With the advances in the free you tube service with the high quality button selection.I’ve decided to upload all of the Johnstown videos and then go on to some of the other churches that I filmed on the second tour I was on.I might even go back and re-do some of the concerts from the first tour I filmed.
I did have a hard drive crash and lost all the work I did on the Johnstown PA concert before I could save it out to dvd, so I have spent the last 3 days uploading it to my computer from my camera and re-doing all of the editing from the entire concert.All the videos I post will be of much higher quality than anything that I posted on Don and Wendy’s site as each song is between 800 and 1000 megabytes that I upload to you tube for their encoder to take it from and they are all coming off the original masters for all concerts.
For those that haven’t heard from me for a while, I’ve been a Bible study teacher at a local church and also have filmed their special event choir services.I did lose the ability to film with two of the three professional cameras I used at Don and Wendy’s concerts.There was a defect in the first two cameras that I purchased that Sony honored for 2 years on a free send in for repair service.However, the cameras had to show the defect before they would fix them and two of my cameras went bad during the filming of the last Easter service at my church and the free repair service is no longer honored by Sony.The cost for repair of both of them will come to about 1000 dollars and so I’m been pretty down on that but did think that I better get all of the usable tour footage edited and posted before my final camera goes on me.
After I get every single song posted from Johnstown, I’ll go on to Canton, and two or three other churches from that tour.It’s pretty much the same songs over and over again with the same comments on the songs, but that is what a tour is like as not much new material is played on tour from one church to the next and the majority of the songs are those that Don has song for the last 30 years.I’ve got some very good footage from Mary Beth’s church in Main with the exception of some focusing problems with some of my cameras.The humidity was very high when I filmed that even caused all of the floors to become all wet and it caused my cameras not to focus as well.Anyway it’s all free to post to you tube so I’ll post everything I’ve got eventually good and bad.It might get a little repetitive after a while but again it’s free and you all can choose to watch them or not.The only work involved is coming from my side on this and I really need some busy work to keep me occupied after I lost the friendship of my best friend and Christian sister recently. I'm actually starting to really relate to some of the very old quotes by C.S. Lewis:
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
"[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul."
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
All of the videos will be posted at the below link when I get them uploaded.
I also have had a page up on you tube for a very long time dedicated to Gary Cooper with some of his very old 1930’s movies that are not available to purchase and some extremely rare Grand Old Opry footage of Jim Reeves in pristine quality.The Grand Old Opry footage and the last two Gary Cooper movies Desire and If I Had A Million were uploaded in the new high quality settings of youtube and simply look incredible for such old material.
Below are some more C.S. Lewis quotes. He was really quite a quotable person after all:
"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."
"History is a story written by the finger of God."
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."
"We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness..."
“You will never know how much you believe something until it is a matter of life and death.” “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.”
"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."
"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."
"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails...If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."
"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask."
"Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control."
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."
"It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth."
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."
"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."
"Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight." - C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Chief demon Screwtape to his nephew apprentice Wormwood
"I wonder you should ask me whether it is essential to keep the patient in ignorance of your own existence. That question, at least for the present phase of the struggle, has been answered for us by the High Command. Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves. Of course this has not always been so. We are really faced with a cruel dilemma. When the humans disbelieve in our existence we lose all the pleasing results of direct terrorism, and we make no magicians. On the other hand, when they believe in us, we cannot make them materialists and sceptics. At least, not yet. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect. a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the enemy. The “Life Force,” the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work—the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping, what he vaguely calls “Forces” while denying the existence of “spirits”—then the end of the war will be in sight. But in the meantime we must obey our orders. I do not think you will have much difficulty in keeping the patient in the dark. The fact that “devils” are predominantly comic figures in the modern imagination will help you. If any faint suspicion of your existence begins to arise in his mind, suggest to him a picture of something in red tights, and persuade him that since he cannot believe in that (it is an old textbook method of confusing them) he therefore cannot believe in you."
The Screwtape Letters 1941
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." – Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.
"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."
"God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man."
"Another possible objection is this. Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough? Well Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when. But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely. I do not suppose you and I would have thought much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side. God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and irectly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else-something it never entered your head to conceive-comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to coose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it. -Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
"Christians, then, believe that an evil power has made himself for the present the Prince of this World. And, of course, that raises problems. Is this state of affairs in accordance with God's will or not? If it is, He is a strange God, you will say: and if it is not, how can anything happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute power?
But anyone who has been in authority knows how a thing can be in accordance with your will in one way and not in another. It may be quite sensible for a mother to say to the children, "I'm not going to go and make you tidy the schoolroom every night. You've got to learn to keep it tidy on your own." Then she goes up one night and finds the Teddy bear and the ink and the French Grammar all lying in the grate. That is against her will. She would prefer the children to be tidy. But on the other hand, it is her will which has left the children free to be untidy. The same thing arises in any regiment, or trade union, or school. You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will made it possible." Mere Christianity
"Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we make take it it is worth paying. " Mere Christianity
"I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was God as well as man, then His sufferings and death lose all value in their eyes, "because it must have been so easy for him." Others may (very rightly) rebuke the ingratitude and ungraciousness of this objection; what staggers me is the misunderstanding it betrays. In one sense, of course, those who make it are right. They have even understated their own case. The perfect submission, the perfect suffering, the perfect death were not only easier to Jesus because He was God, but were possible only because He was God. But surely that is a very odd reason for not accepting them? The teacher is able to for the letters for the child because the teacher is grown-up and knows how to write. That, of course, makes it easier for the teacher; and only because it is easier for him can he help the child. If it rejected him because "it's easy for grown-ups" and waited to learn writing from another child who could not write itself (and so had no "unfair" advantage), it would not get on very quickly. If I am drowning in a rapid river, a man who still has one foot on the bank may give me a hand which saves my life. Ought I to shout back (between my gasps) "No, its not fair!" You have an advantage! You're keeping one foot on the bank"? That advantage--call it "unfair" if you like--is the only reason why he can be of any use to me. To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? " Mere Christianity
Hi Rod, All's good up here ! Been a little busier than usual with our new granddaughter with me for the weekend, while her dad and grandfather are away on a...
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Rod, I seem to run into that same problem occasionally...seems that posts don't 'post' in a timely manner. Oops, I forgot to say hi to everyone....hi...
Hi all, With the advances in the free you tube service with the high quality button selection. I've decided to upload all of the Johnstown videos and then go...
Hey Dan Great job on the video of "We Will Ride" - looking forward to more as they come. Just one itty-bitty challenge - in your brief description on YouTube...
Sorry, I should also included my thanks for the great range of quotes from that "Most Reluctant Christian", C.S.Lewis, arguably the best of which was: "I...
Hi All, I just wanted everyone to know that the entire Johnstown concert 21 clips is now posted on you tube in super high quality on my page. Just make sure...
Hey Dan Thanks so much for the fantastic job of posting all these vids to YouTube! Just one little query - Part 10 seems to be missing at this point. Is that ...
Hi Tony, No it is a I don't know how to make a playlist under the new you tube guidelines omission. You will find that part 10 along with Part 1, Part 2 and...
Hi Dan If it is any help to you, at least for distribution to the group members, I have a host of my own which is presently very underused, and I would be ...
Hey Tony, I did get the screen for playlists that I am use to seeing where I can orgainze them in whatever order I want, but to late now to save the videos I...
Hi Tony, Thanks for the offer, but I think for right now I am going to go the You Tube rout with them because of all the world attention You Tube recieves,...
Hi Dan It did occur to me that part of your purpose might well be the possibility of connecting with non-believers, so I can fully understand your preference ...
Hey Dan, Watching these videos is SO wonderful ! What a treat it was to get to meet you while you were in Maine with Don, Wendy & Mike. Thank you so much for...
Hi Bob and Marybeth. It was an honor to meet you all and all the other super nice Christians way up north. I am sorry to be so late in posting these videos...
Also MaryBeth, If you send me your address to the below email I will send you an entire dvd of your concert including the lesser audio for Balaam and Brother...
Hi All, I had some trouble with audio and video sync problems for the New Gloucester Maine 06 East Coast Tour videos on Youtube but nothing that a 200 dollar...
Hi MayBeth, I should have the concert I filmed of yours done on dvd in another day or two. All of the concert videos except for the last two encore songs are...
Hi Dan, WOW ! I thought it would be weeks before you would be able to get the New Gloucester concert onto a dvd format . We have been enjoying all your fine...
Hi Bob and MaryBeth, Well the guy had 100 percent feedback with like 2500 feedback. He use to run a repair shop but decided to go the internet rout. He gave...
Actually after writing that last post, I listened to the Warwick RI footage from my audiance microphone and I take it all back. My microphone recorded...
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