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Sunday morning

As I type this I'm getting ready to head out to church in about 40 minutes for our new series "TXT" which is going to be off the hook, it is the first time that we are actually encouraged to bring cell phones to church and use them as part of the message. I think this is a cool idea and it is gonna be fun. I am excited to see the participation and what all people have to say. Worship is gonna be good today I got a feeling, Pink is back at the helm this Sunday and we are ready to go and see where God takes us.

I did another Solid Rock Friday Night the other night and it was fun, I rocked out and got the thumbs up approval from both Tammy and Taylor for the second week in a row. Now I have to wait until April 17th to head back over there and while thats cool its also a bummer because that means I won't be able to go to the Skillet/Disciple/Decyfer Down show in Indy. Had a neat little conversation with a listener in Albany who won the cd I was giving away, she requested some Brian "Head" Welch who was the guitarist from the rock band KORN, he got saved and left the band and is now back in the music business. I told her I saw that KORN's bass player also accepted Christ and had a book out talking about it that I was skimming through the other day. It is so cool to see these people in the spotlight turning to Christ and the witness opportunities they are going to have is just amazing.

Looking forward to watching the race today from the paperclip also known as Martinsville, lots of beating and banging and shoving, good old short-track racing the way it was meant to be. Makes me long to go back to the track.

Family Vacation (day)

Yesterday we got to take an overdue family vacation albiet only a day it was still fun and enjoyable to leave this big metropolis we call Farmland and venture out into the world. This years destination was Dayton, Ohio and the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum and the Fairfield Commons Mall. We took off around 9 am and took the old route to Dayton going the old Greenville Pike to Greenville, Ohio and then State Road 49 down to 70, it has been quite a while since we went that route but it was cool to see how much we remembered of the road and what all has changed. Got to Wright-Patt around 10:30 or so and got in, it is free admission by the way, and decided to hit the IMAX first, I have never been to an IMAX before and it was pretty cool. We saw a show on the Spacestation which was very interesting and enjoyable.

Then it was off to the rest of the museum. The kids actually enjoyed it, Tyson liked all the bombs and big guns. It has been years since I've been there and they have added a whole other wing and space area that were not there the last time we went. While we were in the space area, which is the smallest of all the "wings" it has a second level where you can walk around and check out the rockets, after seeing them we decided to race down, the kids in the elevator and Tammy and I taking the stairs. When Tammy and I got to the bottom we noticed that the kids were still on the elevator, they stepped out of the elevator and Taylor took the stairs while Tyson waited again on the elevator. When they both finally made it to the bottom we asked what happened and they said they couldn't figure out which button to push, WHAT?????? My kids are so blond, 2 buttons and didn't know which to push. I think they need to teach common sense out there at the school.

Got done at Wright-Patt and took off for the mall, as soon as we got there it was a mission to find the food court for lunch. I ate at Chic-fil-A for the first time ever and I think that we need one of those in Muncie, it was awesome. If you've never been to the Fairfield Commons Mall, it is huge, two levels and tons of shops. Taylor went into every store that sold clothes I think and after a while we learned that if she went in there by herself the average time she spent in there was about 2 or 3 minutes, if Tammy went in with her it was more like 10-15. Walked around for a few hours and left to head home and complete our vacation day.

Rock show, Ultimate Frisbee, & the Enemy

The last few days have flown by and were packed to the max with fun, excitement, rest, and new adventures. Saturday I got to go with JOY FM to Richmond and work at the Disciple concert, while it was fun to hang out and talk to people about the station it was a bummer because while I could hear the show going on I wasn't able to see a whole lot of it. Got to hang out later and talk with the bands and while meeting Disciple the lady who was making sure everyone was in line for them she told the lead singer Kevin Young that I was from the radio station that was helping with the show and he came down the line and shook my hand again thanking me for playing their music and how much he appriciated it, that was cool. It was a good show and at the end of the show after Disciple had played their encores, Kevin sat down and challenged all of us there to "go deeper" in our relationship with Christ. He spoke for a good 15 minutes and gave an alter call at the end and 10 to 15 people accepted Christ, that never gets old. It was good to see that side of the band, all too often bands just play and say "Jesus loves you" from the stage without giving much more of a testimony like the old days.

Sunday was church, Bristol, and Ulitmate Frisbee. Jeff brought it again this week and seemed more at ease with his message this week, it is very easy to get caught up in the fruit of the flesh. Got home and got to watch pretty much the whole NASCAR race at Bristol which was good, if you don't know Bristol it is a half-mile track like the Winchester Speedway but it has seating for 160,000 people. Next time you drive to Winchester and pass the Speedway just imagine about 151,000 more seats. At youth we played a little Ultimate Frisbee in the gym and it was a blast, next week we are taking the game outside which will be a whole new challenge.

Yesterday I had a brief job, I drove a skid of metal plates, about 1700 lbs. worth, up to Purdue University for a friend of ours company. It was the first time I have ever been to Purdue and I joked later being the big IU fan I am that I had to come home and clean off and disenfect and get rid of all that I saw up there, just kidding. It was a fun morning doing that. Driving a pickup truck with 1700 extra pounds in the back took a bit to get used to especially on the interstate but it was all good.

Sunday Set list:

Love The Lord - Lincoln Brewster (wish I could play guitar like him)
The Solid Rock - Edwin Mote (kept getting messed up on the timing on this one)
One Way - Hillsong (been a while since we've done this one, always have liked it)
I Exhalt Thee - ? (don't know this one too well)
Break Me - Nate & Nate (like the way this one builds)
Your Grace Is Enough - Chris Tomlin (nailed this one, always seem to get nervous before this one hoping I don't blow the intro)

Thumbs up

When I got home from SRF last night I basically got 2 thumbs up from the women in the house so I must have done better than the last time I was there. It was fun rocking out and I'm ready for the show tonight in Richmond. Found out that it will just be me and Dan Lipps hanging out at the table but its gonna rock. It has also been alot of fun following the NCAA tournament again, this is one of the best times of the year in sports with the NCAA, NASCAR getting back in full swing (doesn't hurt that they are in Bristol, TN this weekend at one of my favorite tracks) and MLB just around the bend. Its a great sport season. Thanks to all those who listened last night, we'll do it all again next Friday night.

We need more Fridays

I wish that there were more days in the week like Fridays but alas there is not so I guess I'll just have to enjoy the one we are given each week. This is a good Friday, why you ask, because I get to go eat lunch with my wonderful wife Tammy as this has become a habit for the last month or two and I really enjoy a little "date time" with her. Its also the last day of school for the kiddos as spring break officially starts when they get out today, both of them are ready for a little break I think. Not really doing much over the break but we have planned a little trip to Dayton to go to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum and then to the Salem Mall so that should be fun. The kids have never been to Wright-Patt and don't really know what to expect from them but I know I've always enjoyed going there.

Tonight from 9:30 to 11 pm I'll be doing the SRF bit here so please join me if you can, I have been challenged from the two ladies of the house because they said last time that I didn't do enough of the ROCK part of Solid Rock Friday Night so needless to say I'm bringing the ROCK, oh yeah. I'm sure there will be giveaways and plenty of talk about the DISCIPLE concert that is happening tomorrow night in Richmond, I along with the three other hosts of SRF will be there with a JOY FM booth and hanging out, never done that before so I'm excited about it.

Worship practice was fun last night, we worked on a song that we will be doing in the upcoming weeks, I always enjoyed working on a new song for a couple of weeks then breaking it out and this was no exception. I wish we would start doing stuff like this again where we get a couple of songs and work on them for a few weeks then bust them out. We are even breaking out another oldie but a goodie this week for offering, it was one that we did a few years back quite a few times and everyone seemed to enjoy it, its an uptempo tune that will get you all jumping and yelling the chorus, should be fun. See you then.

I am excited

Have you ever had one of those weeks where you are looking forward to something and that day just can't get here soon enough? Well I am having one of those myself especially today. This weekend is gonna just flat out rock in more ways than one, yes I'll be back on the air with a little Solid Rock Friday Night then on Saturday I'll be heading to Richmond with my other 3 DJing partners from SRF to go work at the Disciple concert coming to the Bethesda Worship Center. I am starting to get pumped up for this show. We will have a booth set up and we will be manning that and I don't know what else we will be doing but it will be fun. Taylor won a pair of tickets so her and Tammy will be there as well. Last night Tammy was asking what all songs she would know from Disciple so I played her some snipets of a couple of cd's and she knew more than she realized and we were both doing a bit of rocking out to them. Just a few more days.

I think there might be some pain in the future

Played a little football tonight at youth and I'm fairly cetain that I'll be paying for it tomorrow. My knees are a little achey right now and after a good nights rest I think they will be stiff and sore in the morning. Ah the price you pay for being old and not giving in to it. Had fun playing electric again today, normally when Brent is leading it is my week to play bass but this week he decided he wanted some electric to boost things up a bit and I was happy oblige. Got to play one of my all time favorites "He Reigns" which is a simple 3 chord song but I like the little effect I use on the intro and verses, kind of a little wah/delay/flanger kind of thing for those of you who speak guitar. I think Jeff did a great job this morning with his message and I look forward to next week and hearing part 2.

It is a good time of year now with the NCAA basketball tourney firing up this Thursday, it has got to be the best at determining a national champion, all it takes is a team to get hot and roll off 6 wins. I'm sure I'll be filling out some brackets online and having some fun.

Sunday Set List:
Oh Praise Him - David Crowder*Band (always have liked this one)
King Of Glory - Chris Tomlin (I liked how we went right into this one)
Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble - Delirious (I liked the quick little distortion parts)
My Hope Is In You - Third Day (another fun little diddy)
All Who Are Thirsty - Vinyard/Kutless (Good tune)
Our God Reigns - Jonathan Thatcher/Delirious (This song could go on forever and I mean that in a good way)
He Reigns - Newsboys (see above)

Date day

Today was something that was long overdue, a date day with Tammy. She took today off so we could spend it together and do whatever in celebrating our anniversary tomorrow. It will be 17 years tomorrow that we have been married, time really does fly by because although it doesn't seem that long ago, I can't remember life before the kids. We took off for Indy a little before 10 and got to hang out and dream at that music toy store known as Sam Ash for a bit then off to the Castleton Mall. Haven't been there for quite some time. Had alot of fun just walking around and browsing. Went to Fridays to eat lunch, never ate there before and it was pretty good. I told Tammy if that whacked out dude from the Food Network who is the spokesman for Fridays showed up we were leaving. Got home now its getting close to time to head out with our growth group to go eat and do a little challenge kind of thing, should be fun. Good luck to MC tomorrow at the regionals.

Radio, family time, sectional, church and other stuff

A whirlwind of a weekend is now but a distant memory but it was very enjoyable from start to finish. Started out Friday by doing the first hour and a half of Solid Rock Friday Night or as I like to call it now the "SRF" and had a great time. Not many phone calls this time in fact I only had 2, both were for requests and one of them also was to win tickets to a concert. Tried to give away a cd and no one called. Had a blast, PK twittered another request which I graciously obliged and let him proceed to blow his speakers, have to ask him about it sometime, now I can rock it out to blow speakers but I get home and Tammy and Taylor both said I didn't ROCK very much, WHAT????? I guess I have been challenged to bring the rock when I go back over there on the 20th. You want rock, you got it.

Saturday was fun, on what was planned to be another stay at home and veg out day turned into alot of fun. Went grocery shopping, I know your thinking I thought he said fun, I did and I enjoy grocery shopping alot. Had alot of fun as a family just out and about tricking Tyson, he saw a LEGO he wanted for $6 and since Taylor and I were going to the game later that night we decided to get it for him. He looked at it and I then looked at it and acted like I put it back but instead gave it to Tammy who hid it. Now he decided to look at it again and noticed he couldn't find it, told him there must have been someone else looking at it. He was kinda bummed in a way throughout the rest of the store until we got up to the registar and paid then the lady handed him the bag with that in there, MOOD SWING. Taylor and I went to the game and in all my years of high school we never won a sectional but we did Sat. and I was glad to see that. Good luck MC at the regionals.

Church and youth were both excellent last night, I got to spend alot of time just hanging out with a couple of new kids, one is from Hagerstown I believe and has come the past couple of weeks with his girlfriend who attends quite often, had alot of fun just hanging out and talking music and other stuff, told him that when we get the youth worship team off the ground there would be a spot for him. Spent alot of the evening with one of the basketball players from MC at the pool table and playing some ball down in the gym. Good times, I'm getting more and more relaxed around alot of the kids even though I'll admit there are quite a few of them I still don't know, but that will change.

Sunday Set List:
Let Everything That - Matt Redman (fun little song to play)
Here Is Our King - David Crowder* Band (playing this song, two of my fingers basically stay in the same spot for the whole song)
I Surrender All - Judson W. VanDeventer (Never heard this song before Thu. but I liked it)
Enough - Chris Tomlin (another song where my pinky and ring finger hang out in the same spot alot)
Holiness - Sonicflood (an oldie but a goodie)
You Are - Nate & Nate (I don't think people recognized this one until the chorus then it was on)

Good Rockin going on tonight.

A heads up if your interested, I will be hosting the first half of Solid Rock Friday Night tonight from 8 to 9:30 pm on 88.9 Joy Fm. Those of you in the area can probaly pick it up but if not you can always listen live at 889joyfm.com. I've already got a bunch of ideas and have been picking and choosing and planning all kinds of different stuff to do, needless to say I'm excited and can't wait to get over there. So tune in if you can and enjoy.

It's time to wake up.

Unfortunately I had to wake up this morning but that is not what this post is about. I was up til well past 1 am last night with all kinds of thoughts going through my mind, I really thought about doing this post early in the a of m but decided to wait and I really wish I would have because right now I can't remember alot of what I was thinking but I do know this........we as christians, Christ followers and or church goers have to realize this one very important and yet simple little fact---church is not about US. Church is all about Jesus and leading people to him not about the musics too loud, the don't play anything I know, why are they using videos, no one came to shake my hand, there is someone sitting where I always sit, the thing that I focus on during worship is gone, (to that I say shouldn't you be focasing on God during your worship and not some object?) why is he preaching on money, I don't like to hear those kinds of messages. Uh NEWSFLASH McFLY, those are the messages you probably need to hear. It's not OUR church, IT BELONGS TO GOD. Why do people constantly complain about services and the way they are done and or if changes are made. Here is a little quote I heard "A person who is uncomfortable with change will NEVER be comfortable hearing the voice of God" I don't think for one second that God wants us to coast, take it easy or just plain go through the motions.

I don't think God is sitting up in heaven going "you know I think it's going to be crowded in here someday so I don't need anymore people." And if we coast then we are probably not reaching anyone and that my friends is not good. Something I heard that just stopped me in my tracks and in my mind I thought "WHAT?" and I probably had a look of dumbfoundness, but it was said "I think we grew too fast" and I thought you got a problem with that? That should be the very thing we long for, that people who are searching for the answer come every Sunday and come in droves, I hope and pray that every Sunday we have to search around for chairs for people to sit in. Wake up people. I'll leave you with a little quote from Steven Furtick and its the kind of passion and drive that I hope our church has, "We're charging the gates of hell with squirtguns, whose with us?"

PK and Pink's ping pong match

I had the pleasure today of witnessing first hand the exciting ping pong match between PK and Pink and yes for you my loyal followers I was able to sneak a camera in there and got this unbelieveable footage. This little snipet will show you the intensity at which these 2 play ping pong, and this was just to see who served. I had to keep telling them to stay off the table but all to no avail. Sorry about the interference in there, someone must have been messing around with a ham radio near the church. They found out that I had a camera and requested that I put it away before copyright laws crept in so I obliged and put it away but I did get the above footage for you, my posse. Enjoy.

Have you ever.....

Anyone out there ever had a day where you did not get dressed or leave the house and you weren't even sick? Had one of those days Saturday and it was very enjoyable. Lounged around all day in our pj's and the only time I even went outside was to take the trash out. Those days don't happen too often and Tammy has been wanting one of them forever, seems like there is always something to do or somewhere to go but we got lucky this weekend with nothing on Saturday. Now who knows when the next time we will get to do something like this but granted we will be counting down. I know some of you might say that we wasted away a perfectly good day and maybe we did but sometimes you need a good battery recharge and thats what we got.

Sunday was alot more eventful and packed, went to church and can I just say that it is an honor to serve at such a cool church. I remember as a child not looking forward to Sundays cause we "HAD" to go to church but now my attitude is that I "GET" to go to church every Sunday. It is a highlight of every week and I can't wait to get back next Sunday. It was fun to play bass again this week and even funner, yes I said funner, to move around and get a different prespective playing on the other side of the stage this week. Next week I'll move back to the "ROCK" side of the stage and bring it. The song we did for offering I have never heard of before Thursdays practice, I think it is obviously a hymn because Jennifer knew it. It was good to have a piano back for a few songs and just to shake things up a bit with the switching around. Youth was fun, they played a game called TOAST where a piece of toast was put in the toaster and we went around the room with each student stating a fact about themselves and when the toast popped up whoever was speaking or supposed to speak got to pick a bag and whatever was in that bag was spread on the toast. There were a few surprises, cheeses, spreads and wacked out stuff to choose from. Good times.

Sunday Set List:
All We Need - Charlie Hall (first time I've played bass on this one I think)
How Awesome Is The Lord Most High - Chris Tomlin (see above)
Fill My Cup, Lord - Richard Blanchard (see text)
Give Us Clean Hands - Charlie Hall (always have liked this song)
Just As I Am - Daniel Baker
40 - U2 (Jennifer calls this the tax song, "did you get your U240 filled out this year?")