brent(inWorship)

I’ve talked to you before about me love affair with Twitter. I really enjoy the conversations, challenges and resources I receive through the Twitter world.

So my buddy Matt Singley has a little give away going on right now. Starting today, Matt started giving out free, unlimited subscriptions to SpinVox. SpinVox is a killer resource that turns your voicemail into email or text. I don’t know about you, but voicemail can eat up my day and being able to put it into text form is a much easier, faster and more relaible way of handling it.

So here is the catch. If you want a free subscription to Spinvox, all you have to do is follow Matt on Twitter and your name goes into the drawing. If you haven’t joined Twitter yet, go for it. You could get a cool service for free and you’d be following rthe Tweets of a great guy.

While your at it, feel free to follow me as well. If your following along for my “Weekend of Jazz”, you’ll enjoy lots of tweets and twitpic’s the whole weekend.

So, today we got everything setup. I am in a great venue and excited to have the opportunity to hang here for the weekend. Thought I’d give you a few pics and a run down of the gear.

Here’s a view of the theater from stage. They renovated a couple years back and they did a great job with it. the place is beautiful.

Here’s my view from Front Of House

And here is my mix position. The console is a 40 channel Crest VX. It’s got a couple of years on it, but it is a great sounding analog desk.

Here is my Rack for Front of House. Sorry it isn’t clearer. I had no light and was going with the camera phone.

I am running:
4 DBX 1066
2 DBX 166XL
TC Electronics M-One
EQ’s are Symetrix 533e’s

Mains are L’acoustic Arcs w/SB 28 Subs
Monitors are Radian Micro Wedges
Power is Lab Gruppen LA48a’s
Processing is a BSS MiniDrive

I am looking forward to this weekend. I will be the Front of House engineer for a whole weekend of Jazz. Every year our valley puts together the annual Jazz Jubilee. It really is a blast. There are 7 venues that seat anywhere from 50 to 750. I will be in the Craterian theater which seats 700. I can’t wait. I am able to hook up with one of the local sound companies for a couple gigs a year. It helps them out and I love doing it.

There are all varieties of Jazz at this event. Everything from a couple local acts to some wonderful national acts and everything in between. Traditional to New Orleans to some great modern Jazz as well. I am really anxious for a couple of groups. I love Gator Beat and I can’t wait for Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums. Both are non-traditional to say the least, but a blast to listen to and work with. It looks like my venue is hosting,”a Spotlight on Mel Torme” both Firday and Saturday. Should be interesting

Here is my schedule for the weekend.

FRIDAY:

SATURDAY:

SUNDAY:

I love that Sunday starts with a great gospel band. They’ve done this each year. We get to have church at the Jazz jubilee.

So, today we start setting up. I will take some pics of the rig. I’ve got some great gear to work with this year. Even better than when I ran sound at the fair. I’ll post each evening with high lights…or low lights of the day. Should be fun. Wish you all could be here hanging with me.

So, what are you favorite Jazz bands or artists? If you don’t like Jazz, what are your favorite bands or artists?

“According to gallup.com 93% of Americans polled believe in God or a universal spirit. Guess what, the problem is not people, the problem is communication. The problem is removing the preconception, meeting expectations, and finding the language that communicates to peoples needs. The desire is there.”

h/t: Brewster

I love this. I have heard this statistic many times over the last month. It is always met with some sort of negative view. How can people believe in a God and not live like it.

Well, maybe we aren’t showing them the real thing.

I’ve been meaning to talk to you for a while. This week I read something that pushed me over the edge.

As a man, I understand that I am capable of being very strong. Both physically as well as emotionally. I can handle pain as well as being picked on. Of course, my reactions often come at the expense of others. I can easily use my “force” to attempt to gain my own way. All of us have been in a fight at some point in our life. Fists were thrown. Blood was shed. Some fights were worse than others. Some of you have even hurt another in such a way that medical attention was needed. And some of you are proud of that.

Here’s where I am going though. Some of you have decided that the best way for you to live the life you want is to treat your wives like crap. You take every opportunity to let her know who’s boss, as if you are some superior being. You may actually “fight” her and this physical brawl may even lead to the need for medical attention. Really? Even worse, you’ve spoken to her in a way that makes her feel invaluable, cheap and worthless. You see, emotional abuse in my opinion is far worse. The physical bruises will heal. An emotional bruise may never heal. Who are you?

If you are a husband that has never treated his wife this way, than I am not speaking to you. I am directly speaking to those jerks that feel the need to act as if they are some glorious creature that has more rights than another. I’m sick of you. I’m tired of hearing about how you treat women. I see you everyday. I see you when I am shopping. I see the way you talk to your wife and even worse your kids. I see you online. Looking at or even posting pics and videos of women that need to be honored instead of masturbated to. I see you at church. When you come into our office and ask for us to fix your marriage cause your wife won’t do what your asking her to do.

I understand that many of you are hurting yourself. But, why in the world do you choose to hurt others to make yourself feel better! Be a man and get help. But there are many of you that don’t care. I don’t understand you. I don’t care for you. I want nothing to do with you. And yet, God says I need to show you love. I don’t like that. but I know it’s right. So, here is what I am going to do. I am going to live as an example. You can then choose whether you will continue to be an asshole or you will decide to be a real man. And, yes I am upset. Because everyday, I am watching you destroy something that God has created. Woman. The one thing you desire the most. A beautiful, loving woman is the one thing you are destroying. Don’t you see this!!!

So, again, I will choose to live by example. I will choose to speak honestly to you. I will choose to love the ones that you choose to abuse. I will choose to counsel and pray for those that you have damaged for life. I will choose to love, the good and despise the evil. I will choose to help you. But I will not help your pride and anger. I will do everything in my power to destroy it.

And I don’t care if you believe in God or not. This is not about God and yet, you can learn a lot from Jesus. Everyone knows what love and security is. When you choose to trash it, everyone sees that as well. But, God says that we as men are to love our wives as Christ loved the church. And don’t throw Ephesians 5:22 at me. Because Ephesians 5:22 doesn’t even exist without 5:25.

Men, Christ died for the church. Are you willing to die for you wife? Or, are you more intent on killing her? Because every time you yell at her and call her names. Every time you slap her or punch her. Every time you laugh at her and chop her down in front of friends. You choose to kill her. A beautiful, God created Woman. You choose to take her life.

Here’s where I sat this weekend.

Had a great weekend! Jim, my co-leader led worship again. I have been working sound for a couple of weeks while our sound men take some time off. It is awesome to have Jim around, I can count on him leading the church well.

So, the set list was geared around doing some things that would work well with acoustics. The team was fairly stripped down today. We had a great vocal team, but the band was just Drum, Bass and 2 Acoustics. It was fun to mix.

We are in the 4th week of a study on James. Today we talked about Generosity. We had a fun time giving away $50 in each service. The assignment is to take the $50 and to give it away to someone in need. We put a cell phone number up on the main screen and the first one to call the number received the $50. That was fun and a great practical way of practicing generosity. Each of the people that received the money will be giving a report next week and what they did with the money. I am excited to hear about people’s creativity in helping others.

So, here is the set list. it’s a picture of my console snapshots for the weekend.

I thought it would be fun to throw one of the tunes up from this AM. This is just a quick rough mix of the Pro Tools tracks. This is Hallelujah(Your Love Is Amazing)

Blessed Be Your Name by Matt and Beth Redman
All Creatures Of Our God and King by Saint Francis of Assisi (Crowder version)
Create In Me by Brown Bannister
Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King by Robert Robinson and Thomas Miller (Gateway Version)
Hallelujah(Your Love Is Amazing) by Brenton Brown and Brian Doerkson
By His Wounds by Mac Powell

This post is a part of the crazy carnival that is…Sunday Setlists.