http://thewonderfulnoise.com Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm gone at Hume this week... and I'm loving it. This morning I got to go out and have a quiet time here and then video chat with my fam over iChat right from this spot. I love it. See ya lates Mushy dad and husband stuff Alert: (You've been warned) oh ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/hume-lake/ Last week I posted this video on my blog... this week it was taken to the next level. One of the reasons I love Crowder and his band is because they do stuff like this. Keep your ears open... Jesus is my friend. http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/jesus-is-my-friend-part-duex/ I'm excited for practice tonight... this week I'm having some of the High School guys play in Elevation so tonight we get to hang out and jam through the music. It's gonna be a good time. I'm really looking forward to that. http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/practice-tonight/ We all knew it was a matter of time before they did it and now they finally have. What you ask? Well, all I've heard since Sarah Palin was nomintated for Vice President was how much she looked like Tina Fey and how everyone can't wait till they see that ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/they-finally-did-it/ It's that time again, time to take a look back at what we did and how it went this Sunday in the Elevation Service here at Calvary Church Santa Ana. So to start off I'll start by telling you all that we had Bob Vernon as a guest speaker this ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/the-noise-september-14-2008/ And while we're on the topic of videos, Trevor (our church's communications & Creative arts pastor) saw the video I posted yesterday and posted it on his blog along side this other amazing video. He is like a Mounty, he always gets his man and he'll zap you anyway he can... ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/jesus-is-my-friend/ I love the group of musicians I get to play with here at Calvary Church. They are some of the most talented people with some of the best hearts and I'm privileged to be able to be their leader. I love it and am honored by that. Anyway, I found ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/elevation-band/ I saw this video today on Anne Jackson's blog today and had to share it cause it was too good to pass up. I gotta say I think Obama should stick to his day job and leave the singing to the big boys. Anyway, Check it http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/obamas-rnc-video/ Today I was reading through my RSS reader and ran across this post over at Fred McKinnon's blog about Distracting Worship. If you've got a few minutes go check it out cause it's a good read. Anyway, a few minutes after that I ran across the following video ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/distraction-in-worship/ I've heard alot of people that were around when Pearl Harbor happened say that they'll never forget where they were when Japan attacked. I think we can all say the same thing for when the two planes smashed into the Twin Towers in New York. I know I'll never forget ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/where-we-you-when-you-heard/ It's been a cool week for me this week. Cool for me because this week I feel like God has started giving me a renewed passion for songwriting and some new melodies and lyrics so I'm pretty excited about that. Anyway, so because of this I've been playing ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/my-2-year-olds-songwriting-skills/ I was just sitting here looking at my iPhone trying to figure out what to blog about and thought it would be fun to tell you all what my five favorite websites are that I have to look at every day... I'm not joking, I'm on these sites all the ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/my-fav-5/ So, ya know how a bunch of people (including me) do those worship? Well, this is mine only I'm changing the name of mine to THE NOISE just cause I feel like it. So there you go. Anyway, in worship confessional fashion I guess I'll go through the songs that ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/the-noise-september-7-2008/ PSALTY, COLBY, CHARITY CHURCH MOUSE!!! Those are the names I grew up with as a kid. I, probably like a nice big chunk of you, grew up in the golden era of the Christian musical days when Maranatha Music ruled. One of their creations was a big blue singing songbook ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/psalty-the-singing-songbook/ This one is for all you guitar players out there and for those who have always wanted to to play the guitar. I recently found this site a few weeks ago and have been looking through it and it's fantastic. The guy who runs it, Justin, is a great teacher ... http://thewonderfulnoise.com/2008/09/justinguitarcom/