Hah, when I was at work, I was talking with a Pastor from a somewhat new church down here in Palo Alto about worship, and about new songs and such (he’s looking for whatever stuff is really new, but I couldn’t offer too too much, He did end up buying Shane Barnard, Matt Redman, and Darrell Evans upon my suggestions though =) ). Anyways, that just spurred me tonight to go figure out some new songs. I originally posted on the Shane Barnard Project for someone to tab out that song “Take Me Away” by Lifehouse. I broke down and did it myself, but I did that song by David Crowder first. It doesn’t really have a title, but the chorus goes “O Praise Him” so that’s just what we’ve been calling it. I hope it appears on an album soon (maybe OneDay03?). Anyways, I have a rough cut of it from Thad’s FTP server, and it sounds great, so yeah. I figured out those two today. 

current mood: joyous
current music: O Praise Him – David Crowder Band

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Just getting things ready for tonight’s worship. A lot of stuff going on. We have two sets of stuff, one 15 and one 20 minute set (why do I feel like I’ve talked about this earlier….hrm…). Anyways, yeah, it should be interesting. I only have one kinda faster song, since we’re having a memorial kinda thing with more of a solemn worship-ish feel to it with it being the 1 year anniversary of Sept. 11th.

I still have to do two songs for trasparencies, “Light of the World” and “Here I am to Worship.” I KNOW I had one for the 2nd song, but dunno where it went…dern youth, haha. =P 

Wow, just downloaded this new client called Semagic. It works really well. It kinda looks like a whole email client, but it works just for LiveJournal entries.

Well I’ve been on LJ now for over a year, kinda weird. I don’t have all that many posts, as opposed to some people, who I know have like a gazillion posts on this place. For a long while, I just posted once a week, and that was sorta sufficient for that. I guess a lot of times I don’t know what to post about, and I’m really not sure how many people read this, so it doesn’t seem like too much of a job to post here. I guess I’ll just talk about my day today.

Well, today is sort of a continuation of yesterday, part of it. I tried to get Erica to work for me (she’s one of my co-workers at Berean, and she also goes to AACF, and helps out with worship a lot). Reason being was that Josh, a rep from Word Entertainment was coming by today and Vanessa organized a dinner over at Elephant Bar with a bunch of us employees to go eat with Josh, and just kinda hang out. I actually went out with some of my co-workers last Wednesday for dinner, before our first AACF meeting (it was interesting, hehe). Anyways, Erica couldn’t work for me, so yeah, I had to work. It was alright today, went by pretty fast. Oh, forgot to mention that Vanessa got the staff pizza, because we sold 40 books of “Let’s Roll.” It’s a book written by Lisa Beamer, who’s husband was on United Flight 93 last year, that crashed into a field in Penn.

It’s amazing that just about a year ago now Sept. 11 happened. I still remember it pretty clearly in my mind, and I remember how we were all glued to our lil 13″ tv screen (which was actually betsy’s) and how about every 10 minutes we would be checking the CNN site to find out what was happening. It was a crazy day. I know a lot of churches tommorrow, as well as fellowships and stores will be having memorial services in remeberance of those who died (some where around 3,000 people =( it’s awful).

[side note: just switched keyboards, haha]

Tommorrow night I’m leading worship with Phil Chen, and Phil Jang. I have most of the songs picked out and what not, still need a few more, and hopefully I’ll have them before tommorrow night. hehe, well I better. I was listening to a CD I made of 722, which is a Singles Bible Study out in Atlanta. I think I’ve talked about it before, but it’s run by a variety of churches, and the main speaker for it each week is Louie Giglio of Passion. Anyways, last year, Sept. 11, they had service, and I’m sure that they had to change a lot of it, considering no one knew of what was going to happen. I was listening to that CD today to just kind of get an idea of what songs they used and everything. The songs they used were so good, and rightly picked, and powerful. I may be using atleast one of them tommorrow. They opened with the song by Delirious, “My Glorious” which is great, the chorus goes:

God is bigger than the air I breath
The world we’ll leave
God will save the day and all will say
My Glorious

Such a touching and timely song to use…

With the one year anniversary of Sept. 11 about to happen, and the increased security warnings around the world, it’s kinda scary. I really pray that nothing happens tommorrow, and that everything will be fine when I wake up. I almost have a feeling like I’m sacred to go to sleep, in the case of finding out what happens when I wake…

current mood: morose

Well today at work we got in the new Chris Tomlin album. Even though it’s not supposed to go on sale until next tuesday, I snuck a copy out. whooooo. It’s pretty good, but I didn’t intially hear too many usable songs for worship. It’s different from his first, as it seems to have a few more “rockish” tunes on it, with fast breaks, and “air drops” as I call them.

“Air drops” are basically when you cut the music, sing a beat or two, and come back in full force. I don’t know if that’s actually the technical term for it, but I like it, hahaha.

The first meeting of AACF took place tonight. These years theme is “Breaking the Silence” and I have a cool song for it too. That song “Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord/I Will Not Be Silent” seems really good, hahaha. Well I’m set to do worship next week, so maybe I’ll try for that one, and see how it goes. Just for reference, and to make this journal a bit longer, I’ll type out the words of that song for ya, and leave ya with that to ponder on.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth (x2)

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth

Chris Tomlin’s new album comes out September 10th, 2002, and it’s entitled “Not To Us”. I got a pre-release copy from work with just 5 songs on it, but it sounds pretty great. As I played the CD twice in the store last night (when I first got it) two people asked about it already! haha. So looks like it’ll be a great CD. People liked Chris’ voice a lot, so I’m sure people will be asking about him a lot, if any of them get some airplay (supposedly I read the song “Enough” be released to the radio markets fairly soon).

Anyways, I have here a e-card which can be downloaded, and also sent to other people which features some info on the new cd, as well as plays some good music from it. =) Enjoy!

Oh, and BTW: The versions of “Enough” and “Famous One” sound pretty different from the ones off the “Our Love is Loud” CD, which is pretty cool. Usually they sound bland and the same as the live versions, but they changed it up a lot, which is really neat. =) Also, I say it here first, but the song “Wonderful Maker” will be the next “song” if ya know what I’m talking about. The next “Shout to the Lord” or “Heart of Worship” or what not. It’s co-written by Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman, so best of both worlds. =)

Oh, and on a side note, I hope I don’t see Matt Redman in awhile. After watching the Patriot with Mel Gibson, I almost feeling slapping anyone British I see, hahahaha. Ok, maybe not, but man, that one guy pissed me off.

current mood: nerdy
current music: Chris Tomlin – Come Home Running