Couldn't sleep

Not sure if its cause of a building, not sure if its because of what I see in the future of element church, not sure is its because of how much I love my job, not sure if its because of how much I love the band, not sure if its because of the opportunities we have as a worship team coming up, to play outside of church, not sure if its the songs God has given us since we started this thing, but what ever it is I didn't shut my eyes until 4:00am this morning. I could not for the life of me fall asleep. I was thinking about everything. I was thinking about all the songs we have written through element church, and it got me all excited about releasing them some day. I thought and thought and thought about so many things. At one point I got up to check the weather just to get my mind from racing.

This has not happened to me in a long time, and I am confused weather I love when it does happen, LOL, cause then I get no sleep. I love this church, and love "climbing these mountains" with you guys. I guess it was just one of those nights, where God was just showing me all the ways he has blessed me lately. I love when He does that.

Blessed,
Adam

sunday afterthoughts

Wow,
What a great day today. We are so excited around here at Element, with what God is doing through this people. Today Jeff announced what is in the future for Element Church, read about that here. We are approaching a new facility, where we will be able to expand the ministry of Element Church. This is a very scary and such an exciting time here at Element. As you know, we will never be just about a building, while forsaking the city. We feel this only enables our influence in the city. This enables us to make more of an impact and this make God's name more known in our city. Great things.

Today I did a new original called "The Heart of a Warrior", which was inspired by Jeff 's message last series on climbing the mountain, going where very few men are willing to go. Props to the worship team for making that song great.

Sunday Setlist 4-27-08
Forever - Chris Tomlin
Blessed be your name - Matt Redman
Faithful - Fee
Yearn - Adam Cruz
The Heart of a Warrior - Adam Cruz

Today is a Good Day!

LOST IS BACK!
DO THEY ALL START TRUSTING BEN? IS BEN GOOD NOW? WHO IN THE WORLD ARE THESE PEOPLE ON THE RESCUE BOAT? WHO THE STINK IS PENELOPE'S DAD? AHHH! SO MANY QUESTIONS! AND THE JOURNEY CONTINUES TONIGHT!

Lost,
Adam

Bass Player

Hey Element Church, I just wanted to put a heads up out there for anyone interested in playing Bass with our Sunday morning worship team. We are always looking for new musicians. I like to set up our worship team so that everyone one can have some time off. And so we are looking for another bass player. If you know of someone that would be interested have them email me at adam@elementweb.net.

sundays set list

april 20th:
No One Like You - Crowder
You You are God - Gateway
Love the Lord - Lincoln Brewster
Glorious One - Fee
Everything Glorious - Crowder
Over the sun - shane and shane

Clearing Videos

We will be clearing all of our videos of our services on Wed. If you would like to make sure you get video of a certain message from Pastor Jeff or a certain worship set, you can Right Click and download them to your computer at web.mac.com/elementarts. We will continue to put the video of the messages online.


Adam

1st official gig

Today the Element Worship team was asked to play for LifeChoice's walk-a-thon. This goes down as our first official "out of theater" gig. It was a blast to play today. The band did a fantastic job. This was Chris's first time with us. Great job Chris. Pam rocked the sound today. Thanks to all who came out early to help set up, and to the worship team for all the hard work rehearsing. We were actually asked by a guy to play out for an event in Burns, then we play in Gillette in two weeks. Its fun to get to take our E:sound, HA get it, "E', yeah, anyways its fun to take our sound and be able to bring others into communion with God through worship.

Looking forward to worshipping with you all tomorrow, come with anticipation to meet with our amazing God, to soak in His presence and let Him change us all!

I love being your worship pastor!

Adam

Sunday Afterthoughts

Elementers. What a beautiful day it is outside. This is amazing. I am so ready for spring. Amber and I are huge frisbee fanatics so bring on the nice weather. Which by the way starting within the next few weeks we are going to start a 2:00pm Sunday Afternoon ULTIMATE FRISBEE tradition. If you are interested send me an email at adam@elementweb.net with your name and phone number so we can put this thing together, we're very excited.

We had a great day today at Element. Jeff did a wonderful job talking about Hell, today. The reality and finality of eternity is so heavy. We carried Jeff out in a casket as a sermon illustration, that was really powerful. Watch the video once I get it online.

Worship was good today, which, ha is so weird to say cause I lead it, but I really felt you all engaged in the songs and God's presence was heavy in the room. We busted out a little AC/DC to open the service. That was fun. Jen great job on vox this week, you sounded great, Morgan, nice work on rockin the bass lines, (morgan had a tuff bass line in our opening song, but rocked it), Bryant nice work rockin the set. Picking up on my rushes of chorus and verse lines, HA, and Nathan, nice work on electric this week. Nathan typically plays acoustic, and by the way is a great guitar player, but today I had him rock some electric on his new VOX amp.

We will be adding a new musician this week, Chris, who plays electric guitar. A very solid guitar player, you will all enjoy having him as an addition.

Alright I'm out, we have friends coming into town.

Set List for Sunday April 13th
Hells Bells - AC/DC
Salvation is here - United
Faithful - Steve Fee
Mighty to Save - United
Jesus paid it all - Kristian Stanfill
Marvelous Light - Charlie Hall

Worshipping Him,
Adam

Lead when you don't feel like it!

Today was a great day at Element. We had a record attendance of 502, which is unbelievable. Seriously there is a little inside thing between us pastor at element, when 2 years ago Grant wrote down in his journal 500 by may of the first year, he really felt like God put that number on his heart. Jeff and I laughed, like man I'm not sure. God is so faithful to continue to bring his people home, home is not Element, home is life in Christ, and Element gets to be a part of bringing them home. Thank you Jesus.

However today, I really felt attacked. I am going to be a little honest here, but this morning during rehearsal I felt like not being there. I felt like we werent clicking as a band, my drummer was on call for work, which meant at any moment he could have to leave, and my attitude was just wrong. Sometimes we don't feel great, or feel like giving our all, but I think its in those times we eat it, and say its not about me, its not about my songs, my band, my feelings, its about a God who saves, and wants to use me as a vessel. So thats what I did, I prayed with Jeff and I got up there and gave it everything I had. God does great things when we get to that place of surrender and we just get out of the way, and give it to God.

We had some fun with a song today off a record by an old band I used to play in. We struggled with how to make it fit element, but I think it went pretty well.

Set list April 6th,
Beautiful Jesus - Kristian Stanfill
Maker of Heaven - Desperation Band
God of wonders - Third Day
I can only imagine - Mercy Me
Have you seen God yet - Dusty Taylor


Worshipping Him,
Adam