Saturday Emails & Exploding Eardrums

Saturday Emails...

Hey friends. We have finished our Make Disciples series, and we’re heading back to the book of Matthew, continuing in our Gospel of the Kingdom series. I’m glad to be back to Matthew because preaching exegetically through the scriptures is really my bread and butter as a teacher. 

One thing we tried during Make Disciples was sending out the email on Monday along with sermon notes. The idea was that if we got notes to people as soon as possible after the sermon, small groups would all have them available through the week to help with discussion. We are still trying to determine how effective the notes were for that purpose, but we found out that hustling to put the email out on Monday cut into my precious sermon prep time for the next week pretty severely. 

Therefore, we’re moving the email back to Saturday. If you loved getting the sermon notes please respond to this email and let us know. 

Exploding eardrums…

Last Sunday, the music during the first service was way too loud. I can promise that we won’t let it get like that again. We had a professional sound mixer come out to show us what was possible with our system, and he did some wonderful things with the mix that will benefit us long-term, but he pushed the volume way too high during the first service. However, I don't blame him. It really comes down to me. I should have insisted that he bring the volume down whenever the first service started, and I could tell that it was too loud. 

If you were there, suffering in the first service, please accept my apologies. During the second service, we had the volume at the right level, and we had more positive comments about the sound than we have ever gotten!

Overall, we fixed some big issues. Moving forward, I think our sound will be a lot better for the system that we have in the room right now.