Posts Tagged ‘summer’

My Daily Photo 07/23/09

This past summer I spent 3 weeks leading worship at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center in Palestine Tx. I have done this for about 12 years now. This sign is in front of the camp where I started.
– Post From My iPhone

Instrumental Reflection Break

For one more week I will take a break from posting an instrumental reflection. I unintentionally went on break from them during My weeks of summer camp. I I tended to record some of me playing piano at camp but seems like all I aged was guitar. That being said look for new reflections and [...]

When it’s Ok Not to Produce Fruit

I recently have taken up the fine art of gardening. It’s nothing serious, but I do like to buy plants and see how long I can keep them alive. Right now I have some petunias, coleus, daisies, and on the vegetable side beans, watermelon, tomatoes, peppers and some rosemary.
When I started with these plants in [...]

Unfailing Love CD Available

You can now get your copy of Unfailing Love on Itunes, Amazon, CD Baby and more. Read this to find out how.

Why We Don’t Rehearse Every Week

How It Was
We used to reserve every Wednesday night for an hour and a half rehearsal. We showed up at 6:30 and rehearsed until 8:00. Then we would show up again at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday mornings for an hour to rehearse and soundcheck before Sunday School and our service at 10:30 am. That all [...]

Older Songs Still Resonate

Last summer I led worship for a group of college students at a work camp. They take a week to spend together repairing homes in the area where they are working. I was leading worship for their evening services. The first night I got up with a great songlist. Some new songs from the up [...]

Free Background- Garden Angel Blur in 4 Colors

One of the most downloaded backgrounds on this site has been the Garden Angel Blur that I made from a photo I had taken this Summer at one of my work camps.  I thought maybe someone would like it in a color other than green… so here they are. Click on the image once to [...]

Free Song: Awaken Our Hearts

This summer I was sitting down and I was thinking, “If I were going to write a prayer for the church of today to pray to God, what would we say. I was thinking it should be a song of revival but yet a song of confession. The words to this song just flowed out. [...]

5 reasons not to rehearse

This summer I spent four weeks gone during the week and would come home on weekends. During that time we decided as a band to only use songs we knew really well, and to just meet up early on Sunday mornings to rehearse. This gave the band a break from Wednesday rehearsals and created a [...]

Guest Post- Logan Armatys- How to Survive Summer with a Band

With an amazing summer coming to an end, I feel the need to write about the most important thing we, as a band, have learned from the experience of traveling together weeks and months at a time. It is our greatest adversary…patience.
So how do you hit the road with your best friends …the amazing musicians [...]