Please see new rules below

nice!

[ i'm making this topic sticky, until winner is announced, so anyone interested can get in on the contest. who knows, you may be the winner. :) ]

any extra prizes other than the cd cause i already have it.

SKILLET ROCKS!!!

:)I already have the cd, so I'm not entering the contest. I'm new to this site, but have been a Skillet fan for a long time now. I do wanna say some things though. First of all, Skillet rocks your face off cause the music is just awesome and they are such awesome musicians. I really love them though because they truly bring out the message of Christ in thier music and how it's our relationship with His that really matters. I've seen them in concert a couple of times, and they always made clear the reason they were there - to lift up the name of Jesus! When I heard John Cooper preach for the first time at one of Skillet's concerts and saw how he had each and every person there hanging on every word he said about Christ, it was truly inspiring. He not only inspired me to get closer to Christ in my own walk with Jesus, but also helped fuel the fire to help others come to know Jesus too...not just through my own music ministry, but also through my testimony...after all, we are made overcomers by the word of our testimony. That's why Skillet means so much to me and I support them as best I can! God bless!

Peace,
Andrew

P.S. Collide rocks!!!!!!! ;D

I can't say whether there is extra stuffs or not. We havn't decided yet. :) The contest is really meant for ppl who don't have the cd yet. hehe

CJ

hey, I just sent my in, it was only 600 sompin words...does that rule it out?

The winner will be chosen on January 17th, 2004 and will recieve a brand new copy of Collide!


so is there a winner yet?

Hehe, you got to post before I did. :P

We are gonna try this one more time. I got a total of 2 people who sent me entries for the contest and they both were under 800 words which the rules stated that it had to be from 800-1000. Mainly to keep people who already had the cd from entering... So we will try one more time.

The new rules are the same as before but without a set limit.

There is no limit, make it as long or short as you like. This essay should talk about the following things: Why you think Skillet rocks your face off, what Skillet means to you, how they have helped you in your spiritual walk with God, and why you think that you deserve to win Skillet's rockin new cd, Collide.

Again, email it strait to us before Feb 1st at skilletcollide@terrasin.com. The winner will be chosen on Feb 3rd and will recieve a brand new copy of Collide!

darn i have the rockin cd already, not like that's a bad thing,so i guess i can't do this thing, oh well! Sounds cool though :)

We have a winner, I will post it soon :)

very cool. :) can't wait to read it.

;D So post it! (at 12am tonight! :P)

lol!

It's cool that you did this contest. Congrats to the winner!

Well, to tell you the truth... I wasn't planning on even entering this contest, I am not very good at writing essays, and to write one outside of school, without being tied up and forced too, is quite a miracle in itself.

But then I started thinking... (gee, I wish I had that Skillet cd) , no, well that too, but I started to think about how Skillet has really impacted my life. I have always been seen as a good kid, a good student, and one of those kids who seems to have everything together. I always have a smile on my face, I am a straight A student, and I have never gotten into any trouble with the law or police. But sadly often the people who seem to have it all together on the outside, are the ones who are really broken on the inside. That was true in my case. I fought with my parents, I listened to music I knew that they would dissaprove off, just because I knew that they wouldn't approve of it. My dad, who had always been a big influence in my life started to get busy with work, and never was home, and when he was, all he would do was yell at me and my brothers and sisters, and fight with my mom. All this started to wear on me...life itself suddenly became dull, and meaningless, my grades started slipping, and to take away the pain, I started cutting myself. It became an escape for me whenever something wasn't going my way. Finally stuff became so tough, I started thinking about suicide. It was like a cold, Some days I would be happy, and then everything would just come crashing down. One day, when all my family was gone, I was just so depressed. My life was going faster than I coulde control it...I was so close to ending my own life, It gives me shivers to just think of it. I was just about to end it all, when my best friend called. I realized how much pain I would cause everyone around me...In the backround, My friend was listening to Skillet...I haden't listened that much to them, I had their cd, but as soon as I hung up; I went and opened the cd, and listened to it all. I cried my eyes out when I heard the song "Will you be there" It made me realize how many people cared for me. I wanted my life back so bad...That song meant the world to me, and literally saved my life. Slowly, I began to get my life back...I lived again. Mudvayne and Slipknot slowly gave way to Skillet. I went to a summer music festival, and realized how many cool christian kids who are out there, who aren't like goody two shoes, just plain kids, with ordaniary problems who lived for someone, who had a purpose for their life. I recommitted my life to Christ last summer. Skillet has impacted my life alot. And I just thought that I would share that. Thanks for listening. Enclosed is a poem, I wrote shortly after.

Pain so real, pain so near
The scars run deep, in this life of fear.
The world is broken, or so it seems
I'm on the floor, in the midst of broken dreams.
I'm tough as nails, no one sees through my tears
Drowning in secret sorrow, in a world of broken peers.
I wanna come home, I wanna just die
The world is drowning, in its own peoples crys.
I want my life back, Will you take me back again?
The scars in my arm, are defiled by sin.
This life of meaning, this life of hope
Life of significence, is mine to cope.
Will you be there, when I am back on the floor?
I only want your love, I can't fight anymore.
Cuz I understand now, what it takes to get real,
If you wanna stand up, You gotta learn how to kneel.

SKILLET ROCKS MY FACE OFF!


Congrats ExtremePunk, I'll get this out to you as soon as I can dig my truck out of the snow. :)

CJ

I think extremepunk diserved to win, congrats!

John