This weekend I’ll be preaching my first sermon at a onething conference. I’ve been to all but two of the conferences, drummed at all but 3 but preached at all but none (until now…). This reminds me of two other first times of preaching for me. The first time I preached to my youth group [...]

Merchant Band made it into Tampa this morning, and I would like to take a minute to publicly thank Southwest Airlines for being the greatest airline in the world. Seriously, Southwest is the Apple of the sky. We were running late this morning and we got to the airport about 40 minutes before our flight [...]

Merchant Band is on it’s way to Florida today to lead worship for a youth camp. Youth Explosion to be exact. Corey Russell will be meeting up with us while we’re down there. I love going out of town but I always hope that the weather where I’m going will be better than the weather [...]

Yesterday we flew into Chicago via Southwest; which was a much needed breath of fresh air after after last month’s nightmare encounters with Delta. Southwest is hands down the kindest, cheapest, most accommodating airline I’ve ever flown. After arriving and loading up our 46 checked bags** we grabbed some lunch and then went to the [...]

This evening was the first session for the Onething Conference, out here in Sac-town (Sacramento for all non-native, non-gangsters). Jackson Senyonga was the speaker tonight. He was off the cuff. He has a powerful reality of prayer. After his message he gave a salvation call and several people (10-ish) got saved tonight! Those small responses [...]

We landed at Sacramento Airport yesterday after 6 hours on our airplane. One of my favorite things about flying is at the baggage carousel when we collect our 25 huge, blue, rubbermaid tubs and our 7 instrument flight cases holding our guitar pedal boards, monitor equipment, and cables. People are always staring at us like [...]

In less than 12 hours I’ll be in the air on my way to Sacramento, California for the Onething Conference. It’s at a university and we’re expecting close to 2,000 people to show up. That’s great. It seems that a lot more people come when it’s free. Coincidence? I think so. This will probably be [...]

Merchant Band and the Onething team are in Los Angeles for a conference this weekend. I love coming to California because the weather is always nicer here than in Kansas City (actually that rings true of everywhere we travel to). Growing up in Colorado with the Rockies in my back yard make the ocean not [...]