I read an article from Keith Green, who was a Christian Musician, talking about when he did get well known in the Christian Music scene there were tons of fans who ask how they could get started in their own Music Ministry. But they didn't ask him how to become a missionary or a street preacher. My first thought was they're asking him this because he was a Big Christian Music star, and not a missionary, not a street preacher. He might have done that work too; I don't know I just know him for his music. But his real point was why are Americans so star struck, why do we want the glory? Why do we want to put us in the forefront and not Jesus? Why does it matter to us to be so well known? And he goes to say while we are praising these Christian Artists, we should really be praising their purpose in their music, which is worshiping God.
His answer to this question was always the same, which is, and I'm paraphrasing here, are you willing to give up your music, and your life basically to follow Jesus, throughout this ministry? Which is the same question that Jesus asked the Disciples. Are they willing to give up their old life and follow Jesus no matter what the future will bring us? He said that they would always answer, Yes. But he would doubt that they knew the cost of doing this, and that's because we don't know this at all really. We don't know where God will take us, but we trust that where he is taking us is good. Of course it is good; we just don't know the future of our life.
Sure we all want to be known, but does it really make our lives any better to be famous? I don't think it does and there's definitely proof in that if you watch entertainment news. What are we really seeking here? Fame and fortune for ourselves or fame and fortune for God's kingdom? Obivisiously God has chosen some people to be popular in the world; I learned this in high school. With all that popularity none of it really matters if it's not for God's glory. That people who are not popular could actually be doing more meaningful work, and of course it can the other way around too, but it really doesn't matter how well known you are in this world, just that you're serving God.
From the time that I was 11 I have wanted to be in a band, and I have been in some, but I never really wanted to be famous. Sure I still want to record cd's and all that other stuff, but I really just want to write music and have it be heard by others. It's something that simple that can become something so complex. The complex part is really the business part. You don't have to make money at what you do in life, but I bet it would be nice to be able to do what you want for money, but if it's not for God then it's meaningless. It's just you and we all know that we don't walk alone in our Christian Walk. We need to include God in what we do, no matter how big we can get through our work, we must remember who made this possible, God. And we should teach others in hopes that they can feel the same Love that we have that comes from God.
We watch these stars and I noticed today that they really aren't mythed by their fame; it's just their life now. It's like they've gotten used to it. And sure it has changed them, but once they get over that it's just life for them. That their overwhelming sense because of their achievements have fallen flat and that's it's the past for them. It’s just part of their life now and it doesn't really matter that they're famous anymore.
So it really doesn't matter if you’re somebody or a nobody in this life, just as along you are serving God in what you are doing.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
updates
I emailed my testimony to Mosaic Church, which is the church that we go to, and they decided to print it in their bulliten, which I didn't ask them to do or expect them to do, but I thought it was cool. They did have to edit it down to fit the required word amount for the bulliten, but that's ok it sounded really good, and nothing was really changed, not that I thought they would change it.
Our old Pastor, Pastor Dave who married us asked us if he could get our autographs for the buliten, which was funny. We didn't though, but he did say that he was going to have it framed for his house. That's nice.
Also, last Sunday I began my training to run sound for church, and I pretty much ran the sound for the second service, and part of the first service. Johnathan Chandlier their Audio Engineer taught me a lot and directed me during the service. It really was a lot more complex than I thought it was when running sound he told me that the congregation is really what you want to watch, they should be worshiping and that you can measure how good you are doing by how they well they are worshiping. We play this one song "God of the City," which is a really good song that can really get the whole congregation worshiping. It's quite a different perspective when you're able to see everybody in church. I liked it a lot I had fun it was challenging and at first I didn't think I could do it because I never really have I mean had been taught a little bit when I live in Oregon and went to church at Eastside, but that was nothing like what we have at Mosaic. Mosaic has some really good equipment for sound, and for recording. So I'm going to do the same thing this Sunday too.
I still want to play praise and worship music at Mosaic and it's really only a matter of time before that happens. I'm going to practice with James Wofford III who is their Music Minister next week, and we will see where I can go from there I guess.
before I got involved at Mosaic it really affected me. I did want to get involved as quickly as I could, but it didn't happen that way for and it seems like it did happen that way for a lot of other people who went to Village Church, I'm not mad about it or anything like that, but I did wonder why a lot. What I realized was that I really don't have to be playing music to glorify God when I'm at Church although I still think about that sometimes when I am worshipping there. I was just so used to doing it that way. But I think I'm getting more comfortable with not playing music at church, even though I still want to do it, which feels weird for me. But I am doing something there now, and that feels good.
I'm glad my friends Mike and Brooke will be reunited today, I know it was hard for them to be away from each other. It would be hard for me to be away from Heather. So, I'm glad that they are going to be home in Arkansas together again. Brooke had been in an ASL internship in New York recently.
We have been hanging out with Mike while she was gone though. It has been fun.
I need to do somethings before I can release any cd's like make cover art, upload all of the songs onto tunecore and I have to buy some cd-r's for special orders that aren't through Itunes. I am doing one more song,it's going to be a rap song about Jabba the Hut, so now the cd has 11 songs on it, and it's still going to be 8 dollars if I can do that with tunecore.
Our old Pastor, Pastor Dave who married us asked us if he could get our autographs for the buliten, which was funny. We didn't though, but he did say that he was going to have it framed for his house. That's nice.
Also, last Sunday I began my training to run sound for church, and I pretty much ran the sound for the second service, and part of the first service. Johnathan Chandlier their Audio Engineer taught me a lot and directed me during the service. It really was a lot more complex than I thought it was when running sound he told me that the congregation is really what you want to watch, they should be worshiping and that you can measure how good you are doing by how they well they are worshiping. We play this one song "God of the City," which is a really good song that can really get the whole congregation worshiping. It's quite a different perspective when you're able to see everybody in church. I liked it a lot I had fun it was challenging and at first I didn't think I could do it because I never really have I mean had been taught a little bit when I live in Oregon and went to church at Eastside, but that was nothing like what we have at Mosaic. Mosaic has some really good equipment for sound, and for recording. So I'm going to do the same thing this Sunday too.
I still want to play praise and worship music at Mosaic and it's really only a matter of time before that happens. I'm going to practice with James Wofford III who is their Music Minister next week, and we will see where I can go from there I guess.
before I got involved at Mosaic it really affected me. I did want to get involved as quickly as I could, but it didn't happen that way for and it seems like it did happen that way for a lot of other people who went to Village Church, I'm not mad about it or anything like that, but I did wonder why a lot. What I realized was that I really don't have to be playing music to glorify God when I'm at Church although I still think about that sometimes when I am worshipping there. I was just so used to doing it that way. But I think I'm getting more comfortable with not playing music at church, even though I still want to do it, which feels weird for me. But I am doing something there now, and that feels good.
I'm glad my friends Mike and Brooke will be reunited today, I know it was hard for them to be away from each other. It would be hard for me to be away from Heather. So, I'm glad that they are going to be home in Arkansas together again. Brooke had been in an ASL internship in New York recently.
We have been hanging out with Mike while she was gone though. It has been fun.
I need to do somethings before I can release any cd's like make cover art, upload all of the songs onto tunecore and I have to buy some cd-r's for special orders that aren't through Itunes. I am doing one more song,it's going to be a rap song about Jabba the Hut, so now the cd has 11 songs on it, and it's still going to be 8 dollars if I can do that with tunecore.
Friday, June 19, 2009
massive
This might not be as massively long as I think it would be or should be, but let's go going!, Alright...!
Ok so something that I have noticed something that I have notice here recently and it's only happened on Blogger.com. When you make a comment you have to enter a safe word before you comment so that the website knows that a human is commenting and not another machine. Well some of these safe words are actual words, most of the time they are nonsense words that a machine doesn't or shouldn't recognize by their system. The word was chant, that's an actual word, I just find this funny sometimes, logic tells me that since machines aren't supposed to recognize nonsense words that they should recognize real words and thus a machine could comment on when presented a real word. But I couldn't because I got another word that was a nonsense word that came up. I got a second safe word.
Is funny to anybody else? No it's really not.
What I really wanted to post about was that I was feeling convicted this morning. I'm not much of an outward faith kind of guy sometimes, there are times when I can be one, but it's really not now, it's hasn't been for a while it seems. First of all Conviction is a good thing. It's not always about sin, it can be about what you haven't been doing and what I haven't been doing is sharing my faith with people. Pastor Mark Deymaz our head pastor at Mosiac Church has offered a challenge to us the body of Mosiac Church to share our faith with three people in the main three months of summer. Seems easy enough, right? So I guess my question is why is it so hard to share my faith with others. At times it's not hard, it wasn't hard when I was in Chicago, It wasn't really hard in Thailand, although it was quite challenging there. I guess it's really all about environments and goals. When you are at work, your main goal is work, when you are at home your main goal can be a lot of things: protecting your home turf, working in your house, spending time with others who are there, which is the most enjoyable goal there for me . When you're in a different country that is not a Christian country, like the U.S., which I still think is a Christian Nation. It's supposed to be harder to share your faith, but that is you're goal there being a Christian, whether you're on a "Mission Trip" or not.
John Piper once said that you're life is a mission field. And I agree with him whole-heartedly on that. I think that sharing your faith can be done without using words from the mouth. You can write songs about Jesus, You can perform those songs, You can write stories that have a Spiritual Christian theme to them, You help out by serving them, by making their lives better, by making them feel better, by helping them. You can do all these things with God in mind, with that aspect in your heart. Then you would truly be God-centered. It is not an easy thing to do. Why? I can't answer that. I probably never will be able to to do that. But and this is not to sound cocky at all, but I have done those things and many, many other Christians have to it's just that we don't do them all the time. I'm sure that's that possible to do too, because you can do all things through Jesus Christ who give us strength, phillipians 4:13 (paraphrased). So you should be able to do these things all the time.
If you can pray without ceasing then you can do that. Maybe that's a hard comparison, but it's true, and that should be one of your goals. Pray without ceasing. I always find it easier take baby steps though. What about Bob, had a great philosphy, it is also a great comedy. I like Bill Murray a lot. He makes it funny without actually trying to be funny, kind of like Ben Stiller. But um back to my main point you can do all these things with God, with Jesus being our lord and serving him, and by serving him we will serve others. It's inevenible it's going to happen, it's an energy that we all have just by being human. WE all have certain qualities that all humans should have, just by being people. And we all have these abilities. All people can worship something, but few of them choose to follow Jesus, who is and was God's Son. But by being people we are all distracted by many things in the outside world that might catch us off guard and makes us just be animals. Which is what we are not. We can't worship all the time or else we would be angels. So it's a deep balance that we all have to face, but not on our own, we have Jesus to help us out, to pick us up when we fall. It's like in Batman Begins when little Bruce Wayne falls down in the garden and he gets attacked by bats, that's not something I would want to happen to me though. But, it's happens to us we fall down, and we get picked up by God, This is grace to me, it's the will that we all have to face another day of redemption or resistence or other r-words, Other challenges, other respects, other experiences that we might have. So when we have these experiences it is important, it is vital to have God on your side or the consequences might mean death.
I think I'm done with my schpeil for now. I'm gonna take a shower soon because I need one. I'm am currently watching Mike and Mike and drying some clothes I am getting a haircut soon today. Other things haven't been specificly planned but they will happen this weekend. This post will end soon I will save you so much more time to do other things that are God-center that you should be doing...............now.
Maybe that didn't work. Maybe it did. this is over now.
Ok so something that I have noticed something that I have notice here recently and it's only happened on Blogger.com. When you make a comment you have to enter a safe word before you comment so that the website knows that a human is commenting and not another machine. Well some of these safe words are actual words, most of the time they are nonsense words that a machine doesn't or shouldn't recognize by their system. The word was chant, that's an actual word, I just find this funny sometimes, logic tells me that since machines aren't supposed to recognize nonsense words that they should recognize real words and thus a machine could comment on when presented a real word. But I couldn't because I got another word that was a nonsense word that came up. I got a second safe word.
Is funny to anybody else? No it's really not.
What I really wanted to post about was that I was feeling convicted this morning. I'm not much of an outward faith kind of guy sometimes, there are times when I can be one, but it's really not now, it's hasn't been for a while it seems. First of all Conviction is a good thing. It's not always about sin, it can be about what you haven't been doing and what I haven't been doing is sharing my faith with people. Pastor Mark Deymaz our head pastor at Mosiac Church has offered a challenge to us the body of Mosiac Church to share our faith with three people in the main three months of summer. Seems easy enough, right? So I guess my question is why is it so hard to share my faith with others. At times it's not hard, it wasn't hard when I was in Chicago, It wasn't really hard in Thailand, although it was quite challenging there. I guess it's really all about environments and goals. When you are at work, your main goal is work, when you are at home your main goal can be a lot of things: protecting your home turf, working in your house, spending time with others who are there, which is the most enjoyable goal there for me . When you're in a different country that is not a Christian country, like the U.S., which I still think is a Christian Nation. It's supposed to be harder to share your faith, but that is you're goal there being a Christian, whether you're on a "Mission Trip" or not.
John Piper once said that you're life is a mission field. And I agree with him whole-heartedly on that. I think that sharing your faith can be done without using words from the mouth. You can write songs about Jesus, You can perform those songs, You can write stories that have a Spiritual Christian theme to them, You help out by serving them, by making their lives better, by making them feel better, by helping them. You can do all these things with God in mind, with that aspect in your heart. Then you would truly be God-centered. It is not an easy thing to do. Why? I can't answer that. I probably never will be able to to do that. But and this is not to sound cocky at all, but I have done those things and many, many other Christians have to it's just that we don't do them all the time. I'm sure that's that possible to do too, because you can do all things through Jesus Christ who give us strength, phillipians 4:13 (paraphrased). So you should be able to do these things all the time.
If you can pray without ceasing then you can do that. Maybe that's a hard comparison, but it's true, and that should be one of your goals. Pray without ceasing. I always find it easier take baby steps though. What about Bob, had a great philosphy, it is also a great comedy. I like Bill Murray a lot. He makes it funny without actually trying to be funny, kind of like Ben Stiller. But um back to my main point you can do all these things with God, with Jesus being our lord and serving him, and by serving him we will serve others. It's inevenible it's going to happen, it's an energy that we all have just by being human. WE all have certain qualities that all humans should have, just by being people. And we all have these abilities. All people can worship something, but few of them choose to follow Jesus, who is and was God's Son. But by being people we are all distracted by many things in the outside world that might catch us off guard and makes us just be animals. Which is what we are not. We can't worship all the time or else we would be angels. So it's a deep balance that we all have to face, but not on our own, we have Jesus to help us out, to pick us up when we fall. It's like in Batman Begins when little Bruce Wayne falls down in the garden and he gets attacked by bats, that's not something I would want to happen to me though. But, it's happens to us we fall down, and we get picked up by God, This is grace to me, it's the will that we all have to face another day of redemption or resistence or other r-words, Other challenges, other respects, other experiences that we might have. So when we have these experiences it is important, it is vital to have God on your side or the consequences might mean death.
I think I'm done with my schpeil for now. I'm gonna take a shower soon because I need one. I'm am currently watching Mike and Mike and drying some clothes I am getting a haircut soon today. Other things haven't been specificly planned but they will happen this weekend. This post will end soon I will save you so much more time to do other things that are God-center that you should be doing...............now.
Maybe that didn't work. Maybe it did. this is over now.
Monday, June 15, 2009
nothing should be unforgivable.
What else is there?
we watched Taken and it was pretty good Liam neeson plays batman in the movie because he sounds like him and he kicks butt like him so he is batman the only person who could ever beat batman would be chuck norris. I want to read some gijoe comics yeah they have a whole colection of them at Barnes and nobles where I bought the Mewithoutyou cd which is very good At first I was feeling like this could possibly be their worst album but then I got to the end and it got better I have to say that it is their second best album outthere next to brother sister which came out two years ago
In less than a month I will have been with Heather for a total of three years that is awesome and I still love her. So don't ask me any questions about that. Please.
that last blog was true i did indeed make some rap songs that are available to buy now on a ten song cd that is only eight dollars, please pay me in paypal, check or cash if you live around here. it is only a burnt cd since I am not really signed to anyone. I am doing all of this by myself.
I really want to see the new Adam Sandler movie, "funny people," even though Adam is dying in it it still looks funny because he is funny, he's always funny unless he is a bad movie and he's had his share of bad movies, mr deeeds, 50 first dates, click, they were all bad and not funny at all so boo on those movies.
Mike gave me some gamecube games they are fun even though I have only played two of them as of now he gave me five of them.
What else is there?
we watched Taken and it was pretty good Liam neeson plays batman in the movie because he sounds like him and he kicks butt like him so he is batman the only person who could ever beat batman would be chuck norris. I want to read some gijoe comics yeah they have a whole colection of them at Barnes and nobles where I bought the Mewithoutyou cd which is very good At first I was feeling like this could possibly be their worst album but then I got to the end and it got better I have to say that it is their second best album outthere next to brother sister which came out two years ago
In less than a month I will have been with Heather for a total of three years that is awesome and I still love her. So don't ask me any questions about that. Please.
that last blog was true i did indeed make some rap songs that are available to buy now on a ten song cd that is only eight dollars, please pay me in paypal, check or cash if you live around here. it is only a burnt cd since I am not really signed to anyone. I am doing all of this by myself.
I really want to see the new Adam Sandler movie, "funny people," even though Adam is dying in it it still looks funny because he is funny, he's always funny unless he is a bad movie and he's had his share of bad movies, mr deeeds, 50 first dates, click, they were all bad and not funny at all so boo on those movies.
Mike gave me some gamecube games they are fun even though I have only played two of them as of now he gave me five of them.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
you're doing it wrong
Zombies are undead they are not the result of a virus, like most videogames and movies would want you to believe. Whatever happened to zombies being undead? Why was this changed? I thought we all liked that they were undead. Well, no somebody had to screw it all up. Zombies do not have a deseise this is not an epidemic people they are just monsters. They doesn't need to be an explanation for why they are Zombies. they just are accept it accept before it destroys you and eats your brain haha.
Now onto more important business I am putting out a cd of some of my instrumentals and all of my rap songs on a cd called "the illustrious astronomical rap career of" this cd will feature 9 of my songs five of them will have vocals it won't be very long though since most of my songs are short the longest song on their will be "still Life" which is four minutes long. so you all should buy it it will be 8 dollars that super cheap come on it will be the perfect party or workout music, dog. Just listen to some of the songs on my myspace, myspace.com/djbombshell. They are some good songs I made them with garage band. So, enjoy, um I hope to make more songs soon.
Now onto more important business I am putting out a cd of some of my instrumentals and all of my rap songs on a cd called "the illustrious astronomical rap career of" this cd will feature 9 of my songs five of them will have vocals it won't be very long though since most of my songs are short the longest song on their will be "still Life" which is four minutes long. so you all should buy it it will be 8 dollars that super cheap come on it will be the perfect party or workout music, dog. Just listen to some of the songs on my myspace, myspace.com/djbombshell. They are some good songs I made them with garage band. So, enjoy, um I hope to make more songs soon.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
new lyrics
This is Something you Would Like to Keep
By Jared Lowry
This is Something You would Like to Keep
But you Have to Give It Away
It is something that I miss
That’s why I always comeback to you
Your Forgiveness
Your Grace
Teach me, Oh Lord to Praise You
His Redeeming Love
His Redeeming Love
His Redeeming Love
Will never cast you away
Will Never Cast You Away
Will Never, Will Never Cast You Away
This is something You Like to Keep
But You have to give it away
You have to give it away
You have to, you have to give it away
By Jared Lowry
This is Something You would Like to Keep
But you Have to Give It Away
It is something that I miss
That’s why I always comeback to you
Your Forgiveness
Your Grace
Teach me, Oh Lord to Praise You
His Redeeming Love
His Redeeming Love
His Redeeming Love
Will never cast you away
Will Never Cast You Away
Will Never, Will Never Cast You Away
This is something You Like to Keep
But You have to give it away
You have to give it away
You have to, you have to give it away
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