June 2007
Monthly Archive
We’ll be starting a new series in Middle School for the summer called expectations. We’re going to explore how our expectations shape us and what happens when they are met or not.
Some specific ones we’ll look at…
- Respect expectations of the ministry
- Expectations of other Christians
- Expectations of God
- God’s expectations for us
- Expectations of the church
My pondering and where I need some insight is in the last one. Our expectations of the church… what are our correct and incorrect expectations of a church? Is it right to expect free coffee and programs? Should I be disappointed if a child is crying in the service? Should I just expect that my children will be cared for without my being involved? Should every pastor know me personally and have me over for dinner? If a church has lots of cash should I expect a certain level of programming and entitlement?
Any thoughts you have?
I am now the proud owner of the most average car you can imagine.
It’s an extremely normal 99 Camry with a highly fiscally responsible 4 cylinder engine. It’s a calming and utterly non-flashy dull silver. No bells or whistles except for the perfectly bland monotone tan interior. You know it’s a great car when the best word you can come up with to describe it is “reasonable.”
But, it runs great and I got it at an unbelievable price because a Ford used car manager goes to Grace and he helped me out a ton.
So, now that I don’t have a cool car anymore I’ll have to rely on my fashion sense and internet savvy to stay hip.
So I broke my jeep a few weeks ago. I got to bid it farewell yesterday as I took my nice radio and speakers out before it got squashed for scrap metal.
Thought I would post my thoughts on the matter from a few days after it happened…
Yeah, it’s kinda sad to look at the pictures, though I was thinking about it all last night and not only I am so grateful everyone is OK, I realized I have been teaching quite a bit in JH about “stuff” and possessions and that it is going to be a good process for me to not hold on so tightly to things like my jeep. This is forcing me to practice what I preach about faith, trust and stuff!
So, yep, God is good! In protecting us that day and in giving me a fresh wake up call to how good he is.
That, and when I go home at the end of the day and Vinnie is happy and excited to see me, I don’t care about cars one bit!”
Blogging is one of those things I keep saying I need to do, but don’t. Maybe I’m too busy or my desire to make it totally awesome hold me back.
So, I’m just gonna start and see what happens
