Tag Archive - Religion

Set List/Confessional – 9/7/08

September 8, 2008 in CEC, CECWorship with 6 Comments

This is a part of the SWEET blog carnival

In Christ Alone – Hymn

Be Glorified – Klampert
O Taste and See – Brian and Jenn Johnson
Marvelous Light w/tag – Charlie Hall
Nothing without You – Bebo Norman

Offering
I will Lift my eyes – Bebo Norman

Communion
Center – Charlie Hall
Hosanna – Brooke Fraser/United

Close
I am a friend of God – Israel

Interesting week. On saturday night my dad (the pastor) decided to go to the hospital with chest pain. They did tests and everything came back normal. They decided to keep him for 2 extra days just to be sure. This meant we needed to scramble for a teaching. We pulled it together and had a good message. The worship was good as well, but something is sure in the air.

We are never people to call everything bad an attack…actually we don’t even do it very often, but this was definatly one. My dads sermon was a big one. It is part of some of the things I have been writing on the blog. About action, thinking big and moving forward. I am pretty sure satan does not want us thinking this way. As a mater of fact when I led youth group that evening I had this odd feeling. It was an odd night. It seemed most were not paying attention. Like we were being distracted and our focus was turning away from kingdom things. I addressed it and then went home kinda irritated. I walked away thinking..what the heck is going on here. I prayed about it and realized. God is ready to rock this place. Whenever God wants to do something big and we profess that we are going to do it as well then we are bound to get attacked. My answer…

BRING IT SATAN! WE HAVE ALREADY WON AND YOU DON’T HAVE A CHANCE!!

Can you name these bloggers?

September 4, 2008 in modern worship, Orginal Music, Random chatter, worship with 24 Comments

Here is a pic of two “very” famous bloggers.

Can you name who they are for 10 points?

Party shuffle?

September 4, 2008 in CEC, CECWorship, Random chatter with 2 Comments

So my buddy wisdom posted a shuffle of his tunes and I thought I wonder what that looks like on mine. This is one interesting mix.

Do a shuffle for me…what comes up.

Here is mine:

sun stand still – elevation worship
getting better – beatles
pissant – smashing pumpkins
love with me – kieth green
doxology – atomic opera
be in my heart – phil keaggy
the love that never fades – mad at the world
skellig – loreena mckennitt
harp in my heart – darrell evans
on the blue – joel auge
mama’s always on stage – arrested development
you already take me there – switchfoot
if there’s a hell – curtis mayfield
crazy love – allman brothers
pilate and christ – jesus christ superstar
the time has come – jesus culture

Top 25 on my itunes right now

September 3, 2008 in CEC, CECWorship, modern worship, Random chatter with 4 Comments

How about you?

Any of those on your list this month

Mark Batterson sucks and mancation didn’t help

August 25, 2008 in CEC, CECWorship, Random chatter with 7 Comments

It all started when I read Mark Batterson’s book “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day“. Why did I pick up that book? My real reason was because the title was SO long and I needed to see why somebody would use a crazy title like that.

From the minute I opened the cover I was sucked into the black hole of Batterson’s mind. An entire book on one tiny verse that frankly nobody knew was even in the bible. I don’t even know if The author of 2 Samuel knew it existed. So there it is in plain text the greatness of God in the most simplest of forms. I started to realize that I had God in a box and that my fears were keeping Him there. I finished the book and then read it again. Then I brought the book and video teachings to my worship team. Then I got the study guide and taught it to my youth group. Then we showed the videos for our churches mens group. This all spurred on some big thoughts in my head. I ended up posting on my Godbox thoughts 1 and 2. This book challenged me like no other book had. EVER. I found my head reeling from it. Quite honestly I didn’t know where to go from there. I was at a crossroads. Almost in a state of shock and limbo.

Enter Mancation. So everybody saw my posts on my recent mancation. You saw my reasons for wanting focus and to renew myself in God.

Focus didn’t happen and nither did I get a feeling of being renewed.

I got home and said to the guys I went with ” WHAT THE HECK!” I was sure something would break. I was sure that this cloud looming over me would have disappeared.

I talked to the guys more about this and they all said they had the same feeling. A feeling of almost being more pissed off and not content with the way things are.

So what do you do with that. Well I went and bought Mark’s new book “Wild Goose Chase“. The tag line was “Reclaim the adventure of pursuing God”. Sounded good to me and I was in need of another butt kicking. Maybe this book would tie up the loose ends.

Mark says that understanding your passion and reclaiming that sense of adventure can be related to being in another location. Simple term. Get away and find what your missing. Mancation. I don’t know Mark, but I’m pretty sure he knew I was going on that trip. The more and more I read I realized that this book like his last was ripping me to shreds.

I will go more into this later and how this applies to some HUGE GOD SIZED dreams. This is why I say Mark Batterson sucks.  Because he wrote 2 books that have rocked my world, changed me forever, and got me off my spiritual duff. It’s kind of like when somebody gives you an amazing gift and you tell them…I can’t accept that…they insist…My first answer to that is “dude you suck” and then “THANK YOU”

So to Mark Batterson my second reply to him is “Thank You“. Thank you for tieing the loose ends. Thank you for making my brain and heart hurt. Thanks you for teaching me to stop making excuses for my God Sized goals and to get out of my Christian cage and change to world.

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