Life Connection Church | Our Rising Sound

June 02 2009

The Rep performing “Praiz Him” Live at LCC

Tagged Under : Life Connection Church, live, music, rap, The Rep

therep If you’re like the rest of the Christian hip hop community starved for good music, then you gotta check out The Rep. Dude is crazy talented, crazy in love with Jesus, and speaks crazy truth in every track. He performed live at Life Connection Church (my church) on May 8th of this year and we’re releasing a track, maybe 2, as a teaser. Go check him out on myspace and buy his new album Say No More!

The Rep - Praiz Him (Live) [04:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Images of worship at Life Connection Church

Tagged Under : Life Connection Church, live, Our Rising Sound, pictures, worship

My dear friend Mark Rohl took some incredible shots last week of Our Rising Sound leading worship at Life Connection Church this past Sunday and I wanted to share them with you. You’d be wise to hire Mark for any of your photography needs, hit em up on Facebook or Twitter.

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Our Rising Sound live worship: “True Love”

Tagged Under : Life Connection Church, live, Our Rising Sound, Phil Wickham, worship

This performance of “True Love” by Phil Wickham was recorded live at Life Connection Church in Phoenix AZ on 4-26-09. It was recorded using this modest setup and using the short intro version of the True Love loop released here on ORS. There is a lot of room for improvement and that’s the primary(currently only) reason we record our live sets, to see where we need to improve. So this is just my band being transparent to our process, a humbling adventure but I’m proud of the progress our band has made in a short time and look forward to improving together going forward.

Credits:

Kyle Campos: vocals, guitars, loop composer
Kendra Rohl: vocals
Josh Dailey: Bass
Jonathan Utter: Drums

Standard Podcast [5:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Anthropology Men’s Conference at Life Connection Church

Tagged Under : Anthropolgy Men's Conference, church, conference, Life Connection Church, Ryan Delmore

My home church, Life Connection Church in Phoenix, AZ, is hosting a men’s conference this March 6-7 called Anthropology. We have Ryan Delmore from Vineyard Music and 5 Cities Vineyard coming in to lead us in worship throughout the conference as well as Sunday morning service. And we have Dr. Richard Hanner , professor at CFNI, as our featured guest speaker.

Here is the official conference description.

Anthropology is a gathering of men who desire to walk in maturity, responsibility and authority in Christ. We will confront the tough issues men face, soul ties, sex, addiction, and pornography and encourage and speak God’s truth in fatherhood and restoration. We desire to see men young and old know who God has created them to be and not surrender responsibility, but to be mature men, passionate after Christ, free from sin, bold and mature in their faith, leading their families as Christ intended.

You can get the entire conference schedule here as well as registration info. We also have a Facebook event for Anthropology, so if you aren’t already a fan of the Life Connection Church facebook page, get on it. I hope those of you men in the Phoenix are will come check it out, it’s going to be a blast.

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Loop available: “How I Live” by Kyle Campos

Tagged Under : audio, Kyle Campos, Life Connection Church, loops, Our Rising Sound, Podcast

This is an original song of mine that we’ve been playing at Life Connection Church for about a year now. You can listen to the live version of How I Live here, as well as get the lyrics.

Don’t forget to rate the loop below and please comment with any questions or feedback you may have.

Song: How I Live by Kyle Campos, Our Rising Sound Live at Life Connection Church
Key: D
Bpm: 89
Intro: 2 bar intro, Verse 1 starts at bar 3

How I Live (Loop) [5:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Rate this loop:

Rating: 4.0/5 (2 votes cast)

Download: aif / mp3 / mid / rns (Reason 4 file)

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God in Our Worst Times: “I commited adultery”

Tagged Under : adultery, family, God in Our Worst Times, Life Connection Church, story

This post was written by Dave Negron. Dave and his wife Denise have been married for 9 years and they have 4 beautiful children. They are both Connection Group leaders at Life Connection Church in Phoenix AZ.

“I WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO MY FAMILY”

Those were the words I said when I was 8yrs old. All I could hear was my mom yelling and my dad yelling back. I remember running to my bedroom, jumping on my bunk bed, and praying, “God please don’t let my parents ever divorce.” Fast forward to Dec. 30 1991 my 14th birthday. I was in Arizona visiting my aunt. When I heard the phone ring I knew something was wrong. My aunt began talking loud trying to calm my mom down. She gave me the phone and my mom said your father has left and is not coming back. The next day I was on a plane back to California. I had front row seats to see what adultery does in a home, a “Christian home” that is. I told myself I would never do that to my family.

April 10,1999 I’m getting married to the most beautiful woman in the world. We were high school sweethearts and I knew this was going to be perfect. I’ve always thought I knew how to be a husband and a father; I just needed to not do what my dad did. Easy.

3 months after getting married we were pregnant. No time was there to be alone for us. After Valerie was born in 2000 we had Alexis in 2002 and Ezekiel in 2004. Everything was going great, at least that’s what I believed.

Marriage troubles begin

In July 2003 I started this cycle of running from my problems and started to disconnect myself from the family. I tried maintaining 2 jobs just to stay out of the house because all I thought was that was my role in the home, bring in the money. During multiple moves back and forth from Arizona and California it became clearer and clearer that my marriage wasn’t right. My wife Denise is not happy. All of our problems or fights were financially based. I didn’t think she should be telling me what I needed to do. I made the money so I can spend it whenever and however I wanted to.

This continued for 3 years. In July of 2006 on my way home from work I remember the Lord speaking to my spirit warning me that if I didn’t repent I was going to lose my family and everything I have. I thought about it but no action took place.

The first week in November 2006 I was stressing out about money. A debt collector just attached my wages and I wasn’t bringing home the money. The night before Denise and I got in a huge fight and she threw out the word DIVORCE. I called her bluff.

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Video: Baptisms through worship

Tagged Under : baptism, drugs, homosexuality, Life Connection Church, video, worship

Previously on a Sunday Set List post I wrote about our amazing baptism service we had on November 9th. We had people testify to being freed from pagan worship, drug addiction, sexual addiction and homosexuality. An incredibly powerful moment and I think probably if not the best, one of the best moments in Life Connection Church’s history.

Baptisms on Stage from Life Connection Church on Vimeo.

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God in Our Worst Times: “2yr old Ethan hit by a truck”

Tagged Under : accident, Christy Dailey, Ethan Dailey, God in Our Worst Times, Josh Dailey, Life Connection Church, story

This post was written by Josh and Christy Dailey. They serve as youth pastors at Life Connection Church in Phoenix AZ and have 3 children. They tell the story below of how they almost lost their first born son when he was struck by a truck.

One evening, my husband and I were sitting in our home after putting our two children to sleep for the night. Josh and I were so blessed with our then two-year-old son, Ethan, and six-month-old daughter, Avden. Knowing that our children were called and purposed for the Lord, we want to raise them according to His plan for their lives. This particular evening, we were praying for our first-born son, inquiring of the Father as to what Ethan would become. The words we received from the Lord were near identical:

“He (Ethan) is meant to impact the nations. This is not a cliche for him. Though he is young, he has been given a wise spirit. He is strong (the name Ethan is translated “Firm; Strong”). He will be My voice”.

Saturday, August 27, 2005, about 2 weeks after hearing from the Lord regarding our son, began with great excitement. I had been working at a juice and smoothie shop, which was owned by my two older brothers, for most of the day and evening, and was getting prepared for a very special “Open Mic Night” event. The space was pretty packed out with customers who were enjoying the night of delicious beverage and the talents of various town-folk. As the night wound down, mostly only our closest friends still remained to hear the final band, which consisted of my two brothers and Josh. Feeling content with the day’s work, I decided to clock-out and join my friends and hold my children.

As soon as I walked out from behind the counter, I grabbed my little boy and gave him the hug of a mother who hadn’t seen her son all day. I loved holding his tiny body, as Ethan is fairly small for his age. I carried him to the front of the store and took a seat next to a friend who was holding my baby girl. It was nearing 9:00pm and Avden was getting fussy with sleepiness. As I put Ethan on his feet, I took Avden and rocked her gently to the melody that was being played. Feeling her begin to calm, I turn to look towards the back of the store where I thought Ethan had gone to play with some other kids. I can’t see him. I stretch my neck farther, lean back and forth, to get a better view… I can’t find him.

Ethan is hit head on by a truck

At that moment, a young man comes running through the front doors in obvious panic. “Please call 9-1-1. A kid was just hit by a car!” Right away, I knew that that kid was my son. “No…“, I thought. I couldn’t seem to get outside fast enough. With my baby still in my arms, I find myself on the sidewalk outside. I turn to the left and see an image that will haunt me to this day.

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