The last couple of days has been great. I have been able to do some of the things that make me glad I am in the ministry.
I got to talk to a guy on the phone about the bible. I got to visit with a guy who I have been discipling for a several years. He is doing well. We got to help a widow who needed some home repair. We got to help a family that needed to re-locate. We got to help a family with gifts for Christmas. We got to help the Salvation Army by ringing the bell.
I love what I do.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Un Electable
I am watching Glen Beck's Un-Electable dvd. This guy is so funny. He is totally non pc, but I love him. He is not all there, like my self.
He is going to be in Tyler in a couple of weeks. I am going to go and see him.
He is going to be in Tyler in a couple of weeks. I am going to go and see him.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
A Call To Action
I just found this article in the Dallas Paper. Ed Young Jr, who pastors in the DFW Area has called on his married folks to get busy for 7 days strait. I don't think I have ever heard a minister tell his folks to "do it till your satisfied." But why not? Why not tell your married folks to get busy like a school boy making an A?
We here lots and lots about the wrong way, wrong time, wrong partner, wrong number, wrong everything else. I say kudos's to Ed Young!!
Copy of Article here:
Dallas-area pastor issues sex challenge
12:00 AM CST on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News rappleton@dallasnews.com
God may have rested on the seventh day, but the Rev. Ed Young wants married couples to have sex all week long.
Once a day. Beginning this Sunday.
The call to action will headline Mr. Young's Sunday sermon at Grapevine-based Fellowship Church. He plans to deliver his challenge while sitting on a bed.
"I won't be dressed in pajamas," the pastor says.
In these days of financial crisis, rampant divorce and debates over same-sex marriage, it's time, he says, to turn the "whining" into "whoopee."
More fundamentally, he adds, the embracing of sex is about nurturing and strengthening marriages.
"Sex is like Super Glue. It's a spiritual thing, an emotional thing," he says.
And the marriage thing, he believes, should only involve a man and woman. God's way, he says.
Jim Dale of Coppell said he figures the pastor is trying to create more buzz for his five-church mega-ministry.
"Draw 'em in, no matter what or how," wrote the Coppell resident in a posting on dallasnews.com. "Sex? You betcha. That'll pack the pews (or theater seats)."
Mr. Dale, author of a book about individual relationships with God, said he has attended Fellowship Church a few times. And he offered some praise: "I've got to hand it to them, they are brilliant marketers."
Mr. Young says his challenge – the latest in a sermon series called "Leaving Lust Vegas" – isn't about filling seats. "We've got more people than we can say grace over," he says of his 20,000-worshipper Baptist ministry that video streams services from Grapevine to churches in downtown Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Miami.
Marketing is indeed at play, the pastor says. "It gets people thinking on a deeper level about sex. I want people talking about it," he says.
But doing it?
"God says sex should be between a married man and a woman. And do it," he says.
Whatever the motivation, the pastor's rousing words aren't unprecedented. A Florida church earlier this year issued a 30-day sex challenge.
Mr. Young said his words may well resonate more with the young and healthy. And at 47 years old, he plans to practice what he's preaching.
"We're going to give it a try," he says, speaking for Lisa, his wife of 26 years and mother of their four children.
As for others, "I can't make them do it," the pastor says.
But he's hopeful. "I think people are going to have a happy Thanksgiving!"
We here lots and lots about the wrong way, wrong time, wrong partner, wrong number, wrong everything else. I say kudos's to Ed Young!!
Copy of Article here:
Dallas-area pastor issues sex challenge
12:00 AM CST on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News rappleton@dallasnews.com
God may have rested on the seventh day, but the Rev. Ed Young wants married couples to have sex all week long.
Once a day. Beginning this Sunday.
The call to action will headline Mr. Young's Sunday sermon at Grapevine-based Fellowship Church. He plans to deliver his challenge while sitting on a bed.
"I won't be dressed in pajamas," the pastor says.
In these days of financial crisis, rampant divorce and debates over same-sex marriage, it's time, he says, to turn the "whining" into "whoopee."
More fundamentally, he adds, the embracing of sex is about nurturing and strengthening marriages.
"Sex is like Super Glue. It's a spiritual thing, an emotional thing," he says.
And the marriage thing, he believes, should only involve a man and woman. God's way, he says.
Jim Dale of Coppell said he figures the pastor is trying to create more buzz for his five-church mega-ministry.
"Draw 'em in, no matter what or how," wrote the Coppell resident in a posting on dallasnews.com. "Sex? You betcha. That'll pack the pews (or theater seats)."
Mr. Dale, author of a book about individual relationships with God, said he has attended Fellowship Church a few times. And he offered some praise: "I've got to hand it to them, they are brilliant marketers."
Mr. Young says his challenge – the latest in a sermon series called "Leaving Lust Vegas" – isn't about filling seats. "We've got more people than we can say grace over," he says of his 20,000-worshipper Baptist ministry that video streams services from Grapevine to churches in downtown Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Miami.
Marketing is indeed at play, the pastor says. "It gets people thinking on a deeper level about sex. I want people talking about it," he says.
But doing it?
"God says sex should be between a married man and a woman. And do it," he says.
Whatever the motivation, the pastor's rousing words aren't unprecedented. A Florida church earlier this year issued a 30-day sex challenge.
Mr. Young said his words may well resonate more with the young and healthy. And at 47 years old, he plans to practice what he's preaching.
"We're going to give it a try," he says, speaking for Lisa, his wife of 26 years and mother of their four children.
As for others, "I can't make them do it," the pastor says.
But he's hopeful. "I think people are going to have a happy Thanksgiving!"
Monday, November 10, 2008
Sinus Crap Day 2
I have the man cold. I went to the Dr today, and it appears to be a fatal case of of it. I hurt, ache, drip, wheeze and all kinds of other funny anomaly's that should not be here on my otherwise healthy self.
I have a good wife. I don't know what I am going to do when she goes to work in the morning. I guess I will lay here in the silence and suffer. But I know she will come home.
I have a good wife. I don't know what I am going to do when she goes to work in the morning. I guess I will lay here in the silence and suffer. But I know she will come home.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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