full power ahead

that was the title of my sermon sunday. its the title of a song by soehne mannheims, "voller kraft voraus," but i guess that won't interest my englisch blog readers. the song was covered by obadja, the jesus freaks band that was on convoy, and it has a very powerfull message. the origional is a bit sappy and depressing sounding, the hardcore obadja version works better. this song very much has been a driving force in the last few weeks, and hasnt left me alone. so, i preached on it. the pic that i will upload soon is from muck's painting that he did on stage while i preached. this is my new fav style to preach. he only knows the title of my sermon in advance, then while i am preaching he paints his responce to what i say. it works well because he is very talented, and it gives the others something to concentrate on, so i keep their attention. also, we then have a picture in our minds of the main theme of the sermon. and, an added bonus, i get some wall art. :-) anyway, the sermon went over really well.. it was my longest i think.. scoreing in at 22.5 minutes (plus the song and open-mic response time it came up to 37min). i saw alot of heads nodding (no not off to sleep) and there were some laughs and all. and, lots of people came up to open-mic after to share.. i am pretty much the only preacher we have still crazy enough to try open-mics, because usually no one comes forward! should i bore yall with what i said??

"when will you lay on your wings
to spread them powerfully out
no ones holding you in chains
your feet can move forward.
if you have fears, toss them away now
why shouldnt you suceed
you were given the goal
to expand the heavens and earth.

full power ahead,
we should hurry on
full power ahead
to the days that heal us

when will you lay on your wings
to spread them powerfully out
you stop in front of a hill
but could glide over it
if you have fears, toss them away now
then nothing can make you fail
you were given the goal
to expand the heavens and earth.

-english of voller kraft voraus (more or less)