Sometimes you just make the wrong decision

....and I decided to go to Belfast the weekend this happened in Gent...

Why, oh why?

South Africa Vid from August

Here's a short clip of our trip to Grabouw in August to help in the township etc...:

Blatently linking to someone else's blog...

I've been posting on David Gate's blog recently, and found lots of really good thoughts and critique on the worship "industry" and environment in which we find ourselves. His recent posts on Worship Cliches really hit the spot. Check them out.

Worship is a lifestyle

Theology from songs

Worship music in the charts

Why are some people so darned insightful

I used to listen loads to a guy called Henry Rollins. He never minced his words. One of his old tracks - Low Self Opinion, really struck me afresh recently, as an epidemic in our society, church, workplaces and families.

A great refrain of encouragement at the end.



I think you got a low self opinion man
I see you standing all by yourself
Unable to express the pain of your distress
You withdraw deeper inside
You alienate yourself
And everybody else
They wonder what`s on your mind
They got so tired of you
And your self ridicule
They wrote you off and left you behind



You sleep alone at night
You never wonder why
All this bitterness wells up inside you
You always victimize
So you can criticize yourself and all those around you


The hatred you project
Does nothing to protect you
You leave yourself so exposed
You want to open up
When someone says "Lighten up"
You find all your doors closed
Get yourself a break from self rejection
Try some introspection and you just might find
It`s not so bad and anyway at the end of the day
All you have is yourself and your mind


The self hatred that blinds you
Binds you
grinds you
keeps you down
The world falls down around you
You build up walls around you
You wear disgust like a crown



If you could see the you that I see
When I see you seeing me
You`d see yourself so differently
Believe me
I know the self doubt that runs inside your mind
I know the self that treats you so unkind

If you could see the you that I see
When I see you
You would see things differently
I assure you

Don't need people

I see you are a screen -
Emotions in binary;
Memory in machine.
I need no conversation with you;
Our transaction means
No need for a soul.

Don't need people anymore;
Just operators.
No relations;
No need to react anymore.
Pushing buttons
Requests action.

The hum of our machines
Screams silently;
A groan unheard.
Will humanity rise;
Communicate again;
As creation's instinct returns?

Sound Guy Haiku

From Stuff Christians Like

http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/2008/10/remix-304-sound-guygal-haiku.html

Great...!

And if you don't know what Haiku is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

Made me laugh, then made me think...

This excellent post by the insightful and experienced worship leader Neil Bennetts, at first made me laugh, then nearly made me cry, and then challenged my heart attitude to preparing for worship. It is "bang-on".

http://thebabyandthebathwater.blogspot.com/2008/03/leading-worship-coe-style-preparation.html

I would appreciate any comments from our group of worship leaders on this one! So who is our "hit-spray Simon"??