Corby Stephens

I got 15 minutes into it before my lower back started crackling, warning me, so I modified. I got 30 minutes in before I was bored out of my mind because it’s the same thing (for most of the first 30 minutes) over, and over, and over with a variation at the end. And then it basically repeats. Twice. So I stopped. I honestly don’t know if I can handle the boredom/repetition for 90 minutes, plus the back thing (for now). It’s a crazy intense workout to be sure. But it felt like I feel when I’m on an elliptical; heck of a sweaty workout, but mind numbingly boring. If that’s your thing, good on ya. I don’t know if I can handle it.

Today was shoulders and arms, and abs. We don’t have a full set of weights so the shoulders and arms weren’t too bad. This one is only going to be as bad as the weights you use. We’ll have to get some with out tax return. Yay! I have a set of 8s and Jess a set of 4s. Godo weight for some things but not for most.

Then came AbRipper X. 11 exercises 25 reps. Not even close! I started off aiming for 15. Then 10. Then there were some my body was not capable of even doing one. Good thing it’s 90 days! Day 3, check.

Day Zero
My wife and I have decided to take on P90X. (Got is off Craigslist.) I’m scared. I tried the original P90 several years ago. I started it several times and got 30 days into it once. I found that life and sickness (infected tooth and root canal, yikes!) got in the way. Additionally, having started it a few times, I found that I got bored. it was basically two workouts repeated over (potentially) 90 days. Read the rest of this entry »

The worship leader for our church, Jordan Weston, and I, have started a new podcast project called Notes from the Road. It is proving, at least for us, to be a fascinating experiment/project. It’s goal, as simply as we can put it, is to get people thinking and talking.

Thinking and talking about what? The role of worship in the life of the church and the believer. We say right up front that we don’t offer any answers, we don’t offer any “how to’s”, at least not beyond “this is what we do and why we do it this way”, but we don’t say that any of it is the way you are supposed to do it too. What we want is for worship leaders, pastors of churches, musicians on worship teams, sound people, anyone involved in worship ministry, to rethink why it is that they do things the way they do them.

Worship conferences are loaded with all kinds of practical stuff, and praise God for that. What is often missing is they “why” behind things, the heart behind things. Worship has become a programmed element that is part of the service to the point of it being programmed down to the minute. No room for flexibility, no room for the Holy Spirit to be spontaneous. While discussing these things one day, Jordan and I thought of trying to put together a new kind of conference. After quickly realizing that would be a tremendous undertaking, we thought that a podcast, a series of conversations with people who have been (or are) through the process of being built up, then broken down, to learn what the essentials are, would be a more efficient way to get this “out there”. This is what we are after.

Please do visit the website linked above to browse the podcast episodes on the web. You can also go to our listing in the iTunes podcast directory and subscribe there. If you do so, please visit it again and submit a review. Feed back is welcomed!

So far we have had the chance to interview Ron Stephens (my dad, musician, worship leader, music producer) and Dominic Balli (worship pastor at Reality Carpenteria). This weekend we will be interviewing Terry Clark. I’m so stoked. Be sure to check back Monday for that one!

Yeah, I’ve been absent for a while. I’ve got a couple in the cue. Stay tuned.