ONE RED PILOT

thoughts on God, Family, Worship, and Life

Creative Chaos

I’m hooking up again with Carlos and his BRILLIANT idea called Creative Chaos. Go check out his heart behind this HERE.

A few weeks out from new series we show teasers in our services for upcoming series. This is a teaser we played last week for our series called “I Love You” that starts this coming weekend. The idea is that “I love you” is the most wrongly/overused used phrase.

in service we made the call to leave out the last scene. The guy in the backseat was supposed to be a Cupid who fell asleep on the job. Couldn’t tell it was a Cupid so we cut it.

September 25, 2008 Posted by nate d. | Creative Chaos | , , | 1 Comment

Blog-Friendships

I entered the blog world 9 months ago. I’ve had my moments about cultivating real community online but in the past few months I’ve become a believer. One friendship comes to mind that has helped me cross over.

Rich is a Worship Leader in Southern Cali who I’ve never met in person. I started following his blog not long after I got into blogging and I emailed him once asking him a leadership question. Since then we’ve began to talk more, comment on each-others blogs, and I would say now that he has become a friend of mine. He’s become a guy I bounce questions about leadership off of, we’ve talked philosophy of worship and church, and just in the past 2 weeks he has im’d me saying he’s praying for me after some bad days I twittered about.

I will now forever argue the fact that YOU CAN build REAL friendships through blogging. If you’ve never been before, go visit Rich and say hello!

nate

September 25, 2008 Posted by nate d. | Friends | , , | 3 Comments

Friends

Had a meeting today with Chris and Mack from Elevation. Since our offices are like 45 minutes away from eachother we had an ichat meeting…I love technology. Here are few screenshots from the meeting:

As you can see the meeting started well…a lot of interest

about 30 minutes in silliness started to grab hold, plus I told them I was taking a picture

by the time 45 minutes passed, Chris and I found our ichat effects, Mack realized he didn’t have Leopard and had no ichat effects and started calling Chris and I lame (just jealous it’s fine), and the meeting was officially over.

C’mon we’re “creative types”. Everyone knows we don’t last longer than 45 minutes in a meeting!!

I love the relationship the Lord is allowing our 2 churches to have in Charlotte, even more than that our Worship Depts, and WAY more than that our friendships!!

Kingdom minded baby!!

nate

September 22, 2008 Posted by nate d. | Church, Friends | , , | No Comments Yet

Be the Man, Pt. 2

“Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.”

Deuteronomy 6:5-9

This installment of me stepping it up and being the man in my family involves us really taking this verse literally. As you may or may not know we are building our first home. It’s been a dream of ours since we were married and the only way that it is happening is because of the grace and mercy of Jesus. Last week we went to the house after they were done framing and wrote scripture on the walls. I’ve been looking forward to doing this since they broke ground. It was an awesome opportunity for me to share with the kids about how God has made a way for us to build and live in this house and to much that has been given much is required. It was an amazing afternoon and something I look forward to sharing with everyone who comes to The Davis Family home.

Men, we need to be EXTREMELY intentional with our wife and children. They need our leadership more than anyone in our lives. They need to know that we are very concerned with their well-being mentally, emotionally, physically, and most important spiritually!

How have you been intentional with your family?

favor to you,

nate

September 20, 2008 Posted by nate d. | Be the Man, Family, Parenting | , , | 3 Comments

Be the man pt.1

I know what your immediate reaction to that statement was, “but nate, you are already the man!” :o )

The other day during my quiet time the Lord really got me with this verse in Deuteronomy 6:5-9:

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.

So, that what I’m doing. Being that they are 4 and 2 it gets a little challenging to hold their attention but I’m starting to put it in practice. That way when they are older it’s just part of what we do. I hope to start adding post on ways that I’m trying to implement this into my home on here…so keep me accountable!

nate

September 16, 2008 Posted by nate d. | Be the Man, Family, Parenting | , , | 1 Comment

Up on the Auction Block

Hey friends….I’m selling some gear. If you need it personally or maybe your church could benefit from it…let me know!

Power Amplifiers

Rack Mount Cases

Headphone Amplifier

nate

September 10, 2008 Posted by nate d. | Gear | , , | No Comments Yet

Why?

I was talking through with my wife the other night about the song “Healer” and all the craziness that now goes along with it. Here is what really bothered me…

Satan has completely succeeded in the battle of pornography. He has everyone who struggles with it fooled to think they can’t tell anyone because of the repercussions. In the case of Mike G., fooled to the point that he would make up a lie like CANCER! to cover up the addiction!!!!! Think about it. If Mike Guglielmucci was interviewed saying, “yeah I really battle with porn and I came home one night, sat down, and wrote this song believing that God could heal me from this nightmare addiction” everyone would have cringed. I know porn is bad, I know it’s shameful, but Jesus is bigger than that crap and if you’ll be brave enough to fess up you’ll defeat the enemy and you’ll feel freedom like you never have!!! We need to start bringing this stuff into the light NOW Church so Satan won’t take down another one of our leaders with it.

join with me in the prayer,
nate

September 3, 2008 Posted by nate d. | Church, God, Life | , , | 7 Comments