Klampert

I recently had the privilege to do some design work for my friends, Wisdom and Ben, at the All about Worship Podcast. They contacted me about a new retreat/conference they were putting together and I wanted to tell my readers about it.

It’s called the “All About Worship Retreat“.

“All About Worship Retreat is a place where worship leaders and pastors can come together for a time of spiritual renewal, building genuine friendships and engaging in intimate worship sessions led by notable worship leaders.

All About Worship Retreat 2010 will take place May 20 – 22 at Grace Church in Overland Park, KS.

Engage in worship, prayer, and authentic conversations in an intimate setting with fellow worship leaders and artists like Tommy Walker, Jared Anderson, Darrell Evans, Dwayne Moore, and many others.”

I am personally going to attempt to go. I think this retreat will be set up a bit more intimate than your typical conference. If you can make it I encourage you to go.

My buddy Rich K is giving away passes to a worship conference. I’d love to win

Here is what his site says:

“I am so happy to announce that I will be teaching a workshop and attending the worshiptogether.com Training Conference, April 12-14 in Lenexa, KS.

In 1999 I remember attending as a younger worship leader one of their training events and over the past several years I have enjoyed getting to know some of the people at this company. Wholeheartedly I can say these people love the local church and this event is designed to equip worship leaders at churches of any size. Even their cost is reasonable.

Some of the worship leaders there include: Leeland, Brenton Brown, Matt Maher, Christy Nockels, Phil Wickham and Audrey Assad.

So, I would love to see you there at the conference and meet you! In fact, I am going to be giving away free passes. With THIS post, I will give away 2 FREE PASSES for YOU AND A GUEST!

Instructions: You get one point to a drawing for doing each of the following.

comment on this post and say “I want the 2 passes for me and a friend!” [1 point - mandatory]
Facebook status: link back to this post! [1 point]
Twitter: RT or tweet linking back to this post [1 point]
So, you get three chances to win if you do all three! I will draw the winners on Monday night!

*BONUS: 2 more points to repeat this post on your own blog if you have one!”

You haven’t heard about Carlos Whittaker? You either enjoy sleeping under a rock or you are never on the internet. Carlos (LOS, alias @LOSWHIT) is a social media ninja and some may say the Christian “blog father”. He is a creative genius who has worked in many large churches and helps other creatives to tap into their potential for Christ. He is also a worship leader signed by “Integrity Records.
His new EP seen below is available on i-tunes now for as little as $1.98 for 3 songs! Honestly you can’t beat that price. Take a listen to one of the track below and make sure you check out the rest of the blog tour as well.

1.  “Jesus Saves” (hear it on FredMcKinnon.Com)
2.  “Rain It Down” (hear right now…here at Klampert.Com)
3.  “We Will Worship” (hear it Thursdays, Jan 28 over at ChrisFromCanada.Com)

RAIN IT DOWN – Carlos Whittaker

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Rain It Down

Jason Ingram, Phillip Larue and Carlos Whittaker
© 2010 Sony/ATV Timber Publishing/West Main Music/Windsor Hill Music/SESAC, Deeper Still Music Publishing/Songs of Razor & Tie/My Maxx Songs (All adm by Music Services o/b/o Razor & Tie Music Publishing)/ASCAP
and Integrity Worship Music/ASCAP

There’s a storm coming in the distance

Some will run to it and some will resist it

Our eyes will turn to the sky

With desert hearts looking to the heavens

Desperate for your Holy fountain

Our eyes will turn to the sky

Rain down on us
Father

Rain down on us

Spirit
Rain down on us
Jesus
Rain down on us

There’s nothing like your healing water
Pour it out on Your sons and daughters

Our eyes are lifted high

We are here and we are waiting
Flood our hearts til their overflowing

Our hands are lifted high

Come Lord we’re thirsty now

Come Lord and rain it down
Come Lord we’re thirsty now
Come Lord and rain it down

Last year I was privileged to attend re:create in Nashville, TN. It was one of the only conferences that I have ever been to that had me thinking, questioning praying, wondering etc etc. They call it an unconference and that is honestly the best description.

I was determined to go this year but the economy changed that. Another thing that changed that was the birth of my daughter in Sept. Thank God I had some money stored away for my wife to be able to take a maternity leave.

There are 1000 reasons why I am disappointed I can’t go this year. It’s the 10th Anniversary, tons of my friends are going and I would love to see them (some things are making up for that…I’ll post on that later), great networking etc etc…

One of the reasons is not being able to glean from John Voelz. I got to do some comic book art for his church last year and let me tell you he may be one of the most creative people I have met. God is using this guy to “create” out of the box things. His videos, as an example, are brilliant.

To all my re:create pals I met last year: I am sorry I can’t make it, but I WILL be there next year!
To all who have never heard about John Voelz…Time to get aquainted!

I received another book from the Thomas Nelson Booksneeze program. This one is called “This is Your Brain In Love” by Dr. Earl Henslin.

I have been married for over 12 years now so anything I can read about how to keep passion going, how to fix communication or how to realize how many issues are my fault (I hate that part) I will read.

This book is about identifying your “love style” and talks about scientific research into brain scans. Now I know what you are thinking now that you just read that line. BORING! Amazingly enough I read this book in about an hour and it kept my attention just fine.

I really liked his take on the sacrament of Sex and how sex is typically tacked on almost as an addendum to marriage or a perk. Dr. Earl tries to make you realize that sex and spirituality go hand in hand in creating a healthy marriage.

After that he discusses the issues in our brains and how to have healthy brains so we can eliminate issues.

He identifies the five types of lovers, with ground-breaking insights and effective solutions for the challenges presented by each:

* Scattered Lover
* Over-focused Lover
* Blue Mood Lover
* Agitated Lover
* Anxious Lover

There are 5 tests in the book and it teaches you to analyze the results. They are simple 3 minute tests. I learned a lot by them, but I also ranked broderline on every test. I don’t know if that means I’m am only slightly screwed up or if it means that I have every one of the issues he discusses.

Either way this was a great read with valuable insight. I am passing it along to my wife this week so we can talk some of the topics through. I would recommend this book to anybody who is married even if you are “issue free”.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com <http://BookSneeze.com> book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 <http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html> : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”