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Hey Everybody,

Today is “freeplay friday” – anything goes … let’s hear what’s on your mind today.

Rebekah (my 5-yr old) has suffered from the flu all week.  We’ve been washing hands and “Germ-X” rubbing like crazy, trying to protect the rest of the clan.  Andrew (the 2-yr old) came down with it last night.  He’s running fever, but outside in the backyard playing – so he doesn’t know he’s sick!

Joy and I have a babysitter set for Valentines Today (tomorrow night) … if we still have fever and sickness going around I doubt we’ll have her over, though.  Thought we’d try “Sal’s Pizzeria”, a new place here on SSI.

What are your plans for the big ole’ Valentines Day?

Hey Everybody,

Welcome to “FreePlay Friday”  – where I catchup on life and anything else I want to discuss here on the blog.

1.  RSS Readers:

To the hundreds of you who are subscribed via RSS – thanks for your loyal readership.  I hope you’ll click over and see the new design here on the blog and leave a comment – I’d like to hear from you today!

2.  AllAboutWorship Podcast Honors:

I had the privilege of being interviewed by Ben and Wisdom a few weeks ago on the “All About Worship” podcast, which has a whopping 4,000+ subscribers.  The interview went live last night – I’d like to invite you to check out the interview on AllAboutWorship.Com or on iTunes.  Regardless of where you listen, please leave them a comment and thank them for the great job they are doing with this incredible resource.

3.  re:create 2009 Friends

My first trip to re:create was amazing.  I get it now – and understand why so many of my friends tell me “once you go to re:create, you’ll never want to go to another conference”.  One of the most satisfying aspects of this trip was meeting all of these “friends” in blogworld.  A friend of mine back home often asks about blog relationships … “are they real friends”.  Well, I can tell you that I immediately felt at home, and felt as if I’d known these people all my life.  There was NOTHING superficial.  It was like family.  I can’t say how overwhelmed I was.  I’ll be unpacking a lot of the things I absorbed during re:create, but I’ll leave you with this photo of a bunch of us hanging out … see if you recognize any of these awesome people:

(back row standing, left to right:  Chris, Mark, Jim, Rich, Mark)
(seated, left around to right: Tam, Brent, Randy, Richard, Joel, Alastair, and some guy named Fred)

Somehow this picture missed Kim and Neil Bontrager, who must’ve arrived just AFTER this pic was taken.
If I don’t have your blog link, I need it … my re:create book is in my suitcase – so comment and let me know the URL!

4.  Ministry Continues Tonight and Tomorrow

They are calling for boarding of my flight – I land at 4:15 and have soundcheck at 5:00 PM for the Golden Isles Women’s Connection conference this weekend at First Baptist in Brunswick, GA … so no rest for the weary.  Say a prayer for me, pretty please!

Hey Everybody!
(RSS Readers – click over to view this entry on the web … you’ve got to see this ….

Well, you’ve GOT to see what? Well, the new FredMcKinnon.Com!

I wanted to kickoff the new year with a new theme, and I finally got around to figuring out what I want … I’ve had the privilege of working with Gabe Taviano as the designer, and highly recommend working with this guy! (Gabe runs GodsMac.Com and the GodsMac podcast, in addition to his design work).

What’s new?

For one – I hope it’s a WHOLE LOT easier to navigate. My subscribe and contact icons are big ole’ things you can’t miss in the right sidebar, along with an expanded music player – I hope to continually upload new songs and new music for you to enjoy.

There’s a new 300px ad space underneath it … these ads are part of the Highest Praise Network of ads running on my blog, HighestPraise.Com (next in line for a major overhaul) and TheWorshipCommunity.Com. They are great sponsors, so check out their stuff.

We’re still making some tweaks, but I hope you like it!

Let me know, and let’s hear what’s going on with your weekend!

“An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.” (Proverbs 31: 10)

Today is my wife’s birthday.  Joy is 39, and she is beyond amazing.  She’s an incredible woman, a wonderful mom of 4, she loves Jesus, she is a passionate worshiper (and oh, I love that), and I think she’s the most gorgeous chick in the universe.

This morning, she’s out with a few girlfriends eating her favorite pancakes at Sandcastle.  (yes, she’s breaking that 21-day fast early for her birthday, and I don’t blame her!)  Our church is having a prayer conference this weekend, so we’ll be @ SSCC tonight (Friday) and Saturday (AM).  She says she wants to go shopping Saturday afternoon, and then Sunday night we’ll all be done with our 21-day fast and we’re planning on feasting with some friends.

Joy doesn’t blog … she doesn’t FaceBook … she doesn’t Twitter … so, if you’d like to leave her a birthday wish, just leave it right here!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BABY!

Hey Everybody -

Welcome to “FreePlay Friday” – the spot where I try to break out of the normal postings on Worship, Faith, Church, etc … and just post crazy, random, real things about real life.  RSS Readers – come on over and leave a comment today, alrighty?

* I Ain’t No Metrosexual:
(from Wikipedia)
Metrosexual is a neologism of the 2000s generally applied to heterosexual men with a strong concern for their appearance, and/or whose lifestyles display attributes stereotypically attributed to gay men.

So, a friend of mine from SSCC used Twitter to alert another one of my friends about this blog “Understanding How Metrosexual Your Worship Leader Is” .  It’s a hilarious little quiz you can take.  I took it for myself, and scored a “2″.  Would be interested in knowing how others scored me.  My friend Jay scores much higher.  His wife Brooke thinks that I’m slamming him for that – heck, I’ve asked him to be my roomie on concert gigs, so clearly, I’m OK with it, right?

However, I do get some highlights in my hair from time to time – I think they look cool.  I did start getting a haircut somewhere besides the $10 barbershop.  Yikes.

* Twitter, FaceBook, and Life:

I’m always talking to people about Twitter and the internet.  (not on Twitter yet, check it out and follow me!)  Sure, it can be a colossal waste of time.  Even my buddy and co-worker Travis caved in and became a Twitter-ite.  Last night, at 11:00 PM EST – every single smoke detector in my house started going off.  I’m talking LOUD.  Not the random, single “beep” that happens every year or so from only one, single unit when the backup battery is dead.  I mean the whole system.  Nothing we could do would make them stop.

I hit Twitter and typed “11:00 PM EST – every smoke detector in our house going off, but no smoke or fire – HELP“.

Within 5 minutes, I’m getting tons of @replies on Twitter, and since my Twitter status updates my “Facebook Status” – I started getting responses there too.  The solution?  Start pulling those babies out of the wall – and pulling the wires out.  They are hardwired – the batteries are only in them to keep them useful in case the power goes out.  I even switched off the breaker.  I started yanking those babies off the wall one by one.  Thankfully, I didn’t have to rip the wires out of the wirenuts – the wires go into a plug which can easily pull out of the back of the detector.  After I got 3 or 4 removed, I got upstairs  and removed the one out of Rebekah’s room.  (Note – all 4 kids are sound asleep – this is ear-piercing noise, and they don’t even stir … but if I were to have turned on “Max and Ruby” on the TV, they would’ve been up in 3 seconds).  After pulling off the one in Bekah’s room, they all stopped.  So, I’m thinking that detector must’ve gone bad or something and set off a chain reaction.  We’ll see.

Speaking of Twitter, Facebook, Life … I was blessed by Joel’s post today.  He’s being real, authentic, and raw.  He asks for our prayers, and we should rally up and give them to him.  Drop him a comment of encouragement today.

That’s a wrap for FreePlay Friday.  Joy’s parents are coming down from G’ville today so we’ll have a great time of family gathering this weekend on the island.

I’d love to get your comments – let me know what’s happening with you!