Preaching

So, many of you saw that I was working yesterday on my day off. Why you may ask? Well, I'm starting a two week sermon series this weekend here at Evangel. My dad is taking a team down to Mexico City for a week of prayer and meetings with local pastors. So that leaves little old me here to preach on Sundays. It should be fun.

I'm going to do a series on Parenthood. I figure that we all have parents, are parents or someday will be parents. And when my kids were born they forgot to give me the manual for raising kids.

But what I've noticed is that as I'm preparing this sermon, it seems that I'm preaching to myself. This happens a lot when I start working on a sermon. It just seems that everything I'm talking about are things I need to work on. Which I think helps when I speak on Sundays, the message is something real to me.

I've also starting working on some of the creative elements for this weekend. I'm working on a little video with my kids that I'll hopefully show at the end of the message. Getting my 7 year old and 4 year old to act natural for the camera wasn't hard!

Anyway, on to work today. I need to meet with some of the guys here for some help with the creative elements. Wow, I really do miss my old creative team.

XX3

It all starts this Saturday.

Bond

well, well, well

Christianese

These are pretty funny. I read them here.

The following is a list of phrases in the impenetrable language of "Christianese." For those unfamiliar with this strange dialect, below you'll find a helpful Christianese-English Dictionary so that you can find out what your Christian friend is really saying to you.

1. I'll pray about it = NO!
2. We need to pray for so and so = Guess what I just heard?!
3. I'm waiting for God to open some doors = I'm living in my parent's basement.
4. God gave me a word for you = I have advice to help you with your disaster of a life.
5. I'm going to have my quiet time = Leave me the heck alone!
6. God is good = My life sucks.
7. Bless his/her heart = What an idiot.
8. I have the gift of discernment = I can judge people without even talking to them.
9. I was having fellowship with them = We had beer and pizza and watched the game instead of going to church.
10. I'm saved by grace, not works = I can do whatever the heck I want.
11. She caused me to stumble = What a skank.
12. I kissed dating goodbye = I couldn't get a blind date, literally.
13. Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouth = I can't believe you said the real curse word!
14. I don't mean to judge but... = I'm going to judge.
15. I'm dating Jesus right now = Are you kidding? I'm way out of your league.
16. God wants me to take some time off from this relationship = I met someone else and I'm too coward to break up with you.
17. I'll pray about marrying you = NO!
18. God told me that we are supposed to get married = Maybe you'll say yes if God is behind this.
19. I'm fasting = Your spiritual life is miniscule compared to mine. Try to keep up.
20. God has called me to minister to her = She's really hot.
21. I think you should pray about it = You'll see that I'm right.
22. We've decided to court, not date = My parents have a death grip on my life.
23. Courting = Homeschool dating.
24. Lord willing = My plans are His plans.
25. Take this with a grain of salt = I'm about to really offend you.
26. I'm feeling convicted about this = One day my actions might change too!
27. Have I offended you? = Why are you treating my like garbage?
28. Who wants to pray? = I don't want to pray right now.
29. Jesus turned water into wine = Jesus turned water into grape juice. (Southern Baptist Dialect)
30. Jesus turned water into wine = I can drink whatever I want. (Presbyterian Dialect)

Super Commercials

Now that the game is over it's time to pick the best commercials. Here are some of my favorites:





Which ones did you like?

Thoughts

Here are some random thoughts from the weekend:

*We had a great weekend at Evangel. Not only did our kickoff to our Missions Sunday go really well, but our Chilli Bowl was incredible last night. The inflatables were great for the kids and the Chilli Cook-off turned out really well too. Oh yeah, there was a game on the big screens too.

*Speaking of the "Super" Bowl, I really don't understand how Cowboys fans could cheer for the New York Giants. I have to be clear here, I don't like anyone else in the NFC East. There is the Cowboys and no one else. I don't want to hear about how people are sick of the Patriots. So am I. The truth is, I disliked both teams playing last night. I just hate the Giants more.

*The New York Giants are Super Bowl Champs and Eli Manning is your MVP. Now that's a sentence I wish I had never had to write.

*We had a weird night Friday night. It seems that something my daughter ate didn't really agree with her. You never want to hear your kids knock on your bedroom door in the middle of the night and tell you that they just threw up in their bed. Not cool.

*It was fun having Charlie here this past weekend. It was great of him to hang out with some of the staff here and help give them ideas in their areas. It was also fun to just hang out again.

*My kids went to Hannah Montana 3D. It was funny to see them get home. My 7 year old daughter was on cloud nine. She thought it was great. My 4 year old son thought it was boring. Funny stuff.

*I am amazed at what parents will let their kids watch. Charlie and I went to a movie that was definitely not kid friendly. It was even at 7:30 at night. But we saw about 10 kids under the age of 10 walk in with their parents. And there were more under the age of 17. Crazy.

Well, that's enough for today.

Great Lunch

Well we finally made it over to Pei Wei for lunch yesterday. I have to say, it was really good. If you haven't heard, it's the sister store of PF Chang's.

PF Chang's food at cheaper prices and available for carryout!

And it's really close to our house. Great stuff.