one out of the way

Well the first game is out of the way and now its time to get down to business. Taylor appeared to be a bit nervous at first last night but as the game went on all of the cheerleaders got more comfortable and louder, which with Taylor is good because alot of times she can be quiet but I could actually hear her last night. There were a few times when they were watching each other and one would mess up causing the others to mess up as well but as the game went on they all did a great job. Now its on to Thursday for the next one, I'll be a bit late for that one.

It was fun watching both the 7th and 8th graders play especially since there were 7 or 8 of them that go to youth group or church and I've kinda got to know some of them and hang out with them so it was good to support them, plus The Rick (aka Rick Brown) is coaching the 8th graders so there is alot of FFC connections during these games.

Just couldn't wait...

In case you didn't notice yesterday, but I think it was pretty obvious, I couldn't wait to hit that one chord on the first song. Couldn't wait so I hit it a line too early. That was the one chord I was looking forward to playing the most yesterday and I just couldn't contain my excitement so I just had to get it out there. I think though that we recovered nicely. Good song set yesterday and like I told Brent I really liked the ending where we all, for whatever reason just stopped playing and let everyone sing, awesome stuff. Tried something different yesterday, I had some earphones plugged in to the back of my foot pedal, I dug that, still getting used to it but I can really hear myself with that and still hear everyone else through the monitors. Youth was fun playing a little basket-dodgeball or was it dodge-basketball? Good times. Taylor has her first ballgame tonight and shes a tad nervous and excited at the same time. She took a year off from cheerleading but has really dug in this year so if you can say a quick prayer for her and her nervousness. Thanks.

Sunday set list
All We Need - Charlie Hall
Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman/Tree63
He Reigns - Newsboys
Undo - Rush Of Fools
Let My Words Be Few - Matt Redman
Healing Rain - Micheal W. Smith
Jesus Draw Me Close-You Are My All In All - Rick Founds & Dennis Jernigan
Above All - Lenny LeBlanc & Paul Baloche

Solid Rock recap with special guest

It was a fun night on Solid Rock Friday Night, not only did I get some extra time, I also had a guest host, Tyson. He had alot of fun and I don't think he was very nervous, he just went in and took care of business. Tammy recorded him and he got to hear himself a little bit when we got home and you should have seen the smile. It was fun having both of my kids have a little guest hosting and even let both of them take control for a segment or two on their nights in the studio. Thanks for listening if you were able to, I hope we kept you entertained and we'll do it again sometime.

Song List:
Relient K - The Last, The Lost, The Least
Kids In The Way - Fiction
Worth Dying For - Let It Out
Decemberadio - Better Man (For Tammy)
Big Dismal - Running Through My Mind
Kutless - The Feeling
Homeless J - B-Fly
Aiming For Aurora - Vaudeville Killed The Talkie Pictures
P.O.D. - Boom
Family Force 5 - Dance Or Die (For Taylor)
Disciple - 321
After Edmund - It's Alright
12 Stones - Broken
Apologetix - Psum 14 (Gave away a cd)
Anberlin - Feel Good Drag
Day Of Fire - Love
Guardian - Curiosity Killed The Cat
Underoath - A Moment Suspended In Time (For Alex in Indiana somewhere wouldn't tell me where)
Pillar - Frontline (For James in Greenville)
Since October - My Heart
Flyleaf - Breathe Today (For some guy who called in last week and for PK who twittered this last week)
Stryper - Reborn
Red - Wasting Time
Ilia - This Is Only The Beginning
Demon Hunter - Undying (For Chad Rector from last week)

We rocked it out, end of story.

Quick update

Got a call tonight after worship practice, which by the way was way cool, and myself and Tyson will be on the radio tomorrow night, Friday the 14th from 9:30 to 11:00 pm. Now for the same old same old it is on 88.9 or 94.5 or 97.7 on your fm dial or check us out online at 889joyfm.com. Either way come join us if you can as we rock it up a bit.

Fun couple of days

The last few days were a blast and I am thankful that I got the opportunity to go to The Sticks Conference. It was cool and it had some amazing speakers. It was alot of fun hanging out with a couple of the pastors from church and learning things about them and just hanging out. Even tried my very first Starbucks or as I like to put it *$'s. This little thingy * looked more like a star on my phone than it does my computer though. All in all it was a great time. Tuesday we heard from Mark Batterson, Barry Wochester and Charles Hill. All 3 brought something different to the table and each one was good. I really enjoyed Charles Hill, his church was the one hosting. The breakouts were good and got to talk tech with the worship leader there at New Hope (in ear monitors was the basis of our discussion). Yesterday we heard from Tim Stevens, Shannon O'dell, and Dwight Mason. Once again these 3 brought it, each one something different. I had Tim Stevens in a breakout session and enjoyed him more there but Shannon just flat out brought it and I'll be watching him and Charles Hill on dvd probably tonight.

This was my first conference so I didn't know what all to expect but it was a very enjoyable experience and there were a couple of WOW moments like the communion on Tuesday and the Youth Band from New Hope yesterday. They did a song that I don't know if they wrote or not but it was pretty good and looking around the room I don't know if alot of the people were getting it or not. Then they busted into Mighty To Save and worship broke out in a BIG way. That was one of the biggest highlights for me. Good times and a great conference now I'm ready for the next one, say maybe Catalyst.....hmmm.

Headed to the STIX's

In just a few short hours I'll be headed to the STIX's with a 4 of our pastors. What is the Stix's you ask, it's a conference for smaller sized churches in little towns. It looks like its gonna be fun and I am excited to go and pick up some info and knowledge and bring it back and put it to use. Just a half day here at work then off to see Tammy's new office digs then to the church then off to Loundonville for the conference.

This weekend we had alot on our plate of things that we needed to get done, especially on Saturday but instead of doing all of them we kind of just lounged around the house and just took it easy. It was alot of fun but still need to get them done. We did go out to the church and seperate the toys that were brought in and got everything ready for Sunday morning. There was alot of stuff there and Tammy was thinking we might get 50 or 60 boxes out, WRONG. I think the last total was around the 110 to 120 range. She said it reminded her of the story of Jesus feeding 5,000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, the kids just kept going around and around filling the boxes. Only God can do that and I know that we are gonna be blessing alot of children this Christmas.

Thanks also to all of you with the compliments about the worship time yesterday, its cool to hear those things even though I get a little embarassed by them. I'm just doing my part in serving the Lord, cause I couldn't do it on my own. Speaking of yesterday here is a look at the songs:

How Awesome Is The Lord Most High - Chris Tomlin (Could actually hear myself this weekend and this one started off the service with a bang.)
Holy Is The Lord - Chris Tomlin
How Great Is Our God - Chris Tomlin
Glorious - Chris Tomlin (I really liked this one with the switching of lead vocals in the verses)
Mighty To Save - Hillsong (Did this one just a bit different but it still packs a powerful punch)
Let God Arise - Chris Tomlin (This has turned into a personal favorite. Messed up in the bridge section though, I came in later than I was supposed to. Fun song to let loose on)

Rocked what I got.

Well I rocked it out tonight a bit and had alot of fun with the liners, yes I played them all so that took away some talking. Started out with a couple of left over requests that the others didn't have so I took care of that and I also got the 2nd ever twitter request for some Pillar for PK. Hope you enjoyed it. Just alot of fun and I'll let you know when I'll be back over there, basketball is getting ready to start in Dec and runs through Feb. I must have rocked it up so much that it wore Tammy and Taylor out as they were both zonked when I got home, I know it couldn't have been that I bored them. Here is the songs:

DC Talk - Jesus Freak
Underoath - A Moment Suspended In Time (These first 2 were the requests)
Anberlin - The Resistance
Falling Up - Moonlit
Pillar - For The Love Of The Game (Twitter request for PK)
Whitecross - Attention Please
Seventh Day Slumber - Burning Bridges
Jeremy Camp - Take My Life
Disciple - Stripped Away
Superchick - Rock What You Got
Fireflight - Waiting
Project 86 - Illuminate
Fear Not - We Have A God
Guardian - Fire And Love
Since October -Disaster
12 Stones - The Last Song

Friday has finally arrived.

Yes, it has finally arrived. I'm talking about Friday. It is the first of my 3 favorite days, its still a toss up between Saturday and Sunday for the top spot. This Friday is cool because from 10 to 11 pm tonight I'll be here. What does that mean for you? It means you should listen and rock out and or give a call at 1-877-335-4569 and make a request, hopefully I have it and I'll give it a spin for you.

Had worship team practice last night which was fun but a bit strange, it was strange from the fact that we only had Nate and his acoustic and me and my electric there for the music portion so that sounded a bit odd with no bass or drums but we should have that by Sunday. It was good to have Coby and Nate Harris join us last night and we did have some fun during practice. After practice hung out with both Nate's and discussed songs we've done in the past and songs that we should work on. Worship practice is going to get interesting for me in the next few weeks when Taylor's cheerleading and Tyson's basketball kick in, there will be a few Thursdays I'll probably miss which is something I don't like doing but I think you all understand.

If you were up and about at 5:30 this morning you could have saw an awesome looking sky with the clouds and the glow around the skyline, just cool looking. Then again most of you were probably smart and still in bed at that time.

Ready to use those liners

Found out last night that I will be doing the radio again this coming Friday night from 10-11 so come rock with me and lets have a little fun. I'm excited to use those liners that Naomi Miller helped me with and I'm just excited to rock out as always. So be sure to tune in on 88.9 or 889joyfm.com and call, e-mail, text, or twitter your requests in and lets rock. I was hoping to have Tyson go there with me but he might choose to go stay all night with a buddy instead, we'll wait and see on that.

I've seemed to have been involved in alot of meetings lately, at least there hasn't been any meetings to decide when to have a meeting yet but there is still time. Some of them are enjoyable and things get accomplished and then there are those that last way too long, these always seem to happen when your work load is heavy and you have alot to do and you just can't get out of the meeting, some that really have no meaning and you wonder how you're going to get that time back. Bad thing is, doesn't look like these meetings will be letting up anytime soon so I'll just have to roll with it.

Yeah, It's over.

Well the election is FINALLY over, no more campaign ads on TV or on the radio. We will stop hearing about how candidate 1 has a slight lead over candidate 2, no more slander, no more mud slinging, we will be back to business as usual whatever that is. If you know me you know that I really don't give two hoots about politics, but this year I tried something different, I tried to actually care about the presidential race and look at what I got, 2 candidates who seemed like they were more concerened about what the other one was doing instead of what they are going to do if elected. After all this I still don't give two hoots about politics. Maybe I'm narrow minded, maybe I'm not "in tune" with whats going on, or maybe I just don't care. I don't know what to think about Obama, somepeople say he is a Godsend and is just what this country needs others swear up and down that he is the anti-Christ and we are headed down a road of destruction. I guess we will just have to sit back a bit and see what plays out. I do know this, either way I hope Christ comes back soon to take us away from this place.

Check, check, check it out

Check out the new song from Shaun Groves on the little sidebar thingy here, it's called Kingdom Come and its pretty cool and its a free download. So check it out.

Why didn't I know about this earlier.

Woke up this morning just a bit later than usual say around 5:45 am, I usually leave at 5:30 am, so I got ready, called work told them I'd be late and headed out the door. Now the thought occured to me that it is 6:10, I could go vote now and be done with it and just be a little bit later than I should be or go to work and do it afterwards, the afterwards won out so I came on in. Got here and had to go up front for a meeting, get done and come back and my supervisor asked if I voted this morning since I was late and I told him no. He then proceeds to tell me that had I voted and brought my little ticket thingy that all of the lateness for the day would be excused. WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS EARLIER? Should have went with my instincts. Oh well.

I did get to go yesterday over to JOYFM and help out Naomi with the liners for Solid Rock Friday Night adding some music to them and having a bit of fun with the whole deal, now all I need is to go over there on a Friday night and put them to use. Some of them are a little funny and some are just more straight forward, you'll have to listen some Friday Night to hear them.

Technical difficulties

Had a little technical difficulties yesterday during service, now I just have to figure what it is. Got it narrowed down to 1. cables, which is what I am hoping it is because it is the cheapest and easiest fix. 2. The guitar itself and by that I mean the input jack where I plug in at, it might have a short in it. Now this probably wouldn't be expensive to fix but would be more of when and where can I get it done at. 3. The one that I hope is not it is my foot pedal. I have no idea how I would get this fixed except getting a new one, which has crossed my mind but only in a getting rid of the one I have and the bass to get a new one. We'll get it figured out and get things back to normal. It kept cutting in and out yesterday and then towards the end of the first set and for offering I had nothing, that is why I didn't make it up there for the second set in case you were wondering.

Great weekend with the youth having a surprise party for the Pinkertons Saturday night, Tammy and I took some kids over there, not our own, they were at friends house so after we got back we turned around and went over to Arby's for a little date. Youth was fun last night watching the kids play a newer version of capture the flag. I am ready for the new room because I think big things are going to happen there.

Song list:
How Awesome Is The Lord Most High - Chris Tomlin
God Of Wonders - Third Day
Your Love Oh Lord - Third Day
Jesus Messiah - Chris Tomlin
40 - U2
Enough - Chris Tomlin
How Great Is Our God - Chris Tomlin

2 am

It's 2 am and for some reason I am awake and rip roarin ready to go. It was a fun evening and I was dead tired but now I have woken up and can't sleep. Trying to get sleepy again by hanging out at the computer but right now its not working.

Had alot of fun watching Tyson collect all his loot walking around town tonight going up and down the streets, he had a blast and I had fun watching him. It was a wonderful evening weather wise so that made it enjoyable as well. Ended up out at the Fall Festival at the church and had alot of fun hanging out and talking with alot of people. Had some good hot chocolate and even had a special one made towards the end of the evening from PK, if I remember correctly it started with a mini Hershey bar in some hot water, add in 4 or 5 scoops of hot chocolate mix just a touch more water heat it up nice and good then add a few more scoops of hot chocolate mix for good measure, stir it up so when the spoon comes out it looks like your making candy and wallah, you have a REAL CHOCOLATEY mix. Come to think of it maybe thats why I'm awake now. It was good though and it gives you a sugary high that I'll still be on Sunday at church probably. Watch out front row I might stage dive, now wouldn't that be a sight. NOT. Have PK make you a special hot chocolate sometime, I'm sure he would.