Letters to the Next President concludes (09.28.08)

 

 

 

 

Today we concluded Letters to the Next President at Southside Church with another off the charts musical experience provided by the Dave Matthews Tribute band.  These guys are just about as close an anyone could get to a front row seat at Lakewood Amphitheatre… the musicianship is incredible!… and they still have a sax player (too soon… too soon, I know).  Unbelievable start to the service with a 4 song set finishing up with a live version of Ants Marching that had me wanting to go buy a 32 piece drum kit and start shakin off the rust on the ole chops… their drummer is the REAL DEAL.  check out the video and you’ll know what I’m talkin about.

Followed them up with our 6′5″ lead pastor Chris Patton with some of the most riveting announcements I have ever heard about NEXT, finishing the series, and shouts out to the first time guest types.

Reuben Bidez did a phenomenal job leading us through what became our theme song for this series, Micah 6:8 and it could not have been a better more worshipful call to leadership in/for our nation.  Great job Reubz… I’ve already asked God to start sharin some of your skillz with those of us less fortunate:  like myself.  the kid can sing

Andy finished up the series with the story of a Pharaoh and drew a brilliant correlation to our current situation socially and economically:  we are a spoiled nation, with spoiled nation problems.  We need leadership committed to leading our nation, not pleasing our nation… 7 gazillion dollar bail out anyone?

If you missed any messages check out:  http://southside.org/listen-online

 

Incredible creative elements and an awesome timely series = 3 straight wins at Southside on Sundays

What did you think of the series?

Dave Matthews Tribute Band performing at Southside Church 09.28.08

these guys will be at Southside tomorrow starting about 15 minutes before the 9:30am and 11:15am services.  You won’t wanna miss it!  look for the recap of the day right here on ::huggsblog:: soon after.

http://www.southside.org

 

 

 

Set ideas from Coldplay

foam structures over band

widescreen projectors on sides of stage

My dad… THE WAKEBOARDER!

 

so at 63 my dad is still my hero.  Here’s to one of the lake trips we had this season… and the best of business trips.

Letters to the Next President vol. 1

9:30

11:15

The series we began at Southside Church on Sunday is amazing. Here are some thoughts on how everything is going from this Service Programming Director’s perspective:

There were a lot of elements to pull together for this series as we decided as a team at Southside to make this one of our HIGH VOLUME series for the fall. With the election around the corner and the conversations I have had lately, I don’t think we could have a more relevant series on leadership.

Big picture we want people to walk away with leadership principles that are applicable to ANY leader’s life. Takeaway #1: Leadership is a stewardship. Its temporary… and you are accountable.

We decided to package the service with 3 promotional videos pre-service and then got straight into worship with Mitchell and the Bojangles. They did a phenomenal job with a new tune for our attenders, Micah 6:8, and I think that set us up for an incredibly thematic worship song for the series. We’ll be doing it all three weeks, so if you liked it… COME BACK! Worship was energetic and familiar with Highest and Greatest and How Great is Our God following the new tune. Chris introduced the series for us during announcements and set up our special for the day: Joy Honeycutt and Derrick Alexander performed the most amazing version of the National Anthem I have ever heard and I can’t think of a better way to kick off the series. UNREAL.

Andy as always gave incredible perspective from scripture on leadership. He’s a pretty solid communicator in my book.

Check back in next week for part 2 of Letters to the Next President. You won’t wanna miss it.

(p.s. – no promises as to how often or faithful I will be in posting these things… some Sundays just rock so much face that you have to talk about them.)

so I’m shooting for the 2012 games. Think I can do it!

inspiring

why I love Brazil…

found this on loswhit’s blog and it made me miss Brazil REALLY bad…

BRILLIANT

so this one just made me chuckle…

 

thanks Josh and Sarah for the heads up.  Look for this performance to hit the stage at Southside Church sometime in 2030 along with my good buddy Greg speaking live

 

WoW

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www.gearsource.com

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www.fullcompass.com

 

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