From the Mind of MandoRon

Someone sent this to me this week.  It was too funny not to pass on.

• Workloads getting to you?
• Feeling stressed?
• Too many priorities and assignments?
• Economy driving you nuts

Here is the new low-cost, company-approved solution to cope with multiple priorities and assignments!

Each employee will be supplied 2 paper clips and 2 rubber bands. See Fig 1.

Fig.1

Assemble items as shown in Fig 2.

Fig 2.

Fig 3.

I was listening to Car Talk on the way to work this morning, and I cringed when I heard the name of the lady that won this week’s Puzzler.

Holly Schmidt

Seriously!

Can you imagine going through life with a name like Holly Schmidt?  I’m hoping that this is her married name, because any parent that would subject their daughter to a life of name-calling ought to be shot.

That being said…  I know a guy at work whose last name is Schmidt.  A few years ago somebody nicknamed him “The Pope” based on the phrase Holy Schmidt.  He doesn’t really appreciate the nickname…

I thought you might need a little Friday foolishness to kick off the weekend.

Last May, MercyMe made an offer on their blog to video themselves performing covers of any song that people request.   They’ve posted quite a few since then as part of their “Cover Tune Grab Bag” series.  Some of them are pretty funny.  Check out my favorites here, but you can find a lot more on youtube or their blog.

Thriller (complete with mandolin)

Jump

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Ed Newby put together this video highlighting the first five years of GracePoint Church.  They showed it in church yesterday as we celebrated GracePoint’s Fifth Anniversary.

There is some footage of Jett’s baby dedication five years ago.  I still remember Bryson saying to us, “Don’t worry; I have strong hands.”

http://www.vimeo.com/2935293

Wow!  It’s hard to believe that the weekend is almost over.  But what better to commemorate the weekend than with a Sunday Setlist post!  Go check out Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlist to find links to dozens of other setlists.

Today was a special day at GracePoint.  It was our five-year anniversary, and we had a big lunch party after church.  Good times.

Now to the music…

• One Way - Hillsong United
• Salvation is Here - Hillsong United
• Sing to the King - Billy James Foote/Passion
• Hosanna - Hillsong United
• Birthday - The Beatles (offering/exit)

The band: two female vocalists for the first 4 songs, two male vocalists on Birthday, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric mandolin, drums, keys

One Way is always fun.  It’s a nice one because we can use either male or female vocals without changing keys.  Amy sang it today.  In fact, we had only female vocals on the first 4 songs.

Salvation is Here is another great one.  (It didn’t occur to me until tonight that we were a little heavy on the Hillsong…)  Amy sang this one as well.  We play it in the key of B, instead of D, whenever she sings it.  Nash did a great job on the bass solo.  I love the chorus: “Cause I know my God saved the day.  And I know His word never fails.  And I know my God made a way for me.  Salvation is here.”

Sing to the King seems to be the church’s favorite song right now.  And rightly so.  We drop it down to the key of D, instead of E, to better fit Christina’s range.  We’ve always added a guitar solo near the end, but we also added one in the middle this week.  Bruce took the first one, and I took the second one on mandolin.  I think it was my first solo.  I don’t really remember…  Of course mine only had 25% as many notes as Bruce’s.  But who’s counting anyway?

Hosanna made it’s second appearance at GP.  This one is interesting.  The band loves it.  My wife hates it.  Seriously hates it.  Very bizarre.  And just in case you’re as curious as I am, Wikipedia has a decent description of the meaning of the word “Hosanna”.  Oh yeah…  Amy sang this one.

Birthday was one we had to dust off.  I think Mike and I were the ones in the lineup today that were around last time we played it.  Gil might have been too.  As I mentioned earlier, we used this at the end of the service as a celebration of GracePoint’s first five years. 

GracePointers - I’d be curious to know your thoughts on Hosanna.  Leave a comment.