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Hey I thought I’d share a glimpse into what I get to take part in every Sunday. This is the “Us” that I talk about each week in Sunday Setlists. This is most of the team at House of Joy in Valdosta, GA. This is taken from our “We Worship” gathering that we held on December 28th.

We had most of our musicians playing (normally we have a smaller band – rotating members in and out). We even used 2 drum sets. You can’t see one of the drummers, but if you listen you can definitely hear both of them. Especially on the break in the middle, they kind of go back and forth. It was fun.

I’m on keys.

Your Love Is Beautiful – HOJ VERSION from Russ Hutto on Vimeo.

Definitely gives you a peek into the energy and “style” of our musical worship times here. I love leading worship with these guys and gals.

Sorry it’s not a pro recording, but this is all we’ve got at the moment! Enjoy.

The song is “Your Love is Beautiful” by the Hillsong crew. CCLI #3375583.

1) I highly recommend Firefox for web browsing. If you’re on a PC and you’re using Internet Explorer, baby Jesus is weeping. End of story. Safarion Mac is ok too. But for the purpose of this post we’ll be looking at Firefox.

2) Firefox is very customizable. Themes, extensions, and plugins that make your browsing experience your own.

One thing I love about Firefox is the Bookmarks Toolbar.

To save time and space, you can add the sites you’ve recently visited to your bookmarks. When you place them in the Bookmarks Toolbar they show up across the top of your browser right under the nav buttons and address (location) bar.

A quick and easy tip to save even more space in this toolbar is to delete the name of the bookmark in the properties of said bookmark. When you do that it shows only the favicon (icon) for each bookmark taking up a fraction of the space it would if you leave the name in the properties.

To do that:

Right-click (ctrl-click) on the bookmark icon in the tool bar.

Select Properties.

Hi-light and then delete the name.

If you’re like me and you really value browser viewing real estate you can even tweak your userChrome.css file to have the Boomarks Toolbar be hidden unless you mouse over the area where it normally lives. Be warned though whenever you mouse over that area it shifts your browser window down about 3/4 of an inch and then back up again when you mouse off of it. If you have motion sickness it might send you over the edge.

To “hide” your Bookmarks Toolbar and make it mouseover-able:

Install ChromEdit Plus on your Firefox browser.

Restart Firefox.

Open ChromEdit by selecting Tools > ChromEdit Plus > ChromEdit.

Copy and paste this code at the very bottom of the userChrome.css file:

#PersonalToolbar {display: none;}
#navigator-toolbox:hover > #PersonalToolbar {display: -moz-box;}

Restart Firefox.

These are tips that seasoned browser hackers can do in their sleep, but I thought it would be good to share a tip that helps save time and space when I’m doing my daily browsing.

Sites that I include in my Bookmarks Toolbar:

• Google
• Google Reader
• Google Calendar
• Google Groups (our worship team’s version of service planning software and networking)
• The Worship Community’s forums
• The CMS Flickr lab
• twitter.com/russhutto
• My Facebook
• YouVersion for daily bible reading.
• biblegateway.com for more in-depth bible study, versions, etc.
• YouTube
• And other sites that I need to log-in to daily. these would include all the Dashboards for the sites I manage.

Occasionally, I go through and prune my bookmarks, deleting the ones that I might have added because I thought the site was cool/helpful/informative at the time, but notice that I don’t visit regularly. I’ll move those bookmarks to another folder.

Hope these tips are helpful.

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Need inspiration to get motivated to really love people like God does? Here’s a story of people stepping outside of their self to make an impact on people that society would deem unlovables. (ht: Mike)

Last night we remixed 2 of our “regular” worship tunes for this Sunday. Ya know the kind of song I’m talking about. Everyone in the congregation loves it, but the worship team is getting a little tired of the same ol, same ol.

We’ve been doing Not Forgotten (Houghton/Lindsey) for over 2 years (at least) and it’s getting kind of stale. We made some minor adjustments to the way we play it (keeping the same overall style) and it just seems a whole lot more fresh. We took the original “I am not forgotten, Never forsaken” bridge and turned it into a funky, string oriented Bittersweet Symphony-esque groove that builds to the “Whoah-oh-oh-oooh” part before getting back in to the chorus again.

We’ve also been doing I Am Free (Egan) for a while similar to the newsboys arrangement. Last night we decided to take it more into the U2/Coldplay realm and it ws the hottness. The team loved it, and I think the arrangement (though structurally the same) will be a breath of fresh air for the congregation.

I’ll post how it goes on Sunday.