Friday Favorites 3.18.11

1. Favorite eyewitness video - This is just gut-wrenching to watch. I posted this on my FB account earlier this week. So sad. So scary.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpuLlIrUYsI?rel=0&w=451&h=250]2. Favorite new music - gonna try this one soon... (sure - it's been around a while, but always worth a watch)[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8?rel=0&w=451&h=250]3. Favorite 80 from the past - Yeah, shameless.[vimeo 11811910 w=451 h=250]4. Favorite Music you should be listening to - Glen Hansard and the soundtrack to Once5. Favorite line from upcoming Sunday morning worship - "For His returning we watch and we pray, we will be ready the dawn of that day. We'll…
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Friday Favorites 3.11.11

1. Favorite scenic mountain drive - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgairvIZkxc?rel=0&w=451&h=250]2. Favorite complaint - This wasn't called in to oak mountain. I'm not saying we don't get complaints, but this is just hysterical. Love the last line.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4JYM67IIUc?rel=0&w=451&h=250]3. Favorite advice - I've loved this tune for a long time, and stumbled back across it when I was trying to figure out who produced the "come on get happy" segment from this week's House. I certainly thought it was Baz Luhrmann. Apparently not - but this is.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI?rel=0&w=451&h=250]4. Favorite TV show - Wasn't it great?[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIFL104E9Ts?rel=0&w=451&h=250]5. Favorite line from upcoming Sunday morning worship service…
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Friday Favorites 3.4.11

1. Favorite class activity - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEe3_zmFWV0?rel=0&w=451&h=250]2. Favorite Oscars Opening - I don't like musical numbers anyway... I thought this was funny. Not sure why it got bad reviews.http://o.aolcdn.com/videoplayer/AOL_PlayerLoader.swf3. Favorite "Sears listens to that?" -This guy [Pat Metheny] is amazingly brilliant. I have quite a few of his albums - but this is the first track on one of my favorite albums. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgkKpeRWxbg?rel=0&w=451&h=250]4. Favorite over-reaction by the church community - The church community is up in arms over this video from Rob Bell. His book hasn't come out yet - but we are all jumping to conclusions about Rob,…
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Friday Favorites 2.25.11

1. Favorite Underwater Graceful...They swear this wasn't planned. And if that's true - it's even more funny.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVRS0t_AuUw?rel=0&w=451&h=250]2. Favorite Really cool video work - [vimeo 19819283 w=451 h=250]3. Favorite "say what?" - They first thought the poor girl had a stroke. Later doctors said it was only a migraine - but wow - scary.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJ2XRJBHM8?rel=0&w=451&h=250]4. Favorite - Umm, is this the part where Skynet becomes self-aware?http://o.aolcdn.com/videoplayer/AOL_PlayerLoader.swf5. Favorite line from upcoming Sunday morning worship - "when satan temps me to despair, and tells me of the guilt within, upward I look and see him there, who made an end to all…
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Please Come Home – a new Kids Musical

My wife has been doing kids choirs/kids worship for over 18 years. She's an expert at it. I've seen her, in the past, go into churches for week long music camps, and within that week, transform their kids from a hodge-podge group into a unified choir. She's spending time teaching them, not only about music, but about using their gifts for His glory. She's teaching (without them "knowing" it) breath work, pitch, breathing, balance, and other fundamentals about choir, and singing. And i've watched kids under her influence go on to use their gifts in big ways - both later…
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Friday Favorites 2.18.11

1. Favorite Runway show ever -[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQdnSyR-_1k?rel=0&w=451&h=250]2. Favorite - certainly you've seen this already - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUs7iG1mNjI?rel=0&w=451&h=250]3. Favorite Superbowl Commercial - Love it! "ozzy's in the background..."[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k52bxMjQnso?rel=0&w=451&h=250]4. Favorite Marching Band Show - I marched all four years of high school - one of the best high school experiences ever. THIS is awesome...[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKQ5aUopYs?rel=0&w=451&h=250]5. Favorite line from upcoming Sunday morning worship service - "like the rising sun that shines, from the darkness comes a light, I hear Your voice and this is my awakening"
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I don't have a gift to bring…

One of my vocalists, a dear friend - that sings on praise team quite often, was told in high school (by an ill-informed chemistry teacher) that she shouldn't ever sing. It scarred her, probably permanently, and affects the way she views worship, singing, participation in ministry, and bringing her gifts before the Lord. What a tragedy - that the enemy can use a chemistry teacher, in high school, to distract someone from bringing a truly sweet gift to the table, to be used for God's glory.There's a movement in the church - just starting out, of artists (creatives - photographers,…
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Friday Favorites 2.11.11

1. Favorite DUH! - Apparently this guy tried to break into a bakery - and, through the skylight, fell into a locked room. This is surveillance footage of his attempted escape. He's turned himself into the police... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T8KOCQii4I?rel=0&w=451&h=250] 2. Favorite Vocalise - Gotta love it. http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=100532462,t=1,mt=video 3. Favorite Counseling Session - Showed this in church a few years ago. Love it. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLMTvxOaeE?rel=0&w=451&h=250] 4. Favorite - I don't even know what to say here... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0UC1bJ7h6s?rel=0&w=451&h=250]
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People that hate you…

This post is really only for other church leadership, mainly other music ministers/worship pastors/chief musicians..."How do you feel about the people that hate you?"O'Reilly asked this question of President Obama a few nights ago - moments before some professional sporting contest...The President kinda laughed off the question - but I thought he had a great response - "the people that hate me don't know me."Made me start thinking about my own ministry, and the ministries of my peers - what do we do with people that hate (or insert other word) us? Where does our security lie? With whom does…
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Friday Favorites 2.4.11

1. Favorite "i just threw up in my mouth a little bit" - I'm not sure what's more tragic - that someone actually wrote this song and is selling it on iTunes, or that this is being done in church...[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMepzqJvIw?rel=0&w=451&h=250]2. Favorite "I still love technology?..."http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&station=wabc&section=&mediaId=7621105&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&configPath=/util/&site=3. Favorite Pet playing the piano - I may sound like this if I don't get over this cold by Sunday...[funnyordie id=aa7ebcb463 width=450 height=251]4. Favorite SuperBowl promo - Again - from Tripp and Tyler, created a couple years ago - with Jerome Bettis.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eBpUDX851Q?rel=0&w=451&h=250]5. Favorite line from upcoming Sunday's worship set - "You are brighter…
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