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Name: Chad
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Birthday: 9/20/1975
Gender: Male
Interests: music, God, friends, adventure, boating, water skiing, graphic design, web design, business, traveling, movies, performing music
Expertise: web design, graphic design, drums/percussion, listening to people
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Art
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AIM:  pixelated75
Yahoo:  cberlean
Member Since:
7/8/2005
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| Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still alive and kickn. Life has been busy, but God has been good to me. God deserves my praises for the many blessings He's given me. I've found the love of my life, I have a cool job and God is using me in ways I couldn't even imagine. Sweet.
OK.... hope everyone is well.
Chaddy | | |
| Hey, it's been a while since I've shared my infinite wisdom with all 2 people that actually read this. Last night as I was vacuuming our church I started thinking about servanthood and what a true servant was. I think all too much Christians pat themselves on the back for thinking that they're servants. They give themselves credit or at least think they deserve something in return for doing a "service" for someone else.
This is my definition of a "TRUE" servant...
Someone who VOLUNTARILY SACRIFICES of themselves (whether is be time, money, plans, goals, desires) for the BENEFIT of someone else and UNSELFISHLY doesn't want or expect anything in return. Mostly does it unnoticed.
Most Christians at least expect a thank you. If you do something to get noticed or to receive something in return, you've done it selfishly and most of the time in vain.
Most everyone knows the phrase it is more blessed to give than it is to receive. It is as long as you don't expect anything in return. I think a lot of people are dissapointed when when they give something but don't get even a thank you....then they leave bitter... to me that's not servanthood.
Next time you do something for someone, do it without any expectations and I guarrantee you will be more blessed for your actions than if you received even a thank you. | | |
| Come Holy Spirit, I need Thee
Come sweet Spirit I pray
Come in Thy strength and Thy power
Come in Thine own gentle way. | | |
| I love going thru a busy day... seeing lots of people...enjoying your friends... hugging people....laughing and having a good time......and when you get home feeling good about the events of the day, you look down to realize your fly was wide open the entire time  | | |
| Well, I never thought I'd see the day.... the day that the band would play its final show. Last Friday night, at the Cleveland Convention Center, in front of 3500 crazy kids, we gave them our best and our final bow.
As I look back on the 10 years of being in the band there's a whole flock of memories that would take too much space to write.... the goofy moments, the mess ups, the van breaking down several times, the trips and the list goes on. It has by far been the best 10 years of my life. I've taken the normal criticisms about being in a band... you'll never make it, there's no money in it, no girl will want to marry you, blah blah blah. No amount of money or fame could ever replace the joy and experiences I've had and the friendships I've built in these 10 years of being a "starving artist".
But by far the most humbling and rewarding part was knowing that God was using a bunch of goofballs that play their guitars really loud to minister to people, young and old. There's nothing like receiving letters in the mail from fans who say they were in the process of slitting their wrists and had the knife in hand and they, for some reason, put in our cd and were touched by the words of a song and put the knife down and gave their life to the Lord. We received countless number of letters, emails and phone calls from kids all over the country telling us how our songs ministered to them..... it's pretty amazing and even now writing about it, I'm humbled. God is amazing in the fact that He has such amazing plans for us, even when those plans don't make sense. 10 years ago, I never dreamed that we would have gone as far as we did or touched as many lives as we did.
As sad as it is to see us go our separate ways, I'm reminded that our ministry doesn't have to stop. We are each separate ministers on a separate journey and we can be just as affective. I'm definitely am going to miss the guys, the shows, the playing and the occasional signing of the autograph, but I'm pretty excited about the next chapter in my life and I know that God will bless.
So... thanks to everyone out there who have been so supportive and prayed for us and our ministry. We couldn't have done it without you. We will miss you dearly. | | |
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