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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – March 3, 2013

We had Oak Mountain acoustic yesterday with Josh, Drew, and Connie on the fiddle.  It offers a nice contrast in style to next week's Easter season worship service (9 and 10:45 - come join us!)We opened yesterday with Search My Heart from Hillsong.After our call to worship we sang Shelter, Come Ye Sinners, Jesus Paid it All, We Will Run, and He Knows My Name.Our offering song was Waiting Here for You.Be sure and join us next week as we lead in "Your Love Never Fails" - our Easter season worship service.
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Friday Favorites 3.1.13

1.  Favorite just wow - love this piece - very "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/58659769 w=451&h=250]the Scared is scared from Bianca Giaever on Vimeo.2.  Favorite, umm... so.... yeah... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRse-IePpbE]3.  Favorite solution to the zombie apocalypse - 4.  Favorite "goodbye to the 80" - [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/52473794 w=451&h=250] 80 Retrospective from Oak Mountain Church on Vimeo.5.  Favorite line from upcoming Sunday morning worship service - "I will arise and go to Jesus..."
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Thursday Thoughts 2.28.13

1.  So much for February...2.  I got a new pair of running shoes.  I don't even have to work at it anymore - they do all the work for me... no.... not really.3.  Really, done with the cold weather.4.  So proud of my wife.  So honored to be with her.5.  Easter worship service in just 10 days...
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – February 24, 2013 (on Tuesday)

So I'm a day late this week...Last Sunday was the inaugural performance of my wife's newest musical "Not Just With Our Words."  She started working on it back in late spring of 2012, and started rehearsing with the kids in the fall.About 70 kids, and a whole slew of adult volunteer teachers, set builders, prop masters, and technicians helped to put it all together.We're working right now on the video from Sunday's program, and we'll be making the musical available for purchase to other churches soon.Our Easter Season worship service is early this year - March 10th - just 12…
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Friday Favorites 2.22.13

1.  Favorite exercise machine warning - 2.  Favorite song-writing tutorial - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhYuA0Cz8ls]3.  Favorite BAHAHAHA - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIdJMVkLOyY]4.  Favorite video from the Youth House - [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/60035181 w=451&h=250] YH Harlem Shake from Patrick Bush on Vimeo.5.  Favorite line from upcoming Sunday morning worship service - "Love your neighbor..."
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Thursday Thoughts 2.21.13

1.  Having thoughts on Thursday is high-pressure.2.  This harlem shake thing... really?3.  I'm done with the cold weather.  Really over it.4.  As we were leaving breakfast today, my oldest said "i don't think i'll ever get tired of waffle house for breakfast..."   I don't know.....5.  I've been amazed this week as how quickly and readily the gospel shows up through a bunch of kids in a musical.
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – February 17, 2013

We concluded our global missions conference yesterday with a message from Bruce Fiol.  Next Sunday - be sure and join us for our 2nd original kids' musical - Not Just With Our Words, written by my wife - Mandy Sears.We opened yesterday with Let Your Kingdom Come.After our call to worship we sang Filled with Your Glory, O 4 a 1000 Tongues (with the Crowder chorus), The Same Love, Hear Us From Heaven, and Saviour King.Our offering song was God is Coming, from Tim Hughes's latest worship album.  Love the tune - love the first line of the chorus "here…
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Friday Favorites 2.15.13

1.  Favorite Mind Blown - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBtKQHg1Rzk] 2.  Favorite handraising instructions - 3.  Favorite reason to not have Nicki Minaj in your house - 4.  Favorite perspective - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm32ZPvGIYY?rel=0]5.  Favorite line from upcoming Sunday morning worship service - "Here You come, running to find me..."
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Thursday Thoughts 2.14.13

1.  The sun is supposedly going to be out today.  I plan on taking a picture of it.2.  Today is Valentine's day.  Fellas - don't let today be the only day that your woman is convinced you love her.3.  The things we choose to care about...4.  The kids musical is 10 days away.5.  The adult musical is 24 days away.
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Thoughts on Lent …

Lent starts tomorrow (Ash Wednesday).  Lent - in the traditional church is 40 days and nights before Easter, not including Sundays.  It's a time for reflection, sacrifice, and lament over Christ's death.  It doesn't include Sundays, because of the reality that Christ HAS risen, and HAS redeemed us from our punishment of eternal separation from God.Being raised Catholic - it was tradition to "give up" something for lent.  It was something done out of a sense of legalism - you do this, because this is what you do for lent....When i left the Catholic church - i abandoned "giving something…
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