My Worship Revolution

So I guess someone decided that today is officially Blog Day 2006.  The idea is to put up 5 links that you have never posted before.  For me, this will mostly be new blogs I’m reading, one’s I have been wanting to check out more and haven’t, or I guess just blogs I haven’t mentioned for some odd reason.  Here goes it:

Anne Jackson – Creative, writer, artist
Emerging Minister – Self explanatory I guess
Jonny Baker – UK worship leader
Troy Kennedy – US worship leader
The Leadership Blog – Interviews with church leaders

There ya go…your turn.

This time’s  little different than the last time I got tagged.  My friend Ben at Babulife tagged me to share about some of the books I’ve read. 

Just this past week I was telling Rachel, on vacation, that I love getting the knowledge from books, and I really want to read the books, but I’m just not good at reading.  Some people can read anything in a matter of a day, and that just aint me.  But, like I said, I do really enjoy reading books, so I do have some answers.  Here goes:

• One book that changed your life:  Deadline by Randy Alcorn.  Read it right after got really got a grip on me and it was really impactful.  Even as  novel it just hit on so many real life issues, and the ideas and depictions of heaven gave me a healthy longing for "home" that has stuck with me ever since.

  As impactful as that book was for me, you can imagine how stoked I was when we got to lead worship with our friends Boomer and Lisa a few years back in Canon Beach, OR while he was speaking.  Here’s Rachel and I hangin with him at the conference.
  OK…now for more answers.

• One book that you’ve read more than once:  Are you serious?  Why would anyone read a book more than once?  It takes so much time just doing it once.
• One book that you’d want on a desert island: The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook. Come on…that has to be a worst case scenario…right?
• One book that made you laugh:  Here’s Your Sign by Bill Engvall.  We got it for Rachels dad for his birthday.  I read a lot of it.  Funny stuff.
• One book that made you cry:  I’m not much of a cryer.  A few movies – maybe; a book – not yet.
• One book that you wish had been written:  A friend and I weren’t really into the whole I Kissed Dating Goodbye deal, so we wanted to write our own dating book.  It would be what not to do, based on our experiences of screwing up (we were both single and maybe a bit bitter).  Title: Oops, I Dated Again.  Forward by Brittney Spears (I was kinda into her before she got trashy). Kinda dumb I guess, but it would have been fun to write a book.
• One book you wish had never been written:  Mein Kamf by Adolf Hitler.  Is that a cop out answer?  Het, it works for me!
• One book you are currently reading:  SoulTalk by Larry Crabb.  Was supposed to have finished it awhile ago for school.  Amazing book on speaking power into peoples souls in counseling and everyday friendships.  I’d highly recomend it to everyone!
• One book you’ve been meaning to read:  Holy moly…just one?  There’s a bunch.  How about Heart of the Artist by Rory Noland.  I’m hoping to take that one in Labor Day weekend at the artists retreat myself and a few arts leaders are attending.

So now I gotta tag 5 more people, so here goes…
Rachel Kaye, Remain Undone, Kuya Jet, Songs of the Closet, david@revolution

This week, ROCKharbor church in Costa Mesa is producing "Tableau: A festival for Christian Artists, Dreamers, and Storytellers."  It starts tonight and has several events running through Saturday, including the opening of their stage production of Donald Miller’s book Blue Like Jazz. 

If you can find some time, go by and check out what they have going on.  If you do, let us know how it was!  Find out more about the events here.

Have you bought your tickets yet?

We’ve been working for the past couple of months getting ready for our comedy night called Hilarious.  It’s this coming Saturday at Cal State Long Beach in the University Theater @ 6pm.

The night begins with music by our very own Elijah Young.  Our opening comedy act, following Elijah, is an improv group from La Habra called Altar Ego. 

Then, our headliner for the night is Ron McGehee.  Really funny guy, half Korean half Irish from Orange.  He was voted Orange County’s Funniest Person in 2003 and was a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing 2.

If you haven’t gotten a ticket yet, you’d better act quick.  The theater hold 378 people, and last time i talked to Angelina there were 15 tickets left.  To get your hands on one of em, call The Hub @ 563.546.0012.

About a month back or so, Rachel’s old friend and college roommate, Leah Vis, came out to our place to take some maternity photos of Rachel.  Today we met up with her and her husband Rob at their pad in Riverside to get the pics.  She did an amazing job!!  Check out the photo album link on the side bar to see em all, and here are a couple to show off.

Thanks a ton Leah!  If you need any pictures taken you should check her out!!
 

ME

MOM

AUNT LINDA

UNCLE JOHN

So last week I learned a few tricks for if you ever want any footage from YouTube or Google Video to have as your own.  Check out these websites:

To download the video, videodl.org.
If you’re on a Mac use iSquint to convert the format to whatever you want.

So next time any of you pastor’s want to use a video you probably shouldn’t anyway, you didn’t hear this from me. 

That’s what I’ve been doing a whole lot of the past several days.  Throw in a few rounds of golf, some basketball, and lots of food and there you have the first leg of our vacation.

It’s been nice to just kinda kick back and get some rest.  We have, however, been in a 2 bedroom condo with 12 of us.  Me, Rachel, my mom, sister, brother-in-law, aunt, uncle, cousin, his wife, their 5 year old son, other cousin, and his 11 year old daughter.  I don’t come from the ginormous family deal, so that is pretty much the entire crew, and we are LOUD!…and all have pretty strong personalities, so there’s never a dull moment!  Unfortunately I didn’t think of getting a picture of everyone together until half of them had already left.  Oh well.

So now we’re up in Big Bear for some alone and relaxation time.  What’s in store for leg 2 of the vacation?  Lots of movies, reading, and of course some homework (unfortunately).  After getting to the cabin today, we stopped by the grocery store for food, and then stocked up at the local Blockbuster.  here is our current rental list to get through:

Just finished Hoodwinked.  1 down, 5 to go!  Who knows, if we get through them all, maybe we’ll even have time to grab a few more. 

Looking forward to more relaxing and enjoying my wife’s company.  Pretty slow wireless connection I’m picking up at the cabin here.  Good thing actually.  It will keep me away from here til I get home, which would be good. 

OK friends, so I’m way late on this, but it still very desrving of a post.  Big congrats to Beth and Mike Hutton who welcomed Jackson James to their family on July 25th.  (I told you I was way behind!)

Get ready, cause I think this is the beginning of a long string of these sort of congrats, including my own son and my nephew.  Here’s some great pics Beth sent out, too.

Congrats guys!

Or do you know anyone who does?

With a baby on the way it’s time to do some downgrades to free up some funds.  And one of the painful ones is the loss of my truck.  It hurts, but I know that it must be done.  So if you know of anyone who wants a good truck, send em my way.

You can check out the ad here.