Peace, Joy & Love

Man, was this post a challenge. It took me forever to get the videos posted. Technology seems to be like that sometimes. Oh well, three days later, perseverance wins!

So, here's a few more videos from this year's advent season. The first one was created by one of the talented guys on our audio-visual team. Our choir sang this song on PEACE Sunday. The band did a great job of staying with a click track to this video. It's not as easy as it sounds. They all did an incredible job. The song is from a new musical called "Adore Him". We didn't do the musical, just a couple of songs from it. This song, called "Heaven Came Down" was written by Tim Timmons. Enjoy!

Last week on Joy Sunday, we taught our congregation the Tim Hughes song "Joy is in This Place. We used the handjive from Grease to get our folks in the right mood. This video was taken at our rehearsal & I believe it speaks for itself. The bottom line...WE HAD A LOT OF FUN! This is one of the times when I thought it best to post & ask forgiveness later. 

I hope it brings you much joy!

Due to holiday stuff, Many of our choir members were gone. What do you think? Did they miss out or what?

Today was LOVE Sunday. We wrapped up our month of new songs with Tommy Walker's "Emmanuel". If you don't know it, I highly recommend purchasing it from i-tunes or your local music retailer. In my opinion, Tommy has written some of the most powerful (& challenging) songs in worship music today. As a songwriter, I continuously strive to be on his level. So far, I've enjoyed the journey. 

So, what did I learn today...ACCEPT GOD'S LOVE, LOVE HIM & prove it by LOVING OTHERS.

What are you waiting for?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Art, Ministry, Hope & some other stuff

Two Sundays ago we began our advent series "Do You Know The Who of Whoville". Whodathunk that this year is the 50th anniversary of Dr. Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas". We've had a lot of fun with it. 

Before I introduce the following video I want to talk a bit about the quote I posted a few days ago. This whole "Whoville" thing we've adopted around here is, like I said, a lot of fun. However, we always have one goal in mind...to bring people into a relationship, or closer in their relationship, with Christ. THAT'S IT! The creative arts teams here at FBC are always striving to do everything with excellence. That said, with us artsy fartsy folks, the line can often become blurred between the "ART" and the "MINISTRY". We regularly have to take a spiritual check of where we are with Christ. It can never be about us!

Okay, 'nuf said on that. I wanted to post this video of a drama that we did two Sundays ago. 'Round here, each Sunday of advent has a theme. Dec. 2 was "Hope" Sunday. Knowing that many people during the holidays are feeling much more hopeless than hopeful, we decided to do a drama that hit the subject squarely between the eyes. Our drama director actually found this sketch on YouTube & just couldn't resist it. I agreed wholeheartedly. Every time I see it, I'm brought to tears. We took a risk with it's subject matter, but knew that this was a time that we didn't need to pull any punches. People are living it, we shouldn't skirt around it as if it's not reality. So, to preface, I had to do a bit of editing. The switcher that was used between camera's is a bit jerky. Also, there is a moment in the video when we used a strobe light. It's a bit challenging to make everything out, but I'm sure you'll get the idea. 

Here it is..."EVERYTHING"

Next post...PEACE...

Sidebar Please

I've finally made some much needed changes & additions to my sidebar. Let me know what you think. I would also really like to get some discussion started regarding the quote from the previous post. What are your thoughts?

The phones will be open all night.

Around The World in 80 days

Greetings friends. As the title states, I feel like I've been around the world & back again. In November, My wife & I celebrated our 13th anniversary. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!! I wanted to post this video of our trip. The music is from a great Jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller. Be looking for his music on my sidebar. Eventually it will be there. During our last night there, we got to have dinner at a great jazz club called Dizzy's. His band was playing. It was an incredible ending to a very memorable trip. Enjoy!

Before taking off I want to leave you with a quote I just came across. See if it stirs up anything in you & we'll talk soon.

"If art is our master, then it becomes idolatry; but if art is our servant, it becomes ministry."

-Warren Wiersbe

Later...