Tasking vs Coaching

I think I could do ministry with this guy. Good stuff.

Star Wars ....

This is pretty fun.

The Same Only Different, or is it Different Only the Same??

We talked with Emily last night. I should say we tried to talk to Emily. She cried the whole time. She is still hitting us up to come home. You know, most of the time that you talk to a family member that hasn't been around for a while(1 months and 3-4 days), you're sympathetic. But this was the same over the top stuff we were dealing with before she left. Instead of sad, we were frustrated. Mainly because she had a good week last week, and an excellent weekend. Her house got to go out to a movie, because they had behaved so well.

The ups and downs of being a teen still happen.

And I lied somewhat. We are frustrated, but we are sad too.

GOSH, I WISH I'D INVENTED THIS

MADE UP FOR LOSS TIME

Judy and I went to Summit yesterday morning. We had missed last week, due to....the blues, I guess. We attended "Bedside Baptist" as one of our friends like to call it. It was one of the best services we attended since we started going there. The preaching has been really good, but the worship has been so-so. My standards are high for worship, since my exposure to Tedder, Row and GE. But yesterday they really just let in out. I don't know who the dude is, but they had a guy playing lead that was just fantastic. But mainly it was the whole team. Awesome.

Last night I went to the Vintage NXT. Met Jeff Kinley for the 1st time. Totally different from my Sunday morning. There 350-400 people Sunday morning, there were 20, maybe, at V-NXT. Very loose, not structured, and the feel was definitely different. The Hillcrest Effect. Anyway, I enjoyed it. The worship was...alright. Jeff's preaching was good, mainly seeker focus. The thing I felt and liked was the sense that these people were there to do community. It was real relational, like we don't necessarily start on time, or we may stop in the middle of the service and talk about something totally different, and you definitely couldn't determine what classification of church is was by the "congregation", since all the attendees were all different kinds of folk. Interesting.

I'll meet Jeff Thursday for coffee. I look forward to picking his brain a bit.

Derek...Who's the Blond?

What I Want for Christmas

Just in case you're doing your shopping early, this will do.

Nutt Unbridles the Mustain

This shows up on the web tonite.

Hooray for Houston Nutt! Maybe be got this right. Starting Mustain vs. USC might have dampen the young man's confidence if he couldn't move the ball effectively. But coming into the game late, and driving 80 yards for a touchdown against a top 10 team will definitly boast his confidence to take on a beleaguer Utah State team.

That won't keep Jones from fumbling or keep Monk and others to drop/miss balls. But if he makes something happen, it tightens the focus of the others on the team. We'll see.

At least this should keep butts in the seats for a while.

USC 50, UA 14

Man oh man. Started out looking good. Then some somebody slipped the "buttered" ball in. As the turnovers started stacking up, the offense began to look like last years team, less like what we expected from Malzahn. What does that mean? Houston hasn't let go yet. So what happened next? The defense basically played the majority of the first half. And USC did wear them down.

Moral of the story: Practice hard, play harder.