The Bible is awesome!

I'm really trying to dig into the bible right now. This is always hard for me because I get to a point were I just want to be doing something else. I lack what you might call DISCIPLINE.

As an artist and musician I'm always looking for inspiration.

What better inspiration than Divine inspiration!

I think God set the standard for inspiration with the bible. He left it to men to write the greatest book ever written. That is a gift. God gifts us all with different things.

What is your gift? Where is your inspiration?



By the way, he might have been on to something with the whole creation thing as well!

What Up!

Just checking in. I'm really enjoying all the feedback on the site. I love that everyone is using this technology thing to keep in touch.

I generally feel disconnected from everyone! I focus so much of my time and energy on the music ministry that I often feel like I don't get to talk to everyone that I would like. I have really enjoyed reading everyones experience blogs and hearing second hand about how God is moving in peoples lives through this time.

Awesome!

I look forward to getting closer to God and his body through this experience!

Experiencing = Worship
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life – and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him.
Romans 12:1

Ben

I'm A Failure!

A big thank you to Shawna Danberg for the class on Sunday night. For those of you who were not there, Shawna did a really good class on leadership. What it focused on was failure and how to be successful even though we fail.

That said, I've been a failure. I've really struggled with the fast. I finally broke down and had a chicken nugget yesterday. Where is the Nugget? That was my excuse yesterday to Christie. My argument was that it's not real meat anyways.

I've been concentrating on the fast and not on God. I read some of the churches experience entries on the web site this morning and it was encouraging to see people really turning to God. I really do feel more connected with people simply through this shared experience.

I'm excited and encouraged this morning. I'm caffeine free and mostly meat free. Keep it up!

Ben

Well day one is complete. For me it was the full 24 hour variety, I was at work and let me tell you it was a long day. It's noon now the following day and I just woke up. We had many calls last night so I got some sleep this morning. Yesterday was a struggle. I'm doing well with the food but when you go from 2 to 3 pots of coffee a day to none.....ahhhh! I'm having to really let God take this one because my body is in pain. I might have a problem?

So, I encourage you guys to give it all to God. He's the only one who can handle it all.

Ben

Pizza!

There are some vegetables on there right?

Tomorrow we start the fast and I'm definitely having to rely on God to get me in the game. We've prepared pretty well with getting our food ahead of time and having meals planned. Having a plan is key.

I will be praying for the church! I'll be praying that above all we will grow closer to God. Good Things are about to happen!

Ben

Drums Rock!





Hello Everyone, it's been way to long and I feel that I need to connect again with all of you. With The Danial fast coming I thought I would post my daily journal and thoughts about the fast. I will have a new entry everyday so that you can see my heart and thoughts about the fast. I'm looking forward to growing closer with God.

I'm looking forward to this journey with all of you.

Ben

Easter!

It's almost Easter and we are quickly preparing at the church to host the masses. I wanted to talk about a theory behind what we do for Easter. Let's face it, the work is plentiful and the workers are few. All this to say that there is a lot we could do for Easter, but we think that it is practical and important just to be our selfs. What does being our selfs mean you say. Well, we are not doing any big program or really changing what we do for Sunday. We are just doing what we do. What we do is come together in fellowship every week and worship the Lord and here his word. We are also taking this time as an opportunity to baptize those who wish to do so. Baptism is a statement of how God has changed our lives. This is a powerful statement and I hope that people who visit will see it as an outward sign of how God has changed our lives! This is the business that God is in. Changing Lives!

I'm looking forward to another chance to play with you guys and be in the presence of God!

ben

Twiggy Lives!

Right now I am watching Twiggy the water skiing squirrel on the news. It's a slow news day apparently. Well this week has been busy as usual even though Ric is leading. We got the new Aviom stuff. It's going to take a lot of work to get it all in and set up. It will be awesome once it;s in. Also, we are preparing to do the painting next week so that will be fun to get it all done and get the sanctuary looking good.These days are exciting! I finally feel like we are able to look past just getting Sunday done and work on our vision for what we are doing!

Stay Classy Vancouver!
ben

Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Hello everyone! Thanks to everyone who makes Sunday happen. All the sound, video, and projected media people. You guys are awesome. This Sunday was very powerful. I am excited about Easter and the weeks leading up to it. I really feel that we will have an impact on our community this Easter. We have a lot of work to do over the next few weeks but it is all worth it. Thanks again for everyones hard work.

ben

The B3 Rocks!!!!!

Practice was awesome last night. Thanks to everyone for the hard work. It really is a pleasure to play with you guys. The new B3 sounds awesome Ric! I'm looking forward to Sunday and hopefully my voice will be better by then. God will see us through!!

ben

Today was awesome. Thank you to those who gave me an encouraging word. I really appreciate it. I was very tired and frustrated by some technical glitches that we were having. Today is a testament to the group we have here at Real Life and most importantly to God. We serve the almighty God. That makes all of what we are doing worth it. I really liked seeing the video from the baptism. We need to have that playing in the "green room" between services to remind us of why we do this.

God Bless us as we continue together in ministry.
ben

Today I have been resetting the sanctuary after the baptism. That was really awesome! We are making some changes with the stage and the sanctuary. We are getting ready to paint the sanctuary and put a curtain on the stage wall. This will be a lot of work but it will be worth it. We are going to try and get this all done before Easter. We are also getting excited for Easter. We really want to reach people this year and share the message of salvation.

God Bless!
ben

Hello,
Things are rolling along. This week we will be doing an acoustic/electronic pop set for worship. We have no drummer so we are just going to make stuff up. It should be fun. I,m going to create some sweet synth loops and maybe some drum stuff. Well it should be fun.

The baptism was very exciting!! God is so good!!!

ben

Hello to all. It's been a while but I want to take a minute to say Hi and to let you know how things are going. We are rolling along and getting ready to face many challenges this year. We are blessed to have come as far as we have and now the real work begins. We are looking to improve the infrastructure so that we can better serve are community and stay somewhat sane as we go! I am very exited and looking forward to seeing God work among us.

God Bless all of you!

Ben