Irish Night tonight...

Tonight, my church is hosting an Irish Night. Should be way fun. The entertainment is me and my bro, the Brother of Through. Lots of people ask where we got our band name. Well, Hamilton is a Scottish name originating from Hamulton, which means Through. So we are the Brothers of Hamilton, translating to the Brothers of Through.

We will be doing our little celtic music thing. jam on some Work of the Weavers and such. My pastor is from Ireland and he will be doing MC duties. we have chosen all good, clean, non drinking, non pub songs. Yes, they do exist. All in all, it should be a blast.

All money raised tonight will be going directly to our Scotland Missions trip. I really feel God is going to bless this night since the money we make is going directly to doing His work.

so..

Go mbeannaí Dia dhuit (thats Gaelic for May God bless you)

Peace

Tony

Confirmation from the Lord...

The Lord speaks in many ways and just today an amazing thing has been revealed.

Last go back to last Sunday. Our head usher was sharing with me about the amazing time of worship he had at the District Youth Leader convention Friday night. He said the Lord gave him a word to share with the congregation. he got up Sunday morning before worship and shared a little and then said that the Lord told him 2 words for our church, "Its Time". Wow, very cool.. It is time. Time for us to start walking the walk and stop just talking the talk. Lets get out and start working in our gifts and doing the work the Lord has called us to do.

Then during worship, one of the men from our church blew the Shofar, which is a horn made from a Ram's horn. This was very cool and the timing of when he did in worship was just amazing.

Then, my beautiful wife called me to today to share something that she was reading out of Leviticus. Leviticus 25:8-12 (The Year of Jubilee)

8 " 'Count off seven sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years. 9 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. 12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

So, Its time, the trumpet has sounded and I leave in 51 days back to the land of my ancestors, Scotland. This is a jubilee year. Maybe not technically, since I do not know if this is a fiftieth year. But in my life, I feel this is a year to celebrate the Lord's favor. I really do feel amazing things are going to happen at our church and in our community. Let us claim liberty and freedom in the name of Jesus throughout this land. Jesus has set us free, He has given us liberty from our sins by paying the price on the cross. We have eternal life by believing in Him and accepting the free gift he has given us by dying on that cross. To pay for all of our sins, blood needed to be shed and Jesus was the only perfect and holy sacrifice that could do it.

The time is now. This just really struck me today and I just wanted to share.

God bless

Tony

time sure flies....

howdy all.. sorry about not posting for awhile.. life has been.. well, life. Not much time to blog. but just wanted to say that very soon I will be doing a countdown till our missions trip to Scotland. Seven men from my church will be going on our first ever missions trip to help a church in Glasgow, Scotland. We will be doing construction work and also some evangelism. I will be leading 2 worship services while I am over there. I can't believe it. I am so excitied. It will be major fun. So, I will start the countdown in a few days and fill you in on more details.

Until then God bless all of you.

Peace

Tony

Happy New Year

I hope everyone has a happy, healthy and safe New Years Eve.

2009 is going to be an amazing year...

God bless and see ya on the flip side...

Peace

Tony

one week to go.. oh boy oh boy

7 days till Christmas.. just wanted to drop a note saying i am still alive and rolling on. Survived the ice storm last week and now we have snow in the forecast for tomorrow thru the weekend and even next week. Snow on Christmas. I love snow if i don't have to drive in it. Get those sleds READY!!!!

God bless. And remember to keep Christ in Christmas!!!!!

Peace

Tony

Happy Birthday to my best friend!!!

Happy Birthday Dianna.. my wife and my best friend. I hope your day is amazing.

We had to celebrate last night since we are going to be out tonight, but Di got nachos for dinner and a chocolate cake made by yours truly.. and she got some cool gifts from the kids, a poem and a story. I made her a rock nativity. I found some cool rocks and painted them up. She dug it. I love birthdays.

I hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas season. Last night we watched Christmas Vacation and then after that some of the 1979 John Denver and the Muppets A Christmas Together. What a corny Christmas special. Brought back memories tho. John Denver should never have been allowed to tap dance.. yikes. hahahahaha. Let the season roll on.

God bless

Tony

why you been gone so long..

Well, here i am.. its been awhile, but as always life is busy busy.. Thanksgiving was wonderful!!! Now the focus is on Christmas. Christmas is coming and Tony's getting fat.. hahahaha.. thats just cuz of Thanksgiving last week and Dianna's amazing pies.. mmm, pecan pie! So, there's lots to do.. Dianna and I are done our shopping so my focus will be on getting the Christmas Eve service ready, wrapping, Christmas cards, decorating, getting the tree up. Good stuff. I love Christmas. Our savior was born. What a great birthday to celebrate. I hope you can take a minute and remember that. We give gifts in remembrance of Jesus' birth. The focus should be on Him firstly. We can all get crazy with shopping and running around, but why are we celebrating Christmas... CHRIST! Thanks for reading and hopefully with the countdown to Christmas coming, i can make a few posts between now and then.. If not, you know I will be enjoying the Christmas season to the fullest..

God bless

Peace

Tony

Sorry, i have been gone so long...

I have been so busy.. work, school, church, family stuff.. just wanted to drop a quick note to let everyone know i am alive and well... hoping for some down time soon. But the holidays are coming. 2 weeks till Thanksgiving and then into Christmas. This year as a family, we are going to take a step back and really focus on Christmas this year and what it is really all about, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

peace

Tony

oh.. by the way, there is nothing i hate more then raking..

a busy time of year...

well, this weekend proves to be a busy one..

First off.. this saturday is me and di's 11th wedding anniversary. my lady rocks! I love you di and thanks for being my wife, all you do and all you put up with.. 11 great years! God has really blessed me and my marriage. God is good.

Also, this saturday, the 25th, we have our church's Harvest Fest at the Southbridge Common. We are hoping and praying for about 200 kids. we have games, puppet shows, music, snacks and candy, candy, CANDY! We just want to get out in the community as a church body and share some of God's love with these kids and their families.

Then Sunday is church service and we are hoping some of the families that come to the Harvest Fest come to the church Sunday morning. that is very exciting. So, i ask that you pray for the Harvest Fest that God would bless both the kids and their families who come but also that God would bless the workers. God is doing some amazing things. we need to remember that everyone needs Jesus! we all do and we need to all do our part to spread that good news!

God bless and have a great weekend. Go Pats!!!

Peace

Tony

brrrr. the chilly wind did blow

ahh, fall has finally arrived so I have fired up the pellet stove.. ahhh, warmth! I know i haven't posted in awhile, but life continues to keep me busy. time and motion wait for no man.

Last weekend we visited the Quabbin Resevoir and I took this picture of Cassidy.. I really love and all I could think of was JRR Tolkien's quote,

"All who wander are not lost."

Have a great week. stay warm!

Peace and God bless
Tony