Not sure why I found this so funny, but as I came into the office this morning a softball game was about to begin…or at least it was supposed to.  Pretty hard to play when you can’t see.

• No…I’m not dead from the killer candy bar…but it was touch and go there for awhile.
• I’m pretty pumped up about this weekend…I think God is going to change many lives for the better.
• Last night’s practice was a lot of fun…we were all in a sort of goofy mood afterwards during our normal prayer time….it’s nice serving together and making a difference for Jesus with people you genuinely enjoy being around.
• Today is my day off so I’ve been just relaxing, doing some reading and playing Wii.  I bowled a 279 earlier.  I had strikes in the first 7 frames…in the 8th I left one pin standing on my first ball and then picked up the spare on the second.  After that I struck out the rest of the way. 
• Tonight is the coffeehouse…come on out and listen to the bands and grab a drink in our cafe’ from Susan of Heavenly Grounds.

• To file under the “Further Proof Gilbert is an Idiot File.”  I had a sweet tooth earlier so Lisa gave me a “healthy” chocolate candy bar…it was huge and oh so good.  Since it’s “healthy” I I kept eating and eating and eating…my stomach hurts.
• I’m also still reeling from the Caps losing a Game 7 overtime thriller last night.
• Seriously I hope I don’t puke…my stomach really hurts.
• Speaking of things that make you sick to your stomach.  Someone has twice now in the past month stolen CAYA’s food and drinks from out of the refrigerator at church.  It is clearly marked as CAYA’s stuff but yet someone persists in doing this.  If it’s you and your reading this, please realize that you’re hurting a ministry and that in effect you are stealing from God.  Really I could care less about the food/drinks, but I do care about your soul…please stop sinning against God and His church in this way and do the right thing.
• Not only has this week’s message been getting a lot of hits on the web-site, but I’ve been excited to see that literally dozens of you have downloaded last years Mind Your Own Businessseries like I suggested.  Way to go…now put the principles into action and watch as God leads you to financial margin and to a place where you can be radically generous to those in need.
• We discussed this past week’s message last night in small group and we all agreed that one of the big problems in our country is we have too many choices.  We have so much stuff, but yet because of the fact there’s all this other stuff we don’t have, were never content, which leads to buying more and more, which leads to a life without margin and full of stress.
• Dan reminded us of this verse.
• Hey have you noticed that new feature on the site?  I looked up that verse by using the “Bible Search” link that’s now available on the left side of your screen.
• In this case, I knew the word contentment was in the verse, so I typed that into the Bible Search box and boom it spit back to me the different verses that I was looking for.
• Hope this new feature on the site helps you get more into God’s Word than ever before.
• Speaking of…tonight is our Wednesday night classes.  I know for me, participating in the Men’s group…especially my small group…is a highlight of my week.  If you haven’t tried out a class on Wednesday yet, give it a try.
• My stomach is starting to feel a little better…remind me never to do that again.

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• Another great Experience!
• The process of getting there…uhhh not so much.
• The morning started out ok except for the terrible weather which as I thought ended up keeping a lot of people home.
• During set-up it took me 3 times to get the computer booted up that runs the lighting software.  Then later I noticed the computer had died…and by died, I mean it died and so we had to go to a back-up.
• Then during practice this morning our digital drum set died.  Luckily Dr. Andy as you can see in the picture above was able to operate. 
• Basically Andy tore the entire component apart, did some soldering, and reassembled it all in the low low time of 28 minutes.
• I’m so thankful for Andy’s knowledge and for the fact we thought enough to add a little work area in the AV closet.
• The bad part was he never finished up until about 15 minutes before we were to start…uh yeah I was getting nervous.
• Once we got started though, I thought the band had one of their best sets ever.
• Great energy from them and the crowd.
• Jan Krull ran lights today for the first time and did a great job.
• Someone (I guess that would be me) forgot to turn the Air Conditioner on so wow was it hot.
• I thought the message went fine…I was really unsure whether to share the story at the end or not, but I had quite a few people afterwards tell me that they were glad I did and that it was a real wake up call to them to get their financial priorities straight.
• I really did think I had left my mic on during the announcement video and thought, “Oh no everyone just heard me gulping water.”  It made me think of the scene from the Naked Gun where Lindsay Nielsen forgets to take his mic off before going to the bathroom.
• I wasn’t kidding about how when I mentioned next week’s message would be about sex eveyrone’s heads popped up and looked at me….hilarious.
• Seriously though, next week’s message on sexaul temptation and getting margin in your morality is something so many people need to hear…do whatever you can to get people there with you.
• I’m not sure what created our technical problem with the mic at the end…ahhhh I hate things like that.
• Oh well considering how much worse things could have been with all of our equipment dying earlier in the morning, I guess I’ll take it.
• Funniest line of the week came from a 7 year old who told her mom after last week’s Experience…”Mom I just don’t have any financial margin at all.”
• Funniest story of the week was about one of our members who was in a department store the other day and really tempted to buy a treadmill.  She shared though that every where she turned there I was saying no…I was on the TV screens saying it…my face morphed onto other people’s heads, etc. 
• Ok nap time…my big ole meal from Red Robin is starting to kick in.