- Mixed emotions about today.
- It was a fun and impactful weekend, but with the holiday, attendance was way down.
- Pretty hard to get pumped up, especially during the second Experience.
- However, still got to keep the perspective of even on our “off” weeks, God is still doing something amazing amongst us so we an never take that for granted.
- After being away last week, it was nice to be back preaching again.
- I’m so excited about what God is going to do in people’s lives…can’t wait for next week!
- Love the stage set Brian designed for the series…very clever!
- I just realized that for the first time in weeks, I didn’t have to wear a costume to church!
- While REWIND was fun, glad to be back to “normal”.
- Although I have been having some difficulty with my mic (thanks Brian :) and Andy between Experiences decided to tape it to my head…I’m sure pictures of that will show up eventually online.
- I bit the inside of my lip pretty hard between Experiences as well…ouch that hurt.
- I liked the new song the team introduced today…and the way they introduced it, with Brian teaching you guys what to do.
- We came up with the idea this morning during warm-ups. Wish you could have seen that. Brian and Gayle were like Abbott and Costello doing “Who’s on First”…hilarious.
- The special music song “Unveil” was weird…at the end of it at the first Experience the crowd roared…at the second they sat there in complete silence.
- In any case, it’s a great theme song for the series and we’ll give you chances to sing along in future weeks.
- I felt good about the message…think if we’ll all apply the tips I’ll be sharing, we’ll all hear clearly from God about what His will for our lives is.
- Can you tell I’m writing this after a long nap…I’m all over the place.
- Time to go…dinner with friends!
Inside Today’s Experiences (Vacation Edition)
- Gotten a couple of reports and it sounds like you guys had a decent day.
- Lisa and I visited Lancaster County Bible Church’s Harrisburg campus.
- Got to catch up with their campus pastor, Mike Albon.
I got to know Mike when I worked for Purpose Driven. He is a great guy and doing
an awesome job leading the Harrisburg site.
- Mapquest sent us to the wrong place to start with but once we were there, their worship time was very similar to ours.
- Their worship leader was incredible…one of the best male voices I’ve ever heard.
- Since they are a satellite campus, the teaching time is done via video.
- To help make it seem like the speaker is actually there, a huge screen comes down and projects the speaker at life size.
- This picture hopefully explains it better…
- Interestingly enough, I still ended up watching the side screens with the tighter shot of the speaker most of the time.
- Hoping we can add live video on our side screens soon.
- In any case, LCBC Harrisburg had great music, a great convicting message and other creative elements that made the service…an Experience!
- Afterward Lisa and I went to City Island and walked around for awhile before eventually heading to Red Robin.
- Vacation was a blast, but I can’t wait to be back next weekend as we start the Unveil series.
- If you or someone you know is trying to figure out God’s will, this will be the series for you.
- Even if you have no big decisions to make right now, I will be sharing the process you need to go through any time you need to make decisions, so this series is for everyone!
- So with that said…Invite, Invite, Invite…and then go out and invite some more!
Inside Today’s Experiences
- From the outside looking in, today looked pretty good, but behind the scenes, it was a rough day.
- Pretty fitting though considering that I was preaching about how to go through tough times and grow from it. :)
- Despite a lot of technical difficulties, it was still a fun day.
- I’m sort of sad that we’re done with the medley’s…they were all a lot of fun!
- Don’t know how many people picked up on the Milli Vanilli lip synching gag…oh well at least we amused ourselves.
- Brian and Adam’s dancing was about as good as mine….haha!
- I thought then that the whole team really pulled it together for Loser.
- Brian did a great job of remembering an incredibly confusing song, Adam played the slide on the guitar to perfection and Andy gave Brian some neat effects for the rapping portions.
- At the 9:45 I was really flustered by everything that had happened in the morning and then my mic was causing some weird feedback which never happens.
- I was disappointed, but I’ve had quite a few people tell me that the message really spoke to them.
- At 11:15 then I was able to bring it with a bit more passion.
- I was sharing with a few people that if we ever do a series like this again, I’m scheduling it for the winter…
- All these wigs and costumes I’ve been wearing are very hot…nothing like wearing flannel today when it’s hot and humid out.
- Had some guests tell me that a greeter at the door asked them if they wanted the “smokey and wild” service or the normal one.
- Interestingly enough with a description like that, they still chose to come to United.
- I forgot to mention at the 11:15 that if you’re interested in helping with set-up or tear-down, we could really use your help. Either put it on a Connection Card or e-mail Tony at thediehls@comcast.net
- I’m excited about this up-coming week for two reasons…
- First, Lisa and I will be on vacation in Florida!
- Second, Josh Schlotterbeck is going to finish out the Rewind series by looking at the song Criminal.
- Josh is an awesome young man of God and I promise you’ll not want to miss out on what God wants to speak to you through him.
- This is going to be big-time salvation message, so if you have friends, neighbors, co-workers or relatives that don’t yet have a relationship with Christ, do whatever it takes to make sure they show up next week.
- The following week then I’ll be back with the start to a new series called, Unveil: Revealing God’s Will For My Life.
- That’s a question everyone wants to know so I’m excited to share with you how to discover God’s will.
- Again there are plenty of invite cards in the back, so invite, invite, invite!
- Since I’ll be on vacation, I probably won’t post much, but check back periodically for vacation up-dates.