Tim Hawkins - GPS

Saw this guy last night after we got back from bowling with the youth around 1:30 am. He did a bit with worship songs with different lyrics like instead of Better is One Day it was Better is Hunday and I only eat margarine instead of I can only imagine. I was rolling. Had fun with the youth and bowling with Aaron, PK and Pink.

Mr. Bean

Enough all ready

We were watching TV last night as the season premieres of Criminal Minds and CSI:NY came on and we have been waiting for the new episodes for awhile now. We were missed Criminal Minds but we taped it and will watch it probably tonight but caught CSI:NY and I noticed something, every spot for a new show or for one that is coming up in the next few days all seemed to have the same theme..........sex. Now I know that this has been happening and increasing on tv for quite sometime but last night it just hit me that every commercial for a show had some sort of sexual theme weather it be a scantly clad woman or even the big bold letters used in some of them and I was getting tired of seeing it. It seems that all of the women on television now must also wear the lowest cut top that they can and squeeze into. 5 years ago I probably wouldn't have had an issue with any of this but now its just getting old. I like it when you don't have to monitor what is on when the kids are in the room but those shows are slowly fading away. What happened to the day when all this stuff was taboo and only on the pay movie channels? How far will the envelope be pushed? How long til there is no restriction on what is permisable on tv? Its no wonder why I like to watch sports on tv, preferably racing, football, baseball, and college basketball. Maybe I'm taking too much of a prude attitude towards todays society and what is acceptable but I don't like where this is all heading.

Side note check out Perry Nobles blog from Tuesday and Wednesday if you get a chance.

Song that fits the campaign

There is a new artist out there that some of you might have heard of his name is John Waller. Saturday night we did a song of his that fit the BtB campaign and his first song also falls in that catagory. We really should have learned this song and done it during the services for this campaign. Here it is and I think you will agree that this should be the theme song for Building to Bless.

"The Blessings" by John Waller featuring Mark Hall from Casting Crowns

Let it be said of us, While we walked among the living
Let it be said of us, By the ones we leave behind
Let it be said of us, That we lived to be a blessing for life
Let it be said of us, That we gave to reach the dying
Let it be said of us, By the fruit we leave behind
Let it be said of us that our legacy is blessing for life

This day You set life, you set death right before us
This day every blessing and curse is a choice now
And we will choose to be a blessing for life

Let it be said of us, That our hearts belong to Jesus
Let it be said of us, That we spoke the words of life
Let it be said of us, That our heritage is blessing for life

Chorus again

For Your Kingdom, for our children, for the sake of every nation

Only God

What an incredible weekend at FFC. First the leaders get together to make thier pledges and it is almost $700,000 for just 40+ households, two word- Only God. Then we here of stories of two lives that have been changed here recently at church and once again two words- Only God. Then what a great message with a simple principal, viewing and treating everyone like God sees them--Precious (Just for you PK), I am taking the challenge to view everyone this way, somedays will be harder than others but I'm up for the challenge. Finally last night I went to get Taylor and Tyson from Youth Group and X-Men and hear that there was over 40 kids at Youth Group and two words come to mind- Only God. Only God can use a simple church in a SMALL town to make a BIG impact, isn't it amazing. We are in the midst of something that is going to be huge, the testimonies that are going to be pouring in over the next three years are going to blow us all away and lead us to say......ONLY GOD.

Another solo flight on air

Here is my view on a Friday night at the JOY FM studio in Union City. Not big and fancy as alot of other stations but I think its pretty darn cool. The board is below that controls what is being heard on air and the computer above is where all the music is and is normally what is running every hour except for the Solid Rock Friday show which we use 2 cd players that are to the left of the board as you are facing it. Can you find Sherry in the picture? Sherry is the drawing that they say you are to talk to, she is your audience so you don't get freaked out over how many people are really listening kind of funny I think. It was my second solo flight and I have 2 more lined up as I will be doing every other week with my good pal Dan Conner, he's got next week than me and so on. I appologize for the audio during the football game if you were listening it was rough and hard to hear sometimes. They were broadcasting from the east side of Dayton so the cell phone reception obviously wasn't that great. Here is the song list from tonight....
Flood - Jars of Clay
No More - The Band With No Name (Give you a hint its some people who are local)
The Wait is Over - Disciple
Open Your Eyes - Stryper
I Am the Door - Day of Fire
Mr. Do Wrong - Guardian
Are You Real - KJ 52
Who Am I - Deliverance (I introduced this as a song title people would recognize but a little different)
Resolution - Pillar
Move - Thousand Foot Krutch (Requested by Taylor and Tyson)
Reconnecting - Tait

Fun show even challenged the listeners to A. Get involed in church somehow someway, B. Read their bibles, and C. Share their faith with someone. I have more challenges and other goodies in two weeks. Thanks to those who listened.

Another round of football

Tonight will be another round of high school football and the opportunity to run the board which I might add is alot of fun. After learning how to take care of the board it is funny to listen to a ball game or race or something like that and know the inside of how it is ran. Same goes with just listening to the radio and with the chance that I've been given knowing a little bit of the ins and outs of what it takes to make a station tick. The only bad thing about tonight is that I'm going to miss the Building to Bless leadership campaign kickoff. I know that it is going to be an amazing evening and I wish I could be present for it. I know I am ready for 4:30 pm today as I am walking out of the shop for a full weekend of things to do, places to go, and people to see.