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The team just returned last week. We'll send another team in March and then one more next fall. We are there for the long haul :)

Hey Jeromy - thanks for posting that.

Cool story about how it all unfolded - our team went over to Uganda expecting to put together packages for about 300 families. Unknown to them, the agency had gone and raised enough money to give packages to almost TWO THOUSAND families of students and teachers at the schools we are partnering with.

Amazing!! Loaves and fishes?? :)

Hope you had fun! Sounded great!

Hope you're not stuck on 666 anymore :)

Yes - so good!!

I didn't watch all the videos but did you post the Superman Song?

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I have been much more disciplined about songwriting this year than ever before and that has paid off. Co-writing has totally changed the process before and has also resulted in some great stuff.

My main focus for songwriting now is to write songs that speak specifically to the situation of my own church. I think that is part of the pastoral role and duty that we have.

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Unceasing Worship by Harold Best
Recalling The Hope Of Glory by Allen P. Ross - it took me a year to get through this

Both of those books have rocked my world in the past couple of years.

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If there isn't production like this at Buckhead by the end of '09 you should be fired.

According to Palin hockey moms wear lipstick. I guess the Walmart lipstick just isn't as nice? :)

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Good thoughts - thanks man.

What a crazy story. What a crazy couple of days. I have heard so many stories through my blog of people who are very, very close to Mike and are blown away by what is happening.

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Questions that have come up from people as I've talked to them about this -

Was this guy planning a miraculous healing as a next step?

Will God use this song in an authentic healing experience for Mike now?

Hmmm..

Good thoughts, man. This is tough to hear.

My thoughts - http://www.chrisfromcanada.com/?p=710

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I posted this on someone else's blog but is grace the same thing as giving the guy a free pass??

Here's my thoughts - http://www.chrisfromcanada.com/?p=710

We have some serious soul-searching to do, I think.

There's a difference between giving the guy grace and giving him a free pass, no?

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"Oops" - haha. Good description.

Yeah. Ridiculous. I have serious questions about when all of this was known (particularly by the Hillsong/Planetshaker folks) and how soon they pulled Mike & his story from the promotion of the CD/DVD.

I mean did NOBODY check this story? No phone calls to the doctor? Nobody going with him for treatments? Nobody seeing him actually take the medication? It's unbelievable.

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My question is when did Hillsong know and how long did it take them to stop using the story to promote the album?

So yeah, that is messed up. The guy needs major healing.

Great singability + great theology = great worship song

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Hey Jeff - thanks for posting this and thanks for praying! It was a pretty amazing thing and I'll write back with all the details if you send me an email.

We are home now and everyone is doing great. Baby and mom are perfect!

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You Are by Mark Roach
Everlasting God by Brenton Brown
Center by Charlie Hall

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You might be interested in this - http://www.markbeeson.com/mark_beeson/2008/06/4...

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I've never understood the whole patriotic worship thing. It just would not fly at all in Canada. We included zero Canadian patriotic content on Sunday morning and nobody made a peep about it. It's just not very Canadian.

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Since everyone is just cross-posting their responses, I’ll do the same :) Canadians like to follow what everyone else is doing, anyway.

Isn’t teaching going to be a natural by-product of whatever songs you ask your congregation to sing? If you ask them to sing songs that are written as teaching songs then they may learn more, deeper, insightful things about the character of God but even if you are inviting them to sing songs which are not “theology to music” you are STILL teaching them, no?

There is a great amount of theology that is both directly and indirectly learned from congregational worship. Anytime church leadership puts words on a screen or a songsheet and asks the congregation to sing those words together, there is definitely the assumption that the leaders are approving the words and the sentiments of those words.

Can the church not be expected to grow in their knowledge and understanding of who God is through the singing of songs AND through the preaching of the word?

I’m not here to wave the flag of the Reformed songwriter-teachers but I think there’s a general assumption being missed - whatever songs we sing, those are the songs which will teach.

He-Man - nice!

Actually this is proof that humans lived during the time of the dinosaurs.

Ha - that is hilarious. Those shorts are the best part.

With the Willow Arts Conference starting on Wednesday this is good timing for them - they get the video out in time for it to make a little buzz and get some people talking before thousands of arts leaders from across the world gather in Chicago. It gives a platform for Nancy Beach or another Willow leader to stand at the conference and remind people of their commitment to reaching people who are far from God.

The leaders at Willow are not fools. They've seen everything written related to Reveal and were just waiting for the best time to respond.