Not a big fan of funerals

What a different weekend this was, Friday got to do a little radio which is nothing out of the ordinary nor the Saturday stint which both were fun and I enjoy each time I go over there but I also get critical of myself, as I'm sure alot of you do at your work or doing something you enjoy, and I think to myself how smooth or not so smooth my transitions were or how many times I say "UHM" that is one thing I try to mentally focus on not doing so when I do say UHM is sticks out to me. I love doing the radio gig and am really looking forward to Fri. June 12th when my compadres from a few weeks ago (PK & Pink) will be joining me again for 3 hours of mayhem and madness. I've got an idea for the show which I have not let them know yet but in due time I will let them know and we will have a blast. We need to work on radio nicknames for them for that show, I'm gonna be DJ JAZZY D-ROC, PROFESSOR OF ROCKTOLOGY. I know I'm a dork but oh well.

Wish that all those big nasty thunderstorms they were having around Indy last night would have been here but sometime. Tammy spent the day with our friend Aubery working on a couple of photo boards for Aub's grandmother who passed away last week for her funeral which was today. I was honored to be asked to be a palbearer for her and enjoyed hanging out with her and her family during this time. I'm still however not a fan of funerals or hospitals still though. Got a call tonight as well saying that my brother and his family were here in town for a few hours so it was good to see them for a bit. They are back on the road tomorrow to Va. Beach and home so it was a whirlwind trip for them but still good to see them.

I am so ready to get back to playing with the worship team as its been two weeks now that I've not played, they did an awesome job this morning, and also ready to get back into the youth group groove, had to miss the past two weeks but things should be back to normal next week whatever normal is.

FUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something is happening today that hasn't happened to me in over 15 years, I'm going for a job interview. Now its been a long time between these and I'll be honest with you I'm a bit nervous, am I going to say the right things, how will I look, am I what this company is looking for, and the one question that drives me crazy - "What can you bring to our company that we don't have?" or something to that effect. It has been almost 5 months since I was laid off and this is the first interview obviously that I've had. Most places I go to I get the same "We're not hiring right now" thing and occasionally I'll get a little boost of confidence when they ask me to fill out an application to go along with my resume, that has happened 3 or 4 times and for me that makes me feel a little better about the place I'm at. Now getting called for the interview really boosts my morale and even if nothing happens with this place it lets me know that there is still hope, which by the way I still know that God has a plan for me and it's not my time that this will unfold but in His time.

Now you maybe asking yourself why did he name this post FUMBLE, well your in luck, I'll tell ya. I'm a big sports fan and I was thinking yesterday and last night about how things happen and I thought I'd put it to a little sports annology. Sometimes in life things happen and the ball gets rolling in different areas and I drop the ball,.
Example: Heres the snap, handoff to Chalfant in the back field, FUMBLE.
Sometimes I don't even get the ball to take off with it before I lose it. Other times its:
Example: Hand off to Chalfant, hits the hole, cuts back to the inside FUMBLE.
Sometimes I get the ball and start to run with it and lose my grip as I'm going and lose it.
And then theres this:
Hand off to Chalfant and he breaks through the line, down the sideline he goes 20, 15, 10, 5 and he FUMBLES before the goal line.
Sometimes I get a good "run" going and lose my focus or get relaxed and cruise and lose it. But everyonce in a while I take that ball and go in for the score and those are the cool times.
I've felt in the past few weeks that I've been FUMBLING quite a bit at different things whether it be in conversations, relationships or in everyday living, being forgetful or unassertive and passive or just plain being a screw up. I know there is a work in progress here and that those fumbles will soon turn into touchdowns on a regular basis. Man I'm ready for some football now.

Tear Down The Walls

I am super pumped, the new Hillsong United CD is out today and it is called "Tear Down The Walls". I listened to a sneak preview of the cd Sunday night thanks to Carlos Whitaker who hosted a listening party and chat which was fun. Today I got to listen to it again, not because I went out and bought it, I haven't yet and don't know when I will, but because it is the free preview from New Release Tuesday and if you want to check it out go over there and sign up, its free and you can enjoy it as well. After listening to it there are alot of songs on there that we could do on any given Sunday but my favorite is the title track. I went to You Tube yesterday to see if there were any vids of this song and there wasn't but they did have the audio of the song on there if you'd like to check it out that way. Be warned that it is a 10 minute song but also be warned that it is one of the most POWERFUL 10 min. song you'll ever here. WOW just a flat out worshipful song. Here are the lyrics for it:

Verse 1
Tear down the walls, see the world
Is there something we have missed
Turn from ourselves, look beyond
There is so much more than this

Pre-Chorus
And I don't need to see it to believe it
I don't need to see it to believe it
Cause I can't shake this fire deep inside my heart

Verse 2
Look to the skies, hope arise
See His majesty revealed
More than this life, There is love, there is hope
And this is real

Chorus
This life is Yours
And hope is rising
As Your glory floods our hearts
Let love tear down these walls
That all creation
Would come back to You
It's all for You

Chorus 2
Your Name is glorious, glorious
Your love is changing us, calling us
To worship in spirit and in truth
As all creation returns to You

Bridge
Oh for all the sons and daughters
Who are walking in the darkness
You are calling us to lead them back to You
We will see Your spirit rising
As the lost come out of hiding
Every heart will see this hope we have in You


Great song and I hope you enjoy it if you get a chance to check it out. Also check on the side bar go down to Earl aka Jamie Rowe and check out a post on his blog, its about 3 or 4 posts in and it is called "Sick of going to church" its a bit or a read but it is full of honesty and some good little nuggets. Enjoy.

Hey I'm blogging.

It seems here recently that I am not blogging as much as I used to, don't know if I've ran out of stuff to say or just get preoccupied with other things, I'm going with the latter. Been an interesting few days here. I got to fill in for Joel Brantingham on the Workday Wrap-Up Friday on Joy FM and had alot of fun doing those duties and then when I got home there was a message on the machine from the guy who was going to do Solid Rock Friday Night saying that he wasn't able to be there and wanted to know if I could fill in. So Taylor and her friend Emily and myself all piled back into the car and made a B line over there to do SRF. Had a good time with that, I let the girls do some announcing but I think they were in for a speed record each time as it took under 5 seconds each time they were on the air until the last little segment where it was about 10 seconds. I think they had fun with it and Taylor wants to do that more often and I'm sure I'll be taking her back with me. That was the 3rd week in a row that I did all 3 hours of the show with 6 different guest hosts. I'll be handling the show again on my birthday June 12 with PK as a host and we are working on Pink to go with us again and have some more fun. This time I'll be sure and talk a little bit about thier ministries like I had planned to do last time but craziness insued.

I already love the new series at FFC "FEAR", yesterday's message was spot on. I do not want to be known as a man pleaser but a GOD PLEASER no matter the cost. Too many times we as christians forget that and try to do everything we can to make everyone around us happy and comfortable when we should be doing what GOD wants us to do which doesn't always make people happy and comfortable. Christians (and myself included) need to stop being yellow bellied cowards and live our lives in a way that is pleasing to GOD and not man. I really dug the Perry Noble references that PK used yesterday (the christian music one and $100 bill one) as he is a straight shooter who has one purpose and one purpose only and that is to get as many people as possible to change thier eternal destinations and I think that is what PK wants to do as well. I'm bummed that we are going to miss next Sunday's message, gonna have to put an order in for the DVD, as we are heading down south for a few days.

Sunday Set list:
I Will Not Be Silent - David Crowder*Band
Lord Reign In Me - Brenton Brown
Came To My Rescue - Hillsong United
You Are My Portion - Darrel Evans
Thank You - David Crowder*Band
Came To My Rescue - Hillsong United (I have a feeling this is another one of those songs that could be huge on alot of Sundays)

2 days in a row.

I get to be on the radio 2 days in a row this week during prime listening hours. Today I will be filling in for Joel Brantingham with the Workday Wrap-Up from 3-7 and then tomorrow my normal Saturday noon to 3 show. I'm excited about doing the Workday Wrap-Up again, I filled in for a few days last year and enjoyed it, and would like you to hang out with me for a bit today if you could. I would appriciate it. Had fun last night at worship practice, we are doing a new song this Sunday that we've worked on a bit before and it came together last night. Tammy and Tyson are hanging out at King's Island today with Tyson's class, they have made it a school field trip with some homework involved before lunch then play for the rest of the day. Tyson couldn't stop talking about some ride called the Diamondback. He's our little thrill seeker and I think he would ride anything which is a good thing that Tammy is with him, I'm not that adventurous with theme park rides.

Got new furniture yesterday thanks to Tammy's Dad and now I hope someone stops by and buys our old furniture that I have sitting out for todays town rummage. I already broke in the new couch yesterday with a little nap action and it sleeps nicely, I see quite of few more of those in my future.

I think there will be an encore sometime

Last night was a total blast over at the old radio station. I sense that there might be an encore sometime this summer if the other participants are willing, which I think they will be. It was alot of fun to just let loose and joke and kid and just having a good time. I know we set some records last night with the longest request, we had one from Austrialia from David which by the way it would be Solid Rock Saturday Morning there, countless twitter requests and text requests and around 10 phone requests, basically over half of the first 2 hours were requests. Got to play around 46 songs or so and just had alot of fun. If you listened I hope we entertained you and you enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed bringing you the rock and general goofiness. I know there is some video footage that is floating around and I'm sure it will surface at some point.

I really enjoy taking the kids from the youth over there but PK and Pink were not at all itimidated by the microphone and made it real easy to just let loose and cut up. I never knew you could do 2 segments talking about cheese but now I know its possible. Today was fun over there but nowhere near as lively as last night. Thanks for all the calls, texts, and tweets during the show and like I said we'll have to do it again sometime.

Guest host and another guest host

Tonight on Solid Rock Friday Night Iwill have once again 2 very special guest hosts. These are 2 individuals whom I admire and look up to, even though they are both younger than me and I am taller than. Tonight for the first time ever you can listen in from 8 to 11 pm on 88.9 JOY FM or listen online at 889joyfm.com and check out the show with myself and my 2 guests PK and Pink. This is going to be fun. I've enjoyed taking the kids and some of the youth over there and everyone has enjoyed it but tonight I get to take a couple of fellows who have plenty of experience in public speaking so I don't think I have to worry about them locking up on me if you know what I'm saying. Could have alot of fun conversations between songs and just general craziness. Be sure to check it out if you can and call in some requests at 877-335-4569 but please refrain from all those songs that do not rock, i.e. Gaithers there Mom and Dad. With this crew its gonna be alot of fun. I have brought to Dan Franks the GM of the station that I thought it would be cool to each month or so bring a youth pastor from a local church and a couple of the kids for a little interview and guest hosting. This could be a little preview of what that could be like. If the ROCK is not your thing don't forget that I'll be on there again tomorrow from noon to 3.

Com'on rock, rock, rock

Couldn't resist a little tribute to some good old Stryper with the title, speaking of rock had alot of fun Friday night, for the most part, over at the station with Kyle Parkison and Matt Thornburg. They both had fun I think, they kept thanking me all night so I think that means they had fun, and both did a good job even though they both messed up the name of the show. Brought the rock and had quite a few requests from calls from some we knew and some we didn't. Had a call from a girl in Chicago listening online requesting a song for her sister in Greenville, OH. The only part of the night that wasn't cool was when the car messed up coming home. It would die and then keep going all in a matter of seconds if that makes any sense. The car spent the night over in D & J Resturants parking lot thanks to Tammy coming over at midnight and getting us. Ready for next Friday night when there will be 2 more guest hosts with me. I'll let you all in on who later in the week.

Had fun again Saturday with the show, I'm trying to figure out little things to do each week that maybe could be something I do every week. Of course its a different flow then Friday night but still fun none the less. Who knows where it will lead but I'm really enjoying the chance to have a little fun for a couple hours on a Saturday.

Church was good again this morning, the beach ball thing at the begining was so cool, hopefully we can do that again sometime. Nathan did a good job with his first time leading and PK brought it and I'm up for the challenge of using my time wisely this week. Now its almost youth time, think I might hang out with the junior highers tonight as well.

Sunday Set list:
Days Of Elijah - Twila Paris
Shout Unto God - Hillsong United
Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing) - Brian Doekerson
I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever - Delirious
You Are/Jesus Messiah - Nate & Nate/Chris Tomlin

Radio tonight with 2 special guests

Tonight as well as next Friday night I'll be doing the whole 3 hours of Solid Rock Friday Night and I'll be having a couple of guest hosts for those 2 shows. Tonight I'll have with me a couple of fellows from the jr. high youth group, Kyle Parkison and Matt Thornburg, both are excited and pumped up for it so can you do us a favor and check it out if you can from 8-11 on 88.9 or 889joyfm.com and listen in and call in your rockin' requests. It is always fun to watch people who go over there with me and watch how at the begining they are kind of shy and nervous but after they get the first time talking out of the way they normally warm up and have alot of fun with it. I'm sure I'll do a little post about it tomorrow or sometime in the next few days. On tomorrows normal Saturday show I'm going to add a little segment on strange news at some point. I'll be scanning the internet to find odd and strange news and report on it during the show. No remotes again this week so I'll have plenty of time to tell about these from 12-3 tomorrow.
Tyson has 2 birthday parties this weekend, tonight 2 or 3 of his buddies from school are coming home with him and spending the night and then tomorrow we are having one with the family and it is a co-birthday party with my nephew Tyler who turns 17 next week. Tyson hits the big 11 this week and he is anxious to turn 13 so he can play video games that are rated T for teen, oh the simple things in life to look forward to. Ready for church already, Nathan Harris will be leading worship this week with some twists up his sleeve, come join us Sunday at 10:45.