My Worship Revolution

my wife rocks.  She sings, teaches, cooks, cleans, shops wisely, changes a mean diaper, puts up with me, and now edits video!  If you didn’t see it already at her blog, check out her first video with shots of Caleb in Southern California during their visit:

One thing I like to do is encourage all of y’all to start blogging.  Especially now that I have a whole new community I’m getting to know.  "Why," you ask?  Well, I actually like getting to know you by hearing what you are up to and seeing what interests you around the web.  Don’t know what to say?  Just start by sharing a little bit about what you do during the week.

And so I will continually encourage and hope to see the CLC list on my sidebar grow.  And so, it has begun.  I received an e-mail this morning with the news.  So welcome Marc Armstrong to the blogosphere!!

This is the scary, "I have a really sharp tool and I’m comin to get ya!" picture.  Marc is on the tech team at CLC.  He and his wife are long time attenders of CLC, and his wife, Jane, is our children’s ministry director.  He has a blog to share about his life as a dad.  Go check it out.

So come on CLC’ers!  Let’s get this community goin?  And soon I’ll have a post to help you newbies make your blog reading much easier and quicker.  Anyone else around here have a blog I’m missing?

It’s that simple.  OK, so there’s more to it than that.  After I posted my last weight video at District Council, I had a dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory and something they said triggered an idea.  Rachel liked it and said she was willing to go in.  Then I got to chatting with Pete Kim online, and we decided to go in on this together.  So, check out the video right here for the details:

So there you go.  I’m kinda excited.  This will hopefully be a fun experiment.  And how could I not lose at least a little weight knowing that every fatty bite I take is in essence stealing money from some poor war torn kid in Uganda?

So here’s the deal – for now, to pledge to this deal just e-mail me here and I will keep a spreadsheet (Mac’s can do those too) of your pledges.  And seriously, any amount helps!  Then I will get a donation button deal goin on later and I’ll funnel all the money over, or you can just donate yourself if that makes you more comfortable.    And anyone who’s gonna join in on a blog, make sure you let me know and I’ll be sure to link you in my sidebar, and give you some serious pub.

So c’mon now!  Who’s in?!  Who’s gonna make some pledges?  Who’s gonna join us in gettin healthy and hopefully helping to save more lives than just our own? And oh yeah…spread the word!

This is what happens sometimes when you make videos like the one below:

He’s so darned cute though, it was definitely worth it.  I already talked to the Apple store and they said they can pop it back in.  So, over the hill I go!  (Was already headin there today anyway.)

I am busy today, which may delay my weight loss update a wee bit longer.  Sorry!  It’ll be here soon though, and worth the wait I hope.

Here’s a few clips of my morning with Caleb this morning.  My wife made fun of the video cause I kinda forgot to button Caleb’s onesie…and his pajamas are horribly mismatched because all of the ones that fit him are in her luggage which is finally at San Jose airport.

Geez…they really do grow up fast.  And I’m not even through the first year yet!

OK, so I know a number of you are wondering about my weight loss.  I know because you’ve asked me.  And I did say I’d try and post on Mondays.  Well…just hold your horses.  The schedule and the plan have changed a little bit.  But it’s gonna be worth the wait!!

Hopefully I should have something for you tomorrow.  So make sure you check back.  And be ready to play a very active role in keeping me accountable and helping me to get healthy.  Details to follow! 

Ha!  This is hilarious!  Check it out:

Enough said.  i’m not gonna even bother adding any more.
HT: Steve Eller

That’s right, we are up to Worship Confessional #5.  Awesome morning.  Check it out:

So how was your Sunday?  And Jamie, I’m still waiting to see your confessionals start.  And then you need to get Elijah blogging and confessing too.

Sam is on the worship team at CLC.  Sam is just about to launch a new ministry at CLC, a recovery ministry called Deliverance.  Sam has an awesome story of God’s forgiveness and redemption that we were able to share in the service this morning.  It was awesome getting to have lunch with Sam on Friday and hear his story as we filmed his testimony.  There is so much more to it than we were able to share in a small amount of time.

So if you ever have the chance, take Sam out to lunch, and get to know him a little better.

OK, it’s Saturday night, and I’m about to go to bed.  As I’m getting ready to lay my head down I remember my very odd, scary, and vivid dream from this morning.  Thought it was just interesting enough to share with y’all.

So I’m getting ready to lead worship.  I know it’s CLC, and real life we own a building, but you know how dreams are.  For some reason it was set in a school cafetorium or somethin.  We’re about 10 minutes away from service starting.  People are comin in.  All of a sudden, one of my worship team members, Matt Hale, and his wife jump up on stage to do a special number.  They start talking about this song they’re gonna do which I never was told about, they just decided to do it.  (They would never really do that, by the way.)  I’m telling the sound guy not to keep their mics off, and he looks at me like I’m speaking Greek, so I just let it go, frustrated and determined to find a way to keep this from ever happening again.

I realize that service is about to start and I never got to practice with the band cause we were getting everything else ready.  And the drummer wasn’t able to be at Wednesday nights practice.  I get up to start and notice the white bridge thing at the top of the guitar, you know, the top of the first fret where the strings rest and go out to the tuning nuts, is broken in half and slipping around.  I try to start anyway but my guitar won’t stay in tune.  People are getting restless.  I tell our lead pastor, Ed, to stall or somethin.  He tries, but stands there looking at me instead as if he really doesn’t know what to do to stall.  Some people are starting to leave.

All the while I am trying to find a guitar somehow.  And somehow I think I may have ended up with one.  I guess that parts not quite as vivid.  Anyway, as I remember it, as people are grumbling and more are leaving, I try to start a worship set.  The drummer has no clue what I’m playing, and for some reason neither does the rest of the band.  It all falls apart miserably as the last of the crowd is walking out of the room, resigned to the fact that church isn’t gonna happen that morning.

I must have some serious issues.  Maybe I need therapy.  Has anyone else ever had dreams about failing miserably at a job that you do regularly?  Anyway, let’s hope that church goes significantly better than that in the morning.  Good night.