Mercy Street

I graduated from College in 2005 with a Music degree focused on recording and audio technology. In school I would spend as many as 30-40 hours a week in the studio; I loved it. Since graduation I’ve spent approximately 4 hours in a recording studio. I drastically miss that. It’s the one place where every part of my mind gets used at the same time. The analytical, the emotional, the musical, the technical, it’s all there in that room.

I’m also a closet songwriter. Maybe not closet, but I’m not getting paid for it, so that makes me, at best, an amateur. I think my stuff is good, but I’ve rarely had the guts to share it. I wouldn’t care if no one liked it, I’m just terrified of the “hushed silence of awkwardness” that means everyone is indifferent.

So one of my goals this year is to record and release some of my own songs. I know I’ll do it at home, on our computer.  I don’t care if no one but my wife and kids hear it because that’s not the point. The point is realizing a dream that I’ve been essentially sitting on for almost 10 years. My dream was never to be famous, but simply to be heard.

So stay tuned until…who knows when, but sometime in 2010…

I want to get healthy.

I’m not obese, but I am overweight and I have really high blood pressure. I want to watch my grandkids get married someday, so I should really be more careful about what I eat and how much I exercise.

The problem is I love food that’s bad for me. Smother it in cheese and salt and I’m even more interested. I also eat when I’m bored. And I get bored easy.

I also hate the gym. It’s not the gym “per-say,” it’s more the boring and mind numbing experience of sitting on a bicycle that’s not going anywhere and staying motivated. I would lift weights more, but I get really self-conscious really fast (unless I’ve got a guitar, then I’m good).

Our gym has a steam room, which I really love. Except when Old-Shirtless-Guy is there; Old-Shirtless Guy goes on and on about politics and everything else under the sun. Old-Shirtless Guy also asks for your opinion and then tells you in as many words as possible that you’re wrong. I don’t mind other people having an opinion; I just don’t want you to beat me over the head with it.

So, I’m eating fruit smoothies for breakfast, salads for lunch and as little sodium as possible. I’m trying really, really hard to focus at the gym.

And if can keep it together long enough, I just might be skinny before Jessica’s 10 year class-reunion. I’d really like to be the hot trophy husband for that.

Another Original Song. Enjoy.

I had planned to blog about all my goals for 2010, but somehow the time got away from me and it’s the first week of February and I’ve only blogged about my Bible reading. (Maybe I should have put blogging about my goals on the list.)

Anyway, today’s entry…I am making 2010 the year I find a job in professional ministry. I know that I’m called to serve in a professional manner, I simply haven’t found where. So this year I’m going to apply for every position I see that might be a fit. (My 3 rules are simple; no traditional only churches, no charismatic or Pentecostal, no part-time. Feel free to ask me why)

Thus far I’ve sent my resume to 6 churches, but that’s a lazy start. I’m giving myself a goal of at least 4 a week for the weeks that remain. So 48 weeks times 4 churches a week equals 192 churches in 1 year. (I’ll obviously stop when/if I find the right place)

That seems like a lot of résumé’s, but my current method of “wait until the right one comes along” has only left me, well, waiting. And waiting feels a lot like doing nothing. I’m still looking for the right one; I’m just going out and looking for them.

Well, am I crazy? Am I bold? A little bit of both, but if that’s all it takes to live up to my potential I’ll be getting off pretty easy.

...If you left it in english, I might actually read it, but since it's just jumbled characters, I delete without thinking. 


Just a thought.

I just got off the phone with my dad. He took my mom to the doctor yesterday.

No. Signs. Of. Cancer.

None.

God is Good, all the time. All the Time, God is Good.

This was Filmed last summer at Forest Park Covenant Church in Muskegon MI. (Apologies and Thanks to Robbie Seay Band)


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I haven't been doing these, but I'm going to try and get back into it.


Yesterday at 242 Community Church.


Intro Video
Your Grace is Enough
Unchanging
Give me one Pure and Holy Passion
Baptism  Testimony Video
Life Groups Video
Turn Around (Johnny Lang)
Sermon
Rescue

The special, 'Turn Around' was incredible. take a listen to the original here. 

The sermon was the 4th and last in a series on Jonah. Verse 3:1 was the focal point; "The Word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time." Pastor Brad put it this way, "IT's not that the great people of the Bible were messed up like us, it's that messed up people like us can do monumental things when they give their lives to God."