Nat breaks his wrist by falling from the crow's neat ladder

He had a plate and screws put in today at 1pm. Talk about getting
screwed...wow.

Cat performs the "CATcerto" - worth the watching

Someone said there is no new music...while theoretically that's true, I haven't heard a cat arrange the music like this before. Imagine a concerto written around what a cat has played on a piano. Brilliant! If you haven't seen this "Cat-certo" - it's worth the entire listen. Thanks to Joyce Jordan for passing this along to me.

TBC Worship Rewind: July 26, 2009 #sundaysetlist #sundaysetlists

Rewind:
Tried something a little radical this week - the weaving together of several songs (read medley). I know, sounds weird on paper, but it works. But what did you think?

Watch/listen to last weekend's message

Set List:

• New Doxology>Gateway Worship with Baba O'Riley>The Who
  
• The Power of the Cross>Keith & Kristyn Getty
• Medley: Your Grace Is Enough>Chris Tomlin with Victory in Jesus>Public Domain with Carry On Wayward Son>Kansas
  
• Mighty to Save>Hillsong

Links to other setlists:

• Fred McKinnon
• Rick Kirkpatrick
• Twitter #sundaysetlists or #sundaysetlist
  

Attending the National Worship Leader Conference with Conan O'Brien #nwlc09

Seriously. He's a great guy from CA who leads worship in his church.

Michael W Smith at #nwlc09 this afternoon in Kansas City

Just him and a keyboard.

Morning session with Travis Cottrell at #nwlc09 in Kansas City

Dr. Marva Dawn followed Travis.

TBC Worship Rewind: July 19, 2009 #sundaysetlist #sundaysetlists

Rewind:
This week I was at NAMM with Kerry Livgren and John Bowes. Thank God for the others who lead worship when I'm out for a weekend.

Watch/listen to last weekend's message

Set List:

• Praise to the Lord, the Almighty>Word Music
• O Worship The King>Passion
• Oh the Deep, Deep Love>Sovereign Grace Music
• Jesus Messiah>Chris Tomlin
• Friend of God>Chris Tomlin

Links to other setlists:

• Fred McKinnon
• Rick Kirkpatrick
• Twitter #sundaysetlists or #sundaysetlist
  

Check out this virtual choir on YouTube by Eric Whitacre

Well done.

TBC Worship Rewind: July 12, 2009 #sundaysetlist #sundaysetlists

Rewind:
Leading worship from the piano is different for me than guitar. 1. One can control transitions in and out of songs more easily. 2. One has less interaction with those who've come to worship. 3. One has less opportunity to give non-verbal communication to the rest of the band.

At rehearsal, we had serious click/loop/sheet music/display lyric sync problems. Thankfully, on the weekend - it was all ironed out. Thanks to Jim Welborn on lyrics for keeping a cool profile and having a great attitude.

Our Aviom IEM (in-ear-monitor system) setup is having some issues. I learned this weekend that our A-Net mixer lost a channel. I mean, it's gone. We had to re-route the stereo keyboard and B3 organ setup to different channels and avoid the dead channel 7.

Musically, it was great to have a week that I didn't worry about anything. That tells me we don't need to work on the music end - we need to work on ironing our sync and audio issues.

Watch/listen to last weekend's message

Set List:

• Say So>Israel & New Breed
• Great Is Thy Faithfulness>Word Music (nice arrangement in 4/4 time)
  
• Oh the Deep, Deep Love>Sovereign Grace Music (great new song)
  
• Revelation Song>Kari Jobe
  
• Hosanna>Paul Baloche

Links to other setlists:

• Fred McKinnon
• Rick Kirkpatrick
• Twitter #sundaysetlists or #sundaysetlist
  

From the lips of a 5 year old (trumpet player)

If you don't play trumpet, then I'll simply tell you - be amazed. Be very amazed.

TBC team prays for you every Tuesday morning

TBC Worship Rewind: July 5, 2009 #sundaysetlist #sundaysetlists

Rewind:
It was nice to have our newest Acoustic Guitar player (Armand Heyns) play Mandolin for several of the songs. Thanks to my Line 6 Variax guitar and PODxt Live to be able to switch to acoustic when the mandolin was up to bat. I learned yesterday that the click/met track should NOT have any slow-ups/ritards at the end of the songs so that the Main Auditorium (MA) and Lower Auditorium (LA) bands can simply end them un-synchronized...then start the next song by itself. It was also nice in the Main Auditorium (MA) to have the Blasi trio lead on vocals so I could lead the band and enjoy the Electric Guitar role without leading. One of the things I dislike about the whole synchronized Main Auditorium (MA) and Lower Auditorium (LA) is the fact that I don't really know how things are going downstairs. I'm relying on secondhand information. Thankfully, we have capable musicians in both places - so I'm not worried too much about it.

Watch/listen to last weekend's message

Set List:

• Mighty to Save>Hillsong
• You Shine>Brian Doerksen
• Oh the Deep, Deep Love>Sovereign Grace Music
• Your Name>Paul Baloche
• The Old Rugged Cross>Brad Paisley
• Holy is the Lord >Chris Tomlin
  

Links to other setlists:

• Fred McKinnon
• Rick Kirkpatrick
• Twitter #sundaysetlists or #sundaysetlist
  

Success failure on Topeka Sign

Don't think the S fell off - they didn't leave a space for it.

TBC Aquires a Pope-Mobile

Minus bulletproof glass and security detail.

In case you forgot why we ended up celebrating today

Thanks to my friend Kelly Dolan for sharing this.