I really want one of these XXL Chalupas, but there is a problem…the closest Taco Bell is like 30 minutes away. So when I get Taco Bell, I eat it in the car because if I wait until I get home my food is cold. So I would have to eat this monstrosity in the car. If you’ve ever seen me eat in the car, you know that this delicious XXL Chalupa would be all over my clothes, steering wheel, seat belt, seat, middle console, radio, my cell phone, and the odometer. Basically when I’m asking is for someone to open a Taco Bell in Taylorsville Kentucky. Thanks.
You ever go through a season in your life where you can specifically see where God is trying to teach you something? Well for me, these past few days have been all about me learning patience. I am not sure why I am in need of this lesson, but God is perfect in His timing, so I guess I’ll take it like a champ, and hopefully get through this with a little patience left over.
I led staff devotions today and my devotion came from Psalm 37:7-8. ”Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret - it only leads to evil.”
I was going to blog more, and take more pictures, and be more creative…but I’m already slipping in those departments. I’m going on vacation tomorrow and will be in the Smokey Mountains until Monday…hopefully I’ll do some reading and relaxing and maybe something creative will spring to mind, and I’ll come back refreshed and ready to take on the world!
Fall programming starts Sunday the 12th with our first Awakening worship service. If you’re in Spencer County and you’re looking for something different, The Awakening is definitely it!
For now here is a something that renders your argument invalid:
When it comes to worship I don’t usually like to complain about anything, but…
I first heard the song “How He Loves Us” a few years ago at a Saddleback Small Group conference in Atlanta Georgia. The worship leader was singing songs and everyone in the crowd was gettin’ their praise on, and along comes this train wreck.
I’m standing there listening to this song trying to figure out where it’s going. Our worship pastor Ben was next to me with is eyes closed, taking in the music as only a worship pastor can do. Then it happened…
“When Heaven meets Earth like a sloppy wet kiss…”
Here’s the deal. I saw the lyric coming…and all I could do was think to myself, is he really going to sing that? Sure enough, he did. The bad thing for Ben was that his eyes were closed and he had no idea. Ben opens his eyes to look at the screen to see if he heard what he thought he heard. He did.
He looked at me with a disbelief in his eyes and all I could do was shake my head.
Since then, this song has taken off. I’m not knocking the songwriter here. God inspired him to write it just how he wrote it, and I’m sure this song has done a great deal to change many lives and impact people for the better. I’ve been in a room with thousands of students and adults who have no inhibitions and who have given their all in worship during this song…but it just…every time I hear it I…the song is just…
I actually enjoy much of the song…I just can’t get behind the sloppy wet kiss line.
I had an awesome idea…but I wasn’t near anything to write it down or yeah…so it’s gone. Hopefully I’ll remember what it was and get it down on paper or here. Which is why I need an ipad…just saying.
My wife doesn’t understand why I need one, and I probably haven’t given her a good reason either…other then…I just do.
Ben & I were watching old Chappelle show clips today in particular, “A Moment in the life of Lil’ Jon”
Ben & I have been Chappelle fans and we rock out the occasional “WHAT” and “OOOOOOOKAY” quotes to each other. For an awakening this year we’re going to to a Lil’ Jon goes to church. Ben is going to get a dreadlock wig and we’re going to set him up in church scenarios. Such as:
Preacher: God requires you give back 10% back to Him.
Lil Jon WHAT?
Preacher: It’s a tithe…you give back to God.
Lil Jon: WHAT?
Preacher: God says you will be richly rewarded in Heaven…
Lil Jon: OOOOOOKAAAAAAY!
etc…
Should be mildly amusing…for no one other than Ben and myself.
All-in-all not such a bad day today…I believe I accomplished everything today I wanted to do, and then some. Tomorrow I need to do some reading, and make a crap ton of phone calls to get people on board for the fall programming…
I need to take more pictures of…everything. Students, events, Gali, Bethany, even Moses. I stopped taking pictures for some reason. Now when I want to take them, the battery is dead and the charger has ended up three levels deep in a dream and so heavily sedated that when it died it went to limbo and found his dead spouse trying to keep it there with her forever…
You must get some things planned for the going away party of Hannah (text mom, ask her some things Hannah likes)…you must also find an elementary school teacher for tomorrow night’s bible study…you must also be prepared the elder’s meeting afterward (get fall calendar together, print out ideas for Awakening)…you have a headache and should be in bed…go to Dollar General tomorrow and buy yourself a throwback pepsi or mt. dew…or both?
Here’s the thing…I get these ideas. I get them in my brain, and I’m like “oh man…that would be awesome!” and then…nothing ever happens with them. I don’t write them down, I don’t remember them, and they float away like that bag from American Beauty…
Whether it’s an idea for a cool video, or a sermon illustration, or a reminder to call a student that I haven’t seen for awhile…it makes my heart cave in…or something. So I’m going to use this blog to help me document my ideas, and possibly become a resource center for myself to use for…myself?
I really want one of these XXL Chalupas, but there is a problem…the closest Taco Bell is like 30 minutes away. So when I get Taco Bell, I eat it in the car because if I wait until I get home my food is cold. So I would have to eat this monstrosity in the car. If you’ve ever seen me eat in the car, you know that this delicious XXL Chalupa would be all over my clothes, steering wheel, seat belt, seat, middle console, radio, my cell phone, and the odometer. Basically when I’m asking is for someone to open a Taco Bell in Taylorsville Kentucky. Thanks.
