Thursday, November 20, 2008
Journalin
had a weird day to2day told my own dad that i was smokin on the hay. anyways no worries don't really mind he took it good. but anyways hopefully that gets legalized in Chicago too everyone is smokin it anyways. love for the police. not too much though. just kidding. anyhow i found a new station on my dish network. video zone on tvu. pretty hot TVU live .com
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
tonight another goodone.
well chicago don't really know what to say at this point. I feel like this is the beginning of Armageddon. Except this time no real wars. there is absolutley no reason that any country should ever go to war, Trust me I've been to them all went on more mission trips than i can remember......hong kong, manilla, russia, honduras, el salvador, panama canal. Amsterdam for a layover or two..... I got trained at TGI Fridays bartended att MOSCOW......yeah church for life. Tell dr. drew i said thankyou. OZZIE And all them TOO. Get me off of these damn meds before We ride please and thankyou.
His in Christ.
Dan Caudell
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
hungry 4 lunch
hey its all good i just want to go out for some taco bell and say hello to my new PHD degree online at EDWARDS hospital. I was thinking abuot saturday night live again this week and i figure whynot have Barack Obama go to a rehab facility...... that would be some funny S##t. Also I think I want my name to be posted this week as a Writer. Could we make that happen so soon SNL?? hope you get my messages. gonna be another good week for the economy. look to the old school for the cash. no need for new stuff when the old school works just fine. No need to make anything new. Just follow all of the OLD geniouses like einstien, hoover, and benjamin......don't forget my lincoln. also lord dewars Scotch......
His in Christ
Daniel T Caudell.
P.S. Your welcome mommy
His in Christ
Daniel T Caudell.
P.S. Your welcome mommy
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
worship music all sounds the same- God help us!
Ok so I have a serious issue, I am so sick and tired of the same old sound when it comes to worshiping God musically. Why is it that Christian worship music seems to be so lifeless and so blah. Why is it that about 98% of everything that is being release has a similar feel?
When I think about it, it really makes me frustrated that as a church individually and corporately we have settled for music that is inferior to the music than that of the world. We should be leading the way with sounds from heaven. God is the most creatively expressive being in all creation, though he is above creation. I am convinced as worship leaders, musicians, and singers, that we are living at a place that is far from what God desires to release in our midst.
Worship music ought to be the most cutty, sharp, unique, and powerful music on the face of the planet. Worship music is powerful even as it is in its current form. I would even go far as to say that it is the most powerful kind of music on the earth because at the simple core nature, worship music changes and challenges spiritual atmosphere. It is because of the power of the Word of the Lord and the Spirit who lives inside of the worshippers.
Think about what an angel of the most high God would sound like. Think about the singing that goes on around the throne in heaven. We must as a people begin to lift our vision higher. We must set our hearts and minds upon the things (ballads, chords, melodies, and rhythms) above. The fact that many worship leaders are mimicking pop rock bands out there like u2 and coldplay is sickening. We could have so much more if we would come to God in humility and declare our need before him.
So anyways to all singers and songwriters out there. Get your inspiration from heaven where we are all seated and lets start a freaking revolution. We want kingdom music, sounds that shake the gates of hell and cause demons to tremble and flee. Amen and Amen
When I think about it, it really makes me frustrated that as a church individually and corporately we have settled for music that is inferior to the music than that of the world. We should be leading the way with sounds from heaven. God is the most creatively expressive being in all creation, though he is above creation. I am convinced as worship leaders, musicians, and singers, that we are living at a place that is far from what God desires to release in our midst.
Worship music ought to be the most cutty, sharp, unique, and powerful music on the face of the planet. Worship music is powerful even as it is in its current form. I would even go far as to say that it is the most powerful kind of music on the earth because at the simple core nature, worship music changes and challenges spiritual atmosphere. It is because of the power of the Word of the Lord and the Spirit who lives inside of the worshippers.
Think about what an angel of the most high God would sound like. Think about the singing that goes on around the throne in heaven. We must as a people begin to lift our vision higher. We must set our hearts and minds upon the things (ballads, chords, melodies, and rhythms) above. The fact that many worship leaders are mimicking pop rock bands out there like u2 and coldplay is sickening. We could have so much more if we would come to God in humility and declare our need before him.
So anyways to all singers and songwriters out there. Get your inspiration from heaven where we are all seated and lets start a freaking revolution. We want kingdom music, sounds that shake the gates of hell and cause demons to tremble and flee. Amen and Amen
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Christianity without the Lost and Poor
7/03/07
Ok so I wanted to share a recent thought and disrupting thing that I have seen among the Body of Christ in America. It seems to me in my 8 years or so of attempting to practice Christianity that I have found that my heart has become completely out of touch with the reality of ministering to the poor and lost people of this world.
I just went to a four day Christian music festival in bushnell IL. It was a completely great time I got to see old freinds, camp, listen to some great bands, get into a few mosh pits, and even do a little techno dancing. Good times. One thing that is great about Cornerstone is that it attracts a large number of beleivers.
So there we were camping with our little group of friends and I notice that our neigbors were definitely non beleivers, or at least they were christians who weren't really all that concerned with outward appearences of righteousness. They had snuck alcohol in and there was quite a decent measure of profanity that seemed to pour from their mouths. Anyways a girl that I was camping with had made friends with them. Which at first I was irritated because they were like wrong for drinking and cussing at the fest. So anyways I decided to go over and check out a game they were playing called maffia. They actually seemed like a pretty cool group of people. So I dropped the whole judging them thing.
The last day we decided that we should all lay hands on each other and pray as we departed from the festival. My friend Tamara decided that she would invite one of the guys from this group over, so he comes over to get prayer. Then one of his friends decides he wants prayer as well. So anyways to make it short the Holy Spirit really seemed to show up as we prayed for these two, and my heart was really breaking for them. One of the guys broke down and started weeping before the Lord. It was great.
This leads me into my thought here: As a Christian I have completely forsaken the lost and the poor over the series of the last several weeks. I recently moved to Kansas City and joined up with the house of prayer. Its great and I love everything about the ministry. I realize however though that I have settled into a place of convenience before the Lord and I have forgotten my responsibility to the World around me. I rarely evangelize, like once or twice a week, and I couldn't even tell you the name of a non christian in Kansas City.
Don't get me wrong there are many great strengths that come along with being involved with a faith community, my prayer life is active, the word of the Lord is coming more alive on the inside. There are many personal things that are going on that are great, and I am most thankful for that.
So anyways I have recently come to this frustration with myself and with the body of christ in the west. It seems as though we have been taught that we need to forsake relationships with the people of the world who have an appearence of wickedness, there is this huge push to build Godly relationships and to surround ourselves with people who are really spiritual and cool christians.
I find the biblical model to be different a little bit: Christ was notoriously known and even critisized because of the company that he kept. He was actually intentional about surrounding himself with those who seemed to be in the greatest places of despair. This was absurd to the pharisee's. This is why we know him as the friend of sinners.
So now I have been asking myself the question. How can I call myself spiritual or religious if I don't surround myself with the lost and with the poor. You can't even really do christianity without the lost and the poor. To ignore the cry of the dying world and settle into a utopian world of comfortable Christianity, where everything has to be happy and go lucky all the time, is to ignore the very call of God upon our lives and forsake the mandate he has placed upon his church.
You see God's heart for the poor is unbeleivable. He is bursting and aching with compassion over the lost and the poor in the earth. Us church folk seem to be a bit removed from that reality in the heart of our father. How do we change. I think the change has to begin with prayer that moves us into action. So here is my beggining.
Father you are good and faithful, thank you for your mercy and salvation and your goodness in my life. Lord send me to live amongst the poor, i want my light and live to shin amidst the dark and dying in my generation. Father help me and give me the power and boldness to let the light shine in my generation. In a world that aches with real pain and real problems I want to be Christ to them, I want to be a witness. God give me the love that you have for humanity that will bring me into the place of service to the world around me that men might come to know you as saviour. Help us love in deed and in truth Father. In your son's Holy name I pray. Amen
Ok so I wanted to share a recent thought and disrupting thing that I have seen among the Body of Christ in America. It seems to me in my 8 years or so of attempting to practice Christianity that I have found that my heart has become completely out of touch with the reality of ministering to the poor and lost people of this world.
I just went to a four day Christian music festival in bushnell IL. It was a completely great time I got to see old freinds, camp, listen to some great bands, get into a few mosh pits, and even do a little techno dancing. Good times. One thing that is great about Cornerstone is that it attracts a large number of beleivers.
So there we were camping with our little group of friends and I notice that our neigbors were definitely non beleivers, or at least they were christians who weren't really all that concerned with outward appearences of righteousness. They had snuck alcohol in and there was quite a decent measure of profanity that seemed to pour from their mouths. Anyways a girl that I was camping with had made friends with them. Which at first I was irritated because they were like wrong for drinking and cussing at the fest. So anyways I decided to go over and check out a game they were playing called maffia. They actually seemed like a pretty cool group of people. So I dropped the whole judging them thing.
The last day we decided that we should all lay hands on each other and pray as we departed from the festival. My friend Tamara decided that she would invite one of the guys from this group over, so he comes over to get prayer. Then one of his friends decides he wants prayer as well. So anyways to make it short the Holy Spirit really seemed to show up as we prayed for these two, and my heart was really breaking for them. One of the guys broke down and started weeping before the Lord. It was great.
This leads me into my thought here: As a Christian I have completely forsaken the lost and the poor over the series of the last several weeks. I recently moved to Kansas City and joined up with the house of prayer. Its great and I love everything about the ministry. I realize however though that I have settled into a place of convenience before the Lord and I have forgotten my responsibility to the World around me. I rarely evangelize, like once or twice a week, and I couldn't even tell you the name of a non christian in Kansas City.
Don't get me wrong there are many great strengths that come along with being involved with a faith community, my prayer life is active, the word of the Lord is coming more alive on the inside. There are many personal things that are going on that are great, and I am most thankful for that.
So anyways I have recently come to this frustration with myself and with the body of christ in the west. It seems as though we have been taught that we need to forsake relationships with the people of the world who have an appearence of wickedness, there is this huge push to build Godly relationships and to surround ourselves with people who are really spiritual and cool christians.
I find the biblical model to be different a little bit: Christ was notoriously known and even critisized because of the company that he kept. He was actually intentional about surrounding himself with those who seemed to be in the greatest places of despair. This was absurd to the pharisee's. This is why we know him as the friend of sinners.
So now I have been asking myself the question. How can I call myself spiritual or religious if I don't surround myself with the lost and with the poor. You can't even really do christianity without the lost and the poor. To ignore the cry of the dying world and settle into a utopian world of comfortable Christianity, where everything has to be happy and go lucky all the time, is to ignore the very call of God upon our lives and forsake the mandate he has placed upon his church.
You see God's heart for the poor is unbeleivable. He is bursting and aching with compassion over the lost and the poor in the earth. Us church folk seem to be a bit removed from that reality in the heart of our father. How do we change. I think the change has to begin with prayer that moves us into action. So here is my beggining.
Father you are good and faithful, thank you for your mercy and salvation and your goodness in my life. Lord send me to live amongst the poor, i want my light and live to shin amidst the dark and dying in my generation. Father help me and give me the power and boldness to let the light shine in my generation. In a world that aches with real pain and real problems I want to be Christ to them, I want to be a witness. God give me the love that you have for humanity that will bring me into the place of service to the world around me that men might come to know you as saviour. Help us love in deed and in truth Father. In your son's Holy name I pray. Amen
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