Michael Gungor Band. well done, sirs. well done. let’s face it – i’m a sucker for non-hillbilly banjo and cutout style animation. [via Scott Hodge]
tonight was a time to just be with students. i have a book in my office called The Be With Factor, or something along those lines. i haven’t read it, but i get it. youth ministry is something that i love. i also really enjoy many of the ways that we do ministry in our city. tonight, though, was a night where the plan got thrown out the window in order to have an even better ministry time with students. in light of a very hard series of events that is impacting a large number of our students, tonight we tossed the game, mixer, music videos, lesson, questions – and prayed as a group for two brothers and their family & friends, and spent time together just being with students.
it’s pretty easy for us to get rid of crappy things to make way for good things. sometimes, though, we also need to say no to good things to make way for great things. no matter what we may have planned for something, i am certain that we will always miss out on something greater when we fail to follow the Holy Spirit and instead merely continue to relax in our own.
it’s amazing how your paradigm for – well – just about everything, changes when you become a parent. i’ve had some friends ask me what it’s like. i’ve been a dad for a daughter outside the womb for 5 days now, so this is obviously expert. i think of how i changed being similar to three other times in my life – when i was baptized in Peru, when i proposed to Bethany, and when we made our covenant to God & each other at our wedding. each of those times there was this almost instantaneous change that i perceived in my head & my heart; things were just suddnely different. that happened again on Thursday at 5:24pm.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
Youversion.com has really stepped up its game over the past few weeks. i’ve been digging it since it started – it’s a fantastic way to read & study the Bible. this morning my wife & I started a plan written up by Elevation church to read the New Testament in 30 days. i’m excited to do this, and even more so to read it with Bethany. should be pretty sweet!
If all you want is a little Jesus to “spiritualize” your life, a little extra God to keep you out of hell, you are missing out on the fullness of life you were created for.
wow. killer video, even better song, and my favorite Christmas song this year.
i don’t know who comes up with this garbage, but according to Yahoo! Music (the exclamation point is theirs):
of the past decade
best album – N’Sync’s No Strings Attachhed // ok, i’ll concede since they sold 10 million+ of this
best song – Mariah Carey’s We Belong Together // have i ever even heard this song? i don’t live in WV, so i should have heard it
best artist – Eminem // really?
best group – Nickelback // i just threw up in my mouth…oop, and again…
and this is why i don’t listen to the radio.
i’ve had it a while, but Anthony Evans‘ CD The Bridge is one of the freshest takes on a lot of classic contemporary worship tunes out there. he makes some songs that i’m pretty sure i never wanted to hear again just plain hot.
We fight against sin because it dishonors God, opposes Christ, grieves the Spirit & separates us from intimacy with our Lord
i could stand to read that every day. Matt is the Pastor of the Village Church is TX, and the kind of Christian husband, father, and leader i would hope to be like.
