Worship Set List

The "Ocho" Has arrived.

So here's our next Crossing practice cd. this should be fun. lots of real old stuff and some new stuff.
Wee Haw.

New Wheels

Yeah I just got some new wheels. I sold my 1986 Bmw K100 for this 1996 R1100GS and man is it so much more fun to ride. Good days around here. It's good to have spring here and get out of a gas guzzling 4 wheeled vehicle and onto some a bit nicer on the gas milage. (48mpg). Peace my friends

dean

Family, Friends, and a little Vegas

Traveling to see the family and friends is like Christmas. There's so many people that I look up to for various reasons and a few days off to see the heroes of Virginia, Tennessee, Carolina, and Las Vegas makes for a great Holi-day. Tennessee was just like you may expect. Lots of "Corn-hole" games, poker, and shooting guns until my ears were ringing. Virginia was a mad rush of spending time with family & friends where I was able to win two tables of "Texas Hold-em". Great conversations with Dad and Mom's chocolate pie were well worth the trip.
Carolina was a blast. So many cool friends to see and a first time playing the Wii made for a cool night of "catching-up" on old times. Worship at Journey Church was really good with all kinds of friends to smile with. And then we headed to Vegas and took in two Cirque de Soleil shows, a cool New Years Eve party at Treasure Island and played in two Texas Hold-em tournaments. It was lots of fun, but way too much food has been consumed in 2007 so I'm looking to fast and workout in 08'

Good Peoples

So yeah, the Purdue peoples were good peoples to us all. The band rocked & the peoples were glad to see us. We played 4 separate sets and the band stayed all in for each one. Good times. It was great playing some music with Todd Burkholder on Electric Guitar and David Farris on Drums. Those guys are a blast to hang out with, let alone play some music with. Good times indeed!

It seems like there's good people everywhere. Last week there were good people in Colorado, and this week some good ones at Purdue University. I'm starting to feel like I'm surrounded.

peace
Dean

On The Road Again

Traveling brings about this sense of "community" like no other. New towns, new faces and friends. The Band is on the road again! This time we're going to Purdue to play for about 1200 College students. Earlier this year we went to Ball State and things were good there. The College scene seems to dig our style a bit and it's tons of fun for me.
Purdue makes me think of good local "greasy spoon" late night restrants as well as a "Hot" Krispy Kreme Donuts. And more than anything "artsy" types. This place is full of really cool artists, musicians, and thinkers. It's gonna be a cool time. I love it when we get the band together for some travel and good times.

Tone

So yeah, I've been thinking a bunch about "Tone" lately. Wondering if there's enough in such a word for a book. It seems like there's this thread of life found simply in tone. This blog for example, must have some application on your part, because you can't hear it. Some of you may hear this with anger, some with pride, some may add a British accent, when really I'm from Virginia. The list can go on and on.
The dialogue becomes fun when we add to this something as valuable as Scripture. In scripture you need to sort of mine for some non-verbal things to insert your own tones. Was he mad when he said that? Or was he laughing? I'm looking for cool non-verbal scenes in scripture.
One example is the scene with Jesus & the rich man, when he said: "Go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor." Forever I chalked that guy off as a looser, until one day I ran into Mark's account (10:21). The verse says that Jesus "looked at him and loved him." Cool stuff there. It seams to change the tone a bit. All those years that the rich young man had walked away a loser were immediately transformed into the guy walking away having been loved by Jesus.

Now that's a cool tone to walk away with.
I'm sure there's more on tone later.

peace

Colorado Springs

I spent the last several days in Colorado playing music and teaching with some awesome new friends. The people were great. The mountains were beautiful as always. I sat up on top of one of the 14ers in Colorado and gained a whole new perspective on God's handiwork. Read some journals of John Muir that blew my mind. That guy is so awesome. His journals are like a photograph only there's no camera.

peace
dean