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Finally back home and getting ready for this week’s communion service. Although I was able to work on it some while I was gone, it’s a good feeling to just sit and think and work and get some things done. Anyway, here are a few updates.

*FAMILY–Went to my for a couple days after we left Suz’s parents house and had a wonderful time at both places. My dad found out that he doesn’t have any cancer in his lungs or his bones, which is about the best news we could expect from what we knew. Thank you all for your prayers and please continue. He just started chemo yesterday, he said he felt pretty good when he got home from the hospital, but he was pretty pale.

*IGNITE–Ignite was ok. JR opened the night in a really weird, incoherent way. He showed his photography, rapped the Ebonics version of “The Night Before Christmas” and sang a cheesey song about Christmas from the perspective of Joeseph. It just felt weird. John Heaver spoke about Brokenness which I thought was really good. He talked about how leaders need to be transparent so self-disclosure can take place. Noel’s message was a great balence to that. He used the Chaos theory to show how connected we are to others and that we are broken, so we can have empathy with others and serve them. Pavi Thomas also had a good message explaining the differing beliefs throughout early church history and how we need to find more unity in our core instead of dividing over the “jars” that are farther out.

One highlight of the conference was hanging out with Tim and JD on Tuesday Night. We hit Mac’s bar and had a good discussion about Authority, the Bible and even some Dispensational/Covenent debate. Good times. Then on wednesday Jimi joined Tim and I. I was tired, but in the mood to step out of reality and mess with people. We asked a few Igniters for a cigarette. We saw a tray of food in the food court, at a table and decided to take all the seats around it, to see what kind of reaction we would get. we thought about asking Pavi if we wanted to go out to eat with us. We would take him to McDonalds and tell him “get whatever you want.” Then we would continually refer to him as “Ravi” and ask him questions about apologetics.

*Movies–Dodgeball was better than I expected. Garden state not nearly as good as I expected. The Life Aquatic was amazing! I’m going again to see it with Suz on Saturday. Great movie.

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We’ve been at Suz’s families in the cornfields of Indiana and it has been a great time. We’ve just been playin cards and talking and eating too much. Everyone has been getting me tools for Christmas since I’m finishing the basement. Pretty cool. I’m just hoping we can fit everything in our car. It’s to Akron tomorrow and Columbus on Monday.

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This was two years ago when I was in Dan and Andi’s wedding. You can’t see it too well here, but yes, I am wearing a kilt.

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So my sister and her boy Javier came to visit this weekend. It was so nice to see them, even though it was short.

This last week Suzanne’s parents came up for a day and dropped of the old farm dog Leo. He is very old and deaf and covered with sores, but he has a great temperment and generally likes people if given even minimal attention.

Please keep praying for my dad, he starts chemo at the end of the month. He has more tests this next week to find out if the cancer is in his bones and lungs. So pray that he doesn’t.

Christmas is coming up and so we will be traveling to Indiana then to Columbus Ohio for Ignite and then up to Akron for a day or so. Then back home we come to a new year.

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Oh, and here is an email convo that I had with Kyle. He’s so funny.

Kyle: Groovy, hey, when will the CD be finished…so we can become famous!

Me: Probably middle of January. We probably won’t be famous until at least June.

Kyle: …just in time for the MTV summer beach party!!

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It’s amazing how going to bed early (10:30) leads to waking up at 6am naturally. And I’ve been at il Bacio since 7 and have gotten tons done. It’s a good feeling. Also, I can’t get the song “Tell Me A Lie” out of my head. It’s good.

I’m still reading the new Don Miller book and finding that it is almost exactly what I’ve been thinking about for my next sermon. The text that I was starting with is Jeremiah 9. God says pretty much “don’t boast about what you have, what you know or what you do, but boast that you know me…” It’s weird cause it seems we are wired to need/want affirmation in our lives from other people, but when we find our value in that and not God, then we can be boasting in what we do. I talked about this with Sean today on IChat because he was up early too. Here is some of our conversation…

DAN: cool
yeah, let me know when you give those teachings again i want to hear them
Ross was like “i was just listening to him and was, like, totally convicted…”

SEAN: yeah well it’s totally God
because it’s been last minute
epiphanies
about stuff that I never thought about much before

DAN: i love it when he works like that
8:10AM
boast in God…he works in our weakness….suprising

SEAN: I actually used the “Santa Claus theology” thing from Dons book

DAN: nice there is so much truth in his words

SEAN:yeah

DAN:there are a couple things i found myself not quiet agreeing with…but nothing major

SEAN: let’s just move to portland and go to his house all the time

DAN: that would be cool…i want to go to Horse Brass

SEAN:we could totally be a “character” in one of his books, like Tony the Beat Poet

DAN:lol

DAN:”yeah and to tell you the truth, I learned a lot that summer from my two friends Firehead and Groovingdan…”

SEAN: haha we’re such losers

DAN it’s ok to dream….

SEAN:about being a footnote in some one elses book?

DAN:yeah
that’s why we are losers
that’s kind of the point of a lot of his book

SEAN:yup

DAN: finding worth in things like that
it’s weird because we are wired that way
but it can be bad
and it’s good to encourage people with our words, but bad to find all our value in them
such a hard balence

SEAN: yeah

DAN:it’s kind of like what Steve Bush talked how he was getting “hits” of flirtation…well i know i get “hits” of affirmation and one thing keeps me going till the next thing comes along that I get excited about

SEAN:yeah

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Check out some of my friends that I’ve added…Liz, Paul and Joel. Also check out my link to Paste magazing. It’s like Relevant, except cooler.

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Here’s a list of some new music I’ve been listening to lately…

1. Griffin House A sentimental singer songwriter. Folksy. Johnny Cash meets Ryan Adams meets Bob Dylan…but not quite as good as any of them…Still worth downloading. Listen to “tell me a lie.”

2. Ray Lamontagne People say he sounds like Van Morrison, but I think he sounds more like a mix between Neil Young and Tracy Chapman (hey she has a deep voice ok?). Check out the song “How Come.”

3. Sufjan Stevens Singer songwriter who has an album dedicated to Michigan. Songs include: “The Upper Penensula”, “Wolverine”, and “Flint (for the unemployed and underpaid)”.

4. The Fray Colorado’s Coldplay.

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So I just got the 2nd mix back of Ish and it sounds much better, not perfect but better. The vocals are more even and have less reverb and the levels in general are more even. There are some things that still aren’t perfect, but what do you expect for $500 bucks?

Tonight we had church and the music stuff seemed to go pretty well, we are learning how to play with the new formation of our band. Jeremy is still learning the songs, but most of the time what he’s playing is great. We also did a jazz verson of “What Child if This” for offering and he pulled out the sax and blew like crazy.

Well I have more music stuff in the morning, I need some sleep. Nighty Night.

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So we met OTR last night. I think it really made Suzanne’s week. It was cool.

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