Illuminating the Future of Christian Education
Christmas Arts Showcase 2015 Last night, Mount Vernon hosted the annual christmas arts showcase with a packed house and tons of visual and performing arts on display for parents, grandparents, and friends. Since most everyone saw the show in the gym, but most were not privy to the excitement going on the in green rooms, I’d like to share a brief glimpse behind the curtain. For fun… Here are more pics from the evening…
Listen to “Whispers Like Thunder” i love music. one of my favorite songwriters, kristian bush, posts a new song he has written each week on mondays. inspired by him and others, here is my first #musicmonday offering. i believe God is closer than we realize. closer than our very breath. he is present and speaks into our lives. he has the power to calm the storm. he is my source of peace. my favorite line is the bridge, “carry me back to your arms, hold me there safe from the storm.” i wrote this song, like a lot of my […]
Originally published on blogger.com on August 2, 2005. It was September 10, 2001; the eve of the first terrorist attack on America. I had long hair and was a regular attendee of Eddie’s Attic, usually 3-4 nights a week. I had managed to overhear that John Mayer (who was just on the verge of celebrity, but still a local musician) was performing a private gig for close friends and family. My friends at the Attic got me in to see the show. While there, I ran into a friend of a friend who went to my high school who was married […]
Originally posted on blogger.com on Friday, July 29, 2005 at 1:43 p.m. Return to Eddie’s Attic Last night marked my return to Eddie’s Attic, the premiere acoustic venue in the Southeast, if not the nation. Having said that, I’m not sure what I was doing on the stage, but life is full of little mercies and graces. I played a 45 minute, solo set to an intimate crowd of about 50. The feeling was that of a homecoming. Not only because it was my first gig in the Attic in 12 months, but also because there is a new owner, […]