Archive for September, 2009

To all worship leaders, In the Beatitudes, Jesus is describing all the things we cannot fully attain on our own. Yes, Jesus was recognizing that in our human condition we have so many limitations that we can not do anything about, but He can do something. And our needful response to who He is-is worship. [...]

I’m getting older, so it seems!

Posted: September 24, 2009 by Kevin Riner in Uncategorized

When I turned thirty, it was hard. I was told that thirty is the new twenty so it made me feel a little better. But not much. In just a few days I will be turning thirty-two. Today, I felt that feeling come back again, that said, “Hey, you’re getting older but your not getting [...]

My Heart Breaks

Posted: September 20, 2009 by Kevin Riner in Uncategorized

“Church, your messed up! Your terrible. You claim many different things about God and your confusing people.  Some folks are going to Hell cause you can’t get your story straight. What is the matter with you. Is there not ‘one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— [...]

Sept. 20th Xtreme Worship Set

Posted: September 17, 2009 by Kevin Riner in church
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For some of you lucky people that just happened to be on facebook for the 10 minutes it was up, you may have saw the Xtreme Setlist for this Sunday put up on Tuesday. Unfortunately, I had to change it up a little because we have no bass player for this Sunday, and surprise, surprise, [...]

Doc Pop and Me

Posted: September 14, 2009 by Kevin Riner in life

It was 1990 when I met this guy who just looked like a perfectly normal guy in of the crowd. Little did I know how super this guy really was and still is. We started talking about how we both enjoyed magic and he was a big fan of  Pen and Teller. This guy taught [...]

CD Update (For the Least, Last, and Lost)

Posted: September 12, 2009 by Kevin Riner in Uncategorized

What’s UP! That was a cool song back in the 90′s by 4 Non Blondes. Anyway, I have been working on my newest cd and 5 songs are just about completed. However being a leader at Xtreme Ministries has used up a huge portion of my time that my personal music has been out on [...]

Scotty Don’t

Posted: September 11, 2009 by Kevin Riner in Uncategorized

Today I pulled up to a lady’s house to do a termite inspection on her house. I noticed that in the back field she had a barn where they were firing some tobacco. I would not have been able to have a conversation about this had it not been for our education at The Homeplace [...]

Sept. 13th Xtreme Worship Set

Posted: September 10, 2009 by Kevin Riner in church
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Welcome to the Xtreme Sunday Setlist. Since my blogs gets transferred to my facebook I will be doing my set lists here then facebook will pick them up. Xtreme Worship Set for Sept. 13th 2009 Beautiful One-Jeremy Camp Holy Is The Lord-Chris Tomlin Your Love oh Lord-Third Day The Wonderful Cross-Chris Tomlin Better Is One [...]

Camping at Land Between the lakes

Posted: September 7, 2009 by Kevin Riner in Uncategorized

We had a blast camping out at Land between the Lakes. We went with some great friends Kevin and Sarita Rain. Had more church than a normal church service, in which I am convinced we had the truest form of church, not the idealistic view of the western world. We had some great food including [...]

Learning to smoke a pipe!

Posted: September 3, 2009 by Kevin Riner in Uncategorized

My Paw-paw used to smoke a pipe when I was a kid. Every Christmas after dinner we’d all go down to the basement and get ready to open presents and Paw-paw would fire up his pipe and I just loved to smell it. I always said that when I got old I was gonna take [...]