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MUSIC....GOOD

I picked up some good albums over late fall and winter:

    Vice Verses | Switchfoot  (this album is amazing)
    Odd Soul | Mutemath
    Closer | Shawn McDonald
    Reckoning | Needtobreathe
    Young Love | Mat Kearney
    Give Us Rest | David Crowder Band
    Mylo Xyloto | Coldplay
    EP | the assemblies 

But this spring, I keep check iTunes and I've been disappointed. I hope some good tunes come out soon. So what about you? Any good music?

Here's one more that I've really like that I picked up recently. I seriously love it.    

 

And while we're on the topic of music...check out the opening song from Easter at The Journey:

APRIL FEATURE SONG

Here is the new song we're introducing at The Journey this month: Let Me Feel You Shine by David Crowder * Band (admire the beard...)

 

LINSANITY JUST GOT BETTER

LOVE SONG

NO GREATER LOVE

This is a great love song...one of my favorites right now:

JOURNEY MUSIC VIDEOS

If there is one thing we excel at - it's making dumb videos. Here's the promo for our new series (new series kicks of this Saturday & Sunday - Saturday this week only at 5:00 pm) and here's some of our best music videos from past series:

FYI - my favorite is the 80's Child video. If you don't know, Virginia is Slash.

CHRISTMAS SONGS

I kinda like traditional and old school songs at Christmas but here's a few newer ones I really like...

We'll be doing this one a few time at The Journey during this month:

 

This is currently one of my favorites:

THURSDAY THOUGHTS

Here's some mush from my melon...

- My kids were so excited about the snow this morning....I was too.
- I don't understand why people who live in Michigan complain about snow. It's snowed for the first time this year in mid-November. That's pretty late. And it's not like it's a surprise that we get snow. I don't get it. I've lived down south. I will take 4 season in Michigan any day over their 2 seasons...super hot summer and non-summer.
- NFL Thursday night tonight. Love it.
- I keep waiting for my fantasy football to get everyone injuried. Going well through mid-season.
- Eli & I hit Dog & Suds today. Retro drive-in burgers. It's hard to beat root beer in a frosty mug.
- At Meijer's today, the cashier lady asked me why I didn't by any crazy produce like I usually do. I thought that was funny.
- One reason I like colder weather...I love hot beverages...coffee, tea, chai, hot chocolate, whatever...I have like 4-5 cups a day. - I can't stand to watch Sportcenter right now. All the stuff with Penn State just makes me upset.
-  I'm pretty excited about the Christmas Project for this year at The Journey (check the post from yesterday).
- I'm doing a beginnings group right now. It's pretty awesome.
- I have a bunch of friends in pain right now with loss and hurts in life. Heavy heart. Praying.
- I was watching X Factor with Steph last night. Paula insulted Simon for an outfit some girl was wearing...but the girl designed it. It was a great foot in the mouth moment. 
- X Factor is too over produced. There has been a number of bad lip sync moments.
- I was hoping to watch a new Person of Interest tonight but it's a rerun. It's the pilot so it's a great night to watch it. He's the new Jack Bauer.
- I really like the Us Against the World song on the new Coldplay album.
- I am really into Mutemaths new album. I keep wanting to listen to it.
- This will probably be the last calm weekend before the crazy holiday season.

Have a great weekend. 

NEW SERIES & A NEW SONG

SERIES
This Sunday, we are starting a new series at The Journey for the rest of this month. Do you ever feel like you need a new OS? A reboot? To refresh the page of your life? We're talking all this month about upgrading our church & lives to take things to the HNL...ho' nutha level.

Send an e-invite &  more details here.

SONG
This will be our feature song for the month: You by Hillsong from the album The Beautiful Exchange. Listen to it. Learn it. Live it.

HILLSONG UNITED

We saw Hillsong United in concert on Monday night. I keep thinking about it.We do a bunch of their songs at church because they have awesome songs and incredible musicians. They didn't even have all their main musicians with them and they still were amazing. They did "Yours Forever" which is one of my favorites so that was fun. I was disappointed the Brook Fraser wasn't there. I love her voice.  All that is besides the main point. It wasn't really a concert. I was a chance to focus our hearts of God - to join with thousands of others in shouting praise to God - yet at the same time a chance to have just some me & God time. It was spiritual refreshing. Their lyrics stood out me that night; they meant more. These lyrics are sticking with me:

Heal my heart and make it clean 
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your kingdoms cause
As I go from nothing to 
Eternity

This song closed up their main set and it was an amazing moment: