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August 19, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Wow Michael Phelps was amazing in the Olympics!
  • Did you see the finish to his 7th gold medal?  I was using the DVR to go through frame by frame to see the finish…incredible!
  • I’ll be glad when the Olympics are over though so I can get to bed earlier.
  • I received my new personal credit card because the expiration date was about to expire.
  • I was cutting up the old one, when I noticed that I was cutting up my church card instead.
  • Yet further proof that I am an idiot.
  • Sunday at 9:15 I said that Eisenhower had approved the Interstate Highway System in 1965.
  • Afterwards I was told that couldn’t possibly be right that it had to be…in the 1950’s.
  • Went back and checked my notes…”65″ was what I had written, but this guy was old enough to know so I changed it to 1955 in the second Experience.
  • Went home and checked the book I had used as my original source and it said 1965…but yet I knew that was wrong.
  • In doing more research, I discovered it was actually 1956…the book had transposed the last two numbers and an editor never caught the mistake.
  • History not having been one of my stronger subjects in school…I didn’t pick up on it and trusted that a hugely popular book would have no errors.
  • Uhhh, guess I was wrong…so now I have yet one more thing to do each week as I study…make sure editors did there job correctly…aye-curumba.
  • Speaking of the message…I’ll never figure you guys out. 
  • This week’s message has already been downloaded and/or listened to online more times than last week’s.
  • You’d think that dealing with anger would have been more popular than loneliness….but again what do I know.
  • I was really proud of my former boss Rick Warren this weekend!
  • The way he handled the Saddleback Civil Forum with John McCain and Barak Obama was awesome!
  • I was so refreshing to hear each of the candidates talk as real people, not their canned stump speeches.
  • I love that Rick asked some tough questions, like which Supreme Court Justice would you not have nominated?
  • Best line of the night goes to Barak Obama.  When asked by Rick what constitutes rich, Barak said, “Well if your book has sold 25 million copies…”
  • What’s amazing about Rick though is he has given most of the money away. 
  • In addition to 5 non-profit organizations that he has helped to launch, he tithes 90% of his income and he has stopped taking a salary from the church.
  • Oh yeah, he also paid back 25 years worth of salary.
  • I miss getting to spend time with him.  🙁
  • But if I was still there…I wouldn’t be here…and I love you guys and the privilege of being your pastor!
  • God is definitely doing something awesome in our midst and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
  • Another big announcement coming soon!
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