It's 10:35 on Saturday night. I have finally finished my sermon (I may modify in the morning). I'm not preaching on anything that I planned on preaching on yesterday (go figure!).
I spent most of today in training for Scouts. For those of you who don't know, I am a Webelos den leader for Nathan and the assistant den leader (wolves) for Ben. I got frustrated today because I was hoping for more meat then what I got during training. The entire time today I was freaking out that I wasn't going to get my stuff done. I was hoping for more meat to make it worth while. Oh well, I'm done..so I guess I can stop freaking out!

We're going to go and look for a house tomorrow....I hope we actually find something.

I'm so tired right now I doubt I'm making any sense! I'm going home and try to get some sleep!

My oh my...it's been two months since I last posted! I'm looking around my blog and it's kinda dusty around here...I think I need to change some stuff....

So, it's Friday (supposedly my day off) and I have been sitting at my desk all day, trying to write a sermon. There must be a better way to do this. I started in John, but didn't like it, went to Jude, now I'm in 1 Peter. I think I'm going to do a series...I need a break from being creative for a few weeks.

Jordon Cooper made a comment in his blog sometime in the past week about how blogging has become a hobby for him. Perhaps I need to look at this as the same.....

This place is getting dusty and stale, perhaps I need to shake it up a bit....

Hey, guess who just got a new picture phone......


Perhaps there will be more pic's on this site.....

I don't care who you are, dat's jist funny. link

Screwtape revisited...this is so funny that it is scary. Check out Plan 9.

Just finished the noon slot. Cindy and I did the first half of the hour with the kids and the second half by ourselves. It went well with the kids for about 15 minutes, then they got bored....the second half seemed to fly by.

I saw Jordon Cooper's request for prayer this morning. I put him on our board for prayer during the weekend. I started to pray for him and I really got affected. You know, I have never met the man, and I don't think that I have ever posted a comment on his blog, but I really got affected when I started to pray for him. I have been reading his stuff for at least 3 years now and he is one of my favorite blog's. You know, I doubt he knows who I am, and I really doubt he has ever read my blog, but when I prayed for him today, I felt like it was one of my best friends...I started to cry on his behalf. Amazing how God does stuff like that. I grabbed a rock for him on the way out...to remember to pray for him through out the day.

Hey, if you get a chance, pray for Jordon Cooper.

It's Thursday morning and I just left the prayer room. We are starting 84 continuous hours of prayer today. We opened it up at 7:00 with the morning office and will close it at 7:00 pm on Sunday. I want to try and blog through out the weekend on what happens and how it goes, as well as comment on my own experiences in the room (I may actually blog from within the room one day.)
It was a good start...the five of us who normally handle the morning office were there. It started slow, but then it seemed like we started going somewhere. For me, it was a realization of everything that we had been working on finally coming together. Cathy mentioned that she felt "lighter" once we were done. It was somewhat funny though...the five of us have been active in morning prayer since last November, yet today it seemed clumsy at first...go figure....we must be starting to take new land. Cindy is in there now, I go back at noon. More later...

We're doing Streams 101 class this weekend at the church. Dave is in the church teaching and I am sitting here with Matthew and Caleigh at the youth's candy/water/coke table blogging away. (Ain't wireless grand! I'd show you a picture, but T can't figure out how to e-mail pic's from her phone). The two of them are playing the bible version of who wants to be a millionaire. (There taking it somewhat seriously, I'm giving them a hard time. It's good to be the pastor!)

It's been a long tiring week, but it has been an interesting one. God really showed up for Cindy and me. Sunday I mentioned that we needed to get rent. Well, it did not come from the offering, but it showed up later in the week. So much so that we were able to catch up on some of the bills that the church has been running late on (We gonna have some heat this winter!). It has been a hard season, but things are really starting to look up. I think we are going to go into the fall all caught up on the business end of the church. I knew God could do something like that, but I never fully knew how. For the first time in months I'm feeling really good about stuff....I think it is going to be a good fall.

The college kids came back yesterday (nothing like being in Wall-Mart with 25,000 students and their parents). We have a group going out tonight after midnight to give the students pizza once they stumble out of the bars (at about 1am). I'm too tired to do that tonight, but I am excited to see that we have a group going out and doing something out of the box.

I love the fact that they are willing to go into the streets and meet the kids where they are, in the middle of their mess. I can see Jesus doing that. Going out to where the lost are and eating with them. That's just too cool. I think there will be some fruit from our trips out into the street...although it probably won't be the kind of fruit that most would be comfortable with. Perhaps that's the problem that Jesus had. The fruit that he was getting was not the fruit that the religious establishment wanted. You see, we like people who are like us. But most of the people who are like us are already saved...like us. It feels comfortable when people like us come to church. We don't have to explain things, we don't have to change things. But when those who are not like us show up, things get messy. We have to explain what we are doing, we have to be patient with them, we have to help them get through all their junk....who really wants to do that?

me.

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Scott McKnight has an interesting story about a meeting with FF Bruce on his blog.  

“The reason I bring this up is that I asked Professor Bruce, because I had an audience with him, about women and ministry. My question was a big one: "Professor Bruce, what do you think of women in the ministry and how texts like 1 Cor 14 and 1 Tim 2 apply to the issues at hand." Here was his response, and I shall never forget it and I sum it up here. "First, I think 1 Cor 14 is textually corrupt. Second, I think Paul would roll over in his grave if he thought we were turning his letters into a new Torah. And third, as for what I think about women in ministry, I'm for whatever causes the freedom of the Spirit." What struck me most were answers 2 and 3.”

I have read and appreciated FF Bruce’s writings before, but I always thought of him being a tad bit more conservative in his thought.  A comment like the one above makes you think.  I like the way Scott runs with this, tying in the importance of freedom in the Spirit to the argument of women in ministry.