cry when I found out my grandfather died.
nor did I cry when I saw his body in the hospital.
almost but not when I saw my mother break down in the hospital.
Yet when I got my cell phone finally working and listened to the barrage of voice-mails and texts to see how I was doing and if I needed anything… I just couldn’t hold it back any longer.
Thank you, all of you.
I know guys it has been a long time.. I just have not been able to set aside the time for blogging.
Today’s office video is a little long and not the best quality but if you have ever seen any of the office bloopers then you know what you are in for.
No wonder they only have 30 min shows!
It is 12:30 and I can’t sleep. I have been lying in bed trying to shutdown the race track that is my head. I have been in constant prayer. I can’t stop praying. I can’t stop praying for RPC. I can’t stop praying for God’s will for this church. I can’t stop praying and thanking God for the staff at RPC and the people who make up the church. I can’t stop praying because I think the publix building is too small a prayer, God is too big for that to be it. I can’t stop praying because there is a God sized plan, there is a God sized plan that is happening and I don’t want to miss it.
So lets do this thing, lets break this bread and start this party. I want so badly to see the works of God being done in this city, I want so badly to be doing the works of God in this city. As peter said “You are the Christ the son of the Living God!” as someone I once knew would say “If that doesn’t light your fire then your woods wet!”
I won’t stop praying, I can’t stop praying.
Look I know it has been a while but I am finding I have the same issue Travis wrote about. I have so much going on in me and around me right now, I just can’t seem to find the words that describe how I am feeling. This past month God has really been showing me a lot. Between watching Everything Spiritual by Rob Bell, and the first merged sermon by Timm, my head is spinning. Then there is 1 Corinthians 9 that has been overwhelming me.
So all I can say to you blog world, is don’t wory I am still around, I just don’t have the processing or memory to spare.
Remember WE are the church, we need to start acting like it.
about Fringe? Did anyone else watch it last night? If so what did you think about it? It was most certainly done by someone from lost.
I thought it was pretty good, they have at least gotten my attention for another episode. About halfway through I was like.. where are they gonna be able to go with this.. and fair enough turned it around on me.
Alright lets hear what you have to say? Do it .. now, 5 4 3 2 do it write something.
The Mac attack Bobby is now blogging. It is his first time so go easy. You should go tell him hi and welcome him to the blog world.
I know it has been a while I promise I will attempt to make a comeback to blogging soon! Before I do though I wanted to point the finger at a newer blogger that I think you guys have heard about. Emily Grice, Emily has been blogging like a champ and one of the best examples is her resent post about her small group. I don’t think you could get a more sincere, honest, or more personal look into what a small group really is and what it can do.
Keep it up Emily, you flippen rock!
I walked in on Travis and Emily at RPC today while they were discussing a bible passage that they have apparently been going over for quite some time now. I was lucky enough to be able to sit down and listen to them discuss this verse and even have it read to me by Emily and commented on by Travis.
I say all this because I have had that passage on my mind since then. Not only that but something Travis said has been ringing in my ears. So I came home and began to read. Then again and again….
The passage they were going over was 1 Corinthians 9…. I’m not sure I am of authority to speak on this passage, but the verse that Trav commented on and I have been trying to get my head around is verse 16. Verse 16 says: “Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” Now the word in there that you may have caught already is COMPELLED. Now what Travis said to me was this, a common theme that Paul seems to bring up is that there is something inside him, something that pushes him. Something on the inside trying to get out.
This thought has honestly shook me up a bit. In fact this is my new prayer.
That God will place that in me. In my heart, something inside me that wants/has to get out so that I can put in action Gods desire in my life.
No, not one bit.
Faith is a messy unsure state that we all hate to be apart of. Yet faith is one of the most powerful experiences in the long run. Those of you who read spiritual living books raise your hands (except you Mike I already know you don’t, we are still trying to get you saved)…… no seriously do it …….. we don’t have all day here. Ha ha you looked like a dork raising your hand for no good reason.
Seriously though, how often do we hear that we have to step out in faith and trust in Jesus? How many of us read that and get pumped and fired up to take a step into the unknown for Jesus? The funny apart about all that is we are so ready to do something big (not that there is something wrong with a big step) but we think “when that big step comes God”, or “I promise I will go to africa right now”. We are so pumped for something of that caliber but we are unable to have faith in the little things. We are unwilling to let God into our daily lives, and our daily situations. We worry over dumb things like money and girls and friendships. I am not saying those things are unimportant, on the contrary I think that we act as if those things are unimportant enough to bring to God.
Are you ready to trust God with the little things, or are they just not good enough for him to worry about?
I’m not sure if any of you caught the Emmy’s this year but Conan O’Brian hosted them. I don’t know about you guys but Conan cracks me up.
Anyways this year for the intro to the Emmy’s they made a video of Conan trying to get to the Emmy’s while spoofing a bunch of popular TV shows. One of them happened to be The Office.
For those of you who are also lost fans like me, check out the similar videos on youtube and it should have the whole 6 min intro to the Emmy’s which I thought was really funny.
