Marry and Bury
Date 4.2.08A lot of people ask me what’s going on and I don’t always have the time honestly to stop and enjoy a cup of coffee and conversation even though I want to. I have found that blogging really helps me to connect with a lot more folks and I really enjoy it too! So here’s what’s going on…
I bought a new (marrying and burying) suit last week. Some of the things that Pastors are known for doing is weddings and funerals. That is something that I have been doing a lot more of lately. This Saturday I have one more wedding for a former student and then I can breathe. Sometimes in the ministry like anything else things happen in seasons. We are also in a season of growth. We introduced a third service on the 16th and had five services for Easter on the 23rd. I love it! This is what we moved to Elsinore to do! The Ride Of Your Life is the name of our building campaign and we are living it everyday! More to come on that by the way real soon. Tune in next week!
Last week we launched a brand new 6 week series called Fearless. I said on Sunday that Fear is the enemies Faith. We discussed the Fear of Rejection and my inbox was full of positive response from folks who are being lied to by the enemy. Let’s not let him win! This week we will address the Fear of Failure. Challenge yourself to come over the next several weeks I am confident that your life will be better because you did!
That’s what’s going on. I mean there’s more but I don’t want to bore you with my toe fungus and oh we register Caeden for kindergarten tomorrow. I will cry the whole way… I beg him every day not to grow up! He promises that he will still love me and kiss me when he is a teenager but I have seen some of your teenagers and here comes FEAR (I’m in the fetile position now)! That should be a topic in our study, Fear of teenagers. Sorry. See what happens when I get off the chain.
God Bless all 3 of you that read this (lol) and I hope to see you at a Sunday morning at tides soon!
Comments
Thanks for the blessing!
You did a great job yesterday!
Enjoy and cherish all of the blesssings that come with children. They are the diamonds in your memory jewelry box. My son is 29 and he just won’t kiss me goodbye anymore (it might look a little funny anyway). He might do it for a round of golf on dad though.
I am looking forward to more of the Fearless series.
Let us only fear what life would be like absent from God
Thanks for the new series. Sunday’s message was great. As for registering Caeden…enjoy the memory, they go by way too fast! On Bailey’s 5th birthday, I was putting her in her carseat and said, “I can’t believe that you are 5.” She put her hand on my cheek, looked into my eyes and said, “Mommy, no matter how old I get, I’ll always be your little girl.” And she is! My fifteen year old, confident young lady, remains my little girl. Caeden will always be your little buddy! Enjoy every moment of his life, cause it passes in the blink of an eye. Have a great week!
Hey look, now there’s 4, but this is the first time I’ve ever read your blog or any blog for that matter I think… Anyway, I just had to comment that Bradley came to me last week literally crying that he doesn’t ever want to be a teenager because he hears that “they are bad and do mean things”! The last thing he cried about was death due to hearing about it’s inevitability from one of his friends (who will go anonomys for now)…after reading your blog I wonder if this new topic of trama could be brought on by this same friend…
Hey Brian,
As for being busy and wanting to find time for everyone…I know EXACTLY what you mean. When Gabs went to preschool I was quite shloopy. Now that she’s going to be in Junior high, I’m finding some of those same feelings starting to manifest themselves again. It’s a good thing we’re going through this fear series right now. I think without it, I’d be back to that blubbering parent again!
Just wait until he starts the High School registration process! I only have 4 more years before Austin goes off to college!!! There is still so much to teach him. It was only yesterday that I was registering him in Kindergarden.
The day that I am registering Nathin for Kindergarden is the day that I am not ready for …. he is supposed to be the baby of the family forever!
Yes, be very afraid of teenagers!!! :oP hehe not really, it’s all good!
I want to thank you for the sermon you gave on the fear of failure (if I can catch you in person this morning I’ll tell you at church). I’ve been wanting to start taking karate lessons for a very long time now but have been afraid to do so because I just knew it would end in failure. Well, I feel that you (and God speaking through you of course) were telling me to get over my fears and get started! So I did. So far I’m loving it too.
Thanks!