thoughts on halloween

after reading your comments and the recommended blog and michawns brief chapter on the halloween, i am ready to speak.

christians get so upset when they change christmas to "holiday". whats the dang difference? is it halloween or fall festival? sounds to me like it is the same thing. any holiday is what you make out of it. is christmas a holy holiday? i dont think so. christmas in america is about buying gifts decorating trees and spending way too much money buying junk for people who dont need it. there is nothing holy about that. but, there are those who make christmas a celebration of the birth of jesus. thats awesome. also, whats holy about easter? nothing. its an easter bunny hiding eggs for some unkown reason. but there are those who make it a special time where it is ALL about jesus and the resurrection. (i.e. the greek orthodox church). my point is every holiday is just a holiday. it is what you do with it. the heart is the issue. i celebrated halloween last year. it was one of the best nights of my life. i had a blast with my friends, having some good ole fellowship. we went christmas caroling for halloween. everyone thought it was hilarious. we made halloween a big joke. we didnt celebrate the devil. if anything we were making fun of it all. singing christmas songs at each house we went to and not asking for candy was a big shocker to the neighborhood.
christians are hypocritical for getting upset at people for saying "happy holiday" when all the time they are having fall festival as a replacement for halloween. i know that not everyone agrees with me on this, and thats ok. i wanna point out the inconsistency that we have. the world is watching. what are we saying? how are we being perceived?
so, if you wanna go dress up eat candy go ahead. check your heart. if you are feeling conviction then dont. if you are doing for the devil then, um well we should talk. i dont see people who celebrate christmas as unbelievers converting because they unwrapped a fruitcake. i dont think you are going to end up a satanist if you eat the candy. but you will loose your teeth.

halloween survey

i was thinking earlier about halloween. when i was a kid i heard alot about how evil halloween was, the devils holiday. i dont hear much of that anymore. i wonder, do people still think of halloween as a satanic holiday or just another reason to party.is it just a holiday? is it just for fun? i wanna know from you guys, what do you think and what do you hear about halloween. i wanna hear from everyone who reads this. i am very curious about this. what are people thinking about halloween?

mute math show

amazing

houston security

Congratulations to all those who made it thru houston airport security without getting yelled at. They must be mad at somebody. Maybe everybody. I felt like a third grader. A third grader at boot camp.

At ease

mute math

Today I fly home early from houston to nashville to catch the mute math concert. Mucho excitemento. I will let ya know how it goes.

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i ate dessert 4 times today

hey ref

so we decided to go visit my parents before the tx show. we are in louisiana right now for a few days. my parents are cooking up some good food. it is ridiculous how good they cook.

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sorry about the delay. i got excited about the food and ran to the kitchen.
im back. ok, so the food is good.

anyway, we went to watch my dad call a football game. my dad is a referee. it is funny to see my dad get all dressed up in black and white stripes and run around with football players. he is awesome. if you go see a football game at any high school in louisiana and yell at the ref, it may be my dad.


gotta go eat now.

phenomenon, was it phenomenal?

the new show on nbc called phenomenon aired tonight. it featured criss angel and uri gellar judging mentalists from around the world. i have to say, i was impressed. i really liked the show. it had great magic routines that were far from the boring ordinary stuff that has been done before. i thought the performers all did a great job tonight. the audience will vote on who will stay and who will be eliminated in the usual way. next week there will be more performers showing their skills on the quest to be the next phenomenon. if you can catch it on wednesday nights then try to take a look. even though i saw a couple of effects that i have done in my show, i was still impressed. they were unique to each performer. i cant help but wonder, was it phenomenal?

tell me what you think or i will turn you into a frog.

an ugly frog





with a big mouth





and small feet

and a crooked back

and no eyes

and curly hair

on your back

metal mulisha and the bears

this weekend we stayed at a hotel in downtown orlando. everything seemed normal except one thing. we didnt see any ladies in the lobby or elevators. we did see a bunch of men who all looked the same. we saw alot of guys who were overweight with a perfect little beards. we soon realized there was a gay convention going on. it was a club called the bear club and it consisted of "heavy, hairy men...". i felt so weird and out of place. i had to leave the swimming pool because, well i felt very uncomfortable.
anyway, i was also at the hotel with some athletes for the dew tour. twitch and the boys from the metal mulisha were there as well as other "hard core" heavily tattooed peeps. now imagine, a hotel full of large hairy gay men and the metal mulisha. it was a very strange sight. i saw jeremy "twitch" stenberg get on an elevator with 2 gay guys. im not sure who was most uncomfortable, "twitch" or the love birds.

awkward

auny nailed it

i think it was a week ago when auny was telling us about intercessory prayer. she had some great insight about prayer and intercession. now we have to live it. if you missed it then go check our aunys blog. there is a link right over there

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its time

All I can tell you right now is it is time to pray. There is some major crap going on right now in some lives that are directly tied to us. I am being vague because I want to protect privacy. Just trust me on this one. Satan is winning. He has set up an attack on us and our ministry in a not so obvious way. He is using the back door to get to us right now. If you are a believer, pray for us and the people close to us. We need protection always. I beg you to pray for us and please do not let up.

bmx, fmx...and history was made

Here at the dew tour we have been watching the biggest, baddes, Most insane tricks ever seen. It has been the best competiton ever. We saw nate adams win it big tonight as well as ryan nyquist take home the dew cup. History was made when we saw a 360 triple whip. Say what?? Ok, imagine jumping a bike in the air and twisting 360 degrees but before landing doing a tail whip(bike twists 360) three times. Not possible. That is what the world thought until tonight. Watch it on tv sunday afternoon. www.astdewtour.com

And if you come to the corpus christy freedom experience then you can see some of this kind of stuff live. Its gonna be huge

dew tour begins

The dew tour began this week with a bang. Tonight was the bmx vert competition. If you watched NBC tonight then you saw it all. There was a huge crash by dennis mccoy. He was taken off on a stretcher. Jaime bestwick broke his peddle off as soon as he hit the ramp and went flying. He hit hard but came back later and put in a great run. It was a great night.

Alex will try his best to win tomorrow. Pray it all goes well.

dew tour

We are here in orlando to watch our boy alex ride in the dew tour. This is a HUGE opportunity for alex. Alex rides with us on tour. He is a member of outcast bmx team. He was asked to ride here at the dew tour. We are so excited for him. Hopefully he will do well and move on to the televised version. You can watch it all on tv all weekend. Just look for the dew action sports tour on local listings.
And, pray for alex to do great

home sweet second home

we are in florida right now.. we are going to be here for almost a week. tonight we did a show in jacksonville. an old friend came to see us. her name is kelli and she is super cool. we are going to eat at our favorite restaurant tomorrow. im so excited. i love florida so much. we have lived here a few times. i call it a second home. we have a big week planned here in florida. it will start with some great food and end with great food. in between is the dew action sports tour. will tell ya bout that tomorrow.

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

every year i gripe and complain about this. here i go again.

everybody listen. it is october. it is NOT christmas time. take down your christmas trees and lights. it wont kill you to wait until december.

yesterday i was driving down the road on my way to the cocoa tree and i saw a house with 2 christmas trees and lights all around the house.

its too dang early for that. remember halloween? that is in october. it comes before thanksgiving, which is in november. then december comes around, its usually the last month of the year, and that is christmas time. i know that the stupid stores started selling christmas 3 months ago but dont do it. your friends are gonna tell you, "hey come on, everybody is doing it...". dont fall into the peer pressure. christmas can wait until december. take down the lights and take back the christmas trees. lets enjoy the other holidays.

you may say that you love christmas. i do too. its the best holiday. thats why they saved it for last. they saved the best for last. so be patient. its not going anywhere. celebrate christmas, have yourself a grand ole time, but please WAIT UNTIL DECEMBER.

3 shows to choose from

here is an announcement from my manager. just thought i would show everyone. and make sure you know all about it.. hint

Please Don't Freak Out on Me
Brock Gill unleashes mind bending illusions with his flair for the comical. Entirely interactive with the audience, this show will leave your students talking about what they have seen and heard for months to come.

The Miracles Tour
An all new apologetic event for 2008, the Miracles Tour features illusions based on the highly successful BBC/Discovery Channel documentary 'the Miracles of Jesus'. Excellent as family or community outreach to convince even the skeptical of the claims of Christ.

The Freedom Experience
The single most effective evangelistic outreach available today, Brock leads a veritable army of musicians, action sports athletes, and ministries into your city for three days of unforgettable school assemblies and evening events featuring the death defying water coffin escape and Brock catching a bullet between his teeth!
To schedule one of these incredible ministry events for 2008, contact Ryan Melson today at 866.813.2676 or email ryan@verticalministries.com.

wish i was there

my friend is taking a 3 week trip to europe. go look at all of his great pictures of italy and rome.
http://www.randyelrod.typepad.com/

weather

the weather in nashville is amazing right now. the fall here is always so great. i always look forward to the fall weather here in tennessee. i have been enjoying this weather as much as possible. today i rode my dirt bike. last night i built a fire on the back porch. tomorrow i plan to hit the park and take a walk with my lady friend. i hope this weather stays forever.

top 12 most powerful christians in hollywood

http://www.beliefnet.com/gallery/hollywoodchristians.html?pgIndex=0

interesting.

what are your thoughts?

phantom of the opera

i decided that auny has been a good girl so she deserved a treat. i surprised her with tix to go to the "phantom of the opera". she had a blast. i was lost. here is what i think it was about.

there was a girl who couldnt sing. so they fired her, kicked her to the curb. the guy that rides the elephant went with her because he realized the elephant was fake. a guy with a jacked up face tried to scare some people on stage. he tried to make them stop singing so loud. they decided to keep singing and the guy with the mask got mad. i guess it was hard to sleep. for him and for me. he tried harder to get them to shut up or sing quietly but they didnt listen because they probably couldnt hear him saying ssshhh. they sang so loudly that the chandelier broke loose and fell on the stage. some people died i think. then the guy in the mask decided he wanted to date the new girl. he liked her voice much better than his previous girl. then some other stuff happened. 3 hours later a guy jumps into the water and the masked guy dances with the girl. the end


it was a great show

thank ya

i wanna say something to all of you who read this everyday. to all of you that have encouraged me and helped me along the way. to all of you that have prayed for me and auny. to all of those who make me smile everyday. i just wanna say thank ya. i love you guys

here is my response

i was asked recently in an interview a question that fired me up. i am going to tell you how i answered it. it may be offensive but i am being honest.

the question was something like this,"what do you say to the pastors who are saying that your show is too flashy, flamboyant, and all about show. they say that people will come to the show but no real decisions are made, its all hype. how do you respond?".

my response

"how many unchurched people will you talk to this week?
the show is more flashy than you think, very flamboyant, and bigger than you can imagine. it gets people, who wouldnt come to a church, to a place where they will listen to the message. peoples lives are being changed every night. i have talked to people who are on drugs who are delivered, those who are in gangs who renounce it, families reconciled from divorce. this is real change. if your pastor says that my show is fake ministry then all i can say to them is take a look at the lives changed. if you have a problem with my show, then maybe you should quit talking about me behind my back, come to the show and see for yourself. if i am doing it wrong then please show me how to improve. i wanna reach people."

moto-marathon

this weekend i raced motocross. i had fun as usual. here is the story.
i decided to race a new kind of race for me. it was called a "hare scramble". this is like a moto marathon. imagine racing for 2 hours. it is a race thru the woods, over the mountains, thru the creek, and anything else that gets in they way. the race is a very tight and technical kind of thing. much different than other races. it is so tight that my handle bars would barely even squeeze between the trees in some spots. so, i thought i would give it a try. i mean, i have won some races before, so i should do good here at the hare scramble. wow, did i under estimate this race. it was 3 laps with the lap being about 11 miles. it was very hot this weekend to make it for a very difficult day. about 300-400 riders started the race, many didnt even finish. when the flag waved i took off and got a not so good start. in the first turn i began to pass people very quickly as we got into a single file line for the narrow race track. i knew that i needed to pace myself because it would be a long and hard race much like a marathon. about half way thru the first lap i slowed down even more because i was very tired. i realized that it was going to be a long day for me. i had a pit stop at the end of lap one and told my pit guy that i needed more water. after a quick drink i took off for lap two. at this point i began to think that i would be happy to finish this race. after lap two lucas fueled the bike and i told him to pray for me to finish. i was so exhausted. i got off the bike for a second and was so dizzy i didnt think i was going to be able to ride. there was no way i was going to quit. i hit lap three with as much as i could give. at this point i was going pretty slow. there were guys all over the track. these guys had parked their bikes and were not going anywhere. i couldnt believe how many guys had dropped out or were just sitting there taking a break. i kept going and finally found the finish line.
i didnt even care about winning a trophy at this point. all i cared about was that i had finished. i have never put my body thru so much. it was the most incredible thing i have ever had to endure. it was 2:25, thats two hours and 25 minutes of pure focus and complete physical demand. i am very sore and recovering from the heat exhaustion now safely at my house. i am going to think long and hard before i do that again.

columbus day?

why do we celebrate columbus day? my question is "how can you discover land that is already inhabited?". america was full of people. they called them indians. now i think it is native american. i guess we corrected it by saying native. the reason we say native is because we recognize that they were living here before columbus found this place. the whole thing just seems weird. we corrected that part so maybe we should correct the columbus part. maybe we should call it something else. from now on it is not columbus day. what should we call it?


pedro day
chocolate day
christmas part 2
happy fun day
shannon deserves a raise day
help me find a new name day
i dont wanna work or go to school day
wash my car day
eat more chocolate day
monday

what a great week

i have been home all week. i have enjoyed my time off so much. i needed a break from everything so i could catch up. i didnt realize just how much i would enjoy this. the weather has been great all week. we have run and worked out. we ate healthy all week. i mean we try to always eat healthy but we cant always choose what we eat.
today we hung out with our friends riders for christ. they were in town doing a tv show with steven baldwin. they jumped their motorcycles and did some big tricks for us and the cameras. i think that it will air on tbn this monday. ??maybe?
hanging out with friends and riding my dirt bike has been fun this week too. i even ate chocolate, if ou can believe that. i only ate about 7 pounds of it. what a great week


how was yours???????

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oops i left off one ?

run forrest run

when i was a kid i began to run at the track with my dad. i worked up to running 2 miles when i was about 7 or 8. one day i even ran 3 miles. when i was in high school i had to run 2 miles for track. it was the requirement to play on the basketball team. when i was in college i had to run one mile for a class. i couldnt afford shoes, all i wore was sandals, and they wouldnt let me run barefooted so i wore boots. it was either that or fail the class. i ran a mile, a few times, in boots. that was supposed to be the last time i would ever run. well, the other day i was taking my walk and had a forrest gump moment "and i started runnin". since then i have been running about a mile every other day. i realized that i probably needed to buy some running shoes because it is not cool to run in chuck taylors. i went to a pro running store and got me sized up for some real running shoes. auny and i are now ready to run. i am going to run for exercise and stress relief. and now that i have new shoes i am able to run really fast. ha

bmx team

the bmx team that works with us is very new. they were assembled this year and lead by lucas hastay. lucas is living with us right now and we are working together on some projects here and there as well as the travel. today he found out that some one has donated a ramp to his ministry. it was so awesome. God is using that boy so much and His blessings are rolling in. it is cool to see how excited he is to see God provide each need along the way. God is using them as they do shows and spread the gospel to people who wouldnt normally listen. i think it is pretty easy to listen to a guy who just backflipped his bike.
be praying for him as he tries to raise the money to buy a new trailer and a truck for them to travel in. they have some big ramps that they take to every show but they need a trailer and a truck to make it easier for them. right now they are renting a truck and it is VERY expensive. pray for them as they acquire all they need to continue this much needed ministry

b-rock news

every so often i send out a newsletter. i sent one out today. here is a little bit of it.





Hey Friends!

After doing traveling ministry fulltime for 10 years, I am amazed at the stories that I keep hearing. Here is one touching story that I received by email today.

"Tonight I could not sleep so turned on the Discovery Channel and watched the documentary about Jesus. I am 59 years old and have not been to church in a while - I've become discouraged and depressed because of the circumstances in my life. I woke up again at 4 a.m. thinking about the documentary. All I could remember was the name Brock, the fact that you were a Christian and a magician so I typed those things into my search engine and found your site. Just wanted you to know that my doubts about Jesus being the ONLY way are gone and I have renewed my relationship with Jesus Christ - I've ordered ALL your video's to share with my family, especially my two sons who are lost in addictions. I have hope and look forward to a good nights sleep as I have been forgiven and restored to living Jesus Christ."


to read the entire newsletter, email us at info@brockgill.com
and if you want to get it emailed to you everytime i send it
sign up at the website www.brockgill.com

priceless

breakfast at the hotel $4.50
salad in a box and saran wrapped deli sandwich from the airport kiosk, $28.46
plane tickets back to nashville $656
dinner with friends we can chill with, priceless