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Great day today at SSCC! I played acoustic guitar and sang.

This weekend I got to lead (along with my brother, Jon) a 2 hour slot at a 24-hour prayer and worship gathering. Our time slot was from 1 am – 3 am. Early birds! It was a great time. I used my MacBookPro (GarageBand) and made some loops and chord progressions and we just let them long play. It was cool!

1) Say So (Houghton): Key D. Great tune. We used this as our walk-in. I got to lead out on this one! Good times. This was the second time we’ve done this. It sets the room up with lots of energy.

2) Everlasting God (Brown): Key A. Good solid standard arrangement.

3) Rain Down (Crowder): Key Em. Crowder arrangement as our basis. This is the first time I’ve played or sang this tube. It’s a great song!

4) Consuming Fire (Hughes): Key G/Em. I led out on this one a little bit. Great song.

5) Doxology: Key G. Old standard with a driving acoustic rhythm. Nice way to end worship music set.

6) Center (Hall): Key D. Closing song. One of our high school girls, Katie, led out on this one. It was sweet!

Pastor David brought a great message on relationships. We’re in a series called Worth Fighting For. It’s about all the aspects of relationships that we should fight to make better! Great Series.

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On the Wall Street Journal Site there is an article that places the blame for narcissistic, self-absorbed, entitled children (even college students) on Mr. Rogers.

You know, the sweater wearing nice guy who talked to puppets and told us all how special we are.

Continue Reading…

Today (also my birthday) Ragamuffin Soul, the much anticipated full-length album by Carlos Whitaker hits the streets.

I was privileged to get my hands on an early release copy and have been listening to it non-stop.

Including songs from the previously released EP, Ragamuffin Soul is a story. A story of a journey told in songs that meet us where we are.

God of Second Chances, Jesus Saves, We Will Dance, No Words,and We Will Worship You stand out for me personally. Great music.

Every song is arranged well and as a worship leader I definitely would use just about every song on this album in a corporate worship gathering. Make sure you pick up your copy today!

http://bit.ly/RAGAMFN

Had a great day yesterday!

Got to visit with our old church family at House of Joy in Valdosta. Well, technically they’re still part of the broader Church family that we’re all connected to!

Anyways, we attended 2 services at the same time. HOJ meets in a movie theater and has both an adult service AND a youth service that run simultaneously. We popped into the youth service first.

They were rocking: All Because of Jesus, Revelation Song, and How He Loves.

Then I popped into the adult service and they were rocking: With Long Life, How Great is Our God, and One Way.

Great stuff!

I was able to talk to the “new guy” at HOJ, Jonathan, for a few minutes as well. I like him. He’s a great guy. I would have liked to have worshiped with him back in the day! Anyways, he said that he felt like the foundation was really solid when he took over, so that made me a little happy knowing that I left the HOJ worship ministry in a good spot to keep growing and going as we left back in August of 2009.

All in all, it was great to see old friends, and to step back in to what was such a big part of our lives for over 3 years.

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I don’t do this regularly, but I thought I’d point you over to my “other” blog WorkoutBrothers.com for a friday filled with my progress report. As far as weight loss I’m doing so-so, but I’m very pleased with the change of my body shape.

You have to check it out!

Viewer discretion is advised though. I’m only wearing shorts. You don’t want to lust after me!! Haha! As if…

Just a short vid blog: