Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Zoo

Hey...today we went to the Zoo and it was a great day for family. We went with some friends and had a blast. I know this is isn't deep or anything like that, but I haven't written in a bit so...

Speak On it....Later

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Beautiful One...

Lori was putting Jackson to bed the other night and she asked him what he wanted to pray for/about. He said, "Mom, I want to sing Beautiful One, because God likes it when we sing."

He gets it! So tonight as I was putting him down and just rubbing his back before he slipped off to sleepy time, he said again, "Hey dad, let's sing the Beautiful One again..." How awesome is that! SO here we are singing a cool song for the God who loves us and I am reminded again of a God's means of grace for my life. Those times, areas and moments when I feel the warmth and presence of our God who loves us so much that "my soul my soul must sing, my soul my soul must sing...the beautiful one!"

Speak On IT!

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Too Easy...


I mean come on. Two in a row.
Speak On That!

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

I'm hungry!


Dude...I'm just saying. This is a prime target!

A Really Important Story...

Yesterday as we were finishing dinner, my son Jackson said he had a really important story to tell. Basically it went like this...


Today in preschool we read a story. It was about God. Some people didn't like Jesus and then he was dead. There was a cross. Then they put Jesus in a big monster cave and rolled a rock as big as a monster onto the cave. Three Weeks later he was back alive! Now he lives in the sky...

The four year old version of what he remembers from the greatest story that has ever been told. When you hear it from a four year old, you begin to remember the first time you could ever tell that story. I'm also reminded of the often used story where Jesus says, "let the children come." (Mark 10:14) That's good stuff.

Speak on it!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

In case anybody reads this...

I just changed the color of the blog. What do you think?

Speak on THAT!

BTW...anybody seen the new coaches poll? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3274936

Amazed....

So basically I've been reminded that God is all about rocking my world.

Check this out...I meet with a group of pastors on Monday as an accountability group and part of what we do is discuss our sermon preparation. We try and stay a week ahead in our discussion so we might plan save ourselves from falling in the trap of writing a sermon the night before you have to preach.

Yesterday we were talking about Judas, in prepping for March 14/15 and the conversation got crazy as we looked at how "I am Judas" and we all fall into being Judas at some point in our lives.

As our conversation continued it's like the Spirit just rolled all over our room. The story came alive for us in a different way. We read these stories year after year, and many of us think we understand them thoroughly when in fact there is always an opportunity for God to teach us something or bring us to a new understanding of the Word. This is the power of the Word! Dang.

Now I don't know if the sermon will be any good in two weeks, I don't know if any sermon is really good, but I do know if we listen close enough and we are open to what God might be saying we could certainly, and not in a corny way, be amazed.

Speak on it....


Here's a quote from Karl Barth that might make some sense here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Barth

"If a sermon is biblical, it will not be boring. Holy scripture is in fact so interesting and has so much that is new and exciting to tell us that listeners cannot even think about dropping off to sleep." (Homiletics, Westminster John Knox, 1991, pg 80)