and so it goes…

lifes been awesome!  been leading worship every day.  this is my first day off in 7 days.  i love it!  I got to lead with some buds i hadnt seen in a while and that was great.  We def had a great time.

I got to see my parents, charlie-murphy, and my grand parents this weekend and that was excellent.  I hadnt seen them in a long time.  On a crazier note, I woke up at 11:30 on Saturday to the sound of sirens, police cars, an ambulance, a fire truck, and my grandma screaming in pain.  She fell down the stairs and they had to take her to Grady in a helicopter.  It was nuts!  Praise the Lord that she is totally fine, they thought she had broke her neck but really she just got bruised up pretty bad.

We are going on the road this weekend and I am excited!  I’ve missed it a lot.  I cant wait to see what God has in store for us and the kids this weekend.

I’ve been listening to Billy Joel, and so it goes is one of the best songs ever!

-chris

busted

so today i got “busted” for the first time in a long time.  mostly because i havent been doing anything stupid recently, but i got caught scanning my card and dipping at chapel.  not a huge deal in the long run, but definitely not an honest move on my part and I certainly regret it.

In me getting punished for what I did I found out that people in charge at my school read my blog.  Not a huge deal, I havent said anything on here that I regret or that I didnt mean but it was definitely a shocker.

Im looking forward to my small group tonight.  I love my dudes, they are awesome.  Living room is gona be great tonight, clay is really challenging us this series!

-chris

Legacy…

If you didnt already hear…Skip Caray passed away yesterday at age 68.  It has been awesome to see what everyone has to say about him.  It’s been really cool to see his life and the legacy he left behind.  Not as a Christian or as an announcer, I’m not even sure if he was a Christian, but just as a person.  So I am going to do this and I challenge anyone who reads this to do the same thing.

what I hope people will remember me as when I die… (not in any order)

- a great, reliable friend

- a “Godly man” (I’m still figuring out exactly what that looks like)

- a great authentic, genuine worship leader who really cared about the kids/people he led for

- a great well-rounded, focussed musician 

- maybe a great husband and father…maybe 

i’ll probably add to this list as I get older/wiser

-chris

Burnt Out!

So its 10:04 and I just got done the ACC Sunday night pow wow.  My Sundays are nuts.  I am not complaining at all because I stinkin’ love every second of it, its just that when I get to school and have to go to a Sunday night service I am not always excited about being here.

So it finally came to my attention today that absolutely NO ONE at our school thinks we are funny aside from the 4 of us.  The best part is, that makes everything we do twice as funny!  Come on guys, ACC is not that serious…

-chris

Murphy Update

Great news!  Murphy didn’t have to have surgery today.  As of now it’s kind of a hurry up and wait process.  He has three weeks of no running, no jumping, and no stair climbing.  If you know my dog, this is gona be a challenge for him.  After that three weeks if he is not back to 100% they will resort to back surgery.  I am really praying that this wont have to happen for a few reasons.  First and foremost, it’s a risky surgery.  Secondly its $2,000 operation and with my parents owning 2 houses right now that’d be real tough for them to pull of.  I know that we would pull it off but that would be a struggle for sure.

Kurtis and I are going on the road this weekend.  We will be in Norcross for the next 2 days leading worship for some singles weekend for Mount Bethel.  We are pretty excited about it, it should be a lot of fun.  I am real stressed about the amount of work I have to get done in these last few weeks of school.  This weekend is gona be filled with a lot of guitar playing, and paper writing when we aren’t rocking out.

Pray for our band!  We are going through a weird time right now and could really use some good ole’ fashion prayer.  We just haven’t been excited about making rock music anymore because we are all doing our own thing.  We are trying to figure out where our steam went.  I’m sure this new record coming out is gona change things, but we’d love some extra prayer support!

-chris

Mercy

Angel of mercy, how did you find me?  How did you pick me up again?

Angel of mercy, how did you move me?  Why am I on my feet again?

-chris

sorry it’s been a while

So kurtis and I are sitting in our Old Testament History class…it’s about as exciting as it sounds. Sorry that I have been slacking on my blog writing, between thanksgiving, halo 3, and school I stayed pretty busy this past week (:

Something old in my life has become something new. I’m not 100% sure if its a good thing or not, but it feels really good. It was like a piece of me has been missing the past 6 months. I’ve determined that my perspective is very limited. I am trying hard to “let go and let God”. I am rereading a book that really inspired me last time I read it, it’s called I am not but I know I Am (referring to the Great I Am). Last night when I was reading Louie mentioned a phrase several times that really stuck with me… “Look up.” Not that I believe that God is some super-hero, fairy-tale in the clouds, but something so simple struck me so hard. When I don’t understand something the beauty is, God does and usually is willing to share that with me if I look to Him for those answers.

I am battling with a very simple yet important concept, loving other Christians. Maybe its because the majority of Christians are cynical, cold-hearted hypocrites… or maybe I’m the hypocrite after all. All I know is, every time I open the scriptures its the only thing I hear on my heart and I want that to change.

1 John 2:9-11

“9Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. 10Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. 11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.”

looking up,

chris