I lead a missional community of faith in Santa Cruz, CA.
I am a husband, dad, musician, speaker, performer, community catalyst and dreamer.
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This past Sunday I had the privelege of sharing from Mark 9:33-37 where Jesus says if anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last and servant to all. Check out the words of Jesus from The Message:
"So you want first place? Then take the last place. Be the servant of all."
As we were in our celebration planning, we began to think, "What would that look like if Jesus were on a reality show today?" Check out the video to see what we came up with.
It’s felt like a pretty brutal week. Video to edit. Message to prepare. Two weeks of services to dial in. I think I’m finally there!
Tomorrow after church Rachel and I take off for a week of vacation. We’ll be with my family at our timeshare in Escondido til thursday morning when we head up to her parents cabin in Big Bear for some alone time. Next Sunday will my first one away since New Years day, so I’m kinda looking forward to the morning (and week!) off.
Web access will be sparse, so I’ll have a lot of catching up to do when I get back. See y’all later!
Last night was date #2 of our 4X4 group. This was mine and Rachel’s date to plan, so we decided on a little family fun at Boomer’s in Fountain Valley. Unfortunately Richie and Selena couldn’t make it, so there were only 3 couples. We started with a little miniature golf competition…every couple for themselves. Below is a picture of the trophy that my wife made for the winning couple as well as a shot of Lori and Alvin who beat Bart and and Lindsey by 1 stroke.
Afterward we went over to Tommy’s for some amazing chiliburgers and ended up back over at Boomer’s so the guys could drive the golf carts. All around a fun night.
I guess this is kinda like my first real Vlog. A Sunday morning in the life of the Pastor of Celebration Arts. The main idea here was to film our Sunday morning setup that we do every Sunday morning. It’s amazing to see how it all comes together.
I ended up taping this on one of "those mornings" if you know what I mean, but luckily you can’t really tell there were some issues in high speed. So check out what goes into making "church" happen every week at Revolution…
You know…it’s kinda like a makeover…I guess. Anyway, As you can see, I have now officially changed blog servers and kinda revamped the site. For the better? For the worse? Well that’s up to you I guess. I’m having fun with it though, so welcome to my new home.
I have to admit that it has been way more of a pain switching over than I thought it would be, but it’s done now. Once I got locked into paying the next year, there was no way I wasn’t! We’ll see in 12 months if I stick around here. Hope you enjoy! Most of the changes and additions are self explanitory, so you can stop reading now if you wanna. Or you can stick around for the brief hospitality tour of my blog clean up.
Here’s some of the features I’m enjoying:
So there may be a few more things, but that’s already too many and really it’s all the important stuff. Next step is figuring out the best way to manage my rss feed.
Hope you enjoy!
I guess a quality movie starring Kirk Cameron wasn’t quite enough. Check out this report on The Daily Show:
Come on now. You know you want this no matter what your eschatology is!
Within the span of about 10 minutes I found out about 2 Revolution peeps who finally started their own blogs!
After much prodding and encouragement, my wife has started a blog. She’s giving it a go and is gonna see what happens. Stop by her site and be sure to comment and give her some encouragement to keep it up! Hopefully her blog doesn’t ever become my primary way of communicating with her, eh? Thanks to Rob, Leah and Will for helping talk her into this one.
Rick Bambrick is a dear friend, former life group member (until he took over when we moved to downtown Long Beach) and a great guy I look up to in many ways. Stop by and be ready to hear what’s happening with his family (and knowing him, probably some nice long posts explaining common misconceptions and superiority of five point calvinism…youu can skip those).
I love seeing more people jumping on the blogging bandwagon. I think it’s such a great tool to keep up with peoples lives. They can never replace personal interaction, but when the number of opportunities for personal interaction are limited every week, it’s a quick and efficient way to encourage and keep up to date with each other and learn from one another.
How many more of you are there who haven’t started a blog yet? Jump onboard and let me know so I can add you to my blog roll!!
Well, you’ll just have to watch the video at the bottom for the proof. Just consider yourself warned!
So on Wednesday, Rachel and I had the privilege of getting a 4D sonogram done. It’s amazing how much you can see with these things. Kinda helps you realize just how real the little guy is I guess! Here’s a few pics we got:
"Aren’t I cute when i’m smiling?"
Yawning
What can I say…I guess I’m already being the proud dad!
So here’s the deal: there’s a great guy in our church who did these for us. He works for Medison which is the company responsible for developing the technology to make these things possible. Here’s the cool part. They do training sessions for sonographers in the medical field and need pregnant women to train with regularly. So if you’re interested in getting some shots of your own (and you’re pregnant, of course), go to their website, give them a call, and they should schedule a time for you to come in and be a part of the training. They get the patient, you get the sonogram and pictures absolutely free! I think they said they look for ladies at either 20 weeks or so and 28-30 weeks.
We also got some great video clips that I threw together to make a short little video with the pics. Check it out below if you wanna! 2 more months!!
Sunday afternoon we had a whole bunch of you from Revolution come through The Hub for open house. Many, many hours of work have been put in by staff and volunteers to get our office and warehouse space organized, operational and lookin good! Thank you so much to all of you who have done so much to help us out!
Here’s a bunch of pics from the afternoon. Thanks for coming to help us celebrate our new ministry center!
Our warehouse for Student Ministries, band practices and seminars.
Jenny Platt and Mama Sara serving up our ice cream sundaes.
That little girl is so darned cute!
Beatin the heat in the air conditioned office.
Before everyone left they signed their name to "the wall." If you weren’t here, make sure to sign in next time you come by!
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