New Creation

9.26.2008 — 4 Comments

Fellowship Church takes “Arts in Worship” to a new extreme with this live singing of “New Creation” at one of their worship services. My friend Rita Zerbe is going to love this one!



New Creation from FC Post on Vimeo.

I don’t get it.

President Bush – your declaration tonight that by giving 700-billion dollars of taxpayer money away you are NOT bailing out any “specific” company or industry was a bit bogus don’t you think?

Thanks for wasting more of OUR hard-earned money making sure rich people stay rich and making sure they don’t learn the lessons I had to learn playing Monopoly as a kid.

Disappointed and sad, too…

Stevan P. Sheets

PS – My friend Mike Huckabee had some great words regarding this absolutely ridiculous situation you’re putting America in. I DARE you to listen to some of his suggestions!

So this morning I headed to the Elegant Farmer for a Food Network taping of what we were told would be called “Holiday Harvest” – highlighting “America’s Best Apple Pie” – the Apple Pie baked in a paper bag that Elegant Farmer is famous for.

I arrived, signed my release-waiver and was ushered indoors for the first segment filming – we were asked to taste the pie, walk around the store acting “normal”, and be willing to give on-screen comments about how we liked the pie. I didn’t get interviewed for this part, but there’s a chance I’m on film acting “normal”.

After a short while we were lead by hay-wagon to the top of the Elegant Farmer orchard where a tent was set up with somewhat of a staging-area-set built for the purpose of watching Farmer Dan and Farmer John make their world-famous Apple Pie. We were privy to the production of such a segment and while they were taping the making of the pie we were all suddenly caught off-guard by THE Bobby Flay walking onto the set disturbing the two Farmers as they described the process. Who knew we would be a part of a Throwdown with Bobby Flay episode?!

I was absolutely floored that Bobby Flay was right there in front of us here in Mukwonago, Wisconsin – talking to my buddy Farmer Dan about his famous pie!

Of COURSE I took pictures.

Some of my favorites:

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Jess and I had just enjoyed the latest Prison Break episode tonight and were channel-surfing when I was caught off-guard by yet another political commercial.

Usually I don’t watch an entire political commercial – or any commercial for that matter with my lovely DVR, but I stuck on this one and as it finished I grabbed my journal (read: cell phone) and quickly scribbled (read: Twittered) my thoughts.

Thanks to the wonderment of technology my scribblings were apparently read by numerous friends and colleagues and caused enough of a stir inside some of them to warrant a response.

I would love for the dialogue to continue as it has already started on Facebook due to my automatic status-update whenever I use Twitter. I will post the string of “conversation” here in this post and would more-than-welcome anyone else to comment here.

STEVAN @ 9:41PM:
Would NOT voting in November in fact BE voting?

S. JOHNSON @ 9:44PM:
Voting for Ron Paul.. yes. :-)

C. ATKINS @ 9:46PM:
I am in Stevan. Because of your ingenuity I won’t be voting this election.

J. FITCH @ 9:56PM:
Interesting comment…but i think our choices are between an old guy and a socialist…sorry…but i’ll take an old guy any day of the week.

S. JOHNSON @ 10:06PM:
Unless the old guy doesn’t beat the 1 in 3 chances of surviving the 4 year term in which case you’ll be choosing an inexperienced governor of the least populated state in the union. I’ll take the socialist over the odds.

J. FITCH @ 10:23PM:
beautiful logic…this talk of him dying in office if elected is just ridiculous. so lets see…a pro-choice (don’t know you, so this may not be an issue), anti-gun, marxist (socialist), appeaser (lets chat with chavez, ahmadenijad), let judges legislate from the bench, redistribute wealth (pure marxism) candidate or someone who may not have much … Read Moreexperience (still has more EXECUTIVE experience than any of the other 3…they have none) but is pro-life, pro 2nd amendment, capitalist, a reformer, etc.
Personally, my biggest problem with obama is the redistribution of wealth. That is PURE marxism!! No thanks!! I like these debates, lol. The differences are what makes this all interesting.

A. BUTLER @ 10:43PM:
I like Ron Paul too..

S. JOHNSON @ 10:52PM:
Well if you are against the redistribution of wealth, please explain how increasing the cost of living & inflation, the devaluing of the american dollar, and the governments bailout of failing banks isn’t just that? Wealth is being redistributed already, Just to those who already have most of the wealth. It would be a mistake to assume that Capital… Read Moreism is the end all God ordained form of economics. I mean the premise of Capitalism is man’s greed, how is that Christian?

S. JOHNSON @ 10:52PM:
Sorry Stevan for making your status bar a political forum.. you asked for it :-)

I’m not pleased with either of our choices. So, what do you think? Is NOT voting this November actually a viable “statement” to make as a voter or just a wussy way of complaining?

I am SO thankful that everyone that told me that they had seen “I Am Legend” heeded my warning to NOT share with me much about the movie to reveal too much of the plot. The fact that I didn’t know exactly what the movie was about made watching it late last night so much more worth it!

My only disappointment was that the “zombies” looked VERY modeled-after the I-Robot robots – so I couldn’t take them very seriously.

Will Smith once again performs at his best as a lone-hero.

I loved the story-line and trying to figure out “what happens next” wasn’t nearly as easy as it usually is in other similar plots.

Jess and I both remarked afterward that the movie has numerous M. Night Shyamalan “moments” throughout and some scenes could’ve been taken directly from his “idea journal” we thought.

I would definitely recommend watching this movie with your wife sometime between 10:30PM and 12:30AM (like we did) and quickly turning off the lights afterward and hiding around the corner of various pieces of furniture, making a snarling noise, and therefore scaring the liver out of your spouse!