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what a really good sunday!
there are other church blogs that will be telling of the hundreds of baptisms that took place in their buildings yesterday, but none will be any more important than the one we had yesterday in our building!
way to go rachel!…and a huge boo-ya to elizabeth!
i gotta admit that i didn’t actually watch the baptism, though. i was messing with the dead battery in my microphone. the show must go on…
big crowd in the first hour again. i wonder what would happen if the first hour became the popular one? i bet the restaurants are less crowded at 11:30.
i can see how someone could criticize the teaching yesterday. there were a lot of words that come straight out of pop psychology: personal worth, belonging, self-image, identity, importance, significance, value…
but the thing is, those words and concepts (just like so many others throughout history) have been stolen from the bible and redefined in ways god never intended.
when i read the genesis account of the beginning of the human race, i see adam and eve infused with worth and value right at the point of creation. meaning and purpose flow out of relationship with the god who made us…poured his spirit into us…uses us for noble work…and defines our destiny for eternity. how’s that for significance?
it’s always humbling to preach on excuse-giving. not hard to find an audience! not hard to be the audience…
do you realize that if everybody that calls north point family would show up on the same sunday morning, we wouldn’t have enough room…enough chairs…enough communion…enough coffee…enough nursery space?
we would have enough parking, though.
i would like to experience that day.
why do really good song writers and bands feel the need to make really good songs sappy by including non-words for us to sing in the middle of really good songs? “signature of divine” is an awesome, powerful song that gets completely undermined by the…”oh oh’s”.
by the way, i still love the song and our band rocks when they lead it.
it was a “bueno” day at lunch. a great place to spend a buck.
my daughter-in-law whined about going to bueno, though. she says the taco meat tastes to much like real hamburger. she says she wants her fast-food taco meat to be more like dog food. i’m not joking…
she said she liked it better when she mixed the beans and the taco meat together. more like dog food, she said…
good meeting in the afternoon. to all who came: thanks for the encouragement!
you’ll be hearing more about the october 25th “funday”, holiday at the hall, and the advent conspiracy soon.
this is going to be an awesome fall!
to all my dallas cowboy friends: i’m feeling your pain…
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