odd sunday...

Can I just be honest and say I'm kind of glad it's nearly over?
so tired...
:)

Yesterday, we had our first "extended" elder meeting. Making it two years without having an 8 hour elder meeting is an accomplishment. Making it through our first 8 hour elder meeting? Bigger accomplishment :)
Actually, it was kind of cool. We were all toast at the end, but our elder team works like evergreen in general (and that I love that). I'm not exactly sure how, but we get where we need to get. No votes, just talking, discussion, concensus... friends.

But, I still got home at 10:30pm.

Scratch that. With the time change, it was 11:30pm. In bed at 12. Up at 5:15am.

ugh.

Today was odd... not very interactive (my fault), kind of tough (Jesus' fault). We're at the end of a number of chapters in Luke where Jesus

lays the smack down

on the pharisees, the religious people and the religious system around Him, and leading into Good Friday... if our people don't get why they killed Him after the last few weeks, well...
Today, we started with the widow putting her pennies in the Temple treasury (not about tithing, so please don't preach it that way), moved through Luke 21 to the destruction of Jerusalem, and ultimately to the end of everything and the second coming of Jesus.
It was a hard passage to teach, a hard passage to make interactive. Scratch that. It was a hard passage, but I didn't try hard enough to make it interactive. If I were to be perfectly honest, I'm looking forward to finishing Luke. The thing about the Gospels is the way the same themes run through every story, every chapter, every line... After spending this long in it, and refusing the impulse to get topical with the Gospel (the story about Jesus calming the sea? NOT about Jesus calming the storms of your life. Jesus feeding the five thousand? NOT about God multiplying the little you give Him, etc.) I'm feeling kind of... in a rut. Saying much the same thing every week...

All this to say, I'm just looking forward to switching gears, hitting some different concepts, singing some different songs...
Preaching some SHORTER passages (and all the people said Amen!)

And I feel like I did crappy today. Just so you know. :)

Comments

[Mark]

I have had those kind of sundays. I feel ya brother.

[Aaron]

We thought it was good bro. Thanks for taking the time to connect with us today. Good to find a like-minded church while in Portland.

Blessings!

[FEATHERHEAD]

If the holy spirit was in it, I am sure that someone was blessed by your words...or rather,the Lord's words, through you.So, render the calves of your lips...ahem, praise the Lord,and get some sleep,and tomorrow will be better. God loves you,and so do I!

[FEATHERHEAD]

Oh, and don't forget,Jesus himself said, No man takes my life from me, I lay it down freely! I have the power to lay it down,and I have the power to pick it back up again!

[Rich]

I was the speacher at our church today. If it makes you feel any better. I thought I did crappy too...

[david]

my wife did that passage with four year-olds yesterday. she thought it went crappy too...

must be the passage :)

[jane]

Mama hugs from Nowhere, Kansas. Please get some rest, OK? Tell Jack to behave, Nana & Pop-Pop are on our way.

[jane]

Mama hugs from Nowhere, Kansas. Please get some rest, OK? Tell Jack to behave, Nana & Pop-Pop are on our way.