I just discovered a new blog that I must pass on. Not only is it witty and insightful, the author is by far the most gorgeous writer I've ever seen.You should check it out:
http://extraordinarynormal.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
New Blogger
I just discovered a new blog that I must pass on. Not only is it witty and insightful, the author is by far the most gorgeous writer I've ever seen.You should check it out:
http://extraordinarynormal.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
God Of The City
I found the story behind the Chris Tomlin, "God of the City", and while some of you may be familiar with the story, it's worth posting for those who are not (You can get the lyrics to the song here).
The song was written the band Blue Tree. This is the story as lead vox Aaron Boyd tells it (You can read the full version here):
“We got asked to go and be part of an event called Pattaya Praise. Pattaya is a seaside town/resort place, and physically, it looks to be like the darkest place you’ll ever go to. And spiritually, it is THE darkest place we have ever been to. You just feel the evil. You just feel the enemy all over that place. It’s a very small place. . . But in that small area in Thailand, there are 30,000 prostitutes and that figure excludes kids and excludes anything that’s outside of the range of, say 18-30, and who are female. . .
Part of what we were asked to do was to go out and be part of an event which runs for four or five days. It had things like 24/7 worship and prayer and social action going on helping the people who clean the streets every morning. We played in a school and ministered in an orphanage and tried to get a heart for that city. As a band we were getting cold feet because we had four days in Bangkok to start, and in those four days it was great. We’d be quite hyperactive, and it was flat-out, four days; not an hour was lost to sleep in those four days. On the Sunday we managed to play in one church and it was brilliant, but we wanted more. And then when we got to Pattaya . . . we said, ‘If you can get us anywhere else to play, anywhere, we want to play. We just want to do what we do in the middle of somewhere and just go head-on into it.”
“There was a bar called The Climax Bar - on a street that’s about 10 metres wide, it’s a kilometre long and it’s filled with everything you can physically imagine. And I promise you, as a red-blooded male, to keep your head in the right place you’ve got to look down at the ground and walk down that street and pray because it is just so in your face. People hit you with menus about everything, flashing lights, just everything you can imagine goes on in that place. You see kids as young as eight, nine, 10, just selling themselves, you know?! You see 60-year-old guys walking down the street with two 13 or 14-year-old girls. Forget about the Christian thing, you just get raging! You properly get raging when you see that happening, you know?!”
...And we got to play for two hours. And just the way the band set up, we like using loops, and at one point I just started singing out. I started singing “Greater Things”, something along those lines, almost prophesying over the city. And without going into the band dynamics, slowly this groove emerged from this thing. And long story short; we walked out of that Climax Bar with pretty much a nailed song, as strange as that sounds. Then we were on the way home.
We were all. . .it was that tumbleweed silence, you know? It was like, ‘What actually just happened in that time?!’ It was one of the most powerful worship experiences we’ve ever had. I actually remember looking out, and you’re looking down a wee alleyway, into the street, and it was just 50 or 60 probably British tourists and they’re just sitting there listening going, ‘What is this all about?’ Coming from The Climax Bar which is pretty much a strip club. Just, here we are singing about Jesus in the middle of this. . . It was one of the most random experiences but it was a God thing, God was there.”
HT: Crossrhythms
The song was written the band Blue Tree. This is the story as lead vox Aaron Boyd tells it (You can read the full version here):
“We got asked to go and be part of an event called Pattaya Praise. Pattaya is a seaside town/resort place, and physically, it looks to be like the darkest place you’ll ever go to. And spiritually, it is THE darkest place we have ever been to. You just feel the evil. You just feel the enemy all over that place. It’s a very small place. . . But in that small area in Thailand, there are 30,000 prostitutes and that figure excludes kids and excludes anything that’s outside of the range of, say 18-30, and who are female. . .
Part of what we were asked to do was to go out and be part of an event which runs for four or five days. It had things like 24/7 worship and prayer and social action going on helping the people who clean the streets every morning. We played in a school and ministered in an orphanage and tried to get a heart for that city. As a band we were getting cold feet because we had four days in Bangkok to start, and in those four days it was great. We’d be quite hyperactive, and it was flat-out, four days; not an hour was lost to sleep in those four days. On the Sunday we managed to play in one church and it was brilliant, but we wanted more. And then when we got to Pattaya . . . we said, ‘If you can get us anywhere else to play, anywhere, we want to play. We just want to do what we do in the middle of somewhere and just go head-on into it.”
“There was a bar called The Climax Bar - on a street that’s about 10 metres wide, it’s a kilometre long and it’s filled with everything you can physically imagine. And I promise you, as a red-blooded male, to keep your head in the right place you’ve got to look down at the ground and walk down that street and pray because it is just so in your face. People hit you with menus about everything, flashing lights, just everything you can imagine goes on in that place. You see kids as young as eight, nine, 10, just selling themselves, you know?! You see 60-year-old guys walking down the street with two 13 or 14-year-old girls. Forget about the Christian thing, you just get raging! You properly get raging when you see that happening, you know?!”
...And we got to play for two hours. And just the way the band set up, we like using loops, and at one point I just started singing out. I started singing “Greater Things”, something along those lines, almost prophesying over the city. And without going into the band dynamics, slowly this groove emerged from this thing. And long story short; we walked out of that Climax Bar with pretty much a nailed song, as strange as that sounds. Then we were on the way home.
We were all. . .it was that tumbleweed silence, you know? It was like, ‘What actually just happened in that time?!’ It was one of the most powerful worship experiences we’ve ever had. I actually remember looking out, and you’re looking down a wee alleyway, into the street, and it was just 50 or 60 probably British tourists and they’re just sitting there listening going, ‘What is this all about?’ Coming from The Climax Bar which is pretty much a strip club. Just, here we are singing about Jesus in the middle of this. . . It was one of the most random experiences but it was a God thing, God was there.”
HT: Crossrhythms
Best Album Covers Of All Time
Here are a few of the worst best album covers of all time!
Help me out with the captions please.
HT:www.worstalbumcovers.org
Help me out with the captions please.
HT:www.worstalbumcovers.org
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Super Dad
Having a student pastor wife can be really fun. We get to take our family to all kinds of fun things because of the "job". Student pastors are usually the ones on the team know for there fun, charming personalities.
Summer camp time, however, is one of the time when its not so fun. While she gets a week's vacation (insert sarcasm here), I get to stay home with the three little boys. I love spending time with my children. Its one of my favorite things to do. However, when its just me running the show, things get crazy.
Its funny how things wait to happen until just the right time. Like yesterday - the first day my wife was gone, I woke up and Indy (our whippet dog) had woken up with a huge swollen jaw. I ended up spending the better part of my morning in the vet's office getting her injected with steroids, antibiotics, and pain killers.
So if anybody needs me - I'll be at home. Just try to catch me in between cooking, cleaning, mowing, diapers, making breakfasts, packing lunches, cooking dinners, laundry, and bedtimes.
But really - I wouldn't have it any other way!
Summer camp time, however, is one of the time when its not so fun. While she gets a week's vacation (insert sarcasm here), I get to stay home with the three little boys. I love spending time with my children. Its one of my favorite things to do. However, when its just me running the show, things get crazy.
Its funny how things wait to happen until just the right time. Like yesterday - the first day my wife was gone, I woke up and Indy (our whippet dog) had woken up with a huge swollen jaw. I ended up spending the better part of my morning in the vet's office getting her injected with steroids, antibiotics, and pain killers.So if anybody needs me - I'll be at home. Just try to catch me in between cooking, cleaning, mowing, diapers, making breakfasts, packing lunches, cooking dinners, laundry, and bedtimes.
But really - I wouldn't have it any other way!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
sermonspice.com
If you are looking for the perfect video for your next service or meeting, look no further than www.sermonspice.com. I'm a big believer in what they do. It's user generated content, usually created for services at other churches, then offered to others for a fee. I've met guys in charge on a couple of occasions and have been very impressed with they vision they have for their company as well as the vision they have for media in the church.They are certainly not the cheapest site around for media content, and at times you have to sift through a bunch of junk to find what you want. But no other company comes close to the sheer amount of content available.
If you haven't checked them out yet - do it.
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