2/27/05 7:15pm

Dang it. That earlier blog didn't work.
Worship was great this morning. The opening scripture/instrumental really seemed to get people focused on their own sin and what we need to do with it when we come to worship. I don't think the church of today is talking about sin enough - so, today, the worship leader did.

Rode my bike today. Nearly threw up.

Youth worship was okay. We did a whole Napoleon Dynamite thing. I've never seen a movie that so wastes your time - and begins to control your life.

Night!

2/27/05 7:10pm

2/26/05 8:10pm

Pretty good for a Saturday. Went to bed at 2am working on this blog stuff then Jonah woke up super early. We all went to price bicycles at Academy, met my parents for lunch then stopped by Krist's parents. Kristen's mom brought out last year's plastic Easter eggs, which Jonah loved. Inside we found a small green toy fish that Jonah had apparently missed last year.
We get home and Jonah's got this fish in a plastic egg and will not let it go. We finally get him to sleep and he wakes about five minutes later, completely refreshed. I think it had something to do with that stupid fish.

On the songwriting stuff, Forrest will let his songwriting professor at Belmont hear our new version of "Fast as Fast." We adapted some lines in the first verse and chorus and wrote a new second verse. The last 2 lines of the second verse just aren't happening, so Forrest plans on just letting the guy look at ever 2 line option we've got.

I'm excited about worship tomorrow. We're doing a really cool music bed for the opening scripture. It might sound silly, but it sounds like something Baloche would do. (Can't wrong there, can I?) We worked w/ a metronome at practice on Thursday. It was good. Of course, I discovered that my timing isn't perfect after all. Wasn't much of a discovery - I just hate making mistakes in front of the whole team. They're supposed to think I practically perfect in every way.

worshipnotes.org is going good. We're a little behind schedule for March, but I think it's going to be a good issue. I've got some interesting ideas for the next couple of months, so I hope to keep things fresh for our readers. I haven't really had much interest on the worship stuff I've been putting out there. I had kinda' hoped that somebody might find something useful. Oh well, as a friend once said,

"Obedience is the key."

Tell us a bit about yourself . . .

Lent is kicking my butt. I decided to go off sugar. Actually, I'm off of candy, brownies, soft drinks - pretty much any junk food with sugar in it.
My friend Clay who's the youth pastor couldn't believe it. This Baptist boy going off the deep end and doing Lent? He seems to think it trivializes the Cross, whereas I know it maximizes it for me. I'm in the middle of the day thinking,
"Man, I haven't had a Dr. Pepper in 8 days. This is hard!"
Then the Spirit tells me that it's not hard. Being tortured for hours, publicly murdered and denied by your Father is hard. Kinda' puts the Little Debbie brownie into perspective.

I'm realizing how dependent I am on a substance to bring me happiness. (For me, it's sugar. You can input your own preferred substance of abuse.) I feel better, I'm eating a little bit better, and I'm making myself looking for other things to bring me joy - like wrestling with Jonah when I come home from work.

Here we go

Well, I guess every "first blog" starts like this, doesn't it? Just some idiot going, Wow, this is my first blog. Blah blah blah. But for now, let's just make sure I can get this text where it needs to be and then we'll go from there!