Just rediscovered this classic verse of scripture.
Psalm 146:2 “I want to praise the LORD throughout my life. I want to make music to praise my God as long as I live.”
This has now become my summarized life-mission statement.
What is your life-mission statement? What has God called you to be?
- Amen.
I have heard it said by Rick Warren that God often uses tension and transition when he is working in someone’s life.
This past two years has been full of both. I just had lunch with a great friend the other day discussing the scenario below.
I find myself in that awkward [and, for most, probably too familiar state] of feeling like I am doing what I “have” to do to live, not to living to do what I love. This causes a grievous dissonance in my soul. Maybe I’m in a mid-life funk (at 35?).
One of my favorite songs to lead our congregation in for our Worship [Music] service is “Everlasting God”. It is the song that starts “Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord”. I used to [incorrectly] mentally link that lyric with the ability to do “more stuff”.
I started to make the concept of “strength rising” part of my prayers. It lead me to praying part of Psalms 51:12 “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation”
I’ve recently been frustrated by the seemingly increasing frequency in which members of a team I am a part of were late to practice.
While praying about a situation and then later talking with a fellow team member I had a spark of inspiration.
I have really been musing on the concepts of serving in the Body of Christ for a while and Forgecon helped me figure out that the best way to serve in the body is to be part of the “priveleged” class. Here are the 3 main buckets people fall into: The Observer (not the bald guy from Fringe), The Servant, and the Prima Donna (a.k.a the “Diva” *shudder*)
This past weekend I attended “The Forge Conference” in Ocean Grove NJ.
From their website:
The Forge Conference is a melding or forging of two visions God gave to:
Doug Gould, Joel Klampert, Adam Fagan Kela, and Jack Osteen.Vision one is creating a worship and tech training conference that is small and reasonably priced for teams to come to as well as instilling into attendees the true heart of worship.
Vision two is creating a conference that is designed to make people in ministry get real and get deep. It is a conference that is more like a retreat and deals with the heart issues in ministry and teaches people in the trenches how to make Christ center within the context of relationships.
Those two visions put together creates a conference/retreat that serves the local small church and builds Christ’s church through an atmosphere of Unity in a way that has never been done before.
The Bottom Line is: Training, education, stretching, healing, relationship, unity
Ok, let me get right to the point – What this ‘conference’ lacked:
There has been some discussion recently about what is acceptable and not acceptable dress code for those who participate in our worship team.
After prayer and mediation I have come up with the following requirements to be worn by ALL members of the worship team.
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OK there isn’t really a ‘safe place’ for me to state this, so I’ll do it on my blog and brace for the impact. I have been approached about participating in an ‘opportunity’ which involves electrons, billing and MLM components. (He who has an ear let him hear). If you have also been approached, I would urge you visit powertochoose.org and look up their company rating under their Consumer Complaint Statistics. That is all. |
I was going through my Gmail messages and found when I had created my account.
12/01/2004!
I’ve been using the same email account for the last 7 years!
Love the next message I sent to my wife:
I also discovered that it was my best friend in high school, David Diers who hooked me up with the service. He and I were in a band called “Random ID” back in our teens. Thanks Dave!
When, if you do use Gmail, did you first sign up for Gmail account? Who ‘invited’ you to use it at the time? Do you still use it today?
Six Sigma incorporates the basic principles and techniques used in Business, Statistics, and Engineering. These three form the core elements of Six Sigma. Six Sigma improves the process performance, decreases variation and maintains consistent quality of the process output. This leads to defect reduction and improvement in profits, product quality and customer satisfaction.
Last week I officially received my 6 Sigma White belt certification through: http://www.lean2020.com
It takes about 45 minutes but may be worth it to IT pros who are looking for a low barrier way to expand their marketable skill set.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. 