McBride and the Ride

Perry’s on the Move

mcbrideut — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:39:43 +0000

Perry’s two new favorite things are crawling and jumping everywhere! He’s been jumping all his life, at 4 weeks old the only way we could get him to stop crying was to help him jump and now he does it on his own. He just began crawling this week. Perry and I went to Lexington and spent the night with my mom, grandmother and her husband. As soon as PB got out of the bathtub he was crawling…naked across the bed. Now we can’t stop him. We love watching him crawl he is a busy body!

I’m Taking Over…

emilyut — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:10:55 +0000

I’m not really sure who keeps looking at out blog, but we’ve had a steady stream of people checking it each month probably waiting for it to change ha-ha. Well good news…I’m taking over and I’m going to try really really hard to post regularly. I have only posted something once and that is mainly because I couldn’t remember my username and password. So maybe this blog can be my new hobby! (We’ll see)

So, seven months ago Ryan posted that Perry Benjamin was born. He is now around 21 lbs. and close to 28 inches. He’s growing so fast, and we’re absolutely loving every minute of it. He just learned to feed himself and his current loves are Gerber puffs, bananas, bread and any baby food placed in front of him. He is trying his hardest to crawl and mainly he just scoots around on his belly. Our Dr. says PB will be walking by Christmas…aghhhhh! My favorite thing right now is PB’s ability to give love. I love the way is face lights up when he sees mommy and daddy.

I promise to update the blog with pictures…as soon as I find the cord that connects the camera and the computer. Be patient with me!

Perry Benjamin at the hospital.

mcbrideut — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:31:37 +0000

After much anticipation, Perry has arrived. He was 9.1 lbs and 21 inches long, yeah, big boy. Emily went to the hospital on Sunday night to be induced because she was five days past her due date. After waiting for progression throughout the night by 2pm on Monday, some progress was made, but not enough, so the Doctor decided to preform a c-section. I have heard it said; that when you hold your child for the first time is amazing and the same held true for Emily and I. A friend pointed out to me, after the fact, how unconditional love for this new child pours over you. Perry has plenty of unconditional love from all his family. What a fantastic picture of the Gospel and the same unconditional love God had for his children. We pray that one day God will reveal his Son, to my son, and Perry will join the Kingdom of God.

Romans 5:8, “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Meet, Perry Benjamin McBride

mcbrideut — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:57:45 +0000

Kid McBride to join the Ride

mcbrideut — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:26:08 +0000

Emily had just taken one pregnancy test and it said, +. But it was hard to tell so, I went to class and she went to buy a digital pregnancy test. Nothing like getting a text message in the middle of class that reads, “pregnant” followed by your gonna be a dad. So if you have not figured it out yet, we are having a baby. To be named by the highest bidder on an Ebay auction to come later (kidding). It has been a very humbling experience to come to grips with the fact that God has blessed us with a child. This is a huge blessing as Emily and I begin to build the starting nine for a Baseball team. Thanks for all the encouraging words and prayers.

This blog is dedicated to Rose Booth and Lydia Ring… here’s to a new blog post.

Chris Lofton had cancer

mcbrideut — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:19:09 +0000

Chris Lofton’s senior year was the best in Tennessee Men’s basketball history, and quietly it was Lofton’s hardest. Lofton revealed today he had testicular cancer, and beat it during his senior season. Chris Low of ESPN wrote a fantastic article about the battle Lofton faced, and beat.

Don’t Waste your Pulpit

mcbrideut — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:20:01 +0000

Until you hear a truly Bible centered sermon, you have not heard preaching. How’s that Freddy T.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

mcbrideut — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:20:19 +0000

I have been to many a concert in my day, but none compared to the concert I attended last night. Emily told me that Alison Krauss was coming to the Louisville and she really wanted to go, so I figured I would look into getting some tickets to give her as a birthday present. I have never really listened to Alison Krauss so I was not too excited, in till I found out that she had made a CD with the greatest lead singer of arguably the greatest rock band of all time, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. Getting these tickets proved harder then I thought, they had just gone on sale on tickermaster two days before, and had sold out in 30 mins. So they decided to have a second show the next night. Those also sold out in 30 mins and I did not get tickets to either. Thankfully I was able to purchase some from a ticket broker (side note: Emily is covered for the next year on presents!) for the Saturday night show. The show featured all the songs from the CD they did together as well as a few by Alison Krauss and Led Zeppelin. Here is a picture I took on my phone from our seats, as well as an article from the Louisville Courier Journal, “Palace concert fit for royalty,” by Jeffrey Lee Puckett.

As their impeccable band swung into “Rich Woman” with an easy flourish, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss took the stage Saturday night at the Louisville Palace to the first of several standing ovations.

Plant, still the god king of rock ‘n’ roll, strolled out with a quietly confident swagger, his hair in that tangle of curls so familiar to Led Zeppelin fans. Krauss looked like she was headed to a prom in her pink dress, maybe one with “Stairway to Heaven” as its theme.

And when they began singing, it was clear they still felt the chemistry so evident on their “Raising Sand” album, his well-traveled yowl blending perfectly with her pristine voice. There were a few goose bumps, and not the last.

This was the first night of the “Raising Sand” tour but both the singers and the band sounded fully warmed up. Krauss didn’t hit a bad note all night, almost flaunting her perfect pitch, and the band, led by T Bone Burnett, was nearly flawless. Plant was Plant, and that was plenty.

Krauss and Plant performed nearly all of “Raising Sand,” a handful of Led Zeppelin classics and a couple of songs associated with Krauss’ solo career. They also threw in a George Jones cover just because they could.

As expected, the Zeppelin songs drew a huge response — one guy screamed “Led Zeppelin rules!” barely five minutes into the show — but they weren’t the highlights (although “Black Dog,” with the world’s spookiest banjo, was pretty amazing).

“Fortune Teller” was better, with drummer Jay Bellerose exploding the song from the inside out, and Krauss broke every heart in the place with “Through the Morning, Through the Night.” “Killing the Blues” and “Trampled Rose” were also contenders.

But the most unexpected song might have also been the night’s finest. Krauss, backed by Plant, Buddy Miller and Stuart Duncan, soared through an a capella version of “Down to the River to Pray,” from “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” that was so beautiful it sucked the air out of the room.

Everyone who went back for Sunday’s second sold-out show should be so lucky.

Young, Restless, Reformed by Collin Hansen

mcbrideut — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:34:48 +0000

While I was at the conference, Together for the Gospel, which was excellent, I learned about a new book that really peaked my interest. Young, Restless, Reformed by Collin Hansen, Christianity Today writer, who wrote an article about the rise of Calvinism among younger evangelicals back in 2006, which which was the bases for the book. The reason this book peaks my interest is because this book is about me, I don’t know why he did not interview me! I was a very in-mature Christian in terms of spiritual growth, really in till my later college years. It was not in till I attended New Attitude in 2004 that I experienced, expository preaching and college students and pastors who had a heart for doctrine, reformed doctrine that is. It was here that I first heard Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Seminary, which is the Seminary I now attend. This conference, lit a fire inside me, that I had not experienced since my conversion. If I ever get the chance, I will thank C.J. Mahaney and Josh Harris of Sovereign Grace, for setting me on a path of great spiritual growth and introducing me to a reformed tradition that exemplifies the message of the Cross. While I am thanking people I should also thank Andy Bennett, Jacob Fife, and Andy MacDonald who did more for my life then they know. Anyway, I have ordered the book from Amazon, and am looking forward to reading it.

American Idol sings “Shout to the Lord”

mcbrideut — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:58:12 +0000

Alot of folks watch American Idol, and if you did not see it last week they sang the Christian Praise Song, “Shout to the Lord.” I was unsure as to what I thought about it. It is easy to get mad becuase thye did change the words, then change them back the night before, but hey, at least they did the song! Here is a helpful article by Josh Harris.