Big Weekend

Gotta big weekend planned, already completed one task, did the board for the final high school football game on JOY FM then did a little Solid Rock Friday and yes I rocked it up. Got to talk to the Headbangin Hawkeye aka Mike. Had fun but now its almost midnight and I'm leaving in the morning with Stephen Price to head to Geneso Illinois to help Ryan McAllister move some furniture back this way, we are heading out around 4 am so I guess I should go get some sleep.

Sunday is a big day, starting a new series at The Branches called Hope Epidemic, this is gonna be cool. Time to get out of those comfort zones and do some serving and blessing and spreading a little hope to the community. The worship team is doing the song I wrote that we did at Heart Song so that is pretty cool. I still am blown away and humbled at how many people have come up to me or told me that they dug that song. Never done anything like this at church before so it should be interesting. Ready for the rest of the worship set and pretty much the whole service. Then come home and veg out with a little Talladega and the Sprint Cup fellows and flipping back and forth to the football games as well. Fun fun fun. Now to bed to get this started.

Day of Fire - Dark Hills

Saw them do this song up in Portland this summer, can't wait til the new cd comes out. This song was fantastic in concert with the full band.

How heavy was the crown of thorns?

Addison Road - What Do I Know Of Holy

Great new song from a band that some of you might have heard of before. Enjoy

Heart Song & the weekend that was.

If you didn't make it out to Heart Song all I've got to say is you missed an incredible night of music, not just because I had a song in it, but because of the other 12 or 13 songs that were done. We have some amazing talent out at The Branches at Farmland Friends. I was really digging Brent's song My Strength Is In You and Dave's Talk To Jesus and Nathan's The Edge and Nate C's Sinners Prayer and my personal favorite was the last song of the night, Nate and Nate's Victory Is Yours. Wow that song is amazing and I can see it being done some Sunday with the full band and all. It was alot of fun to do that for Marggy and the Black's to help out with rasing some money for them. I'm still not used to people coming up to me and saying they liked my song, I never know how to react except with a thanks. Its amazing that God can use a simple little song to affect people in different ways, I know I can't do anything like that. I wrote that song a few years ago and when Nate C. asked if I'd be interested in participating in Heart Song I told him I had a few songs and gave him that one. He put the music to it and tweaked some of the words to make them flow a little better and I think he knocked it out of the park. I still have another one I'd like to do someday but it is a little more rockin', huh imagine that. I kind of thought that Saturday night wasn't the time to bust that one out yet.

I think the youth worship team dudes did a great job yesterday, I'm excited to see how they are used in the upcoming months up at the 3:7, that's the youth room who are wondering what that is. It was good to have a week off but I'm ready to get back at it this week. Tammy has been excited these past few days as Pastor Kris asked her to help with the upcoming Hope Epedimic series and let me tell you shes been on it. That kind of stuff is right up her alley. I'm excited to see how that series unfolds and how it impacts not only us but the community as well. Humm maybe we can throw in "It's Not About Me" at some point in that series.......

All I can say is WOW

That is the only word that comes to mind after yesterday's worship, WOW. From the little bridge part in You Alone to the end of Came To My Rescue that was just absolutely fantastic worship. Don't know if those in the congregation felt it but I sure know I did. It never ceases to amaze me that God can use a screw up like me and use me for His GLORY. I also like the fact that we have a leader, pastor, who is not afraid to talk about subjects that are hard to talk about and those that some people don't want to hear about. Kudos to you PK, keep on speaking the word that God has placed in your heart.

This is a great time of the year with fall here and the temps dipping below 60 degrees for highs and the cloudy days are flat out cool, no pun intended. Got to run the board for 2 high school football games this weekend and did a little something different, instead of going to a spot during one of the breaks after a score, the play by play announcer Mike Hohler sent it back to me on Friday to hype up Solid Rock Friday Night for 30 seconds and on Saturday to preview the half time show I had planned. Dang, we almost sounded like professionals during that time. It is alot of fun to work with Mike and Ryan Gathard on the broadcasts and I've met Ryan but have yet to meet Mike. We have a blast before the games and after and sometimes during as I've finally learned how to talk to them why we are at a break. Good times.

Sunday Set list
Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman
One Way - Hillsong United (I think I was either a half step ahead or a half step behind during these songs for some reason)
Holliness - Brian Doekerson (Did this one a little funky and I liked it)
Grace Covers Me - David Bell (Great song)
You Alone - David Crowder*Band (The I'm Alive part definately came alive)
Came To My Rescue - Hillsong United (WOW, thats all I can say. Ready to do this one again)