Last Night

Good times last night! Thanks again to the Bresendens for hosting the masses...the thing I walked away with is that you really can't go wrong when it comes to structure when the goal is just to worship...it will cool to watch these nights grow in size but also in continuity as we bust out some instruments, try new things, etc.

In case you're interested, there's a "Spirit West Coast" Christian Music Festival in Monterey August 2-4 and actually Jon Augustine won some contest so he'll be performing at it as the warm-up act for the big Friday night show. Here's the site: http://www.spiritwestcoast.org/home.php

Also, just to get the ball rolling a bit, I propose our first Friday night worship service be August 24th. We would need some help finding the venue, etc., but that would be my suggestion...the next one after that could be the conference and then we'll just let it roll from there.

the sabbath

Has anyone studied what it means to "observe the sabbath" for us today? I'd love to read your thoughts and revelations.

It's Bigger Than Us

In case you needed another example, though I doubt you do, I had a very interesting interaction at church that I thought I would share with you. I had very little time this week to work on the actual order of service for Sunday and to be honest, I wasn't really that excited about it as it was more of a mix of some of the older songs. However, after church, one of the women in the region came up and asked who put together the song service. I braced myself for criticism...heh. She then went on to tell me that the song we opened with and closed with were the 2 songs she always remembers as they were played at her son's funeral - which happened 14 years ago this week. She had never heard them both together in the same service but was shocked/moved to hear them both today...God is so much bigger than us.

The voice of a child

Lily is sitting on the couch listening to "Newsboys" on my iPod and singing, "Glory, Glory, Halleluja, He Reigns."

The curtain parts and I experience the joy that God must feel when we lift our voices in praise.