After 12 years of playing guitar, I’m finally going to buy an electric guitar amp. Okay, so technically it’s not my first. My first amp was a weather-beaten 1962 Gibson Super-Medalist that had sat unused in an outdoor pavilion for years until I told the owner I would weed-eat at his camp for 3 days [...]
Archive for 2009
Yamaha LS9 digital mixer demo videos
July 9th, 2009 
tristan Aaron from Church Solutions Group recently stopped by with a Yamaha LS9-16 digital mixer for us to demo. Below are some videos from the great tutorial he did for us. We’ll be getting the LS9-32, which has 32 channels instead of 16, but the general idea is the same. I’ll keep adding parts as I [...]
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Tags: Add new tag, Audio, Church Solutions Group, digital mixer, training, Yamaha LS9 
Comments OffThe Art of Delegation
June 28th, 2009 tristan One of the sermons in our “the world is Mine” stewardship series was on stewardship of authority. God has given everyone authority to various degrees, and you probably have more than you think. How do you use it wisely in the Kingdom? This video, entitled “The Art of Delegation”, was used as a funny intro [...]
This Is My Father’s World recording
June 6th, 2009 tristan This Sunday we’re starting a sermon series on stewardship called “the world is Mine”. To go along with that series, I reworked the hymn “This Is My Father’s World.” I liked the feel of Aaron Niequist‘s version, but I wanted a different chord structure for the song (his structure is more traditional). The lyrics are [...]
The Great Escape and several good books
May 25th, 2009 tristan I recently read the book The Trouble With Paris by Australian author and speaker Mark Sayers. Sayers is like a handy kid with a screwdriver, taking apart Western culture’s consumer-driven longings, addictions, and expectations and spinning the gears to see what makes us tick. In the process he invites his readers to think deeply about [...]
Posted in Books, Soul Care Tags: culture, death by suburb, escapism, sermon, the trouble with paris Comments OffThe promotional pie
May 6th, 2009 tristan There’s just nothing quite like a good pie-in-the-face video for promoting an event, especially if your pastor is on the receiving end…
100,000 hits and a new server
May 2nd, 2009 tristan Wow, that’s a lot of hits. Ok, so it took three and a half years to get that many, but I’m still happy. :) Congrats to the 100,000th visitor… someone right here in the western suburbs of Chicago who was using a Mac and connected via Comcast. Was it you? In other news: I’ve switched [...]
