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Just Sitting Here…
I’m sitting in bed, checking Twitter and researching some new iPhone apps. We’ve had a great day. Brandon and Kristen Buchanan are in town and have helped us lead worship at Table Rock tonight. We have 3 more services with them tomorrow and I am loving it.
The TV is on in the background and it is on the Chiller channel. I love cheesy, B horror movies. Always have. The movie that is on is about some group of college kids that get stuck sleeping the night in an old abandoned building.
As I am checking Twitter, I see a link to a friend that is singing a worship song with his sister. It’s a YouTube link. I go to check it out. It was really beautiful. Loved hearing them sing. And I was drawn into the song and the amazing lyrics. “Your name, is a strong and mighty tower”. I pause for a moment and think of how big God is. How little I am. And how important and valuable He still sees me.
I then look up. I suddenly realize that the show on TV has just been running something really innapropriate. Then it cuts to commercial.
Why am I telling you this?
I’ve heard it said, that when life is tough, just focus on Jesus. Focus on others. Focus on caring. It takes all attention away from our own problems or hurts and puts them into perspective.
I realized right then, that as I took time to focus on Jesus, those things that I want no part of, didn’t even exist. When my eyes were on him, in worship, drawn in, nothing else mattered. I was seeing what I needed to see. Hearing what I needed to hear. Filling myself with what I needed to be filled with.
I liked it.
Hillsong CD Giveaway!
UPDATE!!! And the winner is...
Hillsong Church in Australia is releasing their new CD today – Faith+Hope+Love. Our friends at Integrity Music have put together a pretty cool giveaway for FIVE people out in blogworld. This Release Day Giveaway is a little different – there are five blogs all running the same giveaway and each site will have a winner who will receive a copy of the new CD.
How do you enter? Each blog owner can make up their own rules but here’s what we’ll do here -
1. Leave a comment on this post and tell me why you’re excited about winning this CD. Lots of comments are great but it will still only get you one entry in the contest 
2. Post about the CD and the giveaway either on your own blog or twitter – make sure you include a link back to this blog when you are posting! Post a link to your post as a second comment and you’ll get entered TWICE in the contest.
3. Go ahead and enter on all five blogs if you like but you can only win once. I’ll choose the winner here by 10:00 AM EST tomorrow.
Here are links to the other blogs that are part of this giveaway -
Top 10…Yes, An End Of Year List
So, Chris had a great idea.
Here is a list of the 10 songs, used most, at Table Rock Fellowship this year.
This is a great time of year for music…and lists
1-All Because Of Jesus by Steve Fee
2-Beauty Of the Lord by Desperation band
3-Give You Glory by Jeremy Camp
4-Everlasting God by Chris Tomlin
5-Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King by Gateway Worship
6-Glory In The Highest by Chris Tomlin
7-Glorious by Steve Fee
8-Sweetly Broken by Jeremy Riddle
9-Waiting On You Again by Casey Corum
10-Jesus Paid It All by Kristian Stanfill
What are some of your favorite tunes?
(edit:If you use Planning Center, click over to Chris’s post and he shows you how to find your top ten tunes.)
Finished.
When do we know we have done enough? Do you ever feel done?
I’ve felt this way in my position as a Worship Pastor. On one hand, ministry never ends. It’s never complete. It’s a journey. On the other hand, there are tasks I handle that have a deadline or a finished product.
I am a person that like to accomplish something. I loke to have a finished product. Yesterday and today I have been painting and moving into a new office. It feels good to near the end of this task. Although this task is quite insignificant.
Here’s where I have to balance. Ministry, is about the journey. It is about people. It is not about process. Sure, process and procedure is great, but only 1 part in loving God and loving people.
I need to continue, in every aspect of what I do, to evaluate. Am I only focused on getting the job done? Or am I enjoying the journey?
What do you think? Can you go through life without placing an expected accomplishment on your relationship with Christ?
