08.10.08 playlist

“o worship the king” by chris tomlin (cd “passion hymns: ancient and modern”)
“let me sing” by todd fields (cd “north point live: louder than creation”)
“made to worship” by chris tomlin (cd “see the morning”)
—-connect—-
—-check presentation to Durham Rescue Mission—-
special music - “surely we can change” by david crowder band (cd “remedy”)
—-message— Doc
“faithful” by kristian stanfill (cd “north point live: louder than creation”)

a highlight for me personally today was the addition of the violin by my friend, matt evans. matt is a gifted player. he has really good musical instincts. i’ve played with matt a handful of times now. the best compliment i can give him is that, when matt says he has come up with something and he’s feeling good about it, i have complete confidence that his part is going to come off well.

for several reasons, the music for today was a lot of work to pull off. the band just wasn’t completely gelling together completely on thursday night. we were missing keyboards and having a little guitar tone trouble. but even besides that, it just seemed like we weren’t meshing together. still, it felt quite a bit better to me this morning.

i was struck with the realization today again of the effect on me when i’m not completely confident for whatever reason going into the morning. i tend to shrink back a bit as a leader because my mind is on technical things or stuck in self-consciousness. i’m still trying to grow through this.

however, on an encouraging note: i met a guy tonight at pizza with the pastors who admittedly is currently being dragged to church by his wife. he’s tried to attend with her sporadically in the past, but church has never really spoken to him. since coming to crosspointe, she has been telling him that he would really like the music - trying to convince him that the band really rocks it out. he was skeptical, but told me that last sunday when he could hear the band in the parking lot before even coming into the building, he knew he was going to be pleasantly surprised. he told me tonight that we rock harder than van halen with sammy hagar!