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"It turns out that success is coming from the atypical organizations, the ones that can get back to..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:58:38 -0500

“It turns out that success is coming from the atypical organizations, the ones that can get back to embracing irreplaceable people, the linchpins, the ones that make a difference.”

- Seth Godin

It’s a new song. :)Listen to it. Let God speak through...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:41:06 -0500

It’s a new song. :)

Listen to it.
Let God speak through it.
It’s starts with HIM.
It ends with HIM.
It’s all about HIS STORY.
It’s all about rescue.

How ‘bout we sing it this weekend?

OK, you talked me into it… why not… :)

cheers,

j

PS. it’s called You Alone Can Rescue off Matt Redman’s newest album We Shall Not Be Shaken, which, by the way, is an AWESOME ALBUM. Buy it in iTunes.

Anybody know the song? Don’t miss @OakbrookChurch today!!!

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:36:40 -0500

Anybody know the song? Don’t miss @OakbrookChurch today!!!

Kidstuf in the public school. This is crazy. Our family ministry...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:11:32 -0500

Kidstuf in the public school. This is crazy. Our family ministry team rocking it at a local elementary school!!

Carter loves the snow…

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:50:22 -0500

Carter loves the snow…

Today is blowing my mind...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:02:10 -0500

Today is one of those days.

The start of a new series & a topic everybody really resonated with worked itself out to a lot of creativity smashed into a solid hour (ish). That always translates to an incredible experience, but also an incredible amount of work. :)

So leading up to this week we had a ton of stuff to pull off…

*Find the AHA video… create a track… record vocals… create a click… rehearse… edit & export the video… rehearse

*Create text video… create a click to the video so the band could sync up with the video… rehearse

*Learn cues, learn lines, figure out how to interact and write on a glass board

*Find the right stuff to write on the glass board and make sure people can see it

*Oh yeah, BUILD the glass board

*Figure out how to light the glass board so peeps could see it

*Chart new songs… record part tapes… learn guitar parts… rehearse

*Make graphics… message slides…

*hook up electric drums for the VINTAGE 80’s sound… haha…

So here’s what really blows my mind…

WE ARE IN KOKOMO, INDIANA. (this place is so artsy you know?)

AND…

a ton of the stuff up there was done by INTERNS. College aged students who have jumped into this thing around church we call the PROTEGE PROGRAM. They become slave labor for us, and we give them our company… haha… not really… but close :)

there’s just so much that goes on behind the scenes… that list up there isn’t even a 1/4 of it… and I can’t explain how hard these guys & gals worked to pull this morning off. The HOURS, yes HOURS, of rehearsal…

I’m so proud of this team. My mind is blown.

The guys on staff I get the privilege to work with… the people in the booth who nailed their cues, who woke up early on a Sunday morning to give their BEST to create this UNREAL experience… The guys in the band who where at rehearsal LATE on Thursday night making sure everything sounded perfect, and who came early this morning to keep making things better.

It takes so many people so much time to pull these things off! And that’s only the one room!!!

There’s just such incredible environments around Oakbrook, from the big room to Kidstuf to OSM… what a crazy thing happening in KOKOMO, INDIANA of all places… and that list of stuff is happening in all those environments too.. and there’s even more teams of people pulling THOSE things off in crazy excellent ways!

wow…

I guess I just wanted to say…

I LOVE MY TEAM. I LOVE MY CHURCH. I LOVE WHAT I DO.

WAY TO GO GUYS… TODAY OUR CHURCH KICKED SOME SERIOUS TAIL.

cheers,

Thursday night rehearsal @oakbrookchurch. Anybody guess what...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:24:59 -0500

Thursday night rehearsal @oakbrookchurch. Anybody guess what song?

Carter the first week we got him. He’s so tiny!!!

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:05:09 -0500

Carter the first week we got him. He’s so tiny!!!

"We love movies because they let us escape. But we are not escaping from reality as much as we are..."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:16:17 -0500

“We love movies because they let us escape. But we are not escaping from reality as much as we are escaping into a clearer, more focused understanding of it. The movies we cherish the most are not those that feel the farthest from our experience. On the contrary, they are the ones that- in the darkness and stillness of a square, box room- reanimate the wonder and mystery of the world we know.”

- Brett McCracken

Ticket to ride… I created this little decoration the other...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:08:52 -0500

Ticket to ride… I created this little decoration the other night BEFORE we actually played. It’s not bragging if you can back it up right? Haha…

This pre amp by universal Audio is blowing my mind. I’m running...

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:23:00 -0500

This pre amp by universal Audio is blowing my mind. I’m running my Taylor with the balanced ES through this… Driving the tube and getting some nice compression.

In all my years playing… This Sunday shall mark my favorite acoustic sound. Seriously. Shocking.

oh, and I posted this with the tumblr iPhone app… so clean & simple… I’m really loving tumblr…

YOU PICK THE PRELUDE!

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:58:18 -0500

YOU PICK THE PRELUDE!:

We’re trying something crazy the next few weeks.. we’re letting you people pick the preludes. Not sure yet how it’s gonna work out. :)

No, there’s no write in votes… haha… but maybe we’ll try that one day…

We’re starting a series FEBRUARY 14 called RITUAL. We’re throwing it back to the history of the church, the “rituals” that the church, that WE have done for a super long time, and we’re gonna dive in.

Thus, every week of this series, we’ll light up a throw back prelude. We’re obviously having a little fun with your definition of “throw back”… the preludes you can vote for are all 70’s and mostly 80’s. Really strong decades for music.

So check out the link above, see if the Oakbrook band just can’t rock your face off.

My wife actually said she’s not going to vote for one of the songs because she doesn’t think we can pull it off. ouch. that’s straight to my heart.

She’ll see…

and so shall you. :)

vote vote vote!

DMB grammy performance… have I said I love these guys?...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:41:00 -0500

DMB grammy performance… have I said I love these guys? unreal. the energy on stage is so epic. :)

Thank you anthropology for the sick light fixture.

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:11:53 -0500

Thank you anthropology for the sick light fixture.

Colors have feelings.

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:48:00 -0500

Colors have feelings.:

Do people really feel this when they see/experience a certain color? I’m not sure I agree with it all wholistically, but to be honest, I pretty much agree & feel the same stuff they talk about here.

I guess I think about this stuff a little when I design, but reading through this makes me think I really need to think through it.

I’m just glad the color we picked for the Oakbrook branding, a greenish color was described as: “new beginnings and growth” SCORE. But it can also be “envy or jealousy” YIKES. We’ll just say that’s GOD BEING JEALOUS FOR US. :)

cheers,
j

Attention.

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:58:47 -0500

I was sitting in a theater the other day wondering why I love to go to movies so much. I suppose there’s a lot of reasons… how it looks… how it sounds… the art… really the whole experience.

But then I thought… I love how my ADD self is forced to dive into this other world. I’m not distracted. I’m focused. My attention is dialed into this world that the filmmaker created- for better or for worse.

Then I thought… it’s crazy how we (humans) can only focus on one thing like that at a time.

Then I thought… if God is the ultimate and biggest… His ATTENTION is limitless. His ATTENTION is the greatest it could be.

Then I thought… GOD is watching my life unfold like I watch a movie. DIALED. TUNED IN.

Of course there are obvious differences… God’s probably not getting surprised by the thrilling conclusion of my life… haha… but there are similarties… a scary amount of them if you ask me… maybe He’s falling asleep watching most of our lives…

Then I read this book:

http://amillionmiles.com/

(you should read it)

He’s watching the play by play of my life like I may watch a movie?

Maybe we should all be writing better stories with our lives. As if our lives had a point.

cheers,
j

Rise and Sing Video Support

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:31:59 -0500

Rise and Sing Video Support:

everybody that does this song needs to grab this. One of the coolest video support pieces i’ve seen in a while. Not gonna lie, it’s not the most worshipful song ever… but man is it fun… :)

Hillsong… awesome.

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:14:21 -0500

Hillsong… awesome.

Motionographer

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:51:19 -0500

Motionographer:

I visit this site a lot… killer art… unreal creativity… it’s called inspiration and it pushes me to create better art.

colts and joel

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:49:24 -0500

let’s go. I think we’ve got this. Peyton is peyton… JETS can’t score with us.
Sunday 3pm.
And in other news… joel larison is on his honeymoon which places me leading in OSM next sunday night… 2pm-6pm… WOW.
I must really love him… or maybe God is trying to teach me something… but what could that be…

:)