I wanna be in the light....

Tonight during my reading time I read 1 John 1:5 - 7 which reads This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

And yes after reading this I started singing to myself,
I wanna be in the light
As you are in the light
I wanna shine like the stars in the heavens
Oh Lord be my light and be my salvation
Cause all I want is to be in the light
All I want is to be in the light

Lyrics by Charlie Peacock, made a hit by DC Talk.

I am glad that I am able to have fellowship with others who are in the light as well each and every weekend at FFC.

Final hint for the weekend

I've been having fun thinking of ways to drop hints as to what Tyson and I will be doing on Sunday and this is the final installment. I hope that I am able to make it back in time for Youth Group but if not I know it is going to be a good day hanging out with the boy.

Earl Pitts?

In the imortal words of Earl Pitts, "You know what makes me sick? You know what makes me so angry I just wanna spread my ears with jelly and roll in a big anthill." (thats funny if you know who Earl Pitts is, if you don't your probably thinking what is this all about). I noticed last week that there were quite a few houses on the way to work that allready had up Christmas decorations. Now don't get me wrong I think it is cool to see the houses all done up and all but to have it done before Thanksgiving is just plain crazy I think. Now I know alot of people who put the tree up either on Thanksgiving or the day after and more power to ya on that. It seems that each year it is getting earlier and earlier that decorations go up. My own personnal rule is it has to be December before decorations go up, but if you really know Tammy and I you will know that it is not uncommon for it to be the week before Christmas when the tree finally goes up and usually on Christmas day the tree comes down and is put up. We are not Scrooges by any means but I guess we just like our living room as normal as normal can be. Now shopping for Christmas (notice I've never once called it anything other than Christmas. No holiday day or whatever these crazy people want to call it so no one gets offended, get over it people) is another story, Tammy has been know to start as early as July or August hiding stuff in the closet and the kids know to stay out. I've never been one to search the house to see where presents are hidden, thanks Mom. Dad did that once, he found a real nice radio Mom bought him and laughed and teased her about finding it so she took it back and got a cheap little radio (which they still have and this was 25 or so years ago) so I took a mental note and never looked.

I forgot yesterday so here is the hint for what is going on this weekend, I'll be spending time with a few cats and horses. More later...................

Ripped off

During this past weekends message one of the points PK brought up was how sometimes we feel that God has ripped us off in some way or another. This was a very good point and I sat and thought do I feel that way, is there some area in my life that I feel I've been jipped in. And to be honest I couldn't think of many if any and most of them were by my own doing. Later at Youth Group we talked about being a witness, not only with what we say but our actions as well. And that got me thinking as well, what is my witness like? Not just what I say but what I do, what I wear, what I watch and listen to. When people see and hear these things what do they think of my witness are they thinking "I thought he is a christian" or do they think "he is strong in his faith." Which then brings me to this point, I think that the one being "RIPPED OFF" is God. How many times have I wasted an opportunity, not helped someone out, spoken words of encouragement, etc. I am thankful that God is always there no matter how many times I rip him off waiting with arms wide open for me to come back around. Unfortunately this happens far too often than I would hope. This does go to show that the messages that we hear at church each and every Sunday speak to us and teach us and I thank all of the pastorial staff for being obedient to what God has laid on their hearts.

Problem avoided

Do you ever have that feeling when your leaving somewhere that you didn't do something you were supposed to do like turn something on or off? Last night I was running the board at JOY FM while Naomi and David were on location and after they were finished and signed off I started the last song of the hour and turned the lights off, locked the doors got out to the car started it up and sat there for a second thinking I forgot something. I debated for a quick moment if I should leave or go check. I decided to go check so I ran back in unlocked everything, luckily the song was still playing, I peeked into the control room and noticed that the box on the top was white instead of red which means that when that song was done nothing would have happened but a bunch of dead air. I had about 2 seconds of dead air as I manually got the 7 o'clock hour rolling. That could have been catastrophic with a bunch of dead air had I taken off but something or should I say someone said go back in. Problem avoided.

I had a few little glitches during the broadcast like starting a song and for some reason the song and a jingle both started at the same time but I caught that one and fixed it rather quickly but it just sounded funny for about 5 seconds. And one other thing I was all caught up in a song with a cool bass line just air jamming away when it ended and I noticed that I didn't have the auto on button on but took care of that quickly as well. I guess I need to use the break option instead of turning the system off.

I'll be listening at 8 again to hear PK and Pink on the air should be good. I did make a quick list of songs that we as a worship team might have to learn and they are as follows:
Storyside B - Be Still
Robby Seay Band - Song of Hope
Newsboys - In Wonder
Matt Redman - Beautiful News
Connersvine - Live For You
Echoing Angels - You Alone
Leeland - pretty much anything from Sounds of Melodies esp. Tears Of The Saints, Yes You Have, Beautiful Lord, Reaching.
I'll miss this Sunday again because of something to do with something from Florida and something from Indiana. More details and hints later.

Back to it.

Well I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving break and didn't eat too much and for those of you who braved early morning Black Friday shopping I hope you got what you wanted. We waited this year till around 8 to head out, good to get a little extra sleep but I missed watching people going crazy when they cut the shrinkwrap on items and they start flying, maybe next year. We did put a pretty good dent in this years shopping though and had fun.

It was really good to see alot of people at the Saturday night service and the message that went along was great and it was cool to see the Wii giveaway. I'm glad we went Saturday night because yesterday I had a little "wardrobe malfunction" and had to run home after the first set to change, so I missed a bit of the message Sunday, did get back in time to watch the video from the night before.

Youth group was good again as well and James message on being a witness was a good one and made me think if I am doing everything I can to be a witness or is it just when I want or find it convenient? I hope alot of the kids take up the challenge and we leaders do the same and make a difference in our community. Hopefully I'll be back in time next Sunday to make it to YG, more on that later this week. Get to head over to the radio station again today to run the board while they are on a remote for a couple of hours. Should be fun.

What do you think?

Here's a little question for you - What do you think of cussing? Do you use these words? Do you think these words? Do you just use them around certain people or doesn't matter whose around? Do you NOT use this type of language? What if your child uses (used) this type of language?

I am happy to say that it has been a few years since I have used this type of language. Back in the day I could talk like a sailor because I thought that it made me look older, cooler, tougher, insert any other excuse but all it really did was show that I had a limited vocabulary. I also as a child had a few tastes of soap which after the first time should have triggered something saying "Hey its not worth it" but I probably did it again.

Ephesians 5:4 - "Obscene stories, FOOLISH TALK, and coarse jokes - these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God." That is all I need to know for my own perspective.