I have to tell you all about this book that I just got finished reading this week!I just finished Bill Gaither's 'It's more than the music'. This book is phenomenal. It is a little out of date but inspirational and informational nonetheless. I loved it. If you are a fan of Bill Gaither, you need to read this book. This book gives you the history behind the homecoming series and it really showed me how down to earth Bill & Gloria Gaither are. You learn a lot about their family, life lessons that they have learned and some stories behind some of the songs that they have written. It is a great read and I encourage any southen Gospel Music Fan to get it. But beware, once you start, it is hard to stop!


You know, just being days away from seeing my favorite gospel group ever has really got me excited. In about 8 days (check the counter to the right, there>>) I will be up in Nashville meeting and hearing Ernie Haase & Signature Sound along with Mr. Gaither and his homecoming friends. I am so excited! I know this is a short post but I felt like my blog had been a little neglected. I am really looking forward to Nashville in a few days. Now, hopping back over to the message board....

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I'm So Glad I'm a Part of The Family Of God!

My Heavenly Father has really touched me over the past few days and I feel such a closeness with other christians that makes me so glad to be a part of the family of God. Gloria and Bill Gaither wrote a wonderful song about belonging to the family of God and how precious it is, and I see it now more than ever. As a member of the Ernie Haase & Signature Sound Message Board, I have entered the greatest network of people, I believe, that I will ever know this side of heaven. Despite some of us having never met each other, we love each other and pray daily. As a person who has never seen EHSS in concert, they have really taken care of me. One of the most precious angels here on earth called me from the Toledo concert last night and allowed me to hear our guys it was magical and I felt the spirit of the Lord over the phone. Isn't it amazing how god touches us like that!?

I just want to praise God's name for all the wonderful blessings that he has given me already this year. I have made some amazing new friends in the family of God and he has blessed me with so many things, it is hard to mention them all. I sometimes feel like I am not serving him to the fullest of my ability, even when I am feeling like I am giving God all that I have. I just want to give him everything I am, everything I have been, and everything I will be. He sent his son to die on the cross for my sins. I think I should give him everything I have for him. I dont know how some people turn this gift away. Oh What a Savior we serve.

I enjoy writing these blogs and just being able to pour my thoughts out to you all. If you enjoy, leave me a comment. They really help encourage me when my days get down. Thank God for all of you. I am so Glad to be a part of The Family Of God!

So what shall we say about this? If God be with us, who can defeat us?
Romans 8:31

Hello All! Well today has certainly been a wonderful day here in Tennessee. I have begun the second half of my Senior year in High School and I am looking forward to all the things that this year will bring! I have been reading a very good book by Rick Warren called 'The Purpose-Driven Life'. It has really helped me this week by showing me that th things that we do on this old earth, really are just preparing us for the things to come. I am only on the 5th chapter but it has helped me see life more clearly now and it really makes me want to serve the Lord more than I ever have before. Suddenly, things dont matter anymore compared to all the glory waiting me up in that heavenly land.

In the midst of reading this book, I have to ask myself, am I doing what God put me here for? I am not sure but every time that I pray, I ask God to show me what I should be doing for him. I feel like I am doing the right thing but sometimes I don't know. That is probably Satan trying to throw me off of what I should really be doing for my Lord. Southern Gospel music has really helped me get through some hard times recently with the messages in the songs. I know that whoever wrote these songs got the messages from our Lord. I believe the Lord knew that somewhere down the road, D.J. Plunk was going to need some encouragement, along with some other people as well. It is amazing how good God is to us and how important he made each of our lives to be. Sometimes when I think of how amazing God is, I don't think that I could do anything that would compare in order to receive his riches. And in actual reality, that is the truth. There is nothing that we can do for our Lord that would measure in comparison to anything close.

I hope that you all get the opportunity to read this book and see how important your lives are. I read is as a supplement to my bible and it really helps me understand things better. Our sermon this morning was about how the disciples were more concerned about God coming back and ruling on earth, they were missing out on 'The Great Commission', they were missing out on what they should really be doing for the Lord! I don't want us to miss our on what we should really be doing with our lives because truth be told, we are only here for so long and that is to do God's Will and I don't want to miss out on that do you?!

God Bless You All,
In His Service,
DJ Plunk

At the beginning of 2008, I begin to think about all the things the Lord will do through me this year. I am currently listening to Ernie Haase & Signature Sound's (as always) 'The Ground is Level' CD it is so wonderful. It just really makes me want to lift up my hands to the Lord and just praise him for being the Almighty God that he is! This CD is filled with so many good songs. It is an older CD but a great one nonetheless. Ernie Haase really formed a great group and I have just enjoyed them so much. They will never know how much they mean to me.


Even through Signature Sound, I have made a whole new family, thanks to Ernie! He created a message board on his website and it has really helped me meet a whole new group of people that I love! Ernie really takes care of his "loyal followers" and had the shirt to the left made. I really love all of them. We encourage each other, we lift up each other to the lord, and we all love Ernie Haase & Signature Sound. On February 8, 2008, I will be traveling to Nashville, Tennessee to see Bill Gaither & His Homecoming Friends in concert and I will get to meet the group after following them like I have it will be a blessing and I am really looking forward to what is going to happen!

The Lord has been weighing heavily on my heart about where I am going to work for him in his music ministry. I am not sure what the Lord's plan is for me but I have a feeling it is going to be big. I can tell that my Message Board family has been praying for me because it does not seem as heavy on me as it has been. Lately, I just really find comfort in God's Word. I love to read it and I love to see what the Lord is going to say to me on that particular day. He has really blessed me lately. I have been reading Acts and how Paul and Silas were going through tough times, yet, they sang praises to their Lord and the Lord took all the shackles from their feet and set them free. What a Savior We Serve. In this brave move, Paul and Silas converted the guard at the jail, as well as his entire family! It is so amazing what the Lord can do through one person. I will leave you with this. This 2008, I look forward to more posts and I am very excited to see what the Lord is going to do trough this blog. I am going to try and post more than once every week, but we will see what happens. I hope you are enjoying these glimpses into my Spiritual Life. I hope that it helps you in some way. If you do read it, leave me a comment it really helps encourage me!

In His Service,
DJ Plunk

As stated once before, I said I would only blog when the Lord lays something on my heart, and what a morning this has been! I had an extreme blessing of watching the Together DVD last night for the first time. This is a project in which the Gaither Vocal Band and Ernie Haase & Signature Sound teamed up to do. It is truly a blessing and I encourage anyone to pick it up and watch it. It will make your heart swell with praise to our gracious heavenly father! This project has many amazing songs on it. It is my dream to sing with the Bill Gaither and his homecoming friends so it feels good to sit down and watch some good folks sing and live the dream. They will never know how good they have it!


But moving on. I sat down this morning with my bible and a book that I have recieved for christmas that is just 'food for thought' in my bible study. It was just wonderful. The book is called 'Then sings my soul'. It tells the story of some of our best-loved hymns and how they came about. I enjoy all of them but one of them has stuck out in my mind. In the story of the song, 'In the sweet by and by', The man who wrote that song was a pharmacist. He had a patient that was depressed alot and he came in the pharmacy and the pharmacist asked him, he said, "Son, what is wrong with you?" The man said, "I am not sure I guess I will understand it better by and by." With that the pharmacist, a known hymn-writer penned the words to the beautiful song, "In the Sweet By and By". He took it over to the man and said "Here is your prescription for today", with that the man put music to the words and the words came about. How wonderful. Our God up in heaven can take all our blues away with just a few God-Breathed words given to us at just the right points in our lives. You never know what the Lord can do through you. That is just what the loving God we serve does for us. He is so wonderful. I came away from my bible study happy with the Lord on my mind. I then got the word that a preacher in our counties' baptist association had died. He had pastored his church for 32 years. This death come as a shock because he was only in his 50s and was a precious man of god, who, in January, was planning on heading up a mission trip to Honduras to build churches. However, the Lord called him home this morning about 8:00. How wonderful it must be for him to be seeing the city that he has looked for and preached about for so long. Oh what A Savior!

I hope you all are able to enjoy the things that the Lord has laid upon my heart to talk about. If you would please leave comments. This lets me know that people are actually reading my blog. Even if you aren't I can still do this for my own personal satisfaction. :-)

In His Service,
DJ Plunk

Is any thing to hard for the lord?

Hello All!
This time of year, I try to think of all the things that the Lord has done for me. He is so Gracious and precious and sometimes I wonder, "why me?", What is so special about each of us, that makes the Lord love us so? I come to realize, the reason is, is that he made each one of us in the likeness of him. He knows that we all hold the potential of rising in this world and he would get all the glory. This sunday at church, our passage of scripture was:

"Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son." Genesis 18:14

Sarah found humor in what the Lord had asked her to do. He had asked an old woman to bear a child. In the scripture we find that Sarah was in the tent and hearing God talk to Abraham. She thinks to herself and laughs and says to herself, "How can this be?" But the lord hears her and asks her, "Why did you laugh" and then he says, "Is any thing to hard for the Lord?" This statement really stands out in my mind, and it makes me think, any thing through our Lord and savior is precious. No matter how unfit we think we are, we must remember that our Lord made us in his own image. He can do great things through us! We should want him to receive the Glory and he wants us to recieve the blessing. I find great messages in Southern Gospel songs, most of the songs are truly God Breathed and I believe the words come straight from the heavenly throne above. There is a song entitled "Little is much, When God is in it" written by Kittie J. Suffeild. I may have it wrong, I am not sure. The song states:

"Does the place that you are called to labor seem so small and little known? It is great, if our GOD is in it, for he will not forsake his own.....When the conflict here is ended and our race on earth is run, He will say, if you've been faithful, "Welcome Home My Child, Well Done!" ...Little is much, when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame, there's a crown and you can win it, if you go, in Jesus' name!"

This song has strengthened me alot lately. I get so excited when I think about how wonderful it is going to be when we get to Heaven and we behold our savior face to face and he says, " Welcome Home my Child, Well Done!" That just makes me feel so good tonight. I hope you all get something out of this and I am looking forward to posting more as the Lord lays these thoughts on my mind.

God Bless you All,
D.J.