Let the Little Children Come to Me

Jesus said in Matthew 19:14, Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” While I see his point… he was trying to show that one must transform his heart into that of a little child to come into [...]

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Majesty – the Grand Canyon

This past week I was blessed to be able to work in Arizona.  It was productive work, as I met with chapters around the state – 10 or 11 in all.  But being a Christian and an outdoorsy kind of guy, I couldn’t get to Arizona and not see the Grand Canyon.  For Drew’s pictures, [...]

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Leaf Playing & Real Quality Time

Last weekend Jacob & I wanted to spend some quality time together.  And for the first time, he is getting old enough to actually help me work!  I had to get the leaves collected around our house, so I put a rake in his hands and I held the blower and went to work on [...]

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A Special Boy’s Birthday!

Amazing how 7 years has passed.  Little baby Jacob is not so little anymore… he’s 60 pounds now, and 4-1/2 feet tall or so.  Some crazy awesome memories of the first few days with this little man, and while we knew the day he was born, we didn’t bring him into our home until July [...]

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The Hi-Lo’s – a group for the Ages

Ok I am officially hooked on the awesome stuff of the Hi-Lo’s.  It took me a while to come around to it, but if you’ve never heard of these guys, you have to check out their website, http://www.thehi-los.com. 
Do yourself a favor and download the “My Sugar is So Refined” clip from the Nat King Cole [...]

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The Best-est Bass Ever…

I try to stay as balanced as I can on a lot of Barbershop issues.  There’s the constant effort to try and get a quartet sound to be a “lock” between 4 voices.  The neat thing about this particular hobby to me in regards to quartetting is this; you take 4 individuals of different background, [...]

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Soccer time!

Well, I’ve waited for years for this.  Those afternoons in Memphis in the back yard kicking the ball around, playing soccer with Jacob and him laughing so hard he couldn’t even run very fast, and then my taunting him by saying, “I’m gonna beat ya, I’m gonna beat ya!!!”  He would run and run, and [...]

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Great Honk has right phraseology

What a fun weekend in Albuquerque!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GREAT HONK GOOSES GOLD IN BUFFALO BILLS CONTEST
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Jan. 27) … Great Honk took the gold in today’s the Buffalo Bills-Era Quartet Contest in Kiva Auditorium.
The youngest quartet among the competitors, members of Great Honk are tenor Shane Scott, lead Eddie Holt, baritone Drew Ellis and bass [...]

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My new favorite Tenor

Ok – so those of you who are barbershoppers, don’t get upset… (especially my dear wife!)  With no disrespect to any of the talents of today’s champ tenors - especially the amazing Drew Kirkman of Michigan Jake, the smooth Tim Broersma from Realtime, and the astounding Tim Waurick of Vocal Spectrum – I have a NEW favorite tenor.  [...]

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a Great Christmas gift!

Thanks to my brother and sister-in-law for a great gift!  A Books-A-Million gift card!  Woohoo!!  I went in yesterday afternoon to try and find a specific Bible I’ve been trying to find for years; an NIV/NASB/Greek New Testament Parallel Bible.  Oh well, I didn’t find it (pretty much a specialty I’m sure) and I started to [...]

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