Life On Life

Thoughts about church and just chilling out on Sunday

Today was a great day at FBC Emerson. As the Pastor of Worship, it is a blessing to have the bird’s eye view I get from the platform. I love to see people singing to Jesus, looking past the words on the screen into God’s face as they worship. I pray I will see more of [...]

Get this stuff in your ears and let God’s truth get all up in your grill.  Here’s the list: My Savior Lives Everlasting God My Deliverer You’ll Come I Will Rise We also broke out “A Mighty Fortress” written by Martin Luther and also talked about the historical circumstances surrounding the writing of the song. [...]

Here’s what we worshiped to this morning: Happy Day Our God Saves Your Name Desert Song I Will Rise I am enoying hearing reactions to these songs and others. It’s encouraging. I hear stuff like: “these songs are like prayers. That worship set was like 30 minutes of prayer…” I hope more and more people [...]

We went  little old school to kick things off today with God of Wonders. We had a couple of other familiar songs and two new ones for our church. I introduced “Desert Song” by Brooke Frasier, and “Our God Saves” by Paul Baloche’. I think they sang on them pretty well for two new ones!  [...]

I was in a coffee shop one eve in downtown Macon, and an older gent with a white beard and a beat up guitar told me in this older surfer dude voice “it’s all about the love man.” Thought about that today as I heard Andrew, our family pastor guy open his series on Love.  [...]

Today our Lead Pastor, Dr. Warner Smith was on a much needed vacation. In his steed, David Franklin gave a message today making us aware of some things God is doing in our local area, and how each generation has the chance to write their own chapter in continuing the story of carrying the Gospel [...]

I saw this post over at my friend’s blog, Matt Walton. He’s gonna plant a church soon. This video is a great example of how cheesy most church marketing is.  Simply thinking back on today’s worship time, I cant say that my church is miles away from this funny but true picture. But that’s one [...]

Today we had the first advent reading and a candle lighting. We also had a semi-successful execution of all the technical aspects of our worship service. I am praying that the Lord will send us a crew of folks that will want to build the Kingdom through the audio/video tech stuff. We need some people [...]

I thought today at the church house was a momentus occasion. When I first came here to FBC Emerson, I began with a picture in my mind of what I believe God had painted of what He wants our stage to look like, with all the different instruments and people involved. Today the first strokes [...]

Today started off with a cheetah like speed one mile run (those of you who remember my body type are laughing right now) up the neighboorhood streets in the darkness…thumping some Lecrae, Matt Kearney, Leeland and Crowder in my headphones before I got ready to go to church. I came back got cleaned up and [...]