New location...

I've switched to Wordpress because, well, I wanted to, so whatever. You can read it there at http://tylerjz.wordpress.com/. I think it's better. See ya, blogger...

Experiment...

I recently visited the Newspring Church in Anderson, South Carolina, and I decided to try something they were doing. When Kari and I entered the "sanctuary", we were surprised to hear the likes of Linkin Park, Cold Play, and The Verve playing as their pre-service music before the service started.
If they can do it, so can we...
So, I created a long playlist of mixed secular/christian music (whatever those terms really mean) and played them for the last two weeks. Last week and this week were as follows:

1. Your Grace is Enough, Chris Tomlin
2. Beautiful Day, U2
3. Meant to Live, Switchfoot
4. Where the Streets Have No Name, U2
5. Speed of Sound, Coldplay
6. Nothing Left To Lose, Mat Kearney
7. The Face of Love, Sanctus Real
8. Home, Chris Daughtry
9. Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol
10. TOo Much, Leeland
11. Somewhere Only We Know, Keane

This coming week, the set will change slightly, but will contain a combination of most of the following:

1. I Dare You To Move, Switchfoot
2. How To Save A Life, The Fray
3. My Glorious, Delerious
4. Change Me, Sanctus Real
5. days Go By, Keith Urban
6. I Still Haven't Found, U2
7. Let Your Hair Down, Corrine Bailey Rae
8. If Everyone Cared, Nickelback
9. Bittersweet Symphony, the Verve
10. Finding Who We Are, Kutless
11. This is the Last Time, Keane
12. New Shoes, Paulo Nutini
13. Time, Chantal Kreviazuk
14. Lunar, Five O'Clock People
15. Rain Down, Delerious
16. Better Together, Jack Johnson
17. Forgiven, Ben Harper
18. Deliver Me, David Crowder
19. I'll Stand By You, Gina Glocksen
20. Beautiful Broken World, Warren Barield

I know we won't get through all of these, but we'll save some for the change up the following week!
The coolest thing, is that no one said ANYTHING about it!, and the 2 people I asked personally said they had no idea, and never noticed at all. This makes me happy...

At Last...

We can now welcome Kirt Henman as our new Lead pastor down here at our church in Florida! He made the announcement to his congregation this past Sunday, and we couldn't be more excited! We're looking forward to some really exciting things as we look to replant ourselves adn become a whole new church for a whole new generation...

Still don't like blogging...

It's been a while since my last post. The title gives it away. Still, I wanted to share one of my greatest fears: That one day my kids will come to me, and just due to the shear volume of films he as been in, and tell me how great an actor Kevin Costner was, and how lucky I was to have the opportunity to see his films in the theater. I shudder to think...

Place of Epiphany...

Just a couple of quick thoughts from my bathtub...

1. Yes, I take a bath every morning. Say what you will. I'm still ALL MAN.
2. I haven't posted in a while, but that is just a reminder that I still am not a huge fan of blogging.
3. Penguins lost agin last night. Now down 3-1 in the series. Crap.
4. I have to go to work now...

New Wineskins...

I've decided to revamp things on the worship team. After some good, hefty, and convicting conversations, I'm going to start holding the team accountable for daily time spent with God. I have a study that they will all be doing. It is light, brief, but informative and interesting, and about worship. They are reuired to do it. They will also be required to attend the Tuesday night study and prayer time.
They must be (along with myself, obviously) a shinging reflection of God's glory, and if they do not hold true to these requirements, they won't perform duties in teh service Sunday morning. If they continue to balk at these, they will be removed from the team. I will not be afraid to stand up on the stage by myself if I have to, and there may be a time when I do have to, and that is fine. God will be glorified in our Sunday Celebration! We need to be the new creations God intended us to be, and ones that He can use and work in and through.
We are going to start from scratch as well. This means that after tomorrow, I will do the worship by myself, and they will lead by example in the congregation. I'm excited about the change, and I want to make sure I'm taking responsibility for the ministry God has entrusted to me, and I need to feed the sheep he has brought to me! With His leading and provision, we will have the worhsip ministry I've known we could produce from the beginning!

New stuff, for real...

Here are a couple of pics of my new stuff. It's not exactly my dream list, but I'm more than excited about how this is going to sound. I'm going to run two lines through a Morely Amp selector. One will go into the Vox AD-30, and run clean and overdrive with the foot switch. The amp will be mic'd. The other line, for now, is going to go through the Boss Super Chorus adn the Digitech DigiDelay, and straight into the system. This line will stay clean, versus the other through the amp, which will alternate between clean and dirty. I'm thinking it's gonna sound pretty cool!