Rock Your Face Off

10 01 2008

This Sunday is going to stinkin‘ ROCK! I got to attend my first praise practice tonight. Adam leads the band in practice very Thursday. Tonight I attended because I couldn’t wait until Sunday to hear one of the songs. We’re doing an Adam Cruz original on Sunday that he wrote years ago. He put added a new bridge to it and it sounds amazing.

Adam does an awesome job working with each band members skills and utilizing them to the best of their ability. I love the fact that he rarely takes a song and just copies the original sound. He puts effort and time into each song to make it fit Element and become part of the Element band sound. AWESOME JOB!

We put the final touches on this Sundays details. Again, if you’re an Elementer you don’t want to miss this.

Kudos to the praise band. Not only do they show up every Sunday morning at 6:30 to set up, but they come from 7 – 9 PM each Thursday night to practice, not to mention any other personal time they take to practice through the week. They are an awesome group of people.

The Tour this Sunday. A can’t miss moment in church. An AWESOME original song. And we GET to do this for Jesus. WHAT? How much cooler can it get?

Following Christ,

Jeff


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Categories : Church Planting, Updates, Worship

"I asked Jesus into my heart today!"

10 01 2008

No, not me! I did that a long time ago. Those are the words I’ve been praying to hear from my kids since before they were born. My prayer for my children has been “Lord, I pray you would prepare the time and place for my children to come to know You.” I also pray, “Lord may my children not just make it to Heaven, but may they live life to its fullest while on earth.”

Well, last night at the dinner table Sabrina said “Mariah has something to tell you that happened today.” She was shy at first but then her face glowed as she said “I asked Jesus into my heart today!” WOW! My heart melted. Sabrina was reading a book to her (Jonah and the whale) and Mariah was asking some spiritual questions. The conversation led to Mariah demonstrating her knowledge of why we need Jesus in our hearts and asking Him to do just that. There is nothing greater as a parent to lead your children to the Lord.

I’ll never forget the night I helped Jonah ask Jesus into his heart while we were laying on his bed. Now Sabrina has the chance to help Mariah. Amazing. Jonah has been so spiritually interested lately. He REALLY struggles with the fact that some people actually go to hell. When he first learned that a few weeks ago it brought him to utter silence (amazing if you know him) and you could see his brain wheels a rollin‘. I hope that when he is 15, 30, 45, or 60, that the thought of people going to hell STILL moves him like that. For many of us, it’s easy to forget that people, EVERY DAY, die and miss out on eternity with our Lord.

Two more children yet to win to the Lord. Our children are THE BIGGEST DISCIPLESHIP OPPORTUNITY OF OUR LIVES!! I pray I can model life to its fullest to ALL of them!

Following Christ,

Jeff


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Categories : Discipleship, Family, Personal


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