I love this hymn, but struggled with grasping the harmony on the chorus.  I sat down at the keyboard last week and worked out the harmony and memorized it for band practice.  When I got to band practice, I sang something else entirely!  Anyway, I think I have it cracked now once and for all.

I used Sony Vegas to record the harmony track.

You can get the chords here.

This Sunday we all fly back to Belfast, Northern Ireland to spend five weeks in the UK.  I’ll still be blogging, twittering, facebooking, YouTubing, etc. as normal as there is Internet in Ireland now.

We’re really excited about catching up with friends and family after our eight month stretch here in the States.  It will be so good to see them all again and it will be nice to attend our church for a few Sundays and get the chance to lead some worship.

We hope to get away for a weekend break to Donegal, or even Bray.  We’ll also visit London to spend some time with Liz’s family.  I’ll try to get some photos up during our stay.

We will miss North Carolina though - our new friends, the weather, and NHC.

p.s. Liz has a blog now… she just needs a little encouragement to start blogging…

This is where I’m at today…

8 But I am like an olive tree
flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in God’s unfailing love
for ever and ever.

9 I will praise you forever for what you have done;
in your name I will hope, for your name is good.
I will praise you in the presence of your saints.

I don’t use Playlists a lot - except for NHC set-lists.  Here’s a playlist I made recently with some of my favourite artists and albums.  I’ve highlighted my favourite songs on each album and linked to the YouTube videos.  So, you should check out the videos if you haven’t heard them before.

Here is Hillsong singing Healer (Planetshakers/Saviour Of The World).  Mike Guglielmucci, the song author,  leads the song.

After you watch, check out the amazing story behind the song here.

Wow.

We had a great birthday party for Nathan yesterday evening at Pump-It-Up in Raleigh, NC.  Liz and I were wrecked afterward, plus I hurt my back on the bouncy castle!  Still, brilliant time had by all.  The staff and facilities at Pump-It-Up were great.

(Nathan: second from left)

If you are, please come visit my blog. Russia is seriously under represented on my blog statistics map. I’m particularly interested in getting a star right where I’ve placed the yellow/red square…

Everyone else, how does your map look? Got any sparse areas you’d like to fill?

Update - 24 Jun 2008 - Hooray!

Well, first we had we Axinia who is Russian, but not actually in Russia. So that didn’t count… but whether she managed to or not, I give her the credit for sending somebody that does!

• Everlasting God - Brenton Brown / Ken Riley
• King Of Majesty - Marty Sampson
• Mighty To Save - Ben Fielding / Reuben Morgan
• Jesus Paid It All - Alex Nifong / Elvina M. Hall
• (Feature) Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer

Today worship was led by Seth, who was over in North Carolina visiting Gary for the weekend.  Seth serves as Worship Pastor at Four Corners church in Texas.  He did a great job this morning.

Hugh rocked the house with the feature song today.  Not many people knew he had a rock star voice to go along with those mad guitar skills and image. 

We had good fun at Hog Day down at Hillsborough.  We arrived about noon today and spent about three hours there browsing the stalls and taking the kids on the rides.  Katie went on her first pony ride and she was so excited.  We shared a big greasey bloomin’ onion for lunch.

Do you plan to go?

Have you paid your deposit already?

Have you been before?

What made it special for you?

Please tell.