Why I'm Hot - For My South Side Friends

For my South Side Friends, who never got to see this video. Try to get past the eye candy in the mirror scene in the middle of the video.

Double the Dwight Schrute

My favorite character is Dwight. This is classic!

Sometimes It Doesn't Matter Who Gets the Credit

Two Canadian geese decided to fly south for the winter. A frog was sitting next to them as they decided this and he decided he wanted to go as well. The geese laughed and said "you're just a frog- you can't fly!" The frog knew that he didn't want to stay in the cold, so he thought and thought and thought.

"I got an idea!" the frog said. He found a long stick. "You two hold this stick in your claws and I'll hold on to the middle."

"With what?" the geese asked. "Your little hands could never hold on to a stick!"

"With my mouth" said the frog, proud of his idea.

So the geese put the stick in there claws, the frog clamped on with his mouth and they began to fly south successfully.

A day or two later, a crowd of people looked up and saw the two geese flying overhead, holding a stick with a frog holding on in the middle with his mouth. Someone in the crowd exclaimed, "What a brilliant idea- I wonder who thought of that?"

The frog proudly exclaimed "I did!"

Oh This is Just Great

According to this article, even if you're thin, you may be fat. In fact, 60% of thin men are fat.

Discovery Channel :: News - Health :: Thin People May Be Fat Inside

Ten Independent Artists You Should Know (Fall 2005) - Music

The article below is from Christianity Today, one of the most read Christian Magazines both online and in the archaic print form. This is a writeup they do a couple of times a year about new artists to watch out for.

Take a look at the second artist down. Her name is Marie Miller, and she just released her first EP a couple of weeks ago. Last week her first single debuted on Air1's charts and on the national Christian Music charts. This week it's gained 6 spots and it is sure to gain more.

"So what?" you ask? Well, she's coming to GACC. I was looking at doing this song "Cold" for our opening day of the next series, and I was having a hard time finding it in my traditional spots (because it's so new). Then I find her MySpace and find out she's from Virginia. In fact, she's just a couple of hours from here. So I call her up and **Voila!** she's coming to do her song on May 27.

She just "heppened" to be have that date off and she just "happens" to live 2 hours up the road.

Ain't God Great?


Ten Independent Artists You Should Know (Fall 2005) - Music

Check out Marie's web site at mariemiller.net

From Saddleback

I came across this video this morning, from Saddleback Community Church. It posed an interesting question for discussion.

For worship, is it too far? Has the attention been distracted from God and on to those on the stage? Or is this simply the next step in worship that is relevant to seekers who have had little exposure to church?

The Inside Track - September 2006 - From the Editor

I think one of the things our Arts Team does extremely well is the way we come together for Big Sundays like Easter, Christmas Eve, Friend Day, and Nascar Sunday. We also come up big when the community needs us to like after Hurricane Katrina and for the VT memorial.

But what happens after that? Certainly we have done a good job of putting together services that are good enough to make people want to come back. But is there a back door? And is it standing open?

This is historically the point where Arts staffers say, "I've done my part. The offense has scored. After that, it's the defense's turn." But what about our part?

First, I hope you'll spend 3 minutes to read this article. (It's short).

This article came in an e-newsletter I get called "The Inside Track".

The Inside Track - September 2006 - From the Editor

Then, for discussion, two questions:

1 - Do we do a good job helping people to form relationships once they join the arts ministry?

and

2 - Do we do a good job of providing low-commitment, easy-to-plug-into positions for new people to join the Arts ministries? In other words, we just had a ministry fair. How hard is it going to be for those people to get plugged in to our ministries? Are there difficult hurdles for new people?