Lifehouse's Everything Skit

This skit is really great. I love how it shows that God is always there for us. We can get so distracted with other things and the further we focus on them the harder it appears to get back to Jesus. Yet Jesus is still only a prayer away and although Satan wants us to think he is long gone, He isn't and He is right there waiting for us to come back to Him...and that is when He can step in and fight for us. It's up to us to choose. What a great, powerful and loving Saviour!

Your Favourite Worship Songs

So I'm trying to make a worship CD of all the best worship songs out there right now. And by make I just mean compile the songs on my computer for my own personal listening enjoyment. But I want to know which songs I should include on it. I have a few current favourites, but I'd like some help from anyone who reads this blog. I'd like to know not only what your top 3-5 worship songs are, but also who sings them. There are lots of versions of these worship songs out there and I want to know which ones you like best.

I'll start things off with five of my current favourites:

• You are holy (Prince of Peace) - by Newsong (although the Michael W. Smith version is also really good)
• Beautiful One - Jeremy Camp (I love the intro)
• Till I See You - Hillsong United
• Only One - Hillsong United
• How Great is our God - Chris Tomlin

So let me know in the comments what your favourite ones are! I'd sure love to hear from ya!

When Will Your TV Shows Go Dark

Due to the writers strike our favourite tv shows will soon run out of episodes. If you want to know exactly when your favourite show will be finished, you should probably check it out here.

Party Weekend

I haven't posted much lately because I've been too busy partying! I was in Toronto last weekend for a fun time with some of our Marketing Coordinators from the Hbc Run for Canada. Any Marketing Coordinator that reached their goals of participants, fundraising and volunteers got a trip to Toronto...and I got to be their host (sort of like the blind leading the blind since I don't know Toronto well either! Luckily we had a Toronto person from work help us out)

We had a great time and had a lot of fun. I won't go into all the details but as you can tell by the pictures we:

Did some touring around Kensington Market and Queens Street West

Went to a Toronto Maple Leafs game which was awesome, especially since Toronto beat the Senators!

And then went to a birthday party later on.

It was a great weekend all around and fun to finally meet these people in person. We had the Marketing Coordinators from Victoria, Halifax and St. John's so pretty basically we had people there from coast to coast.

I said goodbye to them all Sunday morning and then I kept on partying...by going to the Eastern Final football game at the Rogers Centre with the owner of TrojanOne, his kids and another guy from work. That was also a great time. I cheered for the Argos just because I couldn't bring myself to cheer for our arch rivals the Bombers. The Argos didn't play all that well which was too bad, but at a couple points in the game the dome got so loud I couldn't hear a thing. That was awesome!

This is the view from my seat at the game.

So now I'm back at home and back at work.

I've Been Inspired...the Full Story (Uncensored!)

A little while ago I wrote a brief little post about being inspired. That was all that was said. Well, after receiving hundreds of comments on it (ok, actually just one, but you know what they say about comments...for every person that comments 99 other people were thinking the same thing!) I decided to post what I was inspired about.

I want to be a humourist.

There. It's out. I've come out of the closet (not in that way though..not that I'm in the closet...ah, forget it)

The person who inspired me was Phil Callaway. I've been a fan of Phil for quite a few years now although I had never read one of his books. And by fan I mean I heard him once at Breakforth a number of years ago, attended his session on learning how to tell a good story, and then completely forgot about him until about 2 weeks ago. That was when I heard that our church, West Portal, was bringing Phil in to speak at our annual Christmas banquet. I immediately got excited to hear him speak again, but like Microsoft Vista every 47 minutes, it eventually crashed on me when I realized I was going to be in BC at that time and wasn't coming back until the day after he spoke. Regardless, I was inspired to do something similar to him...get people all excited and then crush their dreams. No, I'm just kidding. I realized that if there is one thing I think I am good at it is telling and writing stories.

Now many of you who read this blog are probably thinking to yourself, "You? A humourist? The only time I found you funny was when I saw you demonstrating how to do the breakdance move The Worm and it looked more like a beached whale trying to get back to water!" Well, that may be true and you are very much entitled to your opinion. Ironically, the other night Shiela and I were over at some friends and I decided to share this new ambition in my life. And what did they do...they laughed. I mean, I guess that's what I wanted, but I didn't realize I had told a joke yet :-)

For a long time now I've been struggling with what I am good at. I look at all the people around me and wonder why I can't play music or do construction or draw or be a handyman or know things about cars or be creative enough to come up with the concept of The Wiggles and have every kid in the world loving me. Now I'm not wanting to be envious of any of you and I am glad God has gifted all of you with those talents. I've just been wanting to find out what God has gifted me with and use it for Him. I really feel that this is an area I can be good at and feel that God has given me a talent to do this.

So there it is. I'm writing a book and I hope I can make you all laugh by sharing my life experiences. Since I'm sure you'll all want to buy about 10 copies each I'll let you know that it should be out sometime in...oh...let's say sometime in 2008. Oh, and if anyone knows any publishers that want to sign me on already tell them to give me a call (no really, I'm serious).

Why Do Christians Support War?

I'm sure the first thought many of you had after reading that headline was "What ya talkin' bout fool! I don't support war!" And for all I know you are telling the truth. The interesting part though is there are many Christians and others who say war is wrong but we have to protect ourselves so we don't have a choice.

Now I don't have the answers and don't pretend to either. But lucky for you, my friend John Campea has made his first documentary about this very thing entitled Prince of Peace - God of War. The DVD has just come out and you can buy it on his website over here. It has also been shown at two different film festivals in the United States and received great reviews.

I've already ordered my copy and I would encourage all of you to get one too! You can also check out the first 5 minutes of the documentary right here.