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I have a couple of thoughts about corn mazes…

1.  Farmers never came off to me as smart people…but it occured to me this last year after driving by a corn maze and seeing all the cars and many people paying 8…yes i said it 8 DOLLARS to walk through a maze that is carved by a farmer’s family and their tractor….i realized that we could all learn a few things from farmer’s marketing:  Do a half way job cuz you don’t wanna cut your field down all the way after harvest, and convince your town they will have the “time of their lives” running through it all for only 8 measly dollars!?!? BRILLIANT!

2.  I hate that people try to make corn mazes SCARY…seriously people!?!?! i think that is retarded…just get the most out of your 8 bucks (or two grande white chocolate mochas from starbucks) and settle down.  I swear if i hear one more story about someone finding a random body part in the section of a maze they “weren’t supposed to be in”…well i will just tell them they need to stop being ridiculous and that there is a special maze made just for them:

I GIVE YOU THE BLONDES MAZE.

DISCLAIMER: this maze is not only for blondes but for people who match the description in section 2 above.

This little man’s dad made him a Mega Man outfit for halloween…you know, the game they made like 9 sequels for??  He is NOW the coolest kid on the block…hands down.

This is a staffer named RYAN at the church Cornerstone…Yet another story of God’s faithfullness….blessed me hope it does the same to you.

“About 7 months ago, while I was working at Cornerstone, I got a call from a very concerned woman. She didn’t go to Cornerstone but she needed to talk to a pastor. She connected with me because she was concerned for her granddaughter who was a high school student, and I was the high school pastor.

Her granddaughter Chelsea was 15-years-old and had just become pregnant. To make things worse, she was about to get an abortion. Here’s a portion of the email I sent out to our church staff after my first conversation with Chelsea:

“I got a call today from the grandmother of a 15-year-old girl who is pregnant. She is heavily considering getting an abortion, and to make things worse, her mom thinks it is a great idea. Apparently her mom and even her grandmother have both had abortions in the past. The grandmother and mom are pulling her in two different directions on this one. At first, her grandmother asked the pregnant girl (Chelsea) to meet with a pastor. Chelsea said absolutely not, but a few days later she called her grandmother in tears and agreed to meet with one. So I got a call just now from grandma, who put me in touch with Chelsea. Chelsea agreed to meet with me on Thursday to talk about everything. Apparently her mom is pressuring her to make a quick decision, even recommending that Chelsea end the pregnancy tomorrow. Chelsea told me on the phone that she won’t make any decisions until after we talk on Thursday. She seems very much in favor of getting the abortion.”

So I asked for prayer, and did my best to prepare for our conversation a few days later.

I can imagine what their thoughts and conversations must have been like on the way there.

“Maybe this is the best thing for the baby.”
“I’m just not ready to be a mother.”
“Maybe we’ll just go ahead and do this today before it gets any harder.”

Here’s the second email I sent my team:

“I got a call from Chelsea’s grandma (who has been opposed to the abortion the whole time). Chelsea’s mom, who has been pressuring Chelsea to get an abortion quickly, set up an appointment for her today at an abortion clinic she found online. Chelsea agreed to go with her mom, saying that she would at least listen to them… but saying she didn’t want to get an abortion today.

So they get in their car, on their way to the abortion clinic. They arrive, and the first person they see is a woman who is from Cornerstone. Why would they see a woman from Cornerstone at an abortion clinic? Good question… The mom had made a mistake. She searched online for an abortion clinic, but to her dismay she accidentally located the CHANDLER PREGNANCY CENTER which is a CHRISTIAN Pregnancy Center that exists to help young women handle unplanned pregnancies.

It gets better. After realizing their mistake, they still agree to hang out and listen to what the Chandler Pregnancy Center has to say about abortions (they are very gentle by the way). After watching some videos and listening to the details about abortions, Chelsea left feeling absolutely opposed to the abortion plan. Not only that, her mom apologized to her for ever having pressured her to get one. She told her daughter that it is completely up to her what she does with the baby!!!

I was upset before I learned this because I was planning on asking Chelsea to go and visit that very same clinic… but we weren’t meeting until Thursday night at 6:00, and the clinic is closed on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. I knew that waiting the entire weekend was way too long. So God went ahead and did what only he can do.

Chelsea said she still wants to meet with Lindsay and I on Thursday. She said she wants to talk more about some of the options that the clinic told her about. As best as I can tell, it sure does look like this baby is on its way!!!”

Chelsea and I actually got to share this story at a banquet for the pregnancy center a month later, and this past Sunday she had her baby dedicated at Cornerstone.

This video was created by our media Guru here at Capital Christian….Marcus Hackler

It is just the PIANO track with no vocals or other instrumentation for our up and FULL LENGTH album.  As i was writting this song i couldn’t help but ponder my life as of late…not just the physical side of things but the spiritual growth that has taken place.  I have lately been frustrated in my Bible reading not because i haven’t been reading it…but because it seems as though  i have not been getting any DEEP revelation or stirring moments to ponder my future…seem annoying that i am complaining??  As i was wallowing in my frustration i was reminded by the Holy Spirit of a story my Pastor has told me and our congregation about this frustration.

It was about a boy who was told by His father to take their families bread basket and go to the well to get water.  The first try was meaningless it seemed…as the boy ran back the 100yds towards the house he realized that all the water had seeped through the woven basket and his once FULL basket was now empty.  He then explained to his father that he didn’t understand how he could be expected to get water with this woven basket!?  His father reassured him that it would all work out in the end if he would just commit to filling thier family’s water supply with this basket.  By the third try the boy was devastated he felt as though he had failed his father and family and approached his father to apologize.  As he began to speak his father explained to him that though the family’s water had not been received the moldy and dirty bread basket that the family had been eating bread from was now CLEAN.

So it is with our devotion…though it seems we have not recieved some deeply inspired and revealing scripture for the day…We can rest assured that our reading of the TEXT has thouroughly washed away our flesh and empowered our spirit.

So this song “COME” is talking about the thought that sometimes all we need to do is simply….come…lay our burdens down and love the savior that first loved us. Sorry for the long premise but I thought it would better explain my thoughts about the song….

Come from Marcus Hackler on Vimeo.

Yea I thought i enjoyed the fact that my pedal board was getting bigger…now i just give up.

This is the worlds largest pedal board.  I don’t think that one person should own this many pedals…i wonder what they all sound like together!?