Weekly Rundown (11.22.09)

• Losing My Religion series continues to be a blessing for me to preach and I pray a means for God to open people's eyes to His love, grace, and character.
  
  
  
  • We're celebrating numerous salvations :)
  
  
  
  


• Tonight Rock Bridge Student Ministry (@ Calhoun & @ Dalton) taught about the needs of the world and the Christian's responsibility to help meet them -- praying the eyes and hearts of young people are enlarged in a mighty, Christ-exalting way!!
  
  
  
  • They took an offering to buy a family village in Kenya a cow through Possibilities Africa.  One cow can totally transform a village with jobs, hope, and openness to Gospel love!
  
  
  • They will also be sponsoring a child through World Vision!
  
  
  
  


• I'm playing sermon "catch-up" this week since I missed a week of preparation when I was out in San Diego.


• Great discussions this week about how to better communicate our mission and core values to provide better clarity regarding WHO we are as a church.  As we grow and add new people, we must reinforce who God has called us to be and remind ourselves about the Spirit-given uniqueness that exists in our church.


• Congrats to our Associate Pastor, Alfred Turley, and his wife, Heidi, who had a beautiful baby girl this past week.


• The football rundown:
  
  
  
  • Georgia is just sad and way below their potential as a team.  It is NOT great to be a Georgia Bulldog right now.
  
  
  • If you like leadership-type stuff, pay attention to how Coach Mark Richt handles this.  It will be a lesson in what to do or what not to do ... either way we can learn something from how he responds.
  
  
  
  


• Great anniversary celebration with Beth this week.  Hopefully, this time next year we'll be parents!!


• My take on the second installment of the Twilight saga: New Moon:
  
  
  
  • Special effects: much better!
  
  
  • Acting: still solid and true to the characters of the book.
  
  
  • Music/Soundtrack: horrible ... didn't match the scenes at all.
  
  
  • Felt rushed and some transitions were abrupt ... hard to compress a 500+ page book into 2 hours.
  
  
  • Still a freakishly popular cultural event.  Asking myself, "Why do sooo many people love this series? Why do I love it?"
  
  
  
  


• Short week this week thanks to Thanksgiving ... ready for some turkey!!!!!!!!