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Music Review: Vineyard Music – I Love Your Presence

Bryan Hill's Blog - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:20am

I am so glad I was asked to review this cd. It’s a great worship cd. If you read my blog, you will remember that back in September of last year I reviewed Jeremy Riddle’s Furious cd. Jeremy is a Vineyard Worship Artist. It’s a great cd with numerous artists on it.
Saving Grace, track 3 is one of my favorites and What Can I bring, track 4 has some amazing harmonies, in my opinion. I will be shuffling through it in my playlist often, may I suggest you do the same. It’s available now on iTunes go here to download it, or it will be physically released on February 7th at a Christian book store near you. Here is some other information about this wonderful album.
  • I Love Your Presence was recorded live at the Burn Bright: Worship and The Kingdom Of God conference, hosted by Vineyard Worship. Several hundred worship leaders and worshippers gathered in the Arizona desert to explore the nature of God’s kingdom through music and teaching with some of the Vineyard’s most gifted communicators and musicians. This inspiring collection of songs recorded live at the The Vineyard Church North Phoenix will immerse listeners in the powerful worship that was the highlight of the event. I Love Your Presence reminds us to not just think of worship as singing songs, but also laying down our lives for Him.
Here are some links to information about this album and it’s label:
Website: http://www.vineyardmusic.com/vm/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DiscoverVineyard
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/VineyardMusic
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-love-your-presence-live/id491711353
Thanks for taking a little time out of your day to read my little blog and God Bless You and Yours!!

* Material Connection Disclaimer: I received this music from Propeller to provide a review on my blog. Stated above are my opinions and mine alone. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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RTH–Powder Room–Episode 3

Bryan Hill's Blog - Sat, 01/28/2012 - 7:21am

This episode will be video less, mainly because I don’t have time to record/edit it. Yes, on day 47 we completed our renovation of our newly installed powder room on our 1st floor. This project has been hurried along, as we decided to refinance in the middle of it and of course wanted the extra value of the added 1/2 bathroom.

These were taken after the walls were painted with no baseboard or shoe moulding.

Here are pictures of the completed addition. It’s amazing what you can do if you put your mind to it. It’s hard to believe that a little over a year ago this was just a closet and now it’s a water closet…

Thanks for visiting my blog and checking on our progress. Come back this week to see how our Kitchen turned out with it’s fresh coat of paint after removing all of that nasty wallpaper. I will never like wallpaper, it’s just a cover…

Bethany’s room is getting a little bit of a face lift as well, I may include pictures of that too.

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Bumps and Bruises

Mid Life Crunches - Fri, 01/27/2012 - 11:10pm


This blog is a good place to time stamp my bumps and bruises.  Why?  Well, my company has changed health care providers over the past ten years due to mergers, acquisitions, etc.  This is a good place to make note of my injuries so I can refer back to this blog to look at recovery times, etc.  So, here is a list of my current injuries, when they approximately happened, and how:

1. Left Shoulder - February 2011 - I believe I injured it after trying to remove snow from my deck.  The railings on my deck are about 30 inches high, so it is an overuse injury.

2. Left Elbow Tendinitis - Late Spring/Early Summer 2011 - Injured trying to squeeze caulk from a caulking gun.

3. Left Bicep - Early November 2011 - Injured moving an old 21 inch CRT monitor into a work vehicle.  The monitor "moved" on me and in an attempt to stop it from moving, I braced it with my left arm.

I could use some bionic parts now.

The Time Is Now

Right Sarcasm - Sun, 01/22/2012 - 6:13pm
Maybe it's time for a man like Newt.

Hear what I have to say.  Does anyone believe that any of these ideas coming out of the debates by the candidates is going to get enacted?  If you do, then I got a bridge for you in Brooklyn.

(That line reminds me, as it is an election year, of the campaign slogan for the 1996 re-election of Bill Clinton.  "A Bridge to the 21st Century."  A lot of people bought that bridge, and as I dislike to point out, the off ramp was, like the Brooklyn Bridge, at the southern point of Manhattan, only Clinton's bridge terminated at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.  Fitting as it is also, Newts latest troubles stem from that era as well.)

So its admitted, we all expect nothing out of these candidates.  A little around the edges, that's all I can reasonably expect.  Even from Newt.

But I'll say this, Newt is the only one that I'd expect to be confrontational.  I think Romney would placate sooner rather than later, and that Santurom would hold out just a bit longer.  I don't expect Newt to ever placate.

He never has.

Newt has done the improbable, winning the House in 1994.  He accomplished much in his time there, that gives me hope that he would change things.  All the sarcasm that a simplistic sentence like that is entitled to, please.

But seriously,  while I can see Mitt and Rick being beaten by the press and the party, I don't think Newt would  succombe to that.  Additionally, lets not forget for the least the type of characters that pass for Senators and Representatives these days.   I guarantee the first critics of Newt Gingrich will be the those Mensa's running Congress.  "How abrasive and uncompromising Newt is."

I would love to hear  Newt tell them to quit their belly aching.

I thought Perry would be a nice antagonist to congress, what with his sharp tongue on part time sessions.  I absolutely expect Newt to be an antagonist.

Its time for an asshole for President.

Good Guys Don't Finish First

Right Sarcasm - Sun, 01/22/2012 - 6:12pm
Newt was absolutely correct in one particular observation during the South Carolina CNN debate the other night.  The media and the process has discouraged any decent human being from running for President.

Although Rick Santorum is struggling mighty hard to prove he is the exception to the rule.  He is also running third, and will likely be the next candidate to drop out.  So where does that tact get him?

I take that statement of Newt as an admission too.  He knows what he is, and that isn't the most decent of human beings.

Be that as it may, he's still the most accomplished in D.C.  Romney is accomplished, I'll give him that, but not inside the beltway.





Random: Photos

Bryan Hill's Blog - Sun, 01/22/2012 - 9:30am

Here are some photos I have taken over the last few months that I have been holding on to. Enjoy!!

Georgie was ready and waiting for snow as he rocked his sweater back in December.

My Mom and Dad over for dinner. Love you guys!!

We went to a movie over Christmas break, Jack and Jill.

Sammy and Georgie in the PJ’s.

Sammy opening one of his gifts

The girls as we sat for my sister’s famous lasagna dinner…

My Brenda, My sister, Lisa and me in a self portrait! Love you Brenda and Lisa!!

Derek and his cake that he shared with us for dessert. A friend of his made it for him for Christmas. Pretty Cool, cake and nephew!!

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RTH – Powder Room Episode 2

Bryan Hill's Blog - Sat, 01/21/2012 - 4:50pm

More progress…

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Snow

Bryan Hill's Blog - Fri, 01/20/2012 - 10:06am

I took this of the girls last week from inside the warm house…

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John 3:16

Bryan Hill's Blog - Wed, 01/18/2012 - 4:16pm

Brenda and I sat and watched some of the Bronco/Patriot game this past weekend and saw this commercial. I love the “Wow” at the very end…it pretty much sums it up!

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Movie Review: A Mile in His Shoes

Bryan Hill's Blog - Wed, 01/18/2012 - 7:26am

Before I get into the review of this movie, let me explain how we decide as a family whether we want to review a product or a movie on my blog. If it is a movie, I will  switch the output of my desktop pc to our TV and we will watch the preview. We then take a vote.

This movie was no different, but it did not catch everyone’s attention in the same fashion. Our oldest was not all enthusiastic about watching the film, but it was three against one. We don’t force this stuff, she was allowed and capable of doing what she does on her iPod while we watched or could go to her room and read a book. Apparently it got her attention pretty quickly. She watched it in entirety, and when it was finished she said, “It was a good movie”.

All in all, we liked this movie, and would recommend it to a friend..

From the director of "Angels In the Outfield" comes an inspiring story about a special boy with an amazing gift, and the coach who believed. Dean Cain and Luke Schroder  star in the gmc movie based on the book "The Legend of Mickey Tussler". It has a good story line, and has great situational resolve. Our family enjoyed it’s message and would like to offer you a chance to win a copy.

You have until next Wednesday, January 25th at Noon EST, to enter a comment here on my blog for your chance to win a copy of this great family movie. Don’t forget to leave an email address so I have a way of obtaining your mailing address.

I will pull a name from a hat, (if need be) to choose the winner. I state that because last contest I did, there was only one participant and she won with out a drawing needed. So come on, I know I have a handful of readers, leave a comment.

Here is more information on the web about this film:

    * Material Connection Disclaimer: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free from Propeller in hopes that I would provide a review on my blog. Stated above are my opinions and mine alone. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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    Rational Anarchist

    Right Sarcasm - Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:45pm
    "A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.  He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame . . . as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else.  But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world . . . aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure."

        -- Prof. Bernardo de la Paz

    I Should Like Mitt

    Right Sarcasm - Mon, 01/16/2012 - 7:10pm
    I should like Mitt.

    With an opening statement like that, you would assume I don't, and you would be correct.  I don't personally dislike the guy, but as to why I don't like him, can certainly be taken personal.  I think he's a little too fake. Contrived.  Acted.

    Which is not to say he's a bad guy.

    This sentiment may merely be a manifestation of my contrarian streak, which I can argue myself out of, but it may also be the reality of it.  He certainly has some positions today, that he didn't have back in the day.

    If I take the New Hampshire approach, I wouldn't look at him beyond his electability, whatever that means, but I'm not living there, I have my own reality to deal with, and I'm not convinced his positions today are the ones we'll get if he should win high office.  That victorious occupation is a slim reality, in my opinion as well.  But I digress.



    I Should Like Mitt

    Right Sarcasm - Mon, 01/16/2012 - 7:10pm
    I should like Mitt.

    With an opening statement like that, you would assume I don't, and you would be correct.  I don't personally dislike the guy, but as to why I don't like him, can certainly be taken personal.  I think he's a little too fake. Contrived.  Acted.

    Which is not to say he's a bad guy.

    This sentiment may merely be a manifestation of my contrarian streak, which I can argue myself out of, but it may also be the reality of it.  He certainly has some positions today, that he didn't have back in the day.

    If I take the New Hampshire approach, I wouldn't look at him beyond his electability, whatever that means, but I'm not living there, I have my own reality to deal with, and I'm not convinced his positions today are the ones we'll get if he should win high office.  That victorious occupation is a slim reality, in my opinion as well.  But I digress.



    Do one thing today....

    Bryan Hill's Blog - Thu, 01/12/2012 - 7:39am

    Do one thing today...., originally uploaded by ninelives.1972.

    Smile...

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    Casting Crowns – Just Another Birthday

    Bryan Hill's Blog - Thu, 01/12/2012 - 5:56am

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    KDKA TV - Exaggerated Severe Weather Promos Begin

    Mid Life Crunches - Wed, 01/11/2012 - 11:16pm
    I just saw a promo on KDKA TV with a warning that severe weather is on the way.  I looked at the forecast from www.noaa.gov and I did not see any warnings or watches.  The over exaggeration begins.

    Contines

    Right Sarcasm - Wed, 01/11/2012 - 6:01pm
    After the first primary, and the second event, with the third immeniently and projected much the same, is it too early to recognize the trend I already wrote about?  The conservatives are out polling the front runner. Too bad this is a race for plurality, not majority, and the majority is losing.  Like they always do.

    I got so much to say that I may find this is no longer a hobby.

    Do I go with the rant about the nominating process or the reasoning behind the voters choice, reached through exit polling?

    I'll build upon the concept of a third party candidacy that I'm not really supporting but espousing.  I've been voting that way for years, I'll try to explain why.  But I'm not actually in that place yet this year, its still early, but they say history repeats itself, and this nomination process reminds of 2008 and every election year before that.

    Before you tune out, consider what choice I'm being presented with.  Not certain, yet, but likely indeed.  The momentum makers, the voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and particularly New Hampshire, cited as a top tier reason for voting for Mitt Romney his electability.

    What? That's as ephemeral and manipulable a reason as I wound never ever want to see in regards to voting for a presidential candidate.

    You think he looks good now?  Able to win, do you?  Just wait, that can suddenly change, as the news makers see fit.

    But I'll give them this, being where we are in the process, Iowans and New Hampshirites are at least putting it out there first and early.  Moving forward, anyone with that reasoning is either intellectually daft or demonic.   Either way, I'd like to remove them from the voting lists.

    I scornfully predict that this reasoning isn't going away though, and neither is this election process that over values the voices in two tiny states over the other mostly larger, but maybe not brighter, forty eight states.

    Keep in mind that this process, these influences, these King makers, will deal from the deck and lay a hand on you and I that we are expected to play loyally in November.

    It will happen by and large as they hope.  Some will have a red face, not of a royal flush, but from the anger, for it is preordained that those who don't call on electability, will fold to the manipulation that has proven successful for years, pissing off the electorate.

    How do you think Obama got in there?  Rationally and empirically the Bush years weren't as bad as the Democrats were making them out to be, Obama's record is much worse.  Voters are more sedate now however, the loud and frequent gripes from the left aren't needed, yet.

    Which brings me back to Romney not even winning the majority of his party, yet.

    The conservative voices are not going to win the day, again, and while that part of being a splintered vote is their own damn fault, the fact that I'm not going to have a say at all is what riles me.  My chance to vote is in late April, it will be decided well before then, if not before February.

    To think that people who put as much thought in it as the "electability" crowd will somehow inspire millions of clones to do just the same and decide this, and proudly admit as much is beyond my patient sensibilities.

    I'm not done yet,  we have a debt that is in the tens of trillions, I hesitate to be specific here because by the time I click publish, the number I cited may rise, and will rise by some not insubstantial amount.  We have a nuclear Iran coming around the corner, and I've been reading the rhetoric for years -- its not good.  We have open borders and high unemployment.  We have as many problems as we do debt, seemingly.

    If it weren't for the simple fact that we have a ridiculous election process that is manipulative and disenfranchising I'd have something other than sarcasm for our society.  As it is, how can I not be cynical while I'm expected to vote for the party in November, regardless.  How is it too, that I can not help but be cynical toward any rhetoric that we can fix the nations ills when we can't even get our elections right.

    Maybe the conservatives are right in one regard, the fore fathers of ours were inspired, they made an elaborate system that presumably they understood, though I swear to you, I don't.

    After the first primary, and the second

    Right Sarcasm - Wed, 01/11/2012 - 6:01pm
    After the first primary, and the second event, with the third immeniently and projected much the same, is it too early to recognize the trend I already wrote about?  The conservatives are out polling the front runner. Too bad this is a race for plurality, not majority, and the majority is losing.  Like they always do.

    I got so much to say that I may find this is no longer a hobby.

    Do I go with the rant about the nominating process or the reasoning behind the voters choice, reached through exit polling?

    I'll build upon the concept of a third party candidacy that I'm not really supporting but espousing.  I've been voting that way for years, I'll try to explain why.  But I'm not actually in that place yet this year, its still early, but they say history repeats itself, and this nomination process reminds of 2008 and every election year before that.

    Before you tune out, consider what choice I'm being presented with.  Not certain, yet, but likely indeed.  The momentum makers, the voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and particularly New Hampshire, cited as a top tier reason for voting for Mitt Romney his electability.

    What? That's as ephemeral and manipulable a reason as I wound never ever want to see in regards to voting for a presidential candidate.

    You think he looks good now?  Able to win, do you?  Just wait, that can suddenly change, as the news makers see fit.

    But I'll give them this, being where we are in the process, Iowans and New Hampshirites are at least putting it out there first and early.  Moving forward, anyone with that reasoning is either intellectually daft or demonic.   Either way, I'd like to remove them from the voting lists.

    I scornfully predict that this reasoning isn't going away though, and neither is this election process that over values the voices in two tiny states over the other mostly larger, but maybe not brighter, forty eight states.

    Keep in mind that this process, these influences, these King makers, will deal from the deck and lay a hand on you and I that we are expected to play loyally in November.

    It will happen by and large as they hope.  Some will have a red face, not of a royal flush, but from the anger, for it is preordained that those who don't call on electability, will fold to the manipulation that has proven successful for years, pissing off the electorate.

    How do you think Obama got in there?  Rationally and empirically the Bush years weren't as bad as the Democrats were making them out to be, Obama's record is much worse.  Voters are more sedate now however, the loud and frequent gripes from the left aren't needed, yet.

    Which brings me back to Romney not even winning the majority of his party, yet.

    The conservative voices are not going to win the day, again, and while that part of being a splintered vote is their own damn fault, the fact that I'm not going to have a say at all is what riles me.  My chance to vote is in late April, it will be decided well before then, if not before February.

    To think that people who put as much thought in it as the "electability" crowd will somehow inspire millions of clones to do just the same and decide this, and proudly admit as much is beyond my patient sensibilities.

    I'm not done yet,  we have a debt that is in the tens of trillions, I hesitate to be specific here because by the time I click publish, the number I cited may rise, and will rise by some not insubstantial amount.  We have a nuclear Iran coming around the corner, and I've been reading the rhetoric for years -- its not good.  We have open borders and high unemployment.  We have as many problems as we do debt, seemingly.

    If it weren't for the simple fact that we have a ridiculous election process that is manipulative and disenfranchising I'd have something other than sarcasm for our society.  As it is, how can I not be cynical while I'm expected to vote for the party in November, regardless.  How is it too, that I can not help but be cynical toward any rhetoric that we can fix the nations ills when we can't even get our elections right.

    Maybe the conservatives are right in one regard, the fore fathers of ours were inspired, they made an elaborate system that presumably they understood, though I swear to you, I don't.

    RTH – Powder Room Episode 1

    Bryan Hill's Blog - Sun, 01/08/2012 - 9:00am

    Enjoy!!

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    Life of Georgie: Christmas 2011

    Bryan Hill's Blog - Fri, 01/06/2012 - 7:04am
    Here is a some footage of Georgie our dog and Sammy, my mother in law’s dog.
    Okay I’ll say it, It’s the Georgie and Sammy show…
    *Warning the following video contains k-9’s in clothes…yes, we dress our dog.*
    Stop judging us!!


    Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and have a blessed day.
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    Revision:
    I have to rephrase something:

    Go ahead and judge us.

    I am reminded of what a friend posted on Facebook recently that struck a chord in my mind. It came from Toby Keathley, which you can find:
    Here (http://whatsthislifefor.org/)
    Here (https://twitter.com/#!/T_KPhoto)
    or Here (https://www.facebook.com/Pastor.T)

    His post was this: "What other people think of me is none of my business"


    Love it.

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