Friday is for Family . . . and Chick-fil-A!? I try to figure out on Friday’s (my day off) how to get us to Chick-fil-A for breakfast as often as possible.? I even make up excuses to be in town to have some chicken goodness.? These dudes have a new Chick-fil-A tribute video that is awesome!? Rivals the greatness of the Tim Hawkins parody! Enjoy!
Earlier today, I tweeted “ Is it just me, or do you have “Tin Cup” flashbacks when watching The Masters and they talk about Rory McIlroy and you think Roy McAvoy?” Really made me chuckle and remember The Colonial at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth while I was in seminary.? My buddy Rick Murray and I went to the tournament one day and I recall D.A. Weibring pulling a “Roy McAvoy” and hitting a ball right into the drink.? He had gotten himself in jail (which is easy to do at Colonial for sure) by hitting his drive close to some overhanging trees.? His first approach shot clipped a branch and landed in the pond.? He didn’t even look at his caddy.? He stared straight ahead at the ripples in the water and snapped his fingers for another ball.? After receiving the ball his didn’t even move at all…he just turned his hand over to drop the ball.? Awesome!!? He then hit his second ball within like 5 feet.? Unbelievable.
It was really something to see him be so laid back and roll with the punches.? No overreaction, not tantrum, no clubs thrown, no curse words.? We would all do well to take a play out of D.A.’s playbook.
How about you?? Any good stories of when you saw someone cool under discouragement or failure?
Ran across this blog of a guy writing as Steve Jobs. ?Pretty funny stuff. ?However, there is some pretty sad stuff in there…like the idea that there is something “spiritual” about owning an iPad…
But let?s get back to you people who are waiting in line. I mean it?s not like you?re in Bolivia and there?s just been an earthquake and you need to line up to get food and clean water. It?s not like you?ve time-traveled back into the Depression and you?re waiting in line at a soup kitchen. And yet, in fact, that?s exactly what you?re doing. Spiritually speaking, we are living in the Great Depression, and you are waiting in line for sustenance.?. . .
The truth is, this is all about spiritual emptiness. That is why you?re standing in line. . . .
The truth is, all over the world, across every culture, there exists a sense of yearning. A kind of malaise. An emptiness. At the risk of sounding like Dr. Seuss: There is a hole in your soul. That is what we?re addressing at Apple. That is the hole we aim to fill. Sadly, as you may have begun to suspect, that hole can never really be filled. The truth is that modernity, the condition of living in our modern world, has inflicted terrible wounds on your inner self. These wounds can never be healed. They can only be treated. At best we provide palliative care. Not a cure. Because, my dear fellow human beings, there is no cure for what ails you. The products we create provide only temporary relief. Their magic eventually wears off. The sense of childlike wonder they impart will, over time, begin to fade. And then you need a new product.
Convicting as a believer, isn’t it? ?What might it be like if we tried to fill that hole with something much more meaningful than a piece of technology?
Then there is the final line that I have to keep thinking to myself to not rush out and buy the iPad with Professional Expense account monies. . .
Hold your iPad. Gaze at it. Pray to it. Let it transform you. And do it soon, because before you know it we are going to release version 2, which will make this one look like a total piece of crap.
So true. ?So very true.
Check out the entire “open letter to the people of the world here.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : An open letter to the people of the world.
All I can say is “wow!”? What a great Easter Sunday to follow up an extremely crazy week!? God, you are truly amazing to us and we are so thankful!? Just a few things before I head to bed on this Resurrection Sunday…
Have a great week!? Live this week in the power of the resurrection!? He is Risen!? He is Alive!? He lives in our hearts!
Great quote from this article…
I am glad [the health care bill passed] not because I am a Democrat or a Republican but because I think that Jesus, who seemed to take great interest in health issues, is glad. Looking back on his life among people like us, he often acted as a healer. He seemed to delight in curing diseases, restoring disabled people to wholeness, and rewiring damaged minds. You cannot divorce these encounters from the rest of his public ministry. Health-care was in his frame of reference.
Check it out.
What do you think?
Jesus and the Health Care Bill | Out of Ur | Conversations for Ministry Leaders.
For some reason or another, I have not always been a huge Edmonds fan.? Maybe it is those times when the game was on the line and he swung on ball four? There were probably more times when he made amazing, game-winning plays, but I would always go back to those that weren’t game winners.? Isn’t it funny how we always seem to gravitate to the negative in all situations?
Came across this article the other day about the fact that Edmonds may not even take a contract with the Milwaukee Brewers if it is offered to him because he wants to be around his family.? He didn’t play last summer and was around his family the entire time, which hasn’t happened ever in his lifetime.
“You just get comfortable in a certain life and it’s like just how you get comfortable playing baseball for so long,” Edmonds said. “You think that’s all you have and then you get home and realize there’s more to life. The family, having kids and how much they actually enjoy you being home.
“I got to take the kids to school and be there for my daughter’s 16th birthday. It’s just a different thing.
“Now I wake up some mornings and doubt myself for making this decision.”
Alright, maybe I am beginning to be a huge Edmonds fan.
What do you think?? Why do we often take for granted the great things in our lives?
Great, simple post from Seth Godin. ?I had to include it in it’s entirety it is so good!…
I’m mad at everyone
No, not you. Not anyone in particular, actually.
I’m angry at the idea of ‘everyone’ and what they want and what they say.
Everyone says you should do your site and your online presence a certain way.
Everyone is upset at what you did.
Everyone is frustrated at the slow pace government is getting this done.
Everyone knows you should listen to your customers and do what they say.
Everyone knows that our school is wasting money.
Everyone says you need to go to a ‘good’ college.
You get the idea.?That everyone.
The one that’s almost always wrong.
Saw this video this morning…goes along really well with what we talked about on Sunday at church. ?We need to reach out to those in the community and what better way than helping shape a child’s life. ?Pray about contacting our Children’s Ministry Team and volunteering in KidCity this Spring!
Waumba Land Stories from buckheadchurch on Vimeo.
It?s not babysitting. It?s shaping stories. ? The Official Buckhead Church Blog.
You need to check out these clips from sermons by Ed Stetzer. ?He is a missiologist that works for Lifeway. ?Came through on my RSS reader yesterday and I thought I would share. ?Make sure you watch both segments…they are both great! ?Painful though. ?Good preaching often does that, doesn’t it…sometimes the truth of God hurts!
He starts off with an amazing rant about people with a lack of the idea that they need to be on mission for Jesus…
If we [church leaders] disciple people through knowledge without action we’re training people to be puffed up gnostics.. . .Listen, I’m worn out–I am sick of?knowledgeable,?religious people not living on mission and then criticizing those who are. . . . I just think that what we need to have happen is that this knowledge-based needs to lead to an action life and they need to get off their “Blessed Assurance” and do something for Jesus!
and ends the first segment with this gem…
“The greatest sin in most churches is that we [pastors] have made it o.k. to sit there week after week and do nothing and call yourself a follower of Jesus.”
He does a little Ross Perot imitation and says this afterward in the second segment…good stuff…
The reality is, I don’t care if you have 5 purposes, if you rename yourself ‘missional,’ if you move into a house, or you ’emerge’ into something else! I care that you have a Biblically driven church that is challenging people to be changed by the Gospel and then in doing so, they follow Jesus on His mission in the world! ?I care less about the label and more about the lifestyle. Maybe we need to fight a little less about that and focus more on the calling that we have.
The?irreducible minimum…
Disciples see what Jesus in doing and they join Him in doing it. ?Is your church leading your people to join Jesus in His mission?…[Pastors] Go home and say “what am I going to say differently about my message so they’ll join Jesus on His mission.”
This message sure does go along with the message that I am preaching tomorrow @FPCarthage in our Outflow series. ?We are going to be talking about the idea that Christ wants us to reach out to those people in our community.
In honor of March Madness with some really cool history thrown in for good measure…
This Day in Sports: Texas Westerns Starting Five Makes a Whole Lot of History – SportsCenter.com.