NBA Playoffs!!! I love this game!!! I'm watching the San Antonio Spurs fight to stay in the playoffs with Dallas. I'm hoping... I'm cheering...

We are planning another big event. It is called the "July Baby Birthday Bash!" The event is going to be a buffet dinner and a concert.

Oops! The Spurs just went up by 10 points on a steal by Tony Parker. Yahoo!!

Okay, back to business. We want to host the event at Mt. Gilead Missionary Baptist Church Family Life Center... a gorgeous facility perfect for this type of event. We are inviting a couple of artists to open the evening. We will conclude with me, the singers and band doing a full concert - probably every song from the CD. The event will be a fund-raiser so there will be a cover charge. Tickets will be sold in advance. We want to really push the envelope with promoting the event. The funds raised from the event will be used to promote the CD. Marketing and promotion is very expensive.

Gosh!!! The lead has been cut down to three. Dallas is on a 7-0 run. Come on Spurs!!

So Saturday will be an interesting day. I've got a 7AM engagement at the Atlanta Bread Company in Virginia Beach near Lynhaven Mall. Then that evening I have an engagement at Gethsamene Community Fellowship Baptist Church. It's going to be exciting. I'm a little nervous about the 7AM event because it's going to be very different for me. I am doing an acoustic set by myself with no vocals or band or mic. Just me and a low volume keyboard singing to early morning patrons of the restaurant. It's a great opportunity to sell myself and the CD to a completely new audience.

The Spurs are making a run for it here in the fourth quarter. Up by six!!

The evening event will be pretty important as well. Several churches from the Tidewater area will be represented. This event can open several doors.

Throughout my growth as a minister of music I was always taught to see these opportunities as ministry and nothing else. Now I understand the necessity to seeing these matters through balances eyes. The most important thing is that God is glorified every time I pick up a microphone. The word of the Lord charges me to be a representative of the Kingdom of God. As the salt of the earth and the light of the world, my responsibility is to spread the seasoning and light of the Lord Jesus wherever I go. However, the word of the Lord also requires me to be a faithful steward over capital and opportunities. I am charged to be a good businessman. So, I have to look through balanced eyes and make sure each event is anointed, impressionable, spiritually effective and economically beneficial.

EERRRRR!! Dallas tied the game. Come on Spurs!!

So - lots and lots going on with me. Please keep me in your prayers that God's direction will always be clear to me.

Only 1:16 left in the game and the Spurs are up by one. I've got to watch this one. I'm still hoping... still cheering!!