Russ Live

This is Russ leading worship at the Torch... what an awesome service!

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This is a testimony service from one of our services when we sang healer and asked 3 of our people to give their personal testimony of how God healed them...
Jerry Neal - Heart Disease
Felton Turner - Liver Disease
Brandi Wood - Degenerative Disk Disease
WOW... Ain't God crazy good!!! Like Felton says... "Don't give up hope"

I'm DYIN!

Tonight it begins... College football is back and I dont care for a second who's playing. You can bet one thing... if you call or text me i'm gonna be paying little attention to our conversation due to the sensory overload of watching college students fight for an inflated oblong object that life in the south revolves around during the months of September through January. It has been way too long since the 2007 season ended and most of us college football junkies are just about to lose control so... THANK YOU LORD FOR THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL! The months have become weeks... days... and now hours. Of course the real showdown is this Saturday night at 8 when Bama takes on clemson. You have no idea how excited I am right now. (I almost cancelled origin)

Make us One/Youtube/Russ Lee

"Make Us One" continues this week with "a common people".



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Btw... our youtube site is being updateed almost daily now so go check it out and watch our church in action. Thank you Keith for doing an incredible job on that.

Russ Lee was here a couple weeks ago and let me just say... He is such an awesome man of God. He and his wife were a breath of fresh air for our worship team. His new song... "God is Here" is amazing so look for it in stores soon. Thank you Russ and Mary!

ONE MORE WEEK

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The song I told you guys about that Monica and I recorded just cracked the top ten on reverbnation.com so thanks for listening and great job Monica!

A Common Thread

This weekend at the Torch Pastor will be starting a series called "Make Us One". This week the message is entitled "A Common Thread". Here's the graphic I put together for it and since by now you are all wondering what the common thread is... make sure you're here sunday morning to find out. I think the illustration we came up with is gonna be powerful as well so don't miss it.

Rebel Man

This past week at our church Pastor spoke about Rebellion and as he was describing it to the staff we had this great idea about how to illustrate his concept. It seemed that the more he described what a rebellious person was the more I had this image of someone who believed they were a superhero. In the service, when he intro'd the Rebellious person the lights went black (Blake did a great job on lights this week) and "RebelMan" came in on a zipline from the balcony.
Later Pastor was describing the results of living life as a rebel and a slightly older and less "in shape" superhero apppeared from backstage with a walking stick. Needless to say... it was hillarious and made the point something evryone will never forget.

The Greatest American Duo

I recently did a collaboration on an album with Monica Spears. You all need to go see her in concert and buy the cd (gimme my royalties Monica). Here's a link to the website so you can check out the new cd. "What You Wont Do" is the one yours truly is singing on. http://www.reverbnation.com/monicaspears

Dont miss it!

Back to school bash tomorrow night at 7. Here's the logo I just made for it. Don't be jealous Gordy.

Ok Ok...

I'm sorry. Its been 2 weeks and I have been a slacker. But I'm BACK now and taking ready to blog like a mad man. Yes my feet are still hurting btw... We've got so much to catch up on (from San Antonio to Rebel Man to Russ Lee) and we're gonna get started tomorrow. I just wanted you all to know that my sabatical is over and it's on. Thank you Blake for restoring unto me the joy of my blog!

My feet HATE me!

My feet are so mad at me right now! We just got home from the day's activities and this is the first time I've been in the room all day. I'm looking forwad to a night of rest since Scott said we didnt have to be downstairs until 11:30 tomorrow. Anna and Logan tore it up today. If you guys wanna watch any of the competitions go to www.mywinterfest.com. A'ight my boys just made it in from their flights so we're gonna knock out. We'll talk tomorrow!

Desert Song

Before I go to sleep I just have to pass this song along. This is unbelieveable... Listen to the story and then listen to this anointed song. Hillsong... y'all are killin it folks. Great stuff!

John Hagee

I visited Cornerstone church today, with Pastor John Hagee. As great as that was, It made me even so much more thankful for my church. I left there thinking... "I could never go back to 'traditional' church." Dont get me wrong, I do appreciate and respect tradition but I LOVE the way we have church at The Torch.

Pastor Hagee spoke about worry and the uselessness of it. He made alot of sense and it was a timely message. We really are a paranoid country and worry about everything. We are kinda trained to be that way though since the media is always feeding us this news that things are worse now than they've ever been and they're never gonna get any better. Oh and by the way, a tsunami will eventually wipe out the eastern seaboard and an earthquake will cause the whole state of California to fall into the ocean by the year 2010. Have a good night!

Change the tone of the conversations around you. Instead of indulging in those conversations of worry-filled chatter, change the subject to something positive. Lets choose, not to stop worrying, but to stop creating environment where worry breeds. We are still Gods kids and we still trust Him right? Rejoice by choice.

San Antonio

We flew in to San Antonio yesterday afternoon and IT IS HOT! We're here for the international competitions which our youth group qualified for in several categories. They've been practicing feverishly and trying to get all ready. Right now I'm sitting in the meeting room of the hotel, watching the Bible quiz team practice. (they're crazy good) I just gave a short talk for our devotion (Heaven Rules [daniel 4:17]) and now we've got practices scheduled all day. The part I'm looking forward to the most though, is lunch. Great restaurants here!

Gotta run but I'll fill ya in more later. Bout to head to Cornerstone Church!