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I read this last night and as Perry Noble says "It rocked my world."

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to live in obedience to him. Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him, so you will grow in faith, strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with thanksgiving for all he has done. Don't let anyone lead you astray with empty philosophy and high sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the evil powers of this world and not from Christ. For in Christ the fullness of God lives in a human body, and you are complete through your union with Christ. He is the Lord over every ruler and authority in the universe.
Colossians 2:6-10 NLT

One week

It's been one week since I drank a pop
Cocked my head back and took a big drink of
Five days since I thought about doing this saying
"I think I can make it for 2 more"
Three days since I had a big craving
It was hard till I made some tea
Yesterday I'd made my goal
but it'll still be two days till I decide when to drink one

Sung to the tune of One Week by the Barenaked Ladies

It has officially been a week since my last soda and to be quite honest I've only had one real big craving and that was Saturday night. Taylor has even had a few cans in the fridge for school, we never got to have pop at school Mrs. Ingalls wouldn't allow it, but I have done good and I don't know how long this will go but I have proven to myself that this is possible.

The weekend that was.

First off I want to ask did anyone else get chills when at the end of He Reigns when we stopped playing and someone kept singing then everyone else followed for a few minutes, that was powerful. I always like those unplanned things like that when they just happen, ONLY GOD. Speaking of ONLY GOD, I am blown away at the numbers for the building to bless campaign, whoever would have thought that something like that could happen in Farmland, once again two words sum it up ONLY GOD. There are big things that are going to happen here and we all get to be a part.

This is a short work week because of the nice long weekend with going out to the Winchester Speedway for the Winchester 400, it has been my favorite race for quite sometime. The first one I went to was in 1981 I believe and I haven't missed one since, helps that I've worked all of them since 1986. I only wish that the late Roger Holdeman was around for this weekend. He was the former owner of the speedway until his death and this was his baby. I miss Roger and just hanging out during practice and laughing and carrying on. Still keep in contact with his wife Linda who ran the track for a few years after her passing. Should be fun.

Panic at the Radio Station

No its not the new band Panic at the Disco, but it was panic at the radio station tonight. During the show I had a cd set up, introduced it then started it and it sounded funny then I noticed it was skipping, so I put another one in and tried to play a song but it could not catch up to reading it so I had to start a third song that finally worked. I can laugh now but was freaking out there. It was fun again as always kind of did a little mellowier show, see list at end, but it was good for a quick 35-40 minute show. Go back in two weeks on a Friday but I get to go over there a week from this coming Monday and watch and who knows maybe even help out with the afternoon show. Here is the songs from tonight.

Something Like Silas - When I Search
Pivitplex - You Know
Jonah 33 - This Is It (You Instead Of Me)
Apologetix - Jericho
Falling Up - This is the one that skipped so I tried some Family Force 5 and it wouldn't work either.
Decyfer Down - Break Free
The Almost - Southern Weather
Kutless - Run
Bride - Mountain

Thanks to those who listened and we will do it again in two weeks.

Keepin the streak alive

Today marks day number 4 that I have gone without drinking. Pop that is. Monday at lunch I had a Diet Pepsi and once that was gone I haven't had any since. Some people can do this without problem, take my wife for instance, she can go days and weeks without drinking pop but me I never could until now. Do I miss it? Yes, but so far it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be, now Sunday when I'm watching the NASCAR race or the Colts it might be another story. I used to drink a 2-liter at work in a couple of days or a 20 oz or two a day and could go through a 24 pack of cans in 5 or 6 days. Especially Diet Mt. Dew which I know is the worst diet drink you can drink but it tastes so good. I don't know how long this will go on and to some it might seem silly but thats ok its a big step in the whole trying to slim down from the being a BIG boy to just going down to a BIg boy than a Big boy than finally a big boy.

I'll be back over at the radio station tonight and hopefully will be doing the last hour again rockin out, havin fun, and reachin and teachin. I might even have someone in China listening in, there are a few people from the shop that had to go over to set up some stuff at our plant in Wuxi and Patti is taking her laptop and I told her if she thinks of it at 10 tonight which will be like 2 in the afternoon tomorrow there to give a little listen. Technology is cool. So tune in around 10 and rock out with me.

Blessed

After a few days of nothingness and basically laziness I'm back. I've been thinking lately about how blessed I am. I look at what God has done, what he has taken and how he is using me for his kingdom. He took, and blessed, someone who gets nervous getting up in front people and had minimal ability to play guitar and learn the bass and used them on a worship team. I've told people in the past when they come up and say "good job up there today" that it's not me. I've also been blessed with a wonderful family and friends who are there when you need them and I am glad to be there when they need me as well. Been blessed to venture into radio which has been a total blast, I don't know if there are 10 people, 100 people, or 1,000 people listening but it doesn't matter as long as 1 person is listening and gets something out of it then its all good.

Now I have been blessed to add something else to the fold, youth group small group leader. I'll be starting that in a few weeks and I pray that God uses this dork to help reach or lead some of our youth towards him or closer to him. It is a step out of the old comfort zone but as long as God is in control it will be amazing. Seems like that comfort zone is getting smaller and smaller. It still blows me away that God would use me to reach people that I might not even realize I'm helping to reach for Him. Is God awesome or what?

Monday morning quaterbacking

Another good weekend has come and gone, packed full of activites, good times, hard work, and a little bit of fun thrown in for good measure. Friday was fun hanging with the youth group and all those who drove said youth to New Castle for a little Taco Bell and bowling. Saturday was a wear yourself out work day as we helped out Tammys brother and his wife at her Dad's old house cleaning up brush and tearing down the two old sheds in the backyard and cleaning that all up. Got done with that and went home around 5:30-6:00 and was pretty much toast for the rest of the evening.

Sunday was great as usual, words can't describe what it was like watching all the people going up front and dropping the pledge cards down, then the little kidzone kids bringing theirs in. I think we will blow this thing out of the water. I'm anxious to see what God has done here next weekend. Got to fulfill a dream this weekend when I got to play my nephews Jackson guitar, that is my dream guitar for oh I don't know about 20 years or so. He is trying to sell it to me and I would take it in a heartbeat, we'll see what happens. Funny thing about yesterday on something that started as kind of a little joke but when it was done was cool. During practice Thursday as we were doing How Great Thou Art I said kind of jokingly that we should do the chours to How Great Is Our God at the end kind of a reverse of what we normally do, we tried it and it was good and I think it went over well yesterday.

Went with the Prices' to Pizza Hut after church and hung out had a good time and ate some good pizza as well. It you ever get the chance to get a buffalo chicken pizza there do it, it's killer as is the apple cinnamon dessert pizza and the cinnamon breadstixs and the...........
Got a cool opportunity on the horizion that I am excited about, more on that at a later date, that could be life changing not only for myself but others as well.