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Check Out These Amazingly Awesome Photos from the GodConversation and Just Try and Tell Me They Are Not Amazingly Awesome Photos

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Categories: awesomeness, fun

These are just a few pics from “GodConversation: a worship experience”–a worship event we did on Janurary 25. Thanks to R.J. Butefish for taking these amazingly awesome photos.
“The band”
Danny–drums
Skipper–percussion/flute
Vince–bass, BGV
Kyle–acoustic guitar
Josh–electric guitar
Jeff–keys and lead vocals

My son, “The Director”–a.k.a. “Wall of Sound”, on electric guitar…

“Vince-sanity”–Bass and BGVs

Andrea dances to Switchfoot’s “On Fire”

Is this a cool rock & roll photo, or what??
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Thanks to everyone who made this event so special. For more about this, you can go to http://www.worship24-7.com/ and see what we’re up to.

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Something more, something real

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Rantings, You need to read this

In a number of my entries, I am highlighting certain flaws and indescrepancies that I’ve observed in institutional Christianity (i.e., what most people refer to as “church”). If you catch me on a day when I’m ranting, you’re liable to think that I (like many others) am just jaded and bitter and looking for a place to spew venom.

But the truth is, this is a journey, a process–not a destination. I know that in my ramblings, however random they might appear, I am going somewhere. In fact, I believe Jesus is taking me somewhere. This isn’t merely a journey away from something; it is a journey toward something.

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Word of the Month(s) for January/Feburary: "GRAPPLE"

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

I have decided that my “word of the month” should be “grapple.” (The verb, not the noun.) Since it’s late in January, we’ll make it the, uh, January/February word of the month.

Grap-ple [grapuhl], verb

1. to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
2. to use a grapple.
3. to seize another, or each other, in a firm grip, as in wrestling; clinch.
4. to engage in a struggle or close encounter (usually fol. by with): He was grappling with a boy twice his size.
5. to try to overcome or deal (usually fol. by with): to grapple with a problem.
(SOURCE: Dictionary.com Unabridged version 1.1)

1 : to seize with or as if with a grapple
2 : to come to grips with : wrestle
3 : to bind closely
(SOURCE: Merriam-Webster Online)

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Hell? No??

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Categories: food for thought, theological questions

In checking a lot of blogs and in reading a lot of material outside my “normal” sphere, one thing I’m noticing is that there seems to be a significant number of people who question the existence of a literal hell. Even some higher-profile ministers (like a Tulsa local, Carlton Pearson) are now challenging hell’s existence. And with many thousands nearly a dozen people reading this blog now regularly, I felt it was my moral obligation to weigh in on the subject and give some food for thought.

I approach the Scriptures pretty practically, so I don’t intend to go into deep theological debate here. But regardless of how people are interpreting the Bible on this point, it seems the underlying argument goes something like this:

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Filtered hearing (not as beneficial as filtered water)

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up)

Ever talk to someone and try to share what’s going on with you or what you’re thinking, and you just know that person isn’t “getting it?” Either they nod in fake interest, or (even worse, in my opinion), they relate back to you something totally off-kilter, based on how they are [mis]interpreting what you said. This is something I call “filtered hearing”–where someone hears you, but their existing mindsets sort of “filter” the information you’re communicating until their brain registers something completely different than what you said.

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"The song that is speaking to me MOST right now is…."

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Categories: fun


Please answer in the comments section, and try to include WHY the song you picked is speaking to you. I look forward to reading your answers!!!





EXTRA! EXTRA! If you are in the Tulsa area today….

…I’ll be playing at an event tonight called “GodConversation: a worship experience.”

  • WHEN: Tonight, January 25, at 7:oo PM
  • WHERE: Agora Coffee Meeting Room, Fontana Shopping Center, 51st and Memorial (just northeast of the central fountain).
  • WHY: Because!

Come join us if you’re free.

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To Life!

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Categories: changing mindsets, Meanderings (look it up)

There is a long-standing and deeply held belief in the Jewish religion that life is a gift, that life should be celebrated, and all of life is to be lived unto God. In the Hebrew way of thinking, there is essentially no such thing as “sacred” vs. “secular”, nor do they really make a big deal out of flesh vs. spirit. If God is in the picture, all things are His, and all life is lived unto Him. They have a saying: “L’Chaim!” Which means “To Life!” Life is meant to be lived, to be enjoyed to the fullest, with all the pleasures that God has naturally provided. One thing I’ve been learning this past year is that it is actually this type of mindset–the Hebraic mindset–out of which our Christian faith has been spawned.

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