there are some voices and songs that i connect with and i rarely figure out why. jackson browne is one of those artists and "the load out / stay" is one of those songs. maybe it was the idea that i was a good singer when i sang along with his songs. maybe the depths of his songwriting i never understood, but there was still a resonating with the soul. i think the connection with this song is the appreciation for the people behind the scenes of a performance..
fun with charles heston : twittering Jesus
i don’t normally post about twitter stuff, but tweet jeebus (or tweeting Jesus) is having some hilarious fun with the passing of "chuck" heston.
Memo to Moses: Don’t mind Chuck Heston. You’re still the #1 lawgiver in my book.
in case you missed them : weekend linkage
unless the rain continues this may be the last blog post for the weekend. these are some links of interest that you might have missed, i hope not too.
before the big list. two things
- the wifey has started blogging as a hybrid of business and her own commentary. go say hi to my fabulous half the "bug babe." my music city blogger friends should take notice. she will have some great stuff once she gets going.
- if you have been following our conference whoa’s of late with a restructuring and ‘new vision’ for children and youth ministry. check out jay’s recent posting on what he sees that it will take for reconciliation between youth, children, camping, young adult, older adult ministries practitioners and our conference leadership.
- will on the connection between art & ideology
- why young clergy are important
- ian with the "worship team hero" game
- why tim doesn’t make announcements at youth
- creative anti-war action by shane claiborne and friends
- easter at life church tv in second life. maybe i need to take myself for a visit.
- allan on modern dichotomies that christians reject
- marko fleshing out his youth ministry 3.0
- emergent village blog picked up on the "mergents." much like i did, i hope this doesn’t name us
- dixon has some new podcasts, he has a great way of framing things. worth the listen
- thunder found john cusack going off.. in a very nice way
- go topless in meetings for team focus… maybe not
- asbo Jesus takes on fresh expressions.. which i think is funny
- twitter makes you dumb.. it very well might
- emergent village picks up on pentecost project.. which is cool. i think we should listen to them.
- win an ipod at modern parables
connect : david’s testimony
at our church, we have found ourselves living out this seven year vision & discernment as one purpose "becoming apprentices of Jesus Christ." we have three loves, God neighbor and self. wrapped up in five practices of, worship connect grow serve share. all that to say, we are doing video testimonies on how we live our these practices. so with my digital camera, my battery ran out on my camcorder, and a few hours of late night work. this is our video for ‘connect’ sunday.
the music is by carl thomas gladstone and comes from his "the wesley project: volume 1" which is adaptations of wesleyan hymns. so there are parts of the music that might sound really familiar.
internet ministry conference
i notice in my ymx adnetwork plug-in this new sponsor, an internet ministry conference. looks like it could be cool. kinda what we imagined the "internet is our parish" stuff would be like. i am kinda bummed that i won’t be going, unless they pay my way. i have already committed to other conferences. plus, away a few too many times during the month of october is not a great thing.