November 9, 2007
I learn new things every time I make a trip up North. I’ve been trying to find a Mexican restaurant somewhere around the hotel and I haven’t been able to find anything. I started asking around, and everyone I’ve met and asked has NEVER had Mexican food. Are you kidding? What’s the world without guacamole, salsa, and cheese dip? How do you live without fajitas? These people don’t like spicy food. I just don’t understand…
mjd
November 8, 2007
It appears that the UCWorship blog is officially out of commission. If you want to follow what’s happening with me and Chel, see http://forthejourney.wordpress.com, if you’re looking for more information about the worship ministry at UC, take a look at http://daveasims.wordpress.com.
Thanks!
mjd
November 8, 2007
November 8, 2007
I am absolutely opposed to being critical of other ministries and churches on my blog – but after watching the news this evening, I am PISSED about what I see happening within the leadership of the Christian right. I refuse to endorse any politician on this site for a couple of reasons, one of them being the ramifications on the church’s non-profit organization status. I will not endorse a candidate, but I will say that I am incredibly disappointed in Pat Robertson’s endorsement of a pro-abortion candidate today, saying that homeland security was the reason he threw support by Guliani. I believe this move is a clear sign of endorsing a candidate who is already popular, instead of throwing support behind a candidate who stands for those things the Word emphasizes as important.
I am not a narrow-minded Christian who views all of the world through the view of abortion, homosexuality and religious rights, but I cannot move into stewardship of our environment, changes to the tax system, education, and spending because I believe that issues like abortion are not issues of which way is best – they’re items we cannot back down because there is NO justice in their continued practice. Yes, we must stand up for the poor (though it’s not the govts job to take care of the poor) and we must stand up for the environment, and we must stand up for fair taxing, but these items MUST take a back seat to a matter of life and death. While I’m sure that we would all like to see the Iraqi war end soon, more babies were killed in our Nation today in abortion than all of the American soldier’s have died in the entirety of the Iraq War, and more babies will die this year in the US alone than all of the deaths associated with the Iraqi war thus far.
It is not always popular to stand for the Word – but we’ll all stand accountable for how we voted some day…
mjd
November 4, 2007
We blew one of the theater’s power breakers at a terrible time this morning, I say that, but is there really a good time? We made it to the third song in the set and then the lighting blew to one spot and one blue can (which is about 8 lights short of our normal setup). I honestly didn’t know what to do, so i just kept truckin’ right on through. Our sound all runs from inside the theater, so that was really no issue. We pipe in all of our lighting electricity from the film control room. We actually pull electricity from four or five other theaters – so ours knocked out the KidZone projector this morning, too. This week, we blew the one that controls the overhead lighting in our theater – so we lost complete control while they system rebooted. It sounds worse than it actually was. I honestly can’t believe it took 7 weeks to do it.
We did a live drama this morning – a straight jacket monologue. Dramas can be one of the most effective forms of communication, but running them live in a portable setting is always dangerous. Our mic was having some problems immediately into the drama, and we couldn’t risk the distraction, so we immediately killed the mic. Lisa Marie did a flippin’ amazing job. I told everyone to be ready to run without a mic just in case. I’m not sure that it wasn’t more powerful without the mic. She didn’t miss a beat and it was incredibly powerful.
Now, for the actual set:
A – Break Free (Hillsong United)
F – Lord of All (Hillsong London) You’ve got to love a song with at least 3 different time signatures – especial 7/4.
G – We Are Hungry (Steve Fee/Passion)
D – Rescue (Jared Anderson/Desperation Band/New Life Church)
D – Lead us Up the Mountain (Matt Redman)
November 1, 2007
9 days till the Arkansas/Tennessee game and we’re going! Any suggesting on tailgating before the game?
15 days till Branson! Silver Dollar City, Apple Cider, Condo with fire place, Marshall Creamery, road side smoke houses, and outlet shopping for Chel. What’s your favorite vacation place and what do you like to do there?
mjd
November 1, 2007
So we thought about writing on the pumpkin “You’re all going to hell for celebrating Halloween,” but it was just too much to fit on one pumpkin so we opted for a simple “GO HOGS,” believing that people would find that a little more welcoming. Evidently we were wrong as we only had 2 kids show up at the same time. Too bad we spent $20 on candy…
Anybody want to come over to have a “let’s make ourselves sick from Halloween leftovers” party?
mjd
October 31, 2007
So, I’m going to try this one more time. I haven’t had the chance to meet anyone who reads my blog yet. There’s someone from Mt. Laurel, NJ who reads my blog on a very consistent basis, and I’m working on a project about 45 minutes from there off and on for the next couple of months, so I thought I would try to meet up with them. If I don’t get a comment or email (matthew.j.daniel@gmail.com) after this post – I’ll give up on it…but I thought it was worth a try…
mjd
