Thanks for dropping on in. This is the new home for all things Matthew Casteel Band. I hope you enjoy the stay.
Want to win a free "Clean" CD? It's easy. Just listen to the song "song in the making" on my playlist and the first to suggest the title of the song I end up using will win. The song is my latest worship song. It's a rough demo made on the laptop with Garage Band. Check it out, let me know what you think.
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Matthew Casteel
August 16
Thanks to everyone who came out to the show down in Tucson at GJ's Christian Coffee House. We had a great time. It was so fun, it sounded great, and we couldn't have asked for a better reception. Thank you to GJ's and Dale and the whole gang. Your hospitality was wonderful. The other bands and musicians did an awesome job. I'm sorry we didn't have all our CDs available that night. If you didn't get one and want one, please contact me at info@matthewcasteel.com I'd be happy to ship one out to you.
Come out to Queen Creek this Sunday night from 6-7pm if you want to rock out with us one more time.
Matthew
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August 9
While working with my brother in law Monday, putting an addition onto a house, I dropped a nail right into my foot! I try to be as manly as possible and do other things besides just play my guitar. So I'll go out and work some contruction side jobs here and there. While pulling down an old part of the roof we were remodeling I grabbed a long board off the roof and it came crashing down on top of my foot. The board had a huge nail sticking out of it and it jabbed me hard. Man, did that hurt! Suprisingly, I didn't bleed. I just had a little poke mark where the nail got me. I think the pain was from the nail and the wait of the board smaking me. My advice, don't drop a big board with nails in it on your foot.
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August 2
Jeremiah 29
God sent His people into exile because of their disobedience to His commands. Yet in the middle of their exile He continues to love them and encourage them and give them a job to do while seventy years of exile pass. Talk about a steep punishment. Their facing seventy years of consequences. But God doesn't simply cast His people off because of their disobedience. Although Isreal lost a lot of privelages and is suffering by God's hand God still expects great things from them. God's discipline in our lives is not our ticket out of holy living. In fact, living outside of His commands is what gets us into trouble in the fist place. In fact He tells His people to pray for the welfare of these foreign places because, "for in (these nation's) welfare you will find your welfare." God isn't done with them because of failure. He just continues to shape and mold them for His good pleause like He always has.
God's discipline is for love's sake. God has a good purpose for our lives and discipline takes part in seeing His plan come to life. The often quoted Jeremiah 29:11 is in the middle of this discipline process. He's not promising riches and glory right there on the spot but reminding them of His love even in their exile. I can imagine we might need to hear the words "For I know the plans I have for you delcares the Lord..." thirty years into our exile too. Just because we screw things up and God is having to deal with us we aren't done with. Find God in the middle of our discipline. Find out what he expects of us now. How can we be a blessing to those around us? How can we get on with our lives to bring God glory? Let God redeem our situation and let's leave the timing up to Him. For he truly does have good plans for us and he truly delights in us. Otherwise he wouldn't care to discipline us.
"My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves as a father the son in whom he delights." Proverbs 3:11-12
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July 30
Had a great day leading worship at the home church tday. God showed up. There were a handful of people who gave their hearts to the Lord today. The band rocked as well. It was a trimmed down team (acoustic/electric/and drums) but it still held ground as one rockin' worship band. Our church has come a long way since we've begun and it's fun to see how we have developed. I'm looking forward to the next few months. We begin our new evening service Sept 10th at 6pm. It's going to be even more rock n' roll. I can't wait to push the music envelope even further. I feel like there are some more songs in me needing to be written. I think Sunday evening will provide a fresh venue to try more stuff out. If you are in the Gilber, Mesa, AJ area of the Phoenix valley you need to come on out and be part of ENGAGE. I'm know it's going to be something cool. If you aren't in the area stay posted to my homepage (www.matthewcasteel.com) to worship with us through the world wide web. I'm going to be posting some new song ideas soon. If you are a worshiper looking for some new songs to play check out the song list for the songs as well as the lyrics and chord charts. Have a great week.
Matthew
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June 20
Well, I'm just kickin back. I'm enjoying my vacation, trying not to work too hard. I'm taking advantage of the time to do a little song writing and update my webpages/Myspace/purevolume and matthewcasteel.com. I think I'll throw on some flip flops and head out to the local Christian coffee shop with my guitar and laptop maybe play a little, write a litttle and enjoy a cup o' smoothie (since I'm not a big coffee fan) who knows. Today is wide open. I'll see what the wife is up to and the kids. By the way don't you think my wife is totally hot. She is definately a cutie. I'm sittin as the luckiest guy in the world. Thank you God for a great day.
I'd love to hear from you. Let me know what you think of the music. One thing to look forward to is the posting of some new original music I'm recording on GarageBand and ProTools. Just a simple mix a little rough. A way to let you hear what's going on in my songwriting expo.
Have a good one. Who knows, maybe another post real soon.
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grizzlieshockey2
I think something like \"Song of Faith\" or \"Song of
Praise\" would be very appropriate. It sounds pretty
good for a Garage Band rough-cut.
posted Jan 18
mindcolour
a song title: what about \"angels\' song\" or \"king of
angels\" or something... ?
posted Dec 08
1mewithoutyoufan
He
posted Sep 11
srabraves88
you have so pretty cool stuff i just encourage you to
keep writing music for the only one that truly matters!
JESUS CHRIST BABY!! WOOHOO
posted Aug 03
MCfanForever89
LAFO!!!
posted Jun 20
MCfanForever89
hey man. so ya, you\'re the favorite artist for
sure...i\'m just sittin here @ the comp after a nice
lil luncheon w/ the rockstar himself. it was a good
time. we\'ll definitely do that again for sure. i got
the mic hooked up. i\'m just chillin listenin to Bob
Dylan. good stuff. so ya here\'s what i assume is your
first comment. i know, it\'s exciting. you\'re awesome
matthew. -josh-
posted Jun 19