Monthly Archives: September 2002

Weblogs, Worship

Tomlin proclaims “Not To Us”, AACF is Breaking the Silence

Well today at work we got in the new Chris Tomlin album. Even though it’s not supposed to go on sale until next tuesday, I snuck a copy out. whooooo. It’s pretty good, but I didn’t intially hear too many usable songs for worship. It’s different from his first, as it seems to have a few more “rockish” tunes on it, with fast breaks, and “air drops” as I call them.

“Air drops” are basically when you cut the music, sing a beat or two, and come back in full force. I don’t know if that’s actually the technical term for it, but I like it, hahaha.

The first meeting of AACF took place tonight. These years theme is “Breaking the Silence” and I have a cool song for it too. That song “Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord/I Will Not Be Silent” seems really good, hahaha. Well I’m set to do worship next week, so maybe I’ll try for that one, and see how it goes. Just for reference, and to make this journal a bit longer, I’ll type out the words of that song for ya, and leave ya with that to ponder on.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth (x2)

The flowers of the field, are crying to be heard
The trees of the forrest are singing
And all of the mountains with one voice
Are joining the chorus of this world

And I will not be silent, no
I will not be quiet anymore
I will not be silent, no
I will not be quiet anymore

Running through the forest, and dive into the lake
Bare feet on beaches wide
Standing in the canyon with painted hills around
And the wind against my skin
Every ocean, every sea, Every river, every stream
Every mountain, every tree, every blade of grass will sing

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth

Weblogs

My webpage was updated by monkies….

Well I guess that statement isn’t entirely true, as I was the only one working on it, but alas, I was born in the year of the monkey by the chinese zodiac. (BTW: weird side note, anyone remember that weird “Zodiac Killer” back in the 80s? scared me a lot, haha).

So yeah, I did some work on my webpage tonight. It looks alright, though I’ll probably be changing it sometime. The pictures on the right frame were kinda cool, till I kept lowering the quality of them. Now they’re still at about 4K each, which I bet would still slow down a 56K modem, but I won’t be sure till I try it at home or something. Almost everywhere I go there’s atleast dsl now, except my house in SF. Lame…

So yeah, give a peak over at www.randallwongband.com and let me know what ya think of it. None of the links on the left frame work yet, so yeah. Oh, and they won’t change color when you go over them….so dunno if people would like that or not. 

Weblogs

X-Factor and like a coupon, I have been redeemed

Haha, ok, weird title, but I’ll explain in a little bit.

I dropped by Iggy Iguana’s today after work. I went back last Thursday as well, as they had some music night, and just picked up some food. Did the same today, and saw there were people in that same “music” room. Low and behold, I hear a voice I recognize and a person that I recognize. Speaking to a small crowd of people in a room was none other than Quoc, the speaker AACF had at the praise night last year. Anywyas, they have a group that meets there on Tuesday nights called X-Factor, and they have a bible study, sing some worship, and just share some praises that are going on. Purty cool, that Iggy Iguana’s would host something like that. I didn’t stay tonight, since I was a bit hungry, so yeah, looked pretty interesting though.

I had an interesting thought on the word “Redeemed” tonight on the drive home. How interesting of a word, since most of the time we think of coupons when we think of it. Redeemed…(from the Randy’s Head Dictionary). adj. to have been paid out in full.
Often times in worship songs we sing about our Redeemer. With the meaning I have in my head, that would mean that Jesus has paid for us in full. There’s nothing we need to pay. Nothing we need to give for our lives. It’s like a coupon that’s been given for our way into Heaven, just by beliving and following Him. Cool huh?

current mood: inspired