If you haven’t heard the buzz around the church world, a secret sort of leaked out last week. The rumor mill has been buzzing that Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin are planting a church in Atlanta, GA. Is it true? Yep. Actually, some of it is incomplete. Matt and Beth Redman and the Nockels (Watermark) supposedly will also be helping. …
Today’s studio video is of me laying down the bass on one of the songs on the upcoming CD. The song is “Made Me Glad” by Hillsong. We chose this song because it has been one that really connects with our church. It just seems to encourage heartfelt worship. These videos are always being taken from my MacBook computer by …
Below is a great read from Ed Stetzer. He was talking about the need for ministers to have boundaries in ministry, and he highlighted Rick Warren’s Saddleback’s Ten Commandments for staff members. At the churches I planted, we always used something like Saddleback’s Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not go to lunch alone with the opposite sex. Thou shalt not have …
So this next video is not actually in the studio. This is in Cory’s Star Wars saturated office. He was listening to a scratch track of a new song called “All Things New,” and making the “hook” happen. He’s so stinking good.
Sunday is the last NSU for the summer. We have one more Impact Teams Wednesday (unless you are doing a yardwork site at another time). This has been an incredible summer of going deeper and serving more! I thought last Wednesday of how gracious God has been to our congregation. You know, oftentimes, when a church parking lot is empty …
Well, we are deep in the studio now. North Side’s praise band is working hard on recording a CD that will be released in September. Things are shaping up, and I am going to give you some video clips periodically of our work. This first video is me being ridiculous listening to building the track, “Let God Arise.” What you …
I didn’t realize it until a few minutes ago, but I have been on staff at North Side for five years today! The only reason I remembered it was because I remembered moving my stuff into my old office in the FLC on my birthday five years ago when I also moved into the trailer. I moved a bunch of …
Last night, Obadiah and I were celebrating my birthday when we discovered one of our newest, funnest things to do together: play on Photo Booth. Photo Booth is an application on Mac computers that are one of the many reasons Macs are fantastic. You can take pictures or video right from your computer, but you can also do funny things …
That’s right. Today is my birthday. Please send me gifts. No, you don’t have to send me gifts. Unless you really want to…I turned 27 years old today! Quite a feat. I’m getting old! I must say, while I am getting older, I have never been more content, joyful, and excited in my life. May I count my blessings for …
Look at the picture below. Do you see how beautiful this image is? No, I’m not talking about my incredible photo taking abilities on my phone. I’m also not talking about the pretty sky scenery or nice architecture. Look a little bit harder. See the church buses. They are South Main Street Baptist Church’s buses in North Side Baptist Church’s …
Yesterday was another great Sunday at North Side. As Jeff continues to lead us through this Experiencing God study, I am constantly amazed at what God is teaching me and what He is doing in the lives of the people in our church. I am hearing daily what God is doing Jeff’s challenge to be still and listen to God …
I love this kid and his horse shoes.
We’re doing Chris Tomlin’s “Let God Arise” this Sunday at church (and it might be making an appearance on the upcoming CD), and I thought you would enjoy a chance hearing it and even hearing the story behind the song. Here goes:
Just a picture from behind the sound console of Johnnie K. knocking it out in the studio today on his song, “May Your Life Be.” I don’t think I had any clue this album was going to be this great. We are so blessed to have this much talent here.
Here’s the remaining jobs for our impact teams: Wednesday, July 30 Ashley House – meet at Ashely House @ 6:30 for Bingo, activities, and just befriending the clients there Piedmont Agency for the Aging -meet at the agency @ 6:30 to help paint and clean up their facilities McCormick Children’s Home – meet at the home for recreational events for …
The North Side worship band is going into the studio to record a new worship CD! I am so excited! After a bunch of prayers and thoughts and planning, we feel like now is the time to do this project. The plan is to release it this Fall, and so right now, I am in the pre-production/arranging phase in the …
Here’s a post from our mission team: Hello All!As I type we are all settling into a hotel way, way, way, out in downtown Seattle taking showers and resting. Storms caused the flight out of Atlanta to be delayed for four hours which caused us to miss our connecting flight to Taiwan. The guy who broke the oh so bad …
Our Southeast Asia team left around lunchtime today. They will have a long plane ride to pray and prepare before they touch down for two weeks or changing an entire nation with the gospel. Please pray for them by name over the next few weeks. Pray that they spread the gospel. Pray that a nation is changed. Here are the …
For those that went, prayed, gave, or who just want a great video, here is our recap video for our Shake-n-Shine camp made by our ever-so-talented, Dave Wright:
When I was in college, I recorded a CD with Anthony Gravley at Addeybug Studios. It was a collection of songs that I was writing about my relationship with Christ and what he was doing in my heart for missions. It had the song “Hallelujah, O What a Savior” and others on it. Keep Quiet was originally released under the …
What another great week at North Side. This was week 5 in the Experiencing God series. Jeff decided to preach on Gideon in Judges 5 and 6 (one of my favorite passages). I remember being a senior in high school and Jeff preaching this passage and it having a profound impact on my life. I was leading worship at the …
September is nearing soon. What does that mean for me? I’ve got to get my class notes finished! I will be teaching Religion 101 at Lander University in the Fall. The last I heard we have a full class! The class title, “Sacred Texts and Ideas,” is a difficult course to tackle. But I am enjoying the challenge. The textbook …
We have been having a lot of conversations around the office about our missions strategy as a church. Our church focuses on three environments: worship, community, and missions. Worship is how we live pleasing to God. Community is how we love other believers and build each other up. Mission is to seek and to save those that don’t have a …
I led an eager Impact Team over to Erskine tonight to lead the Mega Relay for Shake-n-Shine. We had a blast! Mega Relay is this crazy, intense team game of team challenges that come right after each other. Leading the kids and the counselors was a blast! I will say that God is answering your prayers – keep it up. …
Just a reminder to pray for your Shake-n-Shine camper that you go this week. If you were at North Side on Sunday, you got one camper’s name to lift up – hope you placed that card somewhere where you could remember it and pray for him or her and his or her counselor! All the crew got on the buses …
Jeff was away at a family member’s wedding this weekend, so I was filling in for the message this morning. He had planned out this series all the way through, but as I was praying and studying for this message, I felt like I needed to go another direction. Since Jeff did the same thing last week and the results …
We were watching Family Feud tonight on the Game Show Network (we are so old), and we got a good survey on the culture. The category was “Which of the 10 Commandments are Broken Most Often on Soap Operas?” These are the ones that people thought made the top 10 list: No lusting Love your neighbor as yourself Be fruitful …
As you probably have heard, Erskine‘s cafeteria caught fire Thursday night. For those of you heading out to Shake-n-Shine on Monday, don’t fret, you will get some food. They have set it up to where the camp will be eating over at Dixie High School. All the rest of camp will still be in the scheduled places. Get ready to …
Amy got our praise band a place to serve on this lovely Saturday. The Salvation Army Church was throwing a neighborhood party and wanted some musicians on a flatbed truck. I am so thankful that they picked it on a day that is supposed to get up to 92 degrees! That means I got to sweat five pounds off! We …
We took a crew down the Nantahala rapids yesterday in Bryson City, NC. It was Fred‘s birthday, and so we forgave him for getting us lost on the way. It was just a hodge podge of people – youth, college, adults (Kyle stated, “uh, that means that I am one of the adults now…” – why, yes you are, old …
We had another great night with Impact Teams last night. I haven’t heard all the stories yet, but I know that my team had a great time. We had a bunch of new help last night (thanks so much), and I imagine that if you are like me, you feel more blessed by serving than you think the people you …
Obie is fighting his naps pretty regularly now. We know if he doesn’t get his nap in, he wants to eat before time, but then he falls asleep. All to say, if he misses nap time, our day gets pretty out of wack. Yesterday, he was asleep in the car, so we decided to take him into Lowe’s. I don’t …
Alrighty! We had a great first week at Impact Teams, and we have new assignments for tonight (Wednesday). Many of you have been asking what the needs are, well here is the list for tonight: Yard Work Team – Mowing, weed-eating, raking, cutting, and everything in between (for a bunch of houses) Epworth Camp – We need some people to …
I got to church before 7 yesterday morning because I wanted to make sure everything was ready to roll. I went to ask Jeff what Scripture he would be using that morning to put it in the computer, and he told me to come into his office. He said he felt like he needed to change his message and follow …
Thanks again for another great night at NSU in our Hermeneutics class. Your insights in our breakout time digging into Romans 12 were fantastic! You guys are really understanding on how to 1) grasp the text in their town, 2) measure the width to cross, 3) cross the connecting bridge, and 4) grasp the text in our town. I think …
We had a great first night at NSU. A lot of people showed up for all of the six classes. I had a blast in our Hermeneutics class. Your attendance showed that all of you really want to understand the Bible better. That’s fantastic! You guys listened so great through the beginning foundational stuff and it was just a good …
It is July 1st which means that it is birthday extravaganza day! I got to wish a happy birthday this morning to my wife and my pastor (they are not the same person though). Amanda is turning a whopping 26 years old today. She was laughing last night remembering when she thought someone who was 26, married, and had a …
This morning, my Bible reading started out in Luke 7. I normally have a set quota I try to read daily unless something hits me hard that I need to process and pray about. I was done at verse 7. This is the story about Jesus healing the centurion’s servant. You may remember the passage because Jesus tells the centurion …
I was so excited to be back at North Side this week. I’ve been gone for too long, gone to other churches, and I was just ready to be back with our family. And it was a wonderful time today! Today, we worshiped to these songs (and boy, did the praise band sound great and led great without me today …
The time spent Wednesday and Thursday in class was unforgettable. My cohort was taught by Dr. Robert Coleman. If you don’t know that name, you should. Dr. Coleman has been a mentor of mine from afar since 2000. This week, I got to thank him for that face to face. Dr. Coleman wrote a book in 1963 entitled, The Master …
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