What’s on my mind right now (11-10-08)

1) FOSM was awesome yesterday. Zach and Jarrod, both new at leading worship, led for the first time. God is up to something with these guys. I almost got saved again.

2) Yesterday at FOSM our attendance was down a little from the week before. At the same time, there were over 50,000 people within 5 miles of us that were not in church anywhere. We have a lot of work to do FOSM! Who can you invite to church next Sunday? On a similar note, we need to do something risky and half-crazy to reach more people.

3) I spoke yesterday about “The Kind of Worship God Likes.” I was excited to bring this message. I got to share lots of cool insights that God gave me. It was based on Ezra 3 and inspired by a talk that Steven Furtick gave on “rebuilding an altar of worship.”

4) My favorite point yesterday was talking about how some of us serve a little bitty God that we can keep in our pocket. It felt like God was all over that.

5) God wants to do something huge in my life and at FOSM.

6) My brain and mouth didn’t want to work together yesterday when I first got started. Do you ever feel like that?

7) PhatAttack, my fantasy football team, seems to want to stay around a .500 average. Why? I have a sucky defense, tight end, and kicker. I am also a little weak in the WR area. Oh yeah, my quarterbacks suck too. Other than that, I can’t figure out why we aren’t winning more.

Eight) College football is awesome! My aggies got spanked. Doh! Alabama and Texas won. Texas Tech spanked OSU. It doesn’t get much better than this.

9) Cowboys and the Redskins play this coming Sunday. Best game of the year? I think it might be. What are your thoughts on the game?

10) If you are not scared about failing at something you are attempting for God, then maybe you are not going for a big enough goal. Thanks @bburgi for making me think about that today.

Gee, I didn’t vote for Obama, now what?

This was an email from Mitch Kolenovsky, a pastor in my area. I thought you should read it:

Tonight, Americans have spoken. Though the nation remains deeply divided in the political arena, we who are a part of the family of Jehovah God must be leaders in the quest for revival in our land. As Christians we must be people of peace and prayer. Whether you voted for Senator McCain, Senator Obama, someone else, or did not vote at all, you are instructed in God’s word to respect leadership and to pray for them. I recall a time in the life of Samuel when he was unhappy with the direction of his nation, and yet his heart cry was

“As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you.”

This should be our pledge to President-elect Obama, our Congressmen, and our nation. Please join me in making this pledge.

May God bless you and may He spare our nation from judgment as we join our hearts together in humility, prayer, and repentance as we seek His perfect will.

“Lord, I have heard of your fame;
I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord,
Renew them in our day,
In our time make them known.”
(Habakkuk 3:2 NIV)