The Advent Conspiracy
Sep 23

ISN’T IT WEIRD? and crazy and exciting and scary when your church begins a series that hits you so hard and so real you can’t ignore it?!

I go to Windsor Crossing which is a cool, hip, down to earth church which is trying to create a new image of ‘church’ and ‘christians’, but that’s a topic for another day.

I went to the Robbie Seay Band’s concert on Sunday, they’re headlining the ‘Hope, Coffee & Melody’ fall tour with Chris Taylor and Allie Rogers (both amazing artists 2 very good listens). The concert was amazing, and crazier yet, the concert was free, and at my Windsor! Apparently the staff at Windsor is all buddy buddy with the Robbie Seay family, so that’s cool, I’m sure I’ll be seeing more of their music performed in the coming future.
The thing that hit me, to go back to my beginning statement of this post, is they were kicking off the beginning of a new type of life. You may say, ‘what you mean a new type of life?’ and I’ll say, ‘Well the beginning of Advent Conspiracy… duh.” This concert was not the first time I’ve heard of Advent Conspiracy (and it won’t be the last). Envion Studios, my business, was going to be the firm to redesign their website and I heard about it last year and a few of my buddies from Windsor have chatted about it around me but it never hit me how powerful this really is.

What is Advent Conspiracy?

Advent Conspiracy

Well, you could do a couple things to feed this curiosity i’ve forced you to thirst for…

a. Click here to watch an amazing video (and as a design enthusiest i think it’s an absolutely amazing video).

b. Read (me? i prefer the video because it rocks, and also you can get to more info once on the site with the video.

The concept behind Advent Conspiracy Is:

Worship Fully
Spend Less
Give More
Love All

c. Chat it up with me. And of course if you don’t feel like reading (understandable) and you can’t watch for the video for some unknown reason (not-understandable :) ) If you don’t have my chat info you best get it.

d. All of the above.

This hit me hard.

just the other day i said to myself ‘it’s time to renew my wardrobe’, then I continued, ‘why stop there, why not renew my living room, get some black 20″ rims on your car, get 2 24″ monitors…’, i went on for quite a while, i even wrote a list! Then i got hit by this message once again, and not just once recently but almost constanly, like God is saying trying to show me how so many people in this world, including myself’ are so selfish. There was this Advent Conspiracy, then one of my friend blogged about selfishness not too long ago and I looked at the list I wrote earlier and was overwhealmed with how blessed my life has been.

Then pops the question, what am I doing with the blessings being given to me?

The Power of Sound
Sep 16

It’s amazing to me how powerful sound is in our lives.

The other day I was working and I heard a song from a cd I listened to back when i used to walk to and from work downtown chicago everyday. The memories that came back were incredible, all you can do is just smile and soak in the details. Memories that were sparked from a single soundwave.

The details are amazing too, I was drawn back to remembering events that occured, smells that I experienced, how the weather was, down to such detail that it felt like I was reliving the experience.

This has been happening to me a lot lately, specifically listening to music, maybe it’s because I pulled out a playlist from a while ago on my computer, or mayb e there’s some other reason.

Does this happen to anyone else? I would hope so. Or more specifically, does anyone have certain cd’s that they always pull out in certain seasons? (christmas cd’s do not count, I know everyone loves listening to christmas tunes in april)

I can’t believe the impact that sound or music has on my life, it’s awesome how it brings back all those great memories like a movie.