Lately I have found myself dreaming, reforming, and struggling to “keep it real”. As many of us do, I find myself chasing trends instead of God’s heart. How can I be so arrogant to say I know what God’s heart is? The Holy Spirit is how. Honestly, sometimes I lament the fact that I find myself so extremely busy. With the email, phone, texts, feeds dinging / ringing, the noise can drown out the “still small voice”. There’s NO WAY I’m complaining… The reason I do what I do is b/c I’m in love w/ the One who has called me.

In “The Shattered Lantern”, Rolheiser suggests that, “The way back to a lively faith is not a question of finding the right answers, but living in a certain way. The existence of God, like the air we breathe, need not be proven. It is a question of developing good lungs to meet it correctly.” One of my new favorite people, Ian Cron, writes in “Chasing Francis” words that are igniting my spirit in ways I know has God smiling. It’s amazing how God uses all of our lives to affect each other… if we take the time to read, listen, and stop all the hustle & hurry.

The thought of people of all ages across the planet also finding themselves constantly evolving and chasing the Way on the journey is refreshing. It really is about the process, and not just the promise of a destination.

“Reverence and relevance are not at war w/ each other”… Ed Stetzer has a great post on some of these thoughts HERE. This post helps address a topic that comes up in conversations as well as my own opinions, musings, and struggles.

As a lead worshiper, father, husband, pastor, and songwriter, I tend to contemplate often. A couple of nights ago on Twitter I posted a little thought that I had as I sat quietly watching the World Series (I don’t like the Yankees, btw)… Maybe we don’t like the silence b/c we are afraid of what we will hear.

If all we focus on and all that we hear are others opinions, comments, trends, and preferences, we’ll never be centered beings. We’ll always be trying to jump higher, run faster, and perform for the masses. Instead, there is the sometimes elusive audience of One that should be our desire, and goal. In Him we trust. Elusive from our perspective, not His.

I would love to hear more about some of your journey’s musings.

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We pray now, together, that we will not settle for what we know.
We wait expectantly for what we cannot imagine.

God we invite your creative blessing.
Release us into our created image as creators.
Release us to understand and encounter you in rich an deep ways.
Release us to understand and encounter each other in new and creative ways.

Creator God, do not let us, your people, settle for what we know.
Give us a thirst for what we cannot imagine.

- Steve Frost

FRANKLIN, TN rock band, Paramore released their 3rd major album on TUES! Check them out on tour over the next month.

SEPTEMBER
29 Pomona, CA – The Fox Theater
OCTOBER
1 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
2 San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre
4 Denver, CO – The Fillmore
6 Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
7 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
9 Maplewood, MN – Myth
10 Chicago, IL – House of Blues
11 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
15 Toronto, ONT – Kool Haus
16 Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theatre
17 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
19 Boston, MA – House of Blues
21 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
24 Norfolk, VA – The Norva
26 Orlando, FL – House of Blues
27 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
NOVEMBER
1 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium