Auditions

Having gone back and forth on this for some time, I have now decided that auditions are a very crucial part of the band recruiting process. I (and others) have often written it off as being an awkward process that doesn’t really gain anything. However, without an audition to clearly identify someones strengths and weaknesses on their instrument of choice, it is far too easy for those weaknesses to sneak under the radar for a long time and then pop up when you least expect them. It then becomes 100 times more awkward to address the issue when commitments have been made and time has been invested then if you had just gone through the audition in the first place.

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Crusade Set List: Nov. 11, 2008

Happy Day - Tim Hughes
I Am Free - Ross Parsley
Your Love Is Strong - Jon Foreman
I Will Rise - Chris Tomlin

Extreme Makeover: Blog Edition

So this blog has gone through some intense upgrades over the past week or two, but now everything is ready to go and I like it. New version of Wordpress. New layout & theme. And twitter updates on the front page.

Now it’s back to brainstorming features for the next round of updates. Ideas welcome!

Into the Wild

There’s something about the word Wilderness that brings with it a sense of adventure. It makes me think of Aragorn, or Chuck Norris, or Indiana Jones. The feeling of danger lurking around every corner, with no way of knowing what will happen next.

I have recently returned from the wilderness, the Southern Nantahala Wilderness to be exact, where my brother, dad, and I spent the weekend backpacking on the AT. I haven’t been backpacking since freshman year, so it was really good to get back to the mountains for a little bit and enjoy, and stand in awe of, this part of creation.

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Props for Creative Commons

I saw something today that I greatly respect, and an example that I hope I can follow. I recently heard about musician and worship leader Casey Darnell. What I just recently discovered, however, is that his music is licensed under Creative Commons, meaning that he is giving permission for people to freely use his music for non-commercial purposes as long as he is attributed for his work. That is really cool. While I like to think that most worship leaders feel that way about their music, the fact is that to be completely legal about it, you have to jump through some hoops and spend some money to use a lot of the songs out there. (more…)