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I got this comment on one of my Sunday Setlists posts this weekend. It’s from a good friend of mine and one of my former students from my youth pastor days. I spent a lot of time pouring into the lives of those kids. We had a great core group of kids that were musically talented and I felt it was part of my “calling” to help develop them into leaders.

I just started “officially” leading worship at JCF:) I’m pretty excited about it. A lot has changed since the “good ol” days, but our family (wife and kids) has really found JCF to be an awesome church with alot of awesome people!

The thing that I’m probably the most excited about is the chance to train up the young talent that is currently at JCF. I know that you played a huge role in my becoming the musician and worship leader that I am today, and I’m excited to pass on that awesome legacy!

Jason has been leading worship for years now, but it’s an amazing thing to see the “calling” being paid forward. It makes sense. We don’t train up people so they can be superstars, we train them up so they can continue to pass on the legacy of God’s work. I’m blessed to have played a small part in that!

I’ll probably never get a ton of recognition for who and what Jason becomes (and that’s okay!) but what makes me proud is that he GETS IT. It’s not about the glory of “doing” the work of God, it’s about being useful and sometimes “behind the scenes” while watching others shine for God!

Proud of you Jason!

Sometimes God can be found in a cathedral, in a chapel, or in a church building.
Sometimes God can be found in the wilderness, beneath the stars, or beside the ocean.
Sometimes God can be found on a busy sidewalk, in a market, or in a cafe.
Sometimes God can be found in a smile, in a tear, or in a song.

Sometimes God is all around us waiting to be seen.
Sometimes God is hiding in a stranger’s trouble.
Sometimes God is all around us waiting to be heard.
Sometimes God is hiding in a street man’s despair.

Sometimes God can be found in our children, in our friends, and in our family.

Sometimes God is all around us in the darkest, loneliest times.
Sometimes God is in a whisper, in the wind.
Sometimes God is hiding in plain sight, right under our noses.
Sometimes God is right around the corner, in the next surprise.

Sometimes God can be found where we least expect to see Him.

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This week was one of those times for me. I wasn’t looking for God. I wasn’t trying to be super spiritual. I wasn’t in a worship gathering or church service.

Just skimming through tweets and facebook statuses, catching up with online life, and I came across a cover song by Adam Young (aka Owl City).

It caught my eye, because I’m not really a fan of Owl City, but I AM a big fan of the song he covered: In Christ Alone by Stuart Townsend and the Gettys.

This isn’t a post about how to plan a worship setlist or how to increase the efficiency of your worship rehearsals or how to tune a guitar to drop D. It’s just a post about how I stumbled across a God moment and it really blessed me. I wasn’t expecting this guy to be exuding the light of Christ, but he does.

Adam Young has the ear of the youth of our generation. He is very talented and out there making music they enjoy. He blogs regularly and talks about his faith in Christ openly. I saw God in him in a way that I rarely see even in fellow worship leaders. Not that I doubt any of my colleagues faith or anything like that, but it was just very encouraging to see a young man who has the world by its tail unashamedly proclaiming his faith in Christ.

No, I don’t think we should make him into some poster child or hold him to a higher standard. I don’t think we should place the onus of converting a generation to Christianity on his shoulders or anything like that. I just really enjoyed listening to this guy sing about Christ. Period.

And I think the Holy Spirit will do the work that He will do while thousands of people listen to Adam Sing about his trust in Christ.

I think you’ll enjoy it as well. After you listen, be sure to read his blog.

In Christ Alone (Owl City Blog)

Food For Thought from St. Augustine’s Confessions

“And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? And what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? Whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? Is there, indeed, O Lord My God, aught in me that can contain Thee?”

“…Art Thou wholly every where, while nothing contains Thee wholly?”

Here the good ol’ saint is pondering the greatness of God and the possibility that God could “be” inside of him, or even contained in the heaven and the earth. He is thinking out loud, I think. Kind of philosophizing to himself about the mystery of God. In another passage he asks if God fills all things does each thing have a part of God, or is God wholly in each thing?

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The Return of RussHutto.com

This post marks my “return to blogging.” Oh I’ve been keeping up with my #SundaySetlists posts whenever I lead worship so there’s been new content here monthly, but the last few months have been pretty crazy and hectic.

iBooks

A few nights ago I found “iBooks” on my iPhone. It’s a neat little app that has tons of reading material that you can buy and there’s even a LARGE section of books that are downloadable for free! Score!

I immediately started downloading as many “classics” as I could.

So that brings me to this post. I’ve decided to read through as many Church/Christian/Founding Fathers’ letters and books as possible at my own pace.

I started with Martin Luther’s Concerning Christian Liberty and The Confessions of St. Augustine.

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So, I have this recurring dream about being a senior in high school. It varies (location, school, friends, etc). But it’s basically the same theme: I have to GO BACK to HS at my current age and finish it up to move on to the next phase in life.

Last night’s was interesting as I actually went back to the high school in Titusville, Fl that I spent about a year and a half when I was a freshmen and junior at. Interesting story, I went to four different high schools throughout my high school career and this one I was actually enrolled at two different times.

I’m guessing these dreams might have something do with my buried desire to actually finish up my college degree. I was VERY close to snagging my degree when I decided to go into full-time ministry. I’m not exactly sure how my credit hours would stack up now, but I’m pretty sure it’s in the ONE SEMESTER TO FINISH range.

Wonder if it’s a sign to get back on the horse? Do you have any recurring dreams?