the bearded trevor

Drive '09 Day 2............

2009-05-05T22:27:00.000-07:00

This will be pictures for now. I have not taken pictures of my notes yet and its late. I will post them ASAP. Enjoy!

The bookstore. I like bookstores.

"May I help you?"

Learning about student small groups.

The stage setup is legit!

They gave us a sample of what a Married Life Live event was like.

We observed a typical Student service. Awesome!

Drive 2009 - Day One..................

2009-05-04T21:38:00.000-07:00

Day One consisted of session 1 with Andy Stanley. Most of my blogging will be done with pictures. Why summarize my notes when I can take a picture and post it? Drive '08 was awesome and session 1 of '09 was no different.

I am sorry if it takes a while to load. I am not in a position to be able to edit and downsize the filesize of my pictures at the hotel.

The stage.

A DJ is set up in the main room. They did some funny skits and intereaction for entertainment while we were waiting for the session to start.

Three pages of notes. Click on the pic to see them in a readable size. A very timely and important message.

Andy's Dad, Charles Stanley was there. I love baseball and good preachers. I have begun getting signatures on baseballs. Yes, I could have them sign a book, but a baseball is so much cooler. I have another one for Andy. My Mark Driscoll baseball will have a couple friends when I get home.

Charles and Ed Grant, one of the men I am attending the conference with.

Sunday at North Point and Buckhead........

2009-05-04T21:14:00.000-07:00

We came to Atlanta early so we could attend church services. We went the 9AM at North Point Community Church and the 6PM at one of their satelite churches, Buckhead Church. Andy Stanley was preaching in person at Buckhead and was video streamed to North Point and Brown's Bridge. We saw the same sermon twice, once on screen and once in person. He was just starting a new sermon series called "Staying in Love." It was a very good and I have posted my personal notes to the sermon. The black ink is the notes from the first service and the red ink is what I added during the second time around at Buckhead.

Click on the pic to see full sized.

Drive Conference 2009..........

2009-05-04T11:10:00.000-07:00

I am attending Drive Conference in Atlanta, GA again this year. Drive is put on by North Point Community Church whose lead pastor is Andy Stanley. I had an amazing time last year. It was an eye opening time and I learned so much.

What is unique about Drive? They do not bring in a line-up of superstar speakers. It is lead by Andy Stanley and his incredible staff. You learn about church ministry from people who do it everyday. They open themselves up to any questions you may have. They say "this is how we do it and if any of it can help you, great!"

We came early so we could attend Sunday services at two of the three North Point campuses. It is also awesome to spend time with some friends of mine that I only see once or twice a year. This week will be full of great learning and discussion with friends. I will try to blog as much as I can through the week with frequent updates on Twitter.

Fight the Fade's New Album is Out!!!!

2009-05-03T05:27:00.000-07:00

The new album is officially out! We had a great CD release party at the Engage Your City show! Thank you to everyone that has been a part of our rock'n roll ministry. If you could not make it, be sure to come by one of our upcoming shows and pick up your free copy. Keep an eye on our MySpace, soon you will be able to download the new album for free. Peace.

I could not resist.........

2009-04-15T21:36:00.000-07:00

I am not big on posting a bunch of YouTube videos, but these are just to good not too. Now I want to pop in Empire Strikes Back.

May 1st is coming up......

2009-04-14T15:04:00.001-07:00

Heading to the studio to record a couple more songs for our album due out May 1. Be sure to mark your calendars. We are doing a CD release party at the FREE Engage Your City concert held at Faith Christian Outreach in Shawnee, OK on May 1st. When you come to the show you will receive a FREE copy of our new album. See you there!

Andy Stanley on the Dave Ramsey Show...........

2009-04-02T16:20:00.000-07:00

Part 1

Part 2

Be there!!!....................

2009-03-25T10:32:00.001-07:00

City Church
136 NW 10th
Oklahoma City, OK 73103

Door open at 6:30PM

All proceeds go to Maisha International Orphanage in Kenya

St. Pats Day..........

2009-03-17T21:10:00.000-07:00

I did not wear green today. It was not out of protest, I just did not wear green. I do have a protest for today. Please take a few minutes and read a brief history of St. Patrick at theresurgence.com. St. Pats Day is just another Christian Holiday blanked by society. Stop getting blanked.

Victory!!!..........

2009-03-16T23:11:00.000-07:00

Sorry I did not update you earlier. We won a pass to the finals at Battle of the Bands in Bricktown a week ago. Thanks to everyone who has supported us and came down. Especially you, Dad (who came from Missouri to see us).

We are hard at work on a new album. We are looking to have our official release party on May 1st at an Engage Your City event that we are holding at my home church, Faith Christian Outreach. Mark your calendars!

Battle of the Bands...............

2009-03-05T21:27:00.000-08:00

Fight the Fade will be playing in the Gorilla Music "Battle of the Bands" on Sunday at Bricktown Live. Tickets are $10. I would love to see all of you there, even though the majority of you who read this do not live in Oklahoma. Road trip. I have also posted the second FTF video. Enjoy!

Mark Driscoll in Lenexa, KS............

2009-03-02T20:51:00.000-08:00

On Wednesday February 25th Amanda and I traveled to Lenexa, KS to see one of our favorite preachers, Mark Driscoll. As expected, the sermon was a knock out. It was awesome to see so many younger age people excited to come see a preacher. I took six pages of notes and wanted to share them with you. There could be spelling errors and such because these are my raw notes taken on the fly during Mark's sermon. He preached for one hour and fifteen minutes and nobody was ready to leave. Learn more about Mark and his church at www.marshillchurch.org.

Fight the Fade "Make of the Album" video part 1........

2009-02-28T18:15:00.000-08:00

Fight the Fade (one of the two bands I am in) is shooting some video while we are working on our new album. I do not show up in this video, but I do in part 2 (which I will post later). Enjoy!

www.fightthefade.com

Ready for the show tonight.....

2009-02-17T06:03:00.001-08:00

When something cool becomes even cooler.....

2009-02-14T23:46:00.000-08:00

Yes, this happened to my bass two hours before a show. I had purchased some strap locks for this particular guitar. Strap locks, in case you are oblivious, lock your strap to your instrument so it cannot come of while you are playing. If you like to move around and jump a lot, these are a must. There is also a certain stage trick that strap locks contribute to your success rate significantly. If you have been to a rock show, you may have seen a guitar player throw their instrument around their body. Cool stuff. This picture is the result of doing this trick and your new strap locks failing all on a hard floor. It is a good thing this was a cheap bass. It is holding me over until I can buy a real nice one.

The pictures in the previous post of me playing bass are with this bass, post hard floor explosion. Yes, ladies and gents, I fixed it. Good wood glue with a bunch of clamps work wonders.

Did I mention I played in two bands?.........

2009-02-14T23:22:00.000-08:00

I actually am involved with two bands right now. As mention on the previous post I play for the Jason McPhail Band, which we are changing the band name to Fight the Fade. I also play for Half Step Binge. I play bass for FTF and guitar for HSB. I can't complain that I have nothing to do.

My first show......

2009-01-28T23:51:00.001-08:00

I want to share some pictures from my first show playing for the Jason McPhail Band at The Tree in Claremore, OK.

Yes, that is Godzilla and Mech Godzilla on my amp.

Living Life........

2009-01-28T22:57:00.000-08:00

One month of 2009 is almost in the sack. I hope everyone has been making and pursuing their goals thus far is 2009. I sit down and write out goals every year. Do I actually achieve all of them? No. But, every year I do achieve a higher percentage than the previous year. I am better learning how to set my goals and I am getting better at meeting them. Here is a sample from this years list:

- Read 50 pages per day.
- Read the Bible in chronological order.
- Publish something (it does not matter what, just get something in print).
- Do a Triathlon.
- Workout three times a week.
- Attend at least two conferences/seminars.
- Solve the Rubik's Cube.

I have more, but I will not bore you with them. How am I doing? OK so far. I am behind in the reading, but I still read much more than the average person. I have been working out, which will help me with that Triathlon.

Many know that I am a musician. My opportunities in this area have greatly expanded in recent weeks. I was asked to play bass guitar for Jason McPhail. Check out his MySpace. We have an active show schedule. Come check us out.

Thanks for stopping in. Go Arizona Cardinals!!!

the bearded trevor's Exhilaration of the Sudden Drop in Gas Prices part 2.....

2008-12-16T21:47:00.000-08:00

I have two post setting in draft right now. I hope to finish them soon and post them for you. In the mean time here is part 2 of my gas price pics.

Prices in Shawnee bottomed at $1.43. In the past week they have risen back up between $1.55-$1.59. Still enjoying the gas prices.

Zod is God.......

2008-12-03T02:56:00.000-08:00

I have been checking out The Word of Promise: New Testament Audio Bible. It is a dramatic presentation of the New Testament done by many big name actors (Jim Caviezel as Jesus of course). I have heard several exerts and it sounds good. As I was checking on it further I could not help to notice Terence Stamp is apart of the cast. He does the voice of God. Zod is God. If you have no idea what I am talking about, leave what your doing right now and acquire a copy of Superman 2. You must watch it right away. It is a good movie and it has Zod. It is now on my Amazon Wishlist and you should buy it for me for Christmas right now. Unleash the power of Zod!

the bearded trevor's Christmas list.....

2008-11-20T20:45:00.000-08:00

Christmas shopping is simple for me this year. My Amazon Wish List has over 200 items on it. If you buy something off the list, it will be removed so people cannot double up. I have it set so it does not notify me when someone buys from it. I would just have to figure it out (from it being missing from the list). Amazon has added the capability of adding non-Amazon items to the wish list. I have only a couple items from other sites so far.

The button is a permanent addition to my blog. Just click on it above.

the bearded trevor's Exhilaration of the Sudden Drop in Gas Prices.....

2008-11-19T16:17:00.001-08:00

Since gas dropped below $2.00 per gallon a few weeks back, I have been chronicling the drop in gas prices with the camera on my cell phone. The recent drop in gas prices has been very welcome since I drive a '95 Ford F-350 with a beastly 486 under the hood. Al Gore and most of the actors in Hollywood would be appalled. That makes me happy. Between my wife and I, it is estimated that we are spending $150-$200 less per month in gas. Oil is $53.04 per barrel as of today. It is being said it could go as low as $40. I know the price will eventually go back up. Enjoy it while you can.

We now have gas for $1.75. I will snap that shot off in the next few days, then I will post it.

Bam..........

2008-11-15T21:58:00.000-08:00

This is what two fingers nailed together looks like. My friend Clint and I was doing some work together today and he had a little accident. That is a 16 penny framing nail going completely through his pointer and middle finger. It did puncture his ring finger, but just barely. He was starting to pull it out when I suggested we take a picture. I put a brad nail through a finger a little while back and did not think of taking a picture until after I pulled it out. We got this one and now we can entertain you with it. It was cold today, so he had gloves on. It would have been a better picture if he did not have them on. After we snapped the shot he pulled it out. When the bleeding stopped, we band aided it and went back to work. That's how we roll.

the bearded trevor's Hall of Shame of baby faced old school church leaders

2008-11-14T15:30:00.000-08:00

As promised, I have "the bearded trevor's Hall of Shame of baby faced old school church leaders." I do respect and admire these men and many of the things they did to further the Christian faith. But, they needed some facial hair pretty bad.

John Edwards

John Wesley

Martin Luther

George Whitefield

Ulrich Zwingli

John Owen

the bearded trevor's Hall of Fame of bearded old school church leaders....

2008-11-10T09:27:00.000-08:00

I have a big interest in the Reformation era through the period of the Great Awaking. As I have read and studied I have come to appreciate the bearded styles of many of the church leaders in these eras. I will of course follow this post up with the baby faced guys from this era with "the bearded trevor's Hall of Shame of baby faced old school church leaders." Enjoy!

I know that Augustine of Hippo is not from the time eras stated, but he is kind of in a world of his own in the 300 and 400's A.D.

John Wycliffe

I could only find a pic of Jan Hus being burned at the stake.

William Tyndale

John Calvin

John Knox

John Foxe

Post election.......

2008-11-06T10:40:00.000-08:00

I was going to do a post election tidbit, but my good friend Dave put it better than I could ever conceive. Read it HERE.

How Lazy Are We?..........

2008-11-04T00:06:00.000-08:00

Wal-Mart does seem to be inevitable. My wife and I try to keep are trips to the temple of "cheap plastic crap" at certain times of the week/day. Avoid the weekends in every possible way. Even the evenings during the week can be hectic. The target time is later at night during the week and, more and more these days we come with a list. A list is the budget saver. It is so easy to get a small thing here and there. Before you know it you have spent your gas money too (which thankfully is a lot less right now, $1.95 per gallon presently). Since we come at night we see the aftermath of a day of shoppers. The parking lot is littered with shopping carts. Wal-Mart provides convenient cart return racks evenly spaced throughout the parking lot. It is amazing how many people do not take advantage of these racks to put there cart back when they are done loading all there stuff. Furthermore, it is amazing that people are so lazy that they just leave the cart wherever they parked. You do have the half attempts by some people. They get the cart to the rack, but do not push it into a slot. They probably reassure themselves that they are not lazy because at least the cart is touching the rack even though it is on the opposite side of the opening. Unfortunately, Americans have gotten lazy even in the petty. Push your cart to the rack. I am sure you need the extra walking anyways.

If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks. -Ecclesiastes 10:18

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. -Hebrews 6:12

Somewhat experienced blogger, new look......

2008-10-28T04:09:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my new blogging home. If you are new to the bearded trevor, please feel free to visit my previous blog and get caught up.

The 411
- I plan to post more thought provoking post (and I will still have plenty of meaningless one too).
- I am a Twitter user now. "Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time." I will provide a link so you can keep up there.
- I have also set up posting from my new cell phone. (I have actually entered the world of owning a tech savy cell phone).

Enjoy. Visit often. The pressures on me. Peace.