September 6, 20099:44 am
It has been a while since I last updated you guys on my beard and as you can see a lot has changed. A few weeks ago Colette and I came to the realization that I didn’t like the beard and she didn’t like the beard so there was really no reason to keep the beard. So out came the clippers and I was left with a goatee. At the time we were both happy with the result. Since that time it has grown quite a bit and once again Colette and I are coming to the realization that she doesn’t like the goatee and it is starting to annoy me. So within the next few hours or maybe days the goatee will be gone. It will be both a sad and happy day. I’m not sure how David Crowder doesn’t go insane with the monstrous piece of facial hair he has.
September 4, 200911:17 am
The next few months are going to be insanely crazy. By the start of the new year Colette will be a college graduate with two degrees. We are very excited about this, we are just not excited about that work that must be done in order to get there. Colette will be taking 28 units this semester. Without a job and a family I think this can be done and can be done quite easily, (Colette and I are both fast workers) but with a job and family there are going to be some hard sacrifices that will need to be made by both Colette and me. We are fully aware this will be a difficult few months, but we both feel the end result will be worth the hard work. Of course that is easy for me to say since I am not the one going to school and doing the school work. All of this may mean less blogging on my part or it may mean a lot more blogging as this may be my one connection to the outside world. Only time will tell. If it means less, I will see you all in January.
September 2, 200911:17 am
Typically, I don’t like running sound. Most musicians are too picky. ”I need more guitar, now I need less, sorry but I need more again,” a cycle that will continue the entire night. My favorite is the musician that says “perfect” before you get the chance to change anything. (I’m sure these are all things that I have done). However, about a week ago, I got to play sound guy for a few minutes and really enjoyed it. I think it has to do with the control that I am able to have. To often I listen to live music and wish I could hear this part or that part just a little bit louder and when running sound I get to do just that. In short I think I might like to start running sound. Now if I could just find the time to actually run sound and somewhere to do it.
August 30, 20092:18 pm
In my last post I told you I would write more about this later. Well later has come so here you go.
Northern California misses out on a lot of great tours. There exists a great collection of extremely talented artist who simply cannot afford to venture this way very often. Whether it is a lack of fan base or just the expense of touring it doesn’t really matter. The point is that they don’t play out here. A friend of mine, who is a huge fan of music has decided to do something about it. He contacted Jill Phillips and Andy Gullahorn and started discussing the possibility of them playing a show for the good people of Northern California. After a lot of learning and a lot of work, the concert was last Friday and a huge success. Jill Phillips and Andy Gullahorn were absolutely amazing and I loved seeing them in concert.
So, thanks for all the people who took the time to start the cultivation of the music scene in Northern California. Hopefully this was the fist of many shows in our area.
August 28, 200912:35 pm
Last Sunday I had the opportunity to lead worship for a small church in Auburn, Ca. The church leaders decided that every summer they would give their worship leaders the time off to rest and actually have a sabbath. Replacing those leaders they bring in a new guest group every Sunday. The entire congregation was excited to have us there and hopefully they had a great time of worship. As a side note, one of the pastors was from England and sounded very much like Turkish from Snatch. The deal was sealed when he said, “boxer.”
On Monday, with the same group from Sunday, I lead worship for The Gathering Inn, a homeless ministry that provides homeless people with dinner and a place to sleep. Churches in the area partner with The Gathering Inn and provide the organization with funds to keep the operation going as well as once a month they host the homeless shelter. It is a great way for a Churches to come together and provide for the homeless in the area. Along with dinner and a bed the people are led in a time of worship, given a brief devotional, watch movies, receive gift cards, plus whatever else the church wishes to provide. These people are truly appreciative that we came and gave of our time to lead this in a time of worship. Some people I could tell truly loved the Lord and it was a blessing to be there with them.
I will also be on the worship team at Bridgeway Christian Church this weekend which meant practice last night (Thursday), Saturday service, and Sunday service. It is a large time commitment but I know it is more of a commitment from Colette than me. I love this opportunity and would do it every week. I am especially excited about this week as I am playing with a small group (five) of guys who are extremely gifted and all around awesome. Five may not seem small but the team consists of Lead guitar/vocals, 2 percussionist, bass, and electric guitar/keys/vocals. Musically it will be awesome, hopefully the worship will be just as good.
And Lastly, tonight (friday) I am going to see Andy Gullahorn, Jill Phillips and The Music Room. There will be a post about this later because I think it is awesome what my friends are doing. All three groups/artists are amazing and this show promises to be a great time.
August 21, 20099:36 pm
Sorry for the lack of blogging of late. It isn’t that I have had nothing to say, I just haven’t had the desire to say it. I would much rather play with my little Bella Ruth while she is awake and by the time she is asleep I have little energy left. Maybe this will be the great turn around to more writing. I hope so, I do miss you dearly.
August 19, 200911:56 am
Studying Revelation you get a glimpse of God that can be quit scary. There are crazy scenes of God’s wrath being poured out onto the earth resulting in a lot of death, a lot of blood, and people who side against God are “tormented for ever and ever.” If you were to only look at this picture of God it is very clear how one could get a wrong idea of who God is. Don’t make the mistake of assuming this is the entirety of God’s attributes. I also feel the reverse of this needs to be true as well. We see stories of God’s love and assume he is only loving. We need to study all of scripture and develop a view of God that encompasses everything we know about who he is.
August 13, 200911:15 am
Needless to say I have been a little bit lazy on my posting the past week. I didn’t even make the effort to post a simple video. Sorry about that, but I don’t have better news. I am not going to post anything great right now. I am going to redirect you all over to my wife’s blog. She is awesome and wrote a new post this morning about parenting.
Go say hi and tell her how you feel.
August 8, 20092:33 pm
This morning I was laying in bed looking at my closet and how much I wanted all of my hangers to be evenly spaced and then it hit me, I have OCD I’m just too lazy to do anything about it. To be honest I think about the hanger thing way to often. I have even thought about cutting little grooves into the closet rod so they would have a spot to slide onto. And of course this desire for neatness doesn’t stop there. I want drawers nicely organized, my dressers drawers are nice and organized (everything has its place). I want my music, CDs and records, DVDs, to be in alphabetical order, books should be arranged by type and then size. I want all of these things, I am just too lazy to do anything about it. This is probably for the better.
August 5, 200910:24 pm
Before worship this Sunday the congregation was challenged with a different way of thinking. We are usually taught that God wants us to worship him. And that is very much true and goes hand in hand with what I’m about to say.
God allows us to worship him.
In the Garden of Eden, he had every right to say never mind, this didn’t work out like I wanted. Good bye world. He didn’t have to create and go through with his elaborate plan of salvation, but thankfully he did. Thankfully he took it upon himself to allow us a path and a way to come to him and worship at his feet.
