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Michael Collier Connell is an American musician best known as the leader, guitarist and primary songwriter of The Connells, an American band from Raleigh, North Carolina. They play a guitar-oriented, melodic jangle pop type of rock music with introspective lyrics that reflect themes and history of the American South. Origins Mike and his identical twin, John, were born on March 15, 1959. In 1984, Mike Connell formed the band that bears his and younger brother David's surname, born on May 27, 1961. History The Connell brothers moved around in their early years, as their father was in medical school and getting a degree in cancer research at Duke University. Mike was born in Georgia, and David was born in the Raleigh area, while their dad was working under a family practice physician. Later, the family ended up back in Macon, Georgia, where Mike Connell and his twin brother, John, graduated high school from First Presbyterian Day School in 1977. David, two years younger, graduated later from a different school in North Carolina. In 1978, while attending Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, Mike Connell met fellow students Clark Eason and Wade Stooksberry (also a 1977 First Presbyterian Day School graduate). According to Stooksberry in an interview on March 6, 2008, in 1979 Eason, Connell, Stooksberry and Sammy Deet (drums) started playing publicly in a band called "Clark Eason and the Greaseguns" at nightclubs and parties in Macon. Connell and Eason were on guitar, and Eason and Stooksberry shared vocals. They wore suits and skinny ties tucked into their dress shirts, as was the style at the time. They performed mostly 1950s music and Beatles songs. After a year, Mike Connell transferred to a college in North Carolina. Tripp Crumbley took over Connell's guitar role in the band. Connell then occasionally made guest appearances with "Clark Eason and the Greaseguns" while visiting his father in Macon, until that band broke up in 1980. Mike Connell graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in 1981, and received his Juris Doctor degree also from University of North Carolina School of Law in 1985. He was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1986. Mike now practices law (as does his twin brother, John) at a firm in North Carolina, specializing in workers' compensation law. The Connell family moved to Raleigh, where their mother was from, just in time for David to go to Broughton High School for his senior year, and to graduate in 1979. Afterwards, David went at least one year to Mercer University, where they had family connections. The Connells The Connells began to come together as a group in the spring of 1984. Mike was in his second year of law school and his brother David in his last semester of college, both at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The brothers, David playing bass and Mike on guitar, rented a practice space and began working up several of Mike's songs with a friend, John Schultz playing drums. John was a junior at UNC and was from Raleigh, where the Connell brothers' home base now was located. The band tried a few singers that spring before settling on Doug MacMillan, a childhood friend of Schultz's and a swimmer at East Carolina University. George Huntley, who was a childhood friend of both brothers Mike and David, became a member of the band in 1984; on second guitar, keyboards, and vocals. References External links The Connells Official Website OneSimpleBand.Net Fan Site The Connells MySpace Site. Discover the Mike Connell popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mike Connell books.
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Wilderness Wisdom
Mike ConnellThe Bible tells us, that of the people of Israel, the majority of them, God was not really pleased with. He loved them. He saved them. He got the Holy Ghost on them. He did miracle...
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Kings Arise
Mike ConnellKings Dream (1 of 4) Kings dream. Kings declare. Kings prepare and then kings are generous. You're called to be a King! Will you live like a servant who's not enough and always com...
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Fig Leaves and Other Christian Coverings
Mike ConnellWeird things we do in church, that make us hard to relate to. If you're going to love anyone, you have to connect meaningfully with them. We're going to look at some stuff that sto...
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Vision To See
Mike ConnellProverbs 29 tells us that without a Vision, people are naked, or dwell naked, or dwell carelessly. One of the most important senses you've got in your life is vision, the ability t...
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Five Seconds After You Die
Mike ConnellFive Seconds After You Die Mike ConnellWe read in the paper of accidents, car accidents and young people dying, and there are questions, many questions people have in their hearts...
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Authority In The Family
Mike ConnellGod showed Adam a big garden, representative of the possibility of inheriting the whole world, if he handled it right. He said: I want you to dress it, keep it, cultivate it, so it...
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Hearing the Voice of God
Mike ConnellAdam heard God speaking to him when he was in the Garden, even though he'd sinned and walked away from God. People can hear the voice of God. We need to learn what it's like and ho...
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Slumber of Jezebel
Mike ConnellJezebel set out to destroy all messengers of the Lord, she destroyed prophets wherever she could find them, and raised up instead her own prophetic messengers. They brought a messa...
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Discover Your Assignment
Mike ConnellJesus didn't just save you to get into heaven. He saved you to fulfil the original purpose which is to restore the earth, to restore people, to restore our community one soul at a ...
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Burnt Stones
Mike ConnellBurnt Stones (1 of 4) Stones are a picture of people. The church in its early days was filled with glory it changed the Roman Empire, and influenced nations. Then it went through ...
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The Prayer of Kings
Mike ConnellThe Prayer of KingsThe Prayer of Kings (1 of 2) No matter what I've gone through, no matter how hard it is, I know this; my life is in God's hands. I know that God is about His bus...
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The Man with the Withered Hand
Mike ConnellGod wants you to have a vibrant purpose. He wants you connected to Him, to understand your purpose, and fully engage with Him. If for some reason that you have been injured in life...
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Having a Full Lamp
Mike ConnellHow will we know the end of the age? How will we know your second coming? One of the great things for us as believers is to know that not only Jesus came once, He will come again. ...
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Foundations for Fruit-bearing
Mike ConnellThis is about people who are walking with God, moving in the supernatural, but there's something really missing in what they do and how they do it. It's not that they aren't seeing...
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Resolving Offences
Mike ConnellOffences will come. They are part of life. There's no way of escaping it. Its impossible that youre going to miss out on your opportunity to face some very offensive behaviour or s...
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Leaving a Legacy
Mike ConnellA good man (or a good woman) leaves an inheritance to his children's children Proverbs 13:22Legacy (1 of 4)Throughout the Bible, inheritance is extremely important. It was so impo...
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Blood of Jesus
Mike ConnellOverview: The seven different ways that Jesus bled on the cross represent seven different things that Jesus came to redeem us from, seven things that the blood of Jesus Christ addr...
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Breaking Free From Victim Mentality
Mike ConnellVictim mentality is a way of viewing yourself, and a way of viewing life, that causes you continually to fail in relationships and life.The person will not take responsibility. Ins...
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Shame
Mike ConnellShame is an Identity Thief. It steals away who we are. Sin disconnects us from God, and puts shame around our life; but God wants us to be connected, so I can be myself, I don't ha...
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Forces that Work in You
Mike ConnellForces that Work in You (1 of 2) Sin is a living, spiritual entity. When sin is in your life, it's not just something that sits there. It is something alive, operative, active, wan...
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Lessons to Learn in a Prison
Mike ConnellAt the age of 17 Joseph had a prophetic dream. That prophetic dream was a glimpse or an insight to what his future could be and there are ways you can position yourself to get prop...
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Zealous for Good Works
Mike ConnellYour life is short when you compare it to the times, seasons and ages that are ahead. The Bible tells us clearly there's a millennial age when Christ will come, our life here is ou...
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When God Seems Silent
Mike ConnellMost of us would have had an experience where you really need God to give something to direct you but nothing happened. You sought the Lord, you prayed, read your Bible and nothing...
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Extravagant Love
Mike ConnellKeep Yourself in His LoveOne of the most painful experiences in life, is experiences where you're ‘unloved’; or where people: react against you, speak against you; or where there's...
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Witchcraft In Relationships
Mike ConnellWitchcraft is imposing your will upon another, against their will. You've been given a free will to make decisions with your life, but someone can bring pressure or push you to cha...
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Comfort in Times of Trouble
Mike ConnellAudio Transcripts for a set of 3 sermons.Includes summary notes, and Audio & Video downloadsThe Comfort of the Scriptures (1 of 3) Everyone experiences, at some point in our li...
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Purpose and Destiny
Mike ConnellDesire, Dreams & Destiny (1 of 7)God has put eternity in the heart of man, so no matter where you're born in the world, no matter what culture, what country, whatever and no ma...
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Filling Your Lamp
Mike ConnellJesus will come again, and there's things that He wants us to be busy doing. It's not come to Jesus, fill in my life, and then go to heaven. This is so far from the plan of God as ...
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Wage a Good Warfare
Mike ConnellHow many know that you're involved in struggle and conflict in life? Life isn't that easy. Everyone is fighting in the same battle. For you to get forward and to progress in your l...
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Rest of Faith
Mike ConnellThe Rest of Faith (1 of 4) "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down.". Psalms is full of David's battle to find that resting place. In fact he had many diff...
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Eternal Rewards
Mike ConnellOne of the major themes of Jesus teachings was the theme of Eternal Rewards. This topic is seldom taught in churches, but it provides major motivation for holiness, personal transf...
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Relationship or Rights
Mike ConnellWould you rather be Right, or would you rather have Relationship? Hurt people hurt others, without even realising. We have no power really to stop painful things happening in our l...
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The Spirit of Mammon
Mike ConnellTranscripts for a series of 4 Sermons:Spirit of Mammon (1 of 4) The number of times Jesus talked about wealth and possessions, stewardship and accountability, far exceeded any disc...
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Blame Game
Mike ConnellAudio Transcripts for a set of 3 sermonsIncludes Summary Notes and Audio downloadsPassing the Blame (1 of 3) "It's not my fault, you can't blame me for that". If we don't relentles...
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The Signs of the End Times
Mike ConnellIn Matthew 24, Jesus reveals clearly the signs of the End Times, and of His Second Coming. We see many of these signs being manifested in the earth today. We are to recognise the s...