Recording recording recording recording recording recordingIt's all about the recording... what a day it was indeed! Divine Calling's first cd is now under way. Acoustic and drums are tracked for all 5 songs... 2 more days to come, to track the bass, electrics, vocals, keyboard and percussion. Seppo - loads of respect and thanks for this dude! :)
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Nights of Fire... I Hope the fire spreads and God moves in peoples' hearts throughout the nation... we need more nights like that. To come into His presence and praise and celebrate and go nuts with music! I'm tired... tonight was crazy and awesome! Every month I'm anxious and excited for NoF, and every month it never fails... uniting together under one name, under one God... speechless.In other news, I'm filtering through my movie collection... some of you might think 'it's about time', but it's been on my mind for a while now, encouraged to do it more after coming back from Equip, and prompted to do it now coming back tonight; and I've never done it for the years I've been collecting movies. I'm at the point now that I'm in a very different place than I was years ago, and some of the movies I've got just serve no purpose or only serve a negative purpose. so, this week if you're over, expect at some point to see a reduced collection... :)
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Ok so this is a long one...... a long entry for a long weekend of seminars, workshops, sessions - about everything from worship to evolution and creation to youth culture, media, morals, to passion - 'stepping out of the boat' as it were, like Peter. I took loads of notes from the workshops I was a part of at Equip '05, and the Answers in Genesis conference. I wrote some summaries of the weekend's events in here, but I'll be adding a link to detailed notes I made from the workshops very soon... an amazing weekend! I'm exhausted, but it was great :) And my laptop's my new best friend :Psong lyrics: All I Need Is You / All For Love / Shout Unto God - United Live
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So much to write, too lazy to bother... :) In short, went to an awards ceremony for the Icon Awards on Thursday, which was quite an experience (pics soon), and today got a really good afternoon out in the fresh country air for some bike riding, and that was something that was a long time in coming for me... I'm so relaxed now... worn out, but relaxed :)Oh and did I ever say I've now fiiinally got a laptop? yeah... very nice, and it goes with me everywhere I go... well, except on the bike ride today :P
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Sounds like 'love is a verb' :P Well, yet another blog entry about this whole Christian 'love' scene... partial book review, partial commentary, partial journal entry. Gotta love it... anyway, here are some links for the curious - When God Writes Your Love Story - Eric & Leslie Ludy, and a couple of books by Joshua Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Boy Meets Girl), and I'm sure there are other similar books out there... I'd recommend Josh Harris mainly. But read on to find out my 'commentary' on this whole scene... :)...click for more...
hmm... so there are some changing going on at work... more leaving, a few new faces I haven't yet met who've been around for who knows how long... where's my future going to be? This week will, I'm sure, be very busy in my office as my co-worker is resigning his position and leaving next week....click for more...
How can I explain this week? I know - in paragraphs and paragraphs of heart-felt description of what I've experienced and done... an eye-opening week, has shown me more of reality, what's beyond the shell of the life I live, and what's in my back yard... and what everyone of us needs to experience at some point....click for more...
wow... what a crazy week... Word of God, speak - would You pour down like rain - Washing my eyes to see Your majesty... Somewhere, somewhen, out there is an answer to my prayer... maybe now, maybe later, maybe here, maybe far... how I long for the day when the answer will be here, and now. But fortunately, my hope and strength is in God, and God alone.
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Have you heard this one: a relationship can be like two magnets with attractive poles being slowly moved together. The closer they get, the easier it is for them to jump the gun, out of the hands holding them, and connect together - but the guiding hands have lost control. I don't want those guiding hands to lose control of me, or any other 'magnet', regardless of how strong the magnetic attraction may be :P.And, once again I battle with my focus, my goals, and decisions...
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the paradox of humility...- the more I try to be a 10, the farther from 10 I become...
I was convicted today. So much to write about, but only a couple things seem remotely important... maybe I'll get to those first things another day. A lot has happened in the past week, yet today overshadowed all of that...
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Contemporary service tonight... read about my struggle with worship leading and where I feel I'm being led. But note, it's relatively long for the topic, and I might babble a bit, but I'm just saying what's in my heart :). It'll be updated later with news about the service when I get home. I'll be making another blog entry this week sometime on some other topics, but just this for now...*updated*
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(Dalit for "Through God, all things are possible")What... a... weekend... too much typing, big headache, amazing day, amazing weekend... verse I was given: Proverbs 3:15... two entirely different meanings taken in and out of context... and yet, both ways have a strong message for me... even so, today was like the culmination of weeks of extreme ups and downs, pain and joy. And, it ended with joy! Alas, now I can finally relax... *sigh* Find out more inside :)
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So yeah... I got a strange anonymous package in the mail today that had a sheet from a weekly newsletter from a company called NorBAC. 3 lines were blocked out, and someone wrote on there to help them find out what that is, and to go to sciencesucks.com. Interesting...click More for more information.
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So the weekend is over, and I had another shpiel to spill... here's what's on my mind for this writing... (1) Memories of this weekend's Miller Lake open week trip (it was awesome) (2) thoughts on KJ-52 and the lyrics to his songs written for Slim Shady (3) My thoughts and review of the new movie The Village from M.Night Shyamalan. I'm sure most of this is all good reading... hope you have the time to spare to check it out :) l8r...click for more...
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Ok, it's finally here, the big update. Let's see, I talk a lot about a bunch of stuff, from things that happened at the place to people that did things somewhere else and some times that passed since the last update. Oh and someone said something, and somewhere else someone else did something else too... But seriously, lots has happened... I've tried to cover the major things - Kid's Camp, the band and the couple of bigger venues we've been to, the whole camera issue, and a bunch of the other 'good stuff' that these blogs are for... :) It's so long, I actually included a linkable index to jump to each section, hehe... I still want to put pictures in there, but right now none are up... that is, kid's camp photos and the band event photos... anyway, I'm hungry...
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So... I'm in a predicament... I've been looking at options for camera purchases... given I've been feeling naked without my camera with me, my right hand canon, I've been weighing pros and cons... so click to read this entire entry, and hand me some thoughts... If you're a photographer, then definitely lend me some opinions! If you're not a photographer, I'd still like to hear from you :) (remember, there's a 'Post Comments' link now *wink*wink*) but read the whole entry first... this one aint long (for once) :)...click for more...
More stealing... big thing this time. And without ranting in this small summary space, please read the entire entry. I was thinking out loud... In short, how could I be so stupid to be so careless with that bag? But in the end, would it have mattered how careful I was with the bag? Read more to find out what I mean... So keep your eyes open for my bag, if you know what it looks like. My cell was in it, and it's now deactivated. And a number of other items. So last year my bike, this year my camera and other things, what next?...click for more...
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