Notes from this weekend in NC

For those keeping track, here’s the run down of this weekend’s show:

Sweet Dreams def. The anointed One Caprice Coleman
Jesus Freak v. Seven for CWF Heavyweight Championship Belt – DQ – Jesus Freak retains belt
Son of Thunder def. Michael Malick
Caprice Coleman & Michael Malick def. Sweet Dreams and Son of Thunder for CWF Tag Belts

Sweet Dreams attempts a roll-up on Caprice Coleman

Caprice Coleman shares his testimony

Michael Malick climbs the ropes to get the upperhand on Son of Thunder

Michael Malick whips Son of Thunder off the ropes and throws him to the other side of the ring

Jesus Freak gives an invitation in Creswell. 33 people made decisions on Friday night and 15 more made a decision on Saturday. God is truly amazing.

Christian music

A friend forward this to me…

It was sent to KLTY FM in Dallas after an exchange between two DJ’s this morning on the radio.

KLTY – this morning, around 8am, the pair of DJ’s had a very disturbing exchange. After playing the remake of “Pride (in the name of love)” by Delirious?, originally written by U2, one DJ asked, “Was that U2?” to which the other responded, “No, that was Delirious?. We only play the good stuff, we don’t play no trash.” This particular DJ then repeated similar statements.
Now, first of all, my memory is not perfect so I do not consider these direct quotes – but I do consider them the direct “gist” of the statements. Second, the DJ’s names’ are not important, but YOURS is, and so is our Lord’s. Regardless of who said this, it is deeply concerning for me as both a Christian and one who appreciates the tremendous impact that U2 has made for the Kingdom of God. Allowing this slander (literally) on the air poses KLTY as self-righteous, and Christians as war-mongers of culture. This adulterates the image of our Lord. Third, if by chance they were “just joking,” then I would encourage such antics off the air, not on the air.
To make a statement like this, on the air, betrays a tragic misunderstanding of U2, specifically, and good music, in general. U2 have made tremendous contributions to the church, and it serves us well to encourage them, and to welcome them to Dallas when they play on Oct 29. They are our brothers, not the enemy.
This is grievous, and sadly irresponsible.
Please, please…let us watch our words carefully.

I still find it interesting when people decide what’s Christian music and what’s not by the person singing it.
U2 received no recognition after their All That You Can’t Leave Behind Album — until a “Christian” band decided to record it (on the same album that Delirious?’s Pride version was recorded on). Once they recorded it, U2 was nominated at the Dove awards for song writer of the year.
And Los Lonely Boys received no recognition for their song Heaven until Salvador recorded a version of it, and now its on Christian stations everywhere.
It’s all so goofy.

No lie – This is cool

Google has introduced a new customized home page.
You can add their content from a number of outlets, or select customized sections and add news about whatever your heart desires.
Once you pick your content, you can drag and drop the boxes all over the page to organize them how you want them.
I think I’ll set mine to my browser home for a while and see how I like it.
Normally I have mine set to a customized news page. But this other option looks like it could be the best of both worlds.
Google continues to amaze with their ways to organize information.

Monday Night

It’s 1:19 a.m. CST Tuesday Sept. 27.

My friends B and Sarah were expecting their baby Sydney to be born today, but the doctors said “It wasn’t time.”

I believe they’re planning to go back on Wednesday and they may induce labor, but I’m not sure on all that.

I just returned from Waco with my boys. We had floor tickets to the WWE Raw taping. Not a bad way to watch wrestling at all. It was amusing because three of the men who wrestled tonight have wrestled my friend, Tim Storm, at some point in their career. One of them Russel Simpson, A.K.A. Psycho Simpson, wrestled four of the guys in our group. Not bad.

At dinner aftewards Rob mentioned that he’s been seriously considering going full-time with the CWF. I think it’s a dream everyone’s had since the ministry began in 2000, but everyone’s always hoped that someone with loads of money would come along and drop a load of cash in our hands to let us do it.

We half-joked about the idea this weekend, while in North Carolina, and I thought I was the only one thinking it could be a possibility, but apparently God was laying the idea on Rob’s heart as well.

We discussed the idea somewhat and everyone was in agreement that it is what we want to do, but now it comes down to if its in agreement with what God wants us to do.

So please pray for us as we seek God’s will at this crossroads in our lives and ministry.

We plan to pray about the idea and then schedule a brainstorming meeting sometime in the near future. So again, please support us in prayer and ask God for guidance.

Well, I have a weird headache, that is likly just from the loud music and pyros at the show tonight. I also have three loads of clothes laying on my bed, so rather than just pushing them off onto the floor, I think I’ll just crash right here on my couch.

Take care — and may the peace of God be with you all.