I going on vacation today to see my family. Laci and I are traveling to Alabama and Florida. It going to be a LONG ride with our dog Bentley. He doesn’t ever sit down! Anyways… there will be a lot more to come, but here is a glimpse of our service last night at Belk Theatre in Downtown Charlotte. Enjoy.
Due to popular request on sunday. Here is the Yule-Tithe Cheer video from yesterday. Enjoy.
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My wife loves national geographic. We watched hours and hours of PLANET EARTH (a documentary about life on earth shot by national geographic) when it came out. Amazing footage! Now I’m not one to normally name drop, but I just Met Jared Hogan! The creative team got to eat lunch with him on Tuesday! We often look for people who have achieved amazing things in order to pick their brain about how they have gotten where they are and where it all began!
Did you know that the filming of National Geographic’s Plant Earth was in production for 5 years, shot over 2,000 days in the field, in 200 locations and all in High Definition! If you haven’t watched it check it out!
Oops… Jared has nothing to do with National Geographic, I just realized that i was telling you too different stories at the same time. Sorry about that. Anyways… lunch with Jared was nice.
We are in the middle of our series called Do You Hear. This series has been strong. This week we had a great time of worship that was really intimate. Below is a clip of Mack singing Go Tell It On The Mountain. The version we did is by Lee McDerment from Newspring in Anderson, SC. I can’t wait to see what God does this week to close out this series.
On a different note. I’m really excited about our Christmas Eve service Uptown on the 24th. Our service times are 3:00pm, 5:00pm, and 7:00pm. This will be a christmas eve like none other you’ve experienced. Of course we are doing it Elevation Style. We get to celebrate as a church together to close out what God has done this year and in anticipation for what is yet to come. Pastor Furtick says it best, “The best is yet to come!”
Check out this video from this week. You can see this and others here.
We began our new series called “Do You Hear” this week. Everything was real smooth. The series teaser is in the highlight video player. We produced this video about life change. Here is a clip from the video at our Butler Campus. The video is from a wideshot camera so the quality is donkey and the audio is no bueno. But… thought you might like to see how we use video elements in our services. Enjoy.
Laci and I are at Panera. Tonight has been nice. We don’t always have a lot of time to hang out together. So… tonight we decided to come to concord for a Panera-Computer-Hangout-Plan-Christmas-Gifts-and-Travel Extravaganza. Translated… what that means is… she thought of cool and creative gifts to give people while I wrote this blog and watched the Florida vs. Alabama game online.
Our heat is out at the house so we came to get some soup and be warm… go figure that they would have the air on. Whoops.
Me and Laci
A question i get every so often is, “How did you learn how to do all of this?” When people ask me this questions… it is in the context of some type of media/computer/tech/electronic kind of way. I have to admit… i am a secret electronic nerd (don’t tell anyone). Well… to answer this questions i have to give credit where it is due… Everything i learned… i learned from this video. Caleb and I watch this about once a week to stay on top of our game!
This week went really smooth. Everyone seemed to get sick this weekend, but everything worked out great. God is awesome. I don’t want to ever forget the priveledge we have to worship Him freely every week. Brett Younker and Casey Darnell were in to Lead this week. Here are some worship teases from this week. The first is of Casey and the Second is of Brett. The guys did great. Casey led at Uptown and Brett led at Providence. However I had both of them on stage for the 1 O’Clock service. Enjoy. You can watch some other videos here.