Sunday Night Reflections December 17, 2006
I am sitting here on my couch, watching “Return of the King” with Lucretia…and I was just thinking, I am really glad there are no hobbits around today! I believe they would get picked on and made fun of…and they have some really ugly feet.
It has been an awesome weekend.
This past Friday and Saturday I had the privilege of being involved in the wedding of Jared and Jennifer…two people on staff who do an excellent job, love Jesus AND love one another. Weddings are so much fun because you ALWAYS get a sermon illustration out of them…and THE MOST FUN part of the wedding is watching the groom when he sees his bride for the first time. I thought Jared was going to pee his pants…I have NEVER seen him smile like that.
The wedding was beautiful…the only thing that was really wrong with the wedding was the flower they put on me. Don’t get me wrong–it was beautiful…but it smelled like a cat tee-tee’d on it…and I had it there for the entire ceremony. As soon as it was over–I found a trash can. (And for those who think that the couple might be offended at me saying that…Jared agreed that my flower smelled like poo!)
Every time I do a wedding it reminds me of when ‘Cretia and I were married…I was standing at the front of the church…the doors opened and there she was…in white–and she was THE MOST BEAUTIFUL thing I had ever seen!!! Nearly every man I speak to says he remembers the day when he saw his bride coming towards him…WOW…I am SO glad I married ‘Cretia.
I also got to go to a pig pickin’ on Saturday night! WOW…that’s fun! Everyone needs to go to a pig pickin’ at least once in their lives. They had a bluegrass band there as well…and YES…I LOVE bluegrass, especially Nickel Creek!
Today at NewSpring was AWESOME! It is so amazing to see how far God has brought us in just one year. Today we focused on being thankful to God for all He has done for us. Many times we go focused on what we WANT that we forget to thank Him for all He has given…causing us to stress and worry about things. If you want...you can download the message here.
We launch our new website on Monday…you can go to www.newspring.cc to check it out–for some reason I am having trouble linking it here, but there is video streaming and everything…let us know what you think.
I am still watching “Return of the King,” not only am I glad there are no longer any hobbits…but the orks really freak me out as well. I am glad they are not around any longer–because if I walked into Chic-fil-a and saw an ork…I just might freak out!
Sorry…back to my blog post.
I KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN!!! Thank you Scott for the peanut M&M’s…you are the man. Scott, a guy at NewSpring who has been around since the Sullivan building (150 people) read this post last week and bought me a bag of peanut M&M’s…he is now my friend for life!!!
Don’t miss Christmas Eve…more on that coming later in the week…but PLEASE make plans to be here…and PLEASE invite as many people as you can. I promise it will be the best one we have ever had!
Two more things…
If you are a Calvinist OR you know of one…you have GOT to read this…it totally cracked me up–the comments are the best!
Steven Furtick hit the ball out of the park with three posts on questions someone needs to ask before planting a church.
That’s about it…it was a good weekend…oh yeah, the Cowboys won–they beat the Falcons, which made Shane very sad…but me very happy!
See you this weekend…or here tomorrow–whichever…and if you see any hobbits or orks…keep them away from me…like I said, they freak me out.