I have really enjoyed getting into reading and posting blogs. I gotta tell ya that today God spoke to me through a few different blogs that I have read.
First that I’ll mention is one I just read a little while ago from Mark Batterson:
Had to share one thought from the leadership seminar at the Assemblies of God General Council. Dary Northrop shared an amazing story about a stripper that found Christ at their Church–Timberline church. And he talked about how when you’re really reaching the unchurched it is messy! Then he shared a thought from the parable of the prodigal son.
If the younger brother had run into his elder brother first he would have never made it inside the house! Unfortunately, our churches are filled with the elder brother spirit. And sometimes it is the religiousity of elder brothers that can actually keep prodigals from reuniting with their Heavenly Father! That thought was worth the trip to Indy!
Dary also talked about the difference between loving people before they change and after they get cleaned up. That is the challenge and the trick! He said people won’t change until they are fully loved. I think he’s right!
Man… isn’t that so true? I was just in blockbuster the other day and the guy mentioned something about church and dissed it. I spoke up and said, Maybe you just haven’t found the right church. He said I just couldn’t put up with all the politicing that goes on there and how the people with all the money has the power. When I went to Puerto Rico, almost everyone I talked to had been to church and had stopped going because of the people in the church. When are we going to start loving one another first and start representin’ Christ’s love?
I also think that this post from Perry is awesome and I can think of quite a few people I know that need to hear it. So check it out! Now! Seriously, I’ll wait…
Ok, done? I know some people could get mad at this statement, but GOD IS LOVE! I know he has wrath, righteousness, justice and all that other stuff, but everything He does, comes from His perfect love for us.
There were a couple more that spoke to me… but I’ll save them for another time. Plus I gotta get more organized with my clippings from bloglines. Check out this post if you have no idea what i’m talking about. I use bloglines and I can keep up with my 34 blogs I’m reading and it only takes minutes a day.
Well. In case I got you curious. We went to Wytheville, Va. It’s only about an hour away from home. The purpose of this trip was just to get away before summer ended and let the kids have fun at the pool at the hotel.
We came up yesterday. It’s my family (wife & 3 kids), my Mom, Grandma, Uncle, and his two kids (Autumn & Eli). Everyone came up early yesterday except my Uncle and I. We came up after I got off work. When I got here, we ate at the best Chinese place ever. I say this because I have never eaten at PF Chang’s, so in my world, Peking is best!
Then we went swimming for a long time. Mia made two friends (as usual) and Luke made two friends. Luke’s friends were probably 12 yrs old each. Luke is 3.
Then we came up to the room and played some wii until it was time for bed. Still loving the wii!
This morning we woke up late (9-10). Uncle, Mia, Autumn, Eli, and myself all went to Galewinds Amusement Park. We played putt-putt golf, drove go-karts, and spent money in the arcade.
Then we ate at Troy’s Original Philly Cheesesteak. I of course got a cheesesteak. It was awesome! Highly recommended. Everyone else got a pizza.
Eli and I played more wii while everyone else went swimming. Now Tyra is asleep and the girls are gone shopping. Thought I’d take the quite peaceful moments to blog.
I’ll post more tomorrow hopefully! The plan is to go to some wildlife reservation and let the kids see all the animals. Then we will come home!
Don’t have much time to blog. Been really busy living life lately. That’s a lot cooler than working all the time.
What I’ve been up too:
- Thursday - had guy night, you can read about that here.
- Friday - went to my grandparents and hung out with the kids and family while Alisha was out of town
- Saturday - Had a picnic at my grandparents house with the whole family there. Plaid cards and some new game called Shang Hai Rummy. Pretty cool game.
- Sunday - went wakeboarding and finally got the hang of jumping. I AM HOOKED!
- Monday - watched Breach. Great movie
- Tuesday - had dinner with Jimmie and Renee D. Great times! Got them hooked on the wii
- Tonight - first wednesday
- Thursday through Saturday - Going on a minivacation to an undisclosed location. Not because I am hiding, because it wouldn’t make any sense if I told you.
I love this post about about someone coming to your church for the first time. If every church read this and planned their services around this, the world would be a better place!
I mean that and believe that! That’s not just one of those phrases that we over use everyday. Like awesome! God is awesome, nothing else is. Sorry, I’ll get off my soapbox.
THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE!
The church can change the world.
Well… it has come to a close.
Guy night was tonight. Alisha went out of town, my mom had tyra and I had mia and luke who went to bed @ 9:30. Joe came over and JR cancelled. So Joe and I made the most of the night. Played wii, ate subway pizza, drank diet dr peppers, played wii, played 6 degrees of kevin bacon, and played wii.
I’m stoked! JJ Abrams is coming out with a movie. It is not yet named but there is a trailer. You can watch it here.
I love the way it is shot from documentary 1st person style.
Coming Jan 08
This is a great list of resources to use.
Head over to Kim’s site to read this post
I love this post! Check it out here!
While you’re at it, subscribe to his blog. It’s cool 
You have to stop what you are doing (other than reading my blog) and go watch this video right now!
Don’t get bored, watch until he becomes a dancing puppet.
Check this out!
You can simpsonize yourself!
I found a widget last night that enables you to click it and will put your display to sleep.
Simple, yet very effective.
Check it out
If you have a mac you have to check out this program! It is something I have used for a while and I love it. I was just iChatting a friend of mine and told him about it. I figured I would put the link up here.
Basically it hides inactive applications. Pretty simple idea. Instead of hitting Apple + H to hide a program, it does it for you automatically.
One note, tell it to exclude finder. If it hides finder then you may be working in (insert fav app here) and hit apple + h to hide and it won’t hide. This is because finder is hidden and you have to have one app not hidden.
Also I have my inactive time to set to 90 secs if anyone is curious.
Hope you enjoy!
I’m totally excited because I get to preach tomorrow for the 122, which is the High School service. There are two services so I will be preaching twice.
I am excited about how God has created this message.
Brent who normally preaches was in california for the PDYM Student Leadership Conference He asked me about a month ago if I would preach for him! I was excited because I haven’t had the opportunity to preach in almost two years.
Instantly I felt like I should share an analogy I learned while at school about a rock. (more to come later about that) Anyways, when it came time for the outline to be due I still hadn’t finalized what I was going to say. I spent about 3 or 4 hours searching through scripture and coming up with 3 points and verses. I had thought I would do it one way.
Well, Thursday my wife and son got sick and I had to stay home from work and then Friday I was sick and today I have been still recovering. So here it is late in the game and I am doing this message.
I started out and sat down in front of the computer and started typing away. I didn’t feel good about it though. I realized I didn’t even pray before I started. So I stopped.
I prayed (out loud, very cool and I am learning that I need to do more of this) and quoted some scripture to God about that I am calling out for help and that he will answer me. I knew he had a message for these students and I didn’t want to stand in the way of that
As soon as I was done praying I started typing and the message went in a whole other direction that perfectly fit the three points and verses that I had picked out previously in the week. Way better than what I had the first time around!
So I had to pause to write this out because I am so excited. Back to it now!
BTW, part two will be some of my message and results from the day!
Maybe I’ll do the classic Perry Noble Sunday reflections.
This was recorded with my treo 650 so excuse the poor quality! What did we do before we always had a camera and video camera with us to capture those special moments? Gotta love Technology!
Man I can’t wait for this to come out!
Check out the video! I hope they make a totally awesome multiplayer game again though.
