Author: Adam

Hey this is my personal info. My blog, at least right now, is intended for people who already know me, and they know that I am from Northeast Indiana, but for the summer of 2006 I'm chillin out in Tulsa, Oklahoma for an internship. So since everybody on this page probably already knows me I'm not going to waste extra time to say that I'm 22 and I just graduated with my music degree and I play the piano, and have felt called to ministry since I was in 3rd grade. Yea, I'm not going to say all that extra stuff.
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Party at Adam’s House – BYOB!

BYOB = Bring your own BED!

And by “Adam’s House” I really do mean “ADAM’S House.” I have been in the process of getting a house for about 2 months – and I close on Wednesday! I get possession at closing (last I heard).

I have had a wonderful experience working with a very honest Christian mortage broker (one of the few good ones), a Christian realtor, and a Christian Insurance guy. When I have a business relationship with another Christian, I expect fair and honest treatment — not because I’m a Christian or because I work at a church — but because they are a Christian. Because of their faith in Christ I trust that they will treat me fairly — and if they don’t I know that God will clean their clock. Either way, I don’t need to worry. I can’t wait to have my house! I will be bringing my own bed.

-Adam Diehl

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I Have Fallen In Love.

I just love this book. Lately it’s words have really been more vibrant to me than usual. The Bible really is “God-Breathed” (2 Tim 3:16). Think about what that means – “God-breathed.” Adam was just a pile of dirt until God breathed into him. The Bible would be a just a bunch of words – but God breathed into it.

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Look in the Right Place.

Last summer when I was in Oklahoma I went out and purchased a $40 metronome. It had some pretty cool features that I didn’t have on my other metronome that I had left back here in Indiana.

Now when I got back to Indiana the end of last summer, I brought this new metronome to the church office so I could utilize it to its fullness.

Then I dropped it.

Since then it just hasn’t worked like I wanted it to. It will be going along JUST FINE until you touch it . . . then the whole thing just shuts down. It’s so frustrating!

Yesterday I was working on the timing of this one song with my piece of crap metronome and of course it stopped working about halfway through the chorus. Then lighting struck my brain – CHECK THE BATTERIES!

I opened up the back case of the metronome to find the generic batteries that came with the metronome. I replaced them with top notch Duracell Procell batteries and now my metronome works like a $40 metronome ought to! I felt like an idiot.
-Adam Diehl

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You Won’t Believe What Happened Last Saturday.

This is C.J. He played acoustic guitar during the Saturday night service last weekend. The story of how we got connected is totally a “God-thing” — so I must share it with you!

C.J. is from the South Bend, Indiana area — but last summer his church’s youth group went to a church’s youth camp in Colorado Springs. It was at this church camp that C.J. met my cousin Jeoffrey who lives in Colorado Springs. Jeoffrey and C.J. are both fantastic musicians. I had contacted Jeoffrey about possibly networking with me in a special musical missions project the end of this year and he suggested that C.J. come as well. I was open to that possibility, but of course I sure wanted to meet him first! His parents wanted to meet me as well.

Jeoffrey’s mother (my aunt) was here in Indiana to visit, and since she knows C.J.’s parents, she arranged for them to come out during our Saturday service so we could all meet. It just so happened that we were short an acoustic guitar player that evening so I offered the spot to C.J. as a guest musician. He jumped at the chance.

Now if that’s not a “divine connection” I’m not really sure what is!

C.J. is incredible. So is Jeoff. Their musical talent is outstanding and musical knowledge is through the roof — especially for their age and experience. Most importantly – they both have a fantastic attitude and they are truly willing to submit to God in their lives.

What happens when you get two amazingly talented Christians teens together in the same room? THIS happens. Everything you hear in that song was written, performed, recorded, and mastered by C.J. and Jeoff. That song, “Willing,” really ministers to me. Way to go guys!

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Prostitutes, Paths, and The Holy Spirit.

The imagery of a wedding to express the intimate relationship between God and his people is found all throughout the Bible (Rev. 19:7, Isa. 54:5-7, and Hos. 2:19). I’d like to show you one passage in particular. This is Matthew 22:1-14.

In the Bible’s imagery, God is the groom and the Church (Christians) is the bride. This husband and wife relationship should not be seen as feminine personification, but as a great description of the intimacy God wants with His church (past, present, and future).

If we truly want the Holy Spirit to move in today’s church we need to start living like it. God wants to marry a beautiful bride — not a whore! If this offends you, I’m glad — that’s kind of the point. It should offend. We say, “Holy Spirit come here and do amazing things among us” yet we don’t change our lives — we don’t clean up. God will come with great power when we have prepared for Him something better than a slutty prostitute.

God’s wants to move in our midsts. I believe God wants to blow our socks off. But we are not preparing the way for His presence.
Let’s prepare the way! Let’s put on our “wedding clothes.”

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Unity on a Worship Team.

I was reading in Matthew tonight, and there’s one passage that totally jumped out to me. Check out these red letters, “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift” (Matthew 5:23-24). When I read this I immediately thought of the “gift at the altar” in the context of a worship team. Most of my blog posts are general and apply to everyone, but please allow me to speak directly to members of a worship team:

When we’re leading worship – we’re not only bringing our gift to the altar like its mentioned in this passage — its our job to help others do the same thing. How much more important, then, is it for the worship team to be in harmony before any rehearsing or “stage time.” IT’S VITAL. A worship team must be in harmony to remain a biblical worship team!

I’m blessed to be serving in an awesome church where the worship teams are nearly always in unity. But I’ve heard way too many stories of churches where this is not the case; worship team members build up anger against each other. In one extreme case, I heard about a guitar player who walked off the stage during a Sunday Morning worship set and announced to the entire congregation, “I’m not playing if HE’S going to be singing in the microphone!” Unfortunately this type of event is not a rare occurance in many churches. Praise God nothing that severe has ever happened at New Hope!

If you are mad at someone on your worship team, go fix the problem before any rehearsing. Talk to them or grab a pastor to help you — do whatever it takes, but do not try to lead worship with someone you’re mad at — it’s unbiblical and that negative spirit can drag the entire worship team down. It would be better for you to take a break from being on the worship team that week (of course that’s only if reconciliation in your heart is not possible).

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I Can’t Wait.

This is the last week of New Hope’s four part Myth Busters series (you can see the first promo video here). We’re finishing it off with a huge bang — you don’t want to miss it. We’re doing something that we’ve never done before in 27 years of existence. Don’t miss it!

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Today, Yesterday, and the Day Before That.

I have been sick. Monday was really bad — I couldn’t even roll over in bed without cautious. Yesterday and today have been a lot better – but I’m still a little “out of it.” I have to lead worship tonight for our midweek service, and I’m trusting God to make up for my sickness.

My grandma moved into a retirement community a few weeks ago. My aunt and cousin are flying in tonight to visit us. That should be fun.

I have been living at home with my parents ever since I came back from my internship in Tulsa, Oklahoma last August. It’s time I found my own place. I made an offer on a house nearly three weeks ago. Before they could accept, reject, or counter my offer the seller’s bank had to check things out and get an appraisal and stuff. It took awhile. But just today I got a phone call saying that the only thing keeping my offer from being accepting is the bank’s board who says “yes” or “no” — and the appraiser is recommending that they say “yes.” So it looks like my offer is going to go through. Woot! I’m gonna have a house!

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Relevant.

This past weekend was a great service at New Hope. We were very blessed to have singer Jeoffrey Benward (of Aaron*Jeoffrey) ministering with us. He had come up for a special appreciation dinner of Gilbert Dilley, an older gentleman who served years as a pastor and evangelist. (Gilbert Dilley had a profound impact on many young people in the 70s during the Jesus Movement. He led many people towards the baptism in the Holy Spirit during late night prayer meetings in his house – among the group were both of my parents and Jeoff. We owe a great deal of gratitude to people such as Gilbert Dilley who influenced the lives of the people who are influencing us! Seeing the legacy that Gilbert Dilley has already left made me think – what kind of legacy am I leaving? Will the people who I am influencing influence others? I can only pray and trust God that my influence will be lasting.)

During the special time of appreciating Gilbert, Jeoffrey was saying a few words. I had never seen the prophet side of Jeoffrey Benward – but it was definitely there. He was speaking to Gilbert directly when he said words we should never forget, “You will never loose your relevancy when you are working with the Spirit.”

How true is this! The push among many young Christian leaders today is to remain “relevant.” Many of them say that to be relevant you must use proper technology, use special words to develop branding, advertise a certain way, and wear blue jeans on the stage. I’m not speaking against these things — but being “relevant” without working in the Spirit of God is wrong. We can never loose our relevancy when we are being led by the Spirit of God.

My fear (and what I have observed) is that while young Christians have a desire to remain “relevant” — they listen to U2, but they’ve stopped listening to God. U2 doesn’t bring relevance to your ministry (although their sound is really tight!) – the Spirit of God has stood the test of relevancy. That’s relevant.