COMS Final Project

The Band Your About To Hear (TBYATH) has just released their first full-length album called 'Removed,' Dec. 9. TBYATH is a Christian rock band out of Lynchburg , VA that started in the fall of 2008 at Liberty University. The band started out with six members, a keys player, acoustic guitarist, electric guitarist, drummer, lead singer, and sound engineer. Since then, this Fall of 2009, TBYATH has added a seventh member, a bassist.
I listened to this album after it came out on Wednesday and I was pleasantly surprised as to what I heard. I thought that the music that new, intricate and very thought out. All the instruments blended so incredibly well together, even though there are so many. I do really like that there is only one electric guitar and one acoustic guitar in the sound, usually there is so much going on with two electric guitars.
The songs themselves were very well written and executed. The lyrics are very powerful and really grab your attention while you are listening. One specific song I really enjoyed was 'Removed'. The lyrics caught my attention and the build up fromthe verses to the chorus and again to the bridge just captured the essence of what the song was trying to portray.
I think that this band will go far, and their first album, 'Removed' will be a huge hit on the charts. I am excited to see how it will rank over the next couple weeks and months. This first album is only one of many great things to come out of TBYATH. I hear they are starting, even now, writing for their next album to be released sooner than most would expect.
This group of young musicians got together in a snap, out of nowhere for a talent show called 'Coffeehouse' at Liberty University, where all members attend college. It was totally a God thing, they all say, or else this ministry wouldn't be growing an prospering so rapidly.
This band definitely started out with the hand of God and if it is what He has in store for them, then their ministry will go very far very quickly.

COMS220

Ok, so my friends, Josie, Whitney, Addison, and I went to a new church last sunday. The church is called Tree of Life, you may know of it, it is off Timberlake road. After the service, Josie and I were driving to lunch together and we started chatting about the pastor and the service and things we liked and enjoyed and things that we might not have totally agreed on. Somehow the topic of children going to church came up and when we have children if we would drag them to church with us kicking and screaming or let them decide for themselves when they wanted to accept Jesus and come to church on their own.
I decided that I didn't want to force my kids to come to church, but I would strongly encourage it. Then Josie said,
'I would not make them go to church either but I would ask them why they didn't want to go and if something happened that caused them to not like church."
She then said something else that caught my attention. She mentioned that church was supposed to be filled and make up the body of Christ. We then started discussing how everyone has a different job in the body. Some people hare the hands, others the feet.
People could

• teach
• serve
• cook
• fix
• paint
• sing

Although, we all have different talents and jobs in the church some of us have similar jobs. For example, I have only ever been to churches who have one pastor that preaches on Sundays. I feel like there are probably at least a few other pastors in the congregation that would have a huge impact on the people if they were to have a go at preaching on one Sunday. I feel like sometimes we delegate one person for a job that could be fulfilled by a few. There are other people and teachers that have a word from God that someone needs to hear, and yes, maybe they are preaching at Sunday school or in small groups, but why is there only one 'head' pastor. We are all equally the body of Christ.
We all have different functions but we are all still needed equally to make up the whole body. We need to to be the body all together because if one little part gets off track then we all do because we are all one body. We need to look after each other and love each other. We need to help each other grow so our body can grow and be healthy. We need to go out and make more disciples so our body will grow larger and larger everyday.

A poem called...

searching for Love
on the train to nowhere
passing station after station
just looking for Him
where might he be?
in a tree?
or maybe Hes a bee?..she thinks..
i'm sure He couldn't be
inside me....
oh how wrong she is
you’ll find Him
just where she thought.
not..he was found
inside her heart...that's where
He makes it pound
not for you and me
but for He, its all for He
and He is Je--sus

I got a funny little feeling..

ok so im in the middle of bumblejazz Ohio....and there it NOOOTHING to do here! and its been rainy and gross the past couple days so i feel low and not wanting to anything but sit and read and play with milton(my computer). I feel like a huge bummm...oh wow...yeah i do. I miss my family at LU...its hard to explain it...but i feel like they are my family...i love all of the people there so much! like my heart aches a little from being away from them. and i cant sufficiently tell them how much i care about them and love them without being super creepy or really annoying haha. so i guess il jsut write it down. I am here with about 30 other people learning about Studio Sound Engineering for 5 Weeks. :) im learing a lot already and its only the 4th day haha. Next week we start actually tracking and recording actual bands and im super psyched!! I cant wait to know all that im going to know when i leave and head back to good ol Lynchvegas! :)
but there is a part of me that just doenst want to be here. I miss my support system at Liberty, yes there are a few christians here and thats awesome cause i expected there not to be any...both my roomates are christians. I jsut dont feel like myself here, maybe its cause we are all still getting to know eachother but meeting new people is so awkward, i am so concious about myactions and what i wear and how my hair looks, like stupid things. I dont know if how i act will affect someone in someway that will cause them to not like me. ugg how exausting. I just need to STOP IT!. cause yanno what...WHY SHOULD WE CARE!! God made us who we are for a reason. if he made us the way we are...then why should we act liek anyone else? I mean i guess i should care that im following biblical views and guidlines but other than that...i should be able to be who i am without any restrictions, but for me...i dont feel that way. i feel distant form these people a little hazy even i guess. Yes a lot of them are not Christians living for Christ, but they are really interesting and nice people for the most part.
I mean i know the distance between us is that they dont ahve Christ is them as I do. I guess it is still strange to me to see how intensly affecting that is on relationships with people.
Maybe...hmm?...maybe God is trying to guard me from their evil ways, as to not get to close to them so they dont cause me to stumble or fall.
I mean there are some good looking guys here, but for real... i could care less...i have no interest in being pursued by any of these guys no matter how nice or attractive they are. They arnt living for Christ and that is what keeps us apart. I guess that is what i was trying to firgure out all along...blogging is so helpful..lol...
ok well i guess this is getting a bit long...i just needed to type out my thoughts to get them straight with myself.
Well i just want to let all my friends know that i miss them soo much...more than they will ever know
i miss the way i laugh, cry, think, perseive the world, persieve Christ, the way i act, the way i speak.
I think that there are definitly some people that just being around them brings out a good side of you that others cant. Well you guys are that for me. and thanks for always being there for me when i have questions or doubts or anything at all!
cant wait to be back at home! :)
Christ in me
Lulu