Finally Up

AltCity.org, my new blog home is finally up. It’s taken a real long time but that’s what happens when you have 4 kids 7 years and younger. Got check it out and update any of your links. Thanks

New Blog Home > AltCity.Org

For those of you whoever followed this blog I can now be found at www.altcity.org. See you there.

-M.

Magazine Blog

Someone said that if you are going to do a blog you should make it like your own personal magazine. I would like to try that. I think next week I am going to try at that.

Today I started training another class. This one was for Musician’s Friend & Guitar Center. We also had Breedlove in the house today for some vendor training. Branden was touring the west in the mini Breedlove tour bus but he still had a lot of crazy nice guitars. It’s not every day that you get to play several $7,000+ guitars. Fun, Fun.

M.

Convictions & Movement

I have a great desire that has been fuled by church today, friends who have stayed in the faith and are now being rewarded for serving, some articles and videos on The Resurgence, everything I have read in the bible this last week as well as over the past few years, and by the Holy Spirit – trusting and believing what Jesus says is true. That being said I made a small list of some things I can and want to do.

I want to serve the Lord by focusing on Jesus and my family.
I want to train and teach the Word.
I want to work with people and be on he front line (bidding people to come and die) through counseling, training, teaching, friendships, disicipleship, and preaching the gospel of Jesus.
I want to design things for print and web.
I want to write and play music that glorifies the Lord.
I want to lead and assist churchs with all the gifts God has given me.
I want to be a part of a movement that glorifies and forwards the cause of he gospel of Jesus Christ.
I want to plant churchs and grow new ministries and plant more churches so everyone has somplace to call a home where they can serve.
I want to reach out to people with arts and music.
I want to plan, market, and expand the tent further than my eyes can see.
All this and so much more.

God has given me so many gifts and I have worked with so many people and ministries… I am tired of being fearful of enlarging the boarders and expanding my tent. This time I am going to trust the Lord.

M.

Home Host

I hope to have my style template done for my band site and then I want to get my amplifier company site up and running. If I get good at this I may start doing design work again on the side. Right now I’m using SQL ’08 and the newest version of WordPress as my CMS. On the web design side I’m using Dreamweaver and Expression Web, and as always, Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop are my art design programs of choice.

Taking WordPress To The Reals

I’m trying my first attempt at wordpress locally for the devolopment of my site www.mannerlymusic.com. We’ll see how it all goes if I decide to publish what I create.

M.

iPhone WordPress App

Alright, so it has been a rarer long time yet again. It’s hard to balance being a husband, a father of 3 going on 4, working full time as a coach & trainer, doing a band, keeping up a house and yard, etc, etc. It’s because of this that I have neglected blogging. I plan on picking it back up when I get the chance. I’m pretty sure Oliver, my 13 month old, wants my attention more than the masses so this will be it for this post.

M.

I can not believe…

I cannot believe how long it has been. We have missed so much and so have you. Oliver was born an is now over 7 mos old.
I will be updating more often now since I got this free iPhone application for wordpress. Yay!

Valentines Day Wreck @ Around 6:37am

Ouch,

So I got in a car wreck today and am very sore. Left lane + 45-50mph + snow/ice + crx + lane change + 360 spin + staring down two semi trucks and a 4×4 + right lane cement barrier (passenger rear) + 180 + cement barrier (driver side front) + 180 + cement barrier (driver side rear) + 180 (facing in the right direction again) = one thankful Michael. I’m just glad I’m still here and have no more than a hurt back, neck, shoulder, leg and ankle, plus no one else got hurt. I was really worried that someone else would spin out as well, but no one did, thank God. No one stopped though. I waited like 15 mins and then got the car off the freeway and drove myself to the hospital. I want my 4 wheel drive car back and want the state to start plowing the streets like they used to. I know we need budget cuts but come on, there have been over 4 deaths this week from lack of plowed roads. I just thank God that I wasn’t the 5th. When I went to the ER they said I would be okay but if I had an airbag I probably would have a broken nose and if the seat belt were not on the rotator section of my shoulder I probably would have broke my clavicle. But hey…

Happy Valentines Day!!!

I’m Okay!!!

Late Night Highlights : Crossroads p. 106

From the book Crossroads by Colin Creel (p. 106):

Dallas Willard says that the loneliest of moments is the time of decision. It is there that the weight of our future life clamps down on our hearts, that whatever comes will now be our responsibility. There are the second thoughts-and the third and fourth. Did I do the good and wise thing? Will others think I am a fool? What sort of path will this be? But in the midst of these anxious thoughts, there is forever a point of clarity. When you hear the call, you must go.