this was amazing.

if anyone's interested...

if anyone is interested, my band is playing up at davis college in johnson city, ny on saturday april 21st...the show costs 5 dollars and i believe it starts at like 5ish...please, if you're available that evening, feel free to come and enjoy.

Laura

Well I just want to let everyone know in the Chamber Singers Blog that Laura and I are at Moses Taylor Hospital. She is going to be induced sometime after midnight. Laura is fine and the baby is fine. The doctor wants to induce because the fluid level is a little low for baby but not harmful. Inducing the labor is so the fluid level does not become dangerous. Who knows we may have the baby on St Patrick's Day (not a big deal to us). The nurses have been nothing but great. Pray the the baby will come quick because as many of you know mommy is not able to eat real food until baby is out. Inducing is not a natural thing (though it is done often) so there is no telling how long it will take. I am excited and think that Laura is the bravest person I know. I can only image what she will be going through and just the thought of it makes me hurt. Well I will keep you posted so keep checking here and on my blog as well. You can bet we will have lots of pictures as well. I can't wait!!!

Praise God for His Goodness

Hi everyone out in PA land and across the fruited plain. I just wanted to praise God for what He has done in my families life over the past few months. He is so good. Our little girl is growing like a weed and finally eating solid foods and laughing at everything she sees. She is such a joy to have around (thanks for the shirt for her Jordan). God has also sold our house for us in a very tough market and we close next week in that transaction. Things here at church are going great and I want to praise God for a whole year of faithful service from our pastor, Paul Alexander. It has been great getting to know him and to be discipled by him as well.

I was listening through the BBC music CD we recently found in our car from the spring of 2004. There were so many good memories from that year of I'll Live for You, I'll Fly Away and many others. It was such a blessing to be able to sing with you for the short time I had with the group.

I hope you all are finding evidence of God's sovereign faithfulness in each of your lives. Reading through Job recently has taught me to trust in God's wisdom no matter what He brings our way. He is so good and I am so undeserving. Soli Deo Gloria!!

I just wanted to congratulate Doc and the current Chamber Singers on a very excellent performance at Dave McGrew's recital on Saturday. I thoroughly enjoyed your part in a very inspiring evening.


Well done!

The Christian Ministry

As many of you are preparing for the ministry, I thought it would be good for us to reflect on some of the words I am reading from Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry. He writes in his chapter on the qualifications for ministry:

“To fill the Ministerial office with a degree of satisfaction and benefit commensurate with its capabilities, or with the desire of a heart awake to its importance, we must be all that it demands – men of God, perfect, completely furnished to every good work. This an elevated standard. He that aims highest will most approximate to it.”

How many of us actively pursue perfection in ministry? It is so easy to do the minimum. We know what's expected of us, and we accomplish that. However, that is not what the Bible demands. It demands our all, only possible with a realization that God is our all sufficiency. How often do we do what we think is best, trusting that God will accept it because it comes from us, talented gifted workers in His ministry? To often we make the mistake of Uzzah and assume that our hands are cleaner than the mud.

But God is good, and He has promised to complete the work he began in us. He will enable us to handle all He throws our way (1 Cor. 10:13), and will draw us to Christ through His discipline. Thanks be to God.

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I don't have to say much I am just sick of looking at that guy every time I take a look at the blog. Not much of a reason to post, just thought I would change things up a bit.