7/19 Set...

I think I'm going to start breaking down Sunday's worship set every following Monday. Hope that's ok with you. Yesterday's set was a bit of a rollercoaster (as it always is). I wanted yesterday to be a bit of a journey and I felt God wanted that as well. We started out singing about His love and how it affects us. Then we turned our focus on the nature of God. Towards the end we declared how hungry we are for Him and closed with praising Him for creating life; for creating us. So here it is...

Hallelujah, Your Love Makes Me Sing

This song is all about declaring that God's love is so "God's Love" that the only possible, and obvious effect it would have on us would be to break out in song. My favorite line in this song is, "Your love is surprising, I can feel it rising, all the joy that's growing deep inside of me. Every time I see You, all Your goodness shines through, I can feel this God-song rising up in me!" We did this song in conjunction with...

I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever

"Oldie, but a goodie" if you ask me. After we declared that His love makes us sing, we told Him that we'd sing about it forever. I wonder if we really will...

Majesty

This song always hits me hard because we just cry out "Majesty! Majesty" There's no denying who Majesty is! My favorite line, "You're grace has found me just as I am. Empty handed but alive in Your hands." God finds us right where we are. Just as we are. Rom. 5:8 says, "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He came to us.

We Are Hungry

I love when we do this song because toward the end we park on the first line of the first verse, "Lord I want more of You. Living Water rain down on me.... Living Water rain down on me..." Over and over. So cool; just opening up and surrendering yourself to God's Living Water quenching our dried out hearts.

You Are God

One of my all-time favorite Charlie Hall songs. "You fill our hearts with love and faith. You fight for us, You make us Brave. That alone is enough for its own worship song.

Thank you God for an awesome Sunday. I'm looking forward to next week.

Validation

Sometimes we forget the importance of just making someone smile. I love this short film.

why I love the David Crowder*Band...

This video is awesome. It cracks me up. Especially the end where Dave imitates this kid. Enjoy! And oh yes.. twitter will kill you.

Onwards

For some reason I love this movie. It's a great "Never Give Up" message portrayed in a real creative way...

Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

Everyone... meet Mogli...

It's time for you to meet Mogli, the kitten we found in the parking lot at work who has turned into our loveable cat who can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Enjoy....

                             

We've stumbeld upon a new hobby...

My awesome wife, Courtney, and I have decided to get back in shape. Well... actually... I've just finally decided to join her in getting in shape. She's always running and working out. I hate running. Really, really hate it. But we can find happy mediums like tennis! So as of yesterday we started this new hobby and had a great time. We went to the gym and had an awesome work out, then we grabbed our new rackets and headed for the courts. As you can tell from the picture... it got serious. Watch out Andy Roddick... I'm coming for you.

Thoughts?

Just finished this book last night. Has anyone else read it? I'd love to hear your thoughts. I really enjoyed learning from this book. The concepts were very practical and I believe they would be very beneficial for a company if they were to implement them. However there are a few things that I did not agree with. I do not think that the author is a believer so there were a few points, that I didn't hold too tight. For instance The Window and the Mirror Concept: great concept. It's when you as the leader look out the window and give credit elsewhere when things are good, but you look in the mirror when there are bumps in the road. One of the "out the window" things he credited success to was luck. I just don't believe in luck. Now, granted, that is probably because I do believe in a sovereign God who holds every circumstance in the palm of his hand. Therefore there is no room for luck. But still, it is interesting to me how smart people can attribute success to luck. Things don't just happen. You gotta do something! The other thing I disagreed with was the fact that they did not want to use the label servant leader when describing their "Level 5" leaders. They said, "it makes them sound weak or meek...they [level 5 leaders] would do almost anything to make the company great." I used to play basketball in college. My freshman year, we were blessed to play for (and win, thank you) our division's national championship. Maybe I'll show you my ring sometime. haha! Anyway, I will never forget the gym we played in. A nice gym, stadium style seats, great locker rooms. The team who called this gym home was known to be pretty cocky, dirty, nasty. They had a phrase written in huge letters in their gym for all too see, "Win. At Any Cost." Yikes. How far would they go? Cheat? Pay off refs? Illegal recruitment? Where's the line when you "win at any cost"? Back to the book - this phrase - "would do almost anything..." kind of rings the same for me. There have to be boundaries. "Servant leadership" (to me) is the exact opposite of "weak or meek" I would say that the best  form of leadership is servant leadership. We have the best example of that in our Savior. Now granted the author of this book and his team of researchers may not know my Savior. I have to keep this in mind. 

What do you think? Just food for thought.