Worship Yesterday

Yesterday was an amazing morning of worship and message. I was moved emotionally and moved to action. I got to play 4 great songs with a group of incredible musicians; just a wonderful time of worship in song. It was Ryan's last morning with us. He's stepping down for a while to be home more. Too bad, because he's one of my favorite drummers to play with and a wonderful human being whom I will miss immensely. Maybe I'll have to call him up on occasion and go out for coffee or barley pops to continue our always enlightening and enjoyable conversations. As a side note, I really miss getting to play with Skip; can we clone him?

The message was, as usual, deeply moving. I love our Senior Pastor. He's so open and honest and to the point. No monkeying around. When God lays something on his heart he shares it with us, no watering it down at all. I've always appreciated that about him, even when it touched a nerve in me - maybe especially when it touched a nerve in me. I realize more and more, I'm never done growing as a Christian. There are always more messy places that need cleaning. I greatly appreciate that Dave isn't content to just let us sit there and hear a "Waiting for Heaven" speech every Sunday, but spurs us on to self-examination and action. We're here to change the world, so get on with it. Quit sitting and watching. Get in the game.

What God hates! So, what do I hate? How can I do something about it? What do I love? How can I use that to affect that which I hate? More to come...

I need to make an equipment update here...

I now have a custom built cabinet from Low Down Sound that is absolutely amazing. I highly recommend them.

I also have a second bass in the family - A Yamaha BBN5A that is undergoing a sex change operation as we speak :) It is being converted to fretless. I would eventually like to upgrade both fretted and fretless basses to Roscoe SKB 5's or something along those lines, but these will do quite nicely for now. I'm probably going to need to update the electronics in the Yamaha to make it really nice.

I also have two new effects pedals - a MXR Bass Auto-Q and an EH BassBalls - the USA made version. Loving having the effects. Lots of interesting new tones and sounds.