- Sitting in my office getting ready for our staff picnic.
- Had a great day!
- Couple of minor glitches in the set-up portion and the keyboard died in the 10:45 (RIP), but other than that we couldn’t have asked for a smoother day.
- First, any day when people come into a relationship with Christ, it’s awesome…4 more today…God is so good!
- I’m really loving the new song “Yours Forever” that the team has done the past few weeks…great stuff!
- I also liked the new song today called “Ready Now”. It was cool to intro it at the beginning of the Experience and then use it as a response song to the message.
- I love doing vision messages. Nothing gets me fired up more than reminding people why we’re doing what we’re doing.
- The response so far to the message has been incredible…the real test will be in actually applying it…hope for a lot of new faces next week!
- The bumper video that Aaron put together was awesome. What’s funny though is it took he, Brian and I almost 2 hours to record the voice overs. For some reason we couldn’t get the equipment to record it right…so we did it again…and again…and on a different machine…and again…and on a different machine…and…
- It’s a shame some of them didn’t come out…Brian and I were having a lot of fun coming up with different things to say.
- The two videos I used today I thought were powerful as well. Here are the links. Pauline Jacobi getting robbed. Penn Gets a Bible.
- I love that line…”How much do you have to hate someone to believe that there is a heaven and hell yet not tell someone how to escape it”. (paraphrase)
- Again it amazes me that an atheist understands that better than many people in churches.
- So one more time…Do whatever you can to invite people next week as we begin the REWIND series, by looking at the decade of the 70’s and specifically John Lennon’s, “Imagine”.
- Also be sure to check out the new web-site and join the United Worship Experience fan page on facebook.
Inside Today’s Experiences
- I did a magic show last night for the kids at church so all the tech stuff was still set-up this morning…so it was an easy morning.
- Nothing out of the ordinary to report…not the best day but not the worst either.
- The band had a lot of fun doing Fall Out Boys, “I Don’t Care”.
- I loved being backstage during both Experiences and hearing the crowd singing “Desert Song”…so cool just to hear all those voices singing to God.
- I’m hoping people are being inspired through this series to take God’s Word more seriously…I know I for one was changed by some of the research I came up with about the history of the Bible.
- It was great having a bunch of teens on the stage at the end of each Experience to pray for them before their big work serving the community this week.
- It was even better keeping the on the stage for the final song.
- You could tell some of them were so excited to be on the stage with all the lights and everything.
- We’ll have to figure out a way to get them back up again to help out some time.
- Andy was picking on me about my shirt, saying it looked country, so he made me a huge belt buckle that he wanted me to wear during the second Experience…yeah right.
- Don’t forget to read Psalm 119 this week…
- …also don’t forget about the class I’m offering on July 25th from 9am-11am where I’ll teach you how to study the bible.
- If you haven’t already signed up, e-mail me at gilbert@unitedworshipexperience.org.
- Nap time now followed by dinner with friends!
Inside Today’s Experiences
- Great to be back preaching again!
- After 5 weeks off I had some butterflies this morning.
- Thought there was a great energy today and that the team did an awesome job with the music.
- Also, Brian and the stage team did an incredible job with the stage set…really love the huge TXT reflective panels.
- Pretty good morning from a set-up standpoint so I was relaxed as we got started.
- At the conclusion of the 9:15, I remembered I had forgotten part of the message…then I realized oops I forgot about 10 minutes worth.
- Can you say rusty?
- In any case, for you 9:15’ers I posted the 10:45 Experience so if you want to hear the entire message you can.
- I’m super excited about this series…I love God’s Word and hope others will fall in live with it as well.
- As a reminder…this week we’re all reading the book of James and answering two questions each day in our notebooks.
- If I had to summarize the chapter I just read in a sentence or two, what would it be.
- Question two is what is one thing I can do today as a result of what I just read.
- After that we’ll all be posting online our answers.
- You can come back to my blog tomorrow for mine and comment there or you can also find it on my Facebook profile.
- Even though attendance was down, there was just somethingspecial about today and I think God is about to break loose big-time.
- Time for a nap then off to freind’s house for dinner.
- “See you” tomorrow online with your answers for James chapter 1.
Inside Today’s Experiences
- Wrapped up the One Prayer series today with an awesome message from Perry Noble.
- I really enjoyed this series again this year…not only does it give me a break but also getting to hear from so many great communicators is inspiring.
- Set-up this morning was easy, but we were having power consumption issues throughout the building so lights were flickering that shouldn’t have.
- I got the lift out and went up to reset some power buttons which helped a little.
- Thought the band did a really great job today.
- The 9:45 crowd was really into the message…
- It’s amazing being able to sit out in the crowd and see and feel the difference between the two crowds.
- At 9:45 I almost forgot to take the offering…ok I did forget but the ushers bailed me out.
- As I said, after 5 weeks of not preaching, I’m a bit rusty even to do something as simple as doing announcements.
- Loved Perry’s challenge to “run up the score”.
- Basically we’re trying to “win” forgetting that Jesus has already won for us…the game is out of reach…now run up the score.
- Met some great folks from other churches in our denomination…great to have them with us.
- Disappointed that attendance is down for the summer but even with the “summer slump” we just completed our highest attended quarter ever!
- Next week we begin a new series called “TXT” in which I’ll be sharing how to be transformed by God’s Word.
- Also got some cool announcements coming up in the coming weeks…stay tuned…the best is yet to come!
Inside Today’s Experiences
- Great to be back after two weeks away.
- Nice to be able to ease back into things thanks to our One Prayer series.
- It’s amazing that modern technology allows us to participate with thousands of other churches in a joint series.
- Great to hear everyone laughing and participating as Steven Furtick preached the message.
- Everything ran pretty smoothly today which is also a nice way to get back into things.
- 9:15 was pretty full, while 10:45 was down again…I hate summer.
- Thought the band did a great job today.
- Loved Furtick’s message…it really gave good perspective on how big God is and how small our problems are.
- Again I really enjoy this series…hope you are as much as I am.
- To all the dad’s out there…Happy Father’s Day!