Weekly Rundown (9.21.08)

• Great work retreat with our staff this past Tuesday.  Lots accomplished.  Lots of plans made ... now we have to execute!!


• So today it happened ... we had trouble with our video feed into Stage 123 during the first service.  I thought it would happen eventually.  The disappointing part is that it was preventable and I hate preventable problems.  I take full responsibility for it and apologize for the trouble but we did learn some valuable lessons.


• Great worship sets today ... powerful stuff!!


• Rock Bridge Calhoun celebrated one year today with a great crowd and great fellowship time afterwards.  One year of being one church in two locations ... amazing stuff!


• Some talk amongst our folks about the online forum that is on the local newspaper's web site.  There is a "Rock Bridge" section full of criticisms and other weird, unfounded truths ... there are some pretty good responses though.  Nehemiah probably offers the best response to unfounded criticisms here. 


• Dawgs looked pretty good last night.  Big test next week against 'Bama. I'm worried about our line of scrimmage.


• Navy beat Rutgers!!


• I'm really enjoyed preaching this Hostage series.  Next week we tackle a subject that we've NEVER dealt with before.  It could get tense, it will be challenging, but it will be liberating!!


• Thinking about calling an audible with our preaching calendar and either extending Hostage to 6 weeks or doing a stand alone message on a topic I feel we need to cover.  We'll work on it with our creative/worship teams this week.


• I'm finally back to working out with regularity again ... and I just feel better all over -- emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.  Don't know why but God really speaks to me when I'm running.  Pretty cool. Beth letting me move my weight set upstairs into a room with heat & air & tv rocks :)


• I'm going to do a series of posts this week on the 4 core values that drive our church staff and the ministries we do at Rock Bridge.  We worked on these as a staff team for about 4 weeks -- good stuff!


• They laid the foundations for the new ministry center this week.  Should start going vertical soon!!


• Have a great week!