Since I’ll be taking off in the air soon, maybe as you read this, I thought this pic I found to be hilarious!
My favorite Twilight Zone episode was the ‘There’s something on the wing of the plane!!’ yet nobody saw it but the dude. I remember laughing my head off at the gremlin and yet being scared out of my wits at the same time. I hope I don’t see that or a Giraffe tomorrow 
So Rae woke me up from the sofa last night at 9:30 to head to bed. I was/am toast. Practice Thurs., practice Sat., practice Sun., played 2 services Sunday morning, played service that afternoon, led message that afternoon, & had small group.
Coffee is an amazing substance that can keep a dead man moving I’ve become a regular now. They now ask me if I’ll have ‘my regular.’ Oh dear Lord, I’m one of them!!!
But excitement is coming your way, I promise. What happened with ya’ll this weekend? Worship set to keep you at bay until vids get uploaded:
Sunday Morning:
So as alluded to above and before, cool things happened this weekend! I already posted about my Youth Service and wicked cool things happened last night!
I’ve been so busy I almost forgot, I can’t believe I haven’t blogged about this yet! This Tuesday I am ATLANTA BOUND!
Wed through Fri – I’ll be at the Thirsty conference with the whole Six Steps/Passion crew!
Sat through Sun – Kicking it in ATL
Mon through Wed – I’ll be at the Orange conference with the ReThink Group/Steve Fee/Kristian Stanfill!
I mean it’s like Heaven on earth! Here’s what I want to know:
Regardless, look for some spectacular posts over the next 2 weeks!!! Pics, videos, reviews, recaps, and MORE!! But 1st things 1st: Youth Service tonight and Jekyll & Hyde interview after tonight.
I over use them don’t I? I’ll have to monitor that.
Wow it looks ridiculous. It’s just so hard to add emotion to writing isn’t it 
I had practice this morning for our monthly youth service that is happening tomorrow and all I can say is: WOAH SLAP YO MOMMA! HAHAHAHA.
Thank you Lord for putting me in this position b/c I think I’m in a rare one. I use mostly high school students to play with me when doing this b/c A) They then buy into it more B) Their friends want to see them play C) They’re playing music glorifying God and that’s incredible for high school students! But let’s be honest, in high school you didn’t have a ton of experience or skill Our line up looks like this:
1. Lead vox and acoustic guitar – Me
2. Drums – Foo – non-high school – he’s my anchor of confidence of like 6 years, probably the last to replace w/ a HSer if that ever comes
3. Bass - Billy – 10th grade
4. Electric Guitar – Partlow – non-high school
Caleb – high school 10th grade (maybe 11th)
5. Keys – Lizzie – high school 9th grade
6. BG vox – Stephanie – 10th grade
Now check out the songs we’re pulling out:
None older than 10th grade and they are killing it!!! So, I want to record some of it and get a video up here for ya’ll. OH and I’m interviewing Caleb on his Jekyll and Hyde tomorrow just for you Superman! GET READY FOR IT!
So the New Song Cafe this week is Brenton Brown interviewing Chris Tomlin with his song, “How Can I Keep From Singing.”
I happen to like these dealios, I watch them often to find out how artists are doing certain phrasings and how they’re using chord structures. This one was more funny than anything. Tomlin capos up to play a G formation in the key of Bb. He even makes mention that we’ll probably not capo that high. Turd. But it’s a G formation so not a whole lot new here.
2 things, and please don’t send hate comments my way, you see how big a Passion Head I am so this comes across like seeing your friend on TV and laughing at how he’s got that cow lick in the back because he tried so hard to get dressed up for the interview, it’s all in good humor people.
1. Brenton Brown…Herman Munster anyone??? He is so dang rigid sitting there!! Hilarious.
2. Vests are there to protect us. Life vests protect us from drowning. Bullet proof vests protect us from dieing. Sweater vests protect us from pretty girls Chris! That will not help your singleness
Check it out seriously, it’s a great song and the beginning Chris shares how he and Matt collaborated to write this song.
THAT’S RIGHT! The Worship City Worship Confessional! WCWC for short. The man who got my butt motivated for this blog has spurred me on again with his latest Soulcast Maybe next time I’ll get a shout out! HAHAHAHA.
WCWC notes:
3 guitars at work this week, here’s what we did in case you didn’t catch it from the WCWC. The electric was in standard tuning, standard formations the entire time. Here are the acoustic formations:
1. You Alone – E
2. Everlasting God – B
3. You are so good to me – G
4. It is well… – C
5. This is our God – F#
Mud’s got me looking at how much cashola I’ve spent with the Passion Movement Seeing how it’s the cover story of April’s issue of Christianity Today, this is actually pretty pertinent then! PLUS, I can’t find a comprehensive catalogue like this out there! I don’t think one exists! So double check me if you will and enjoy my fanaticism. I already know I’m a freak. Reminisce with me if you will:
1. Live Worship from the 268 Generation 1998 – Louie and the gang didn’t even know how much this first gathering would influence and go on to define a style of music! A last minute decision to record the incredible music going on started a fire amongst college students across the nation! This CD just oozes nostalgia! I could sing…, Every move I make, I could sing…, We fall down! Come on people!
2. Better is One Day 1999 – Charlie Hall was the big guru on this one. I mean seriously was there a song on here you didn’t use?!?! Shape begins to form and excitement begins to build. This was the one I began to build my praise and worship archive on!!
3. The Road to One Day 2000 - The Passion flop. If you can call any of what they’ve done a ‘flop.’ The studio release for the gang picks up David Crowder! HOORAH! And I still use Steve Fee’s We Are Hungry.
4. One Day Live 2000 -Birthed from the college event heard round the nation! If you didn’t happen to know of Passion yet, this was probably the event that opened your eyes and ears! Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman join the crew and things get kicked up a notch! Salvation was my big rocker that I stole from this CD and this version of Better is One Day floored me! And what! Steve Fee pulling out a Kindness/Clean Hands medley! For years I thought that was Chris! HAHAHAHA!
5. Our Love is Loud 2002 – Slick and simple: grey with a few crazy images and a logo and it ROCKED MY WORLD! It’s like an All Time Greatest CD! Every song you’re sick and tired of probably came off this CD! I still remember hitting this 3 song streak and reveling “WHAT THE HEY!!” It was Wonderful King – OLIL – Come Thou Fount. This album was the one that many churches decided to get off the ‘modern movement.’ I believe it was the tour that preceded this CD though that greatly impacted my life. September 11, 2001 devastated a nation. September 12, 2001 Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin came to the LSU Union and united a college campus; one that included this bewildered college student. It was encouraging, inspiring, and hopeful. Chris was shorter than he is now
6. Sacred Revolution (Songs from One Day ‘03) – One of my all time favorites. O Praise Him and Not To Us. It could all end there for me! In response to Sept. 11, we have a song called Blessed Be Your Name from Matt. One of the most beautiful song from vocal goddess Christie Nockels: Knees to the Earth. I suppose I am biased because I was at this One Day! This was from the event that everyone wanted to go to after hearing they missed out on the last One Day! If you didn’t go to this one you hid your head in shame for missing out
7. Hymns Ancient and Modern 2004 – The Phos Hilaron changed me; brought to life for me at the Thirsty conference that year. This CD is still my resource for hymns at church! What an incredible resource for some of my favorite hymns done creatively and still giving the originals honor and justice with new choruses adding new life.
8. Passion ‘05 EP – Just get it for Louie’s message! I’m sick of Holy is the Lord and not a huge fan of Whole World in His Hands.
9. How Great is Our God (Passion ‘05) – FINALLY right out of the block: NO ONE LIKE YOU! BAM BABY! The next benchmark since the Our Love is Loud CD for many churches. Another one where every one of these songs hopefully are in your rotation.
10. The Early Sessions – Salvation is Here was the standout here as the others were found on the next release or on Chris’ CD. But that introduction was dearly needed. Kristian Stanfill covered who? Hillsong United? Who is that? The Hillsong youth band? Maybe I should check that out? Open brain – insert yummy greatness finding those guys! It was nice to find someone else to stalk! HAHAHAHA!
11. Everything Glorious 2006 – Everyone say it with me: IT’S TIME TO PAARRTAAY!! Hahahaha! Oh man that’s some funny stuff there. Another masterpiece churned out by the Passion camp. Critically many wonder if the gang has run out of new words other than “awesome, glorious, amazing” but 2 of my congregations favorites: Jesus Paid it All and You Never Let Go are found here. Released on the same day as the new Hillsong United CD!?!? Shameless sales competition? Growing concern though that Passion may be falling behind the leaders of ‘modern praise and worship’ to the Thunder from Down Under! With Tomlin sounding more contemporary and being showcased more on this CD than say a 3 letter acronymn with an *in the middle, that ‘college’ sounding mindset seems to some to take a backseat, especially comparing it to the sound coming out of the Coldplayish guitars of the United army. I’m still a believer though baby!
12. Passion ‘07 EP 1, 2, & 3 – See the reviews I’ve done on these when they dropped. The shiners: OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL off pt. 2, Marvelous Light off pt. 3. Don’t think you’ve heard Marvelous Light until you pick up this EP. Charlie does what Charlie does best and they capture it with a recording. I LOVE this rendition on this EP of that song! Will they/won’t they/will they/won’t they release a full length CD from ’07? The word out now is that these 3 releases will suffice for now.
13. Best of (So Far) 2007 – Re-mastered and a collection spanning the decade. The standout for this freak who has all those CDs is Crowder’s acoustic version of Come and Listen. Already a favorite of mine off his A Collision release, this time around though its life and led with a guitar. A must have for us guitar leading Lead Worshippers!
There you have it! This is the true blue Passion Catalog! Wait what about A Collision? Arriving? On the Road To Beautiful? Those are all artists under Six Steps Records and I put them in another category That’s a catalog for another day b/c this bad boy is immensely long already!
Feel free to add comments or corrections or where you were when these classics dropped!
Me: Dude that Pirate is still alive!
You: NO WAY! He was bleeding from his ears and mouth and all crazy!
Me: I’m telling you that Pirate dude is still alive!
You: Whatever you’re crazy.
HAHA! What did I tell you!! And how nuts was tonight! 24 eat it!! 3 episodes left and I’m peeing my pants with excitement!
I’m a bit behind Klampert and Mud on this but what a pertinent bandwagon to be on. Ironic really, I’ve been catching up on old Passion ‘07 podcasts and I noticed today a new one had been downloaded: Hope for the Hokies. Then I see on some of my favorite blogs this link and banner.
Hope for the Hokies is a website and free EP available in May to simply say that our hearts are with those in the Virginia Tech family mourning. The 5 free songs available for download were born out of belief in a God who comforts and repairs. Life can come from death and hope will endure.
Taken from Hope For the Hokies. Pass it along. What we can be in this tragic time is supportive and encouraging to those families by lifting them up in our blogs, facebook, conversations, and most definitely our prayers.
