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Nice to see a new post, Kyle. I was getting really bored with this blog. Yes, it's a very busy season. I'm so happy, today was my last day of school until Christmas break, I don't have to go back to school unil Jan. 8th. I hope my parents got me the guitar lessons for Christmas that I've been asking them to get me since as long as I can remember, I write songs a lot and being able to play my guitar (that I bought two years ago!) would be a nice help. I love music, I'm very passionate about it, it's one of my gifts from God, and I can use it to glorify Him. I have a lot of songs about God, that's my favorite thing to right about, I hope that someday someone will notice my work. I'm only thirteen, truth is, most people don't take someone my age very seriously, which is certainly the downside of being a kid. But I know that I'm very serious about God, and that won't ever change. Oh, I almost forgot, I saw about five commercials for Cedar Creek's Christmas service yesterday and heard several radio advertisements for it, a lot of kids at my school are tlaking about going to that service, and I'm relaly looking foward it, it sounds like it's going to be an awesome service.

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Merry Christmas Kyle. I just wanted to write and tell you how much my husband and I have truly loved the church, your music and your messages. You always make me leave feeling convicted and on fire about something and I love that because it forever keeps me working on something. We are moving to Columbus on December 27th and we are really sad to leave CedarCreek and our Home group. But we are doing what we feel lead to do, as my husband got a promotion to MIT with Lifeway Christian Bookstore and will be moving to a store manager in about 6 months. Your messages have taught us so much and helped us mature as christians and I have to say that your messages along the way have encouraged us to do this move. In no way is it convient to be moving to Columbus for us. We know noone, we have a 4 month old son, and we're moving 2 days after Christmas, but we feel the call of God and only dream that we can fulfill his wishes. I wish you the best of luck in the future and hope to keep watching you on the web and reading your blogs. God bless, and thank you for so many years of teaching and truly life changing music, after all, the music is why we initially came back to CedarCreek the second time! Have a great Christmas and New Year!

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Hey, just wanted you and the entire tech/ production/ music team to know that you guys ROCKED this morning at the 10:45. My family and I were completely blown away, and not because of the wind! Thank you all so much for the endless and sometimes thankless hours you put into producing greatness. It was awesome. Thank you! Merry Christmas to you all! =)

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I went to the 12:30 service yesterday and it was AWESOME!!!!! You guys did an awesome job. I love the Drummer Boy song. That was cool. The service really made me think about how I often neglects the deep thoughts about what Christmas is really about. Today was a wonderful day, I am so truly thankful for every gift I received. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, I know I did. Merry Christmas, enjoy the last 21 minutes of it, if you're awake.

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This year's Christmas service was ...... I can't put it into words. I was so moved as were all of my family. My 8 year old wanted to watch the service this year instead of going into his room. All of you work so hard for us and for that I am truely truely grateful. CedarCreek for me has been a Blessing. Thank you for all that you do not just at Christmas but all year round. Happy New Year!

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I loved your movie segments at the Christmas service. The service was inspirational. We came back for a repeat performance.

Cedar Creek can never be described as an inch deep and a mile wide. You are totally involved in developing the spiritual life of a new believer and growing the mature believer. I have attended a very classes and find them spiritual invigorating. Thank you for the great talk and Q&A at our Spiritual Gifts class. Your sister does a great job leading that class.

Have you had any negative feedback from the Bill Hybels arrticle in the October Christanity Today magazine. The BLOG following the article about Bill Hybels comments were ruthless. They ripped him for not knowing Willow Creek was not spiritually maturing their attenders. Bill and the WCA are doing a great job as is Rick Warren. I love that Cedar Creek is using the best of both churches and developing it for the Toledo area market so sucessfully. Cedar creek is making a difference in his mature Christians and leading the unchurched to make a committment to Jesus.

Kyle, you are a key player with your insight into life and relating God's word into Toledo's culture without watering the Gospel message down. I pray that you have a long career at Cedar Creek. God has blessed you with many spiritual and natural gifts. God blesses we attenders by allowing us to be touch by your messages and movies. may God continue to bless you and your family in 2008.

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Wow...James Brown??? THE James Brown!
Well thank you for the kind words, that really does mean a lot. The Christmas services are finally over and I have time to work on being brainless and thoughtless again...I do that well. I have had a few complaints about the services...too loud, not traditional enough, and a few others...but overall I think it was hugely successful! 1,000 gave their lives to Christ and 16,500 people attended...I guess something went right! -ha

Confused

Kyle- For Christmas my dad gave me the Revelation End Time Prophecies dvds, he attendend those classes. I haven't gotten quite through the first session yet, but I must say that I think you did a very good job teaching that class. The book of Revelation happens to be my favorite book of the Bible and the one I struggle with the most. I'm really confused right now about the end of the world, I understand that the end will be when Jesus raptures his followers and comes back the second time, but here's where I get confused. In science class we are studying volcanology now, we are learning about Super Volcanoes, volcanoes that just a small eruption can trigger the magma chamer and cause eruptions so large that it could wipe us off the face of the earth. Yellowstone National Park had an eruption 600,000 years ago, according to scientists, leaving a caldera, a very large crater, that was up to 30 miles across. The eruption was supposed to have been hundreds of times more powerful than Mount St. Helens. The Yellowstone caldera must be counted among the "greatest catastrophes of nature", and it's comparable to the impact of an ateroid. Scientists say that this could all happen again, an that would be the end of the world. Isn't the only way the world will end will be the way it's described in the book of Revelation? It's hard to word this but what I'm trying to say is isn't that immpossible that the world will end that way? The Bible clearly states that the end of the world will be a decision of Christ, when He wants to come back, we can't predict when that will happen. It's all very confusing to me. I hope you can help me out on this one, Kyle. Sorry to bore you.
Ps. Isn't James Brown dead?