- Have I mentioned how much I hate snow.
- Decided to work from home today to avoid having to go out in it.
- I’m getting tons done though so that makes me happy!
- One of the things we have to be consciously aware of as the church keeps getting larger and larger is to make sure people have an opportunity to get connected into relationships with one another. So we…
- Just added the Get Connected event to the calendar so you can start signing-up.
- This event will be a lot of fun, you’ll meet new people and we’ll offer you opportunities to keep the relationships going beyond just that one night.
- Seriously last weekend had to be the worst weekend of sporting events in history.
- The only thing to look forward to was Maryland playing Duke (but my Terps got crushed) and the NHL All-Star game…except…
- …Ooops the NHL was only airing the game on the Versus network. Honestly do any of you actually get that channel?
- I have with Dish Network what’s called the America’s top 300 package and I don’t get it.
- Come on NHL that ought to tell you something.
- Oh well at least LOST started up again last week!
- I’m eating my lunch right now and Lisa bought imitation Dip-N-Dots from the store.
- Oooo yuk…just goes to show you that imiations never stack up to the real thing.
- That’s why it saddens me when people follow the things of the devil instead of the things of God.
- Don’t know all the reasons why, but the last two weeks I have lost a desire to blog.
- Doesn’t mean I’m going to stop but I need to get motivated again.
- Wow read today that a woman in CA gave birth to octuplets (8 babies) last night.
- I’m really enjoying what’s happening in our church right now!
- Yeah we are experiencing some growing pains, but I’d much rather that then be worrying about why were not growing.
- Thanks to all of you for your patience as we continue to figure out how to make a bigger and bigger impact on the community yet at the same time make sure no one gets lost in the mix.
- You all rock!
Inside Today’s Experience
Inside Today’s Experiences
- Think this is the latest I’ve posted one of these but I’m just now getting home at 10:10PM.
- Another great day….set another attendance record at 9:15 and overall the numbers were great.
- The most important number though is 9…that’s the number of people who today prayed to ask Jesus to forgive them of their sins and to take control of their lives!
- Man that never, ever gets old.
- Wow I was all kinds of full of myself today…especially during the announcement times…even I was wondering if I was ever going to shut up.
- Anytime though you can slip a Wizard of Oz reference and the phrase “lighting a fire under your butt” into the annoucnements…you know it was an interesting morning.
- Said both of those things at the 9:15…yet another reason to attend then…you never know what will come out of my mouth before I’ve fully woken up.
- Even Andy’s son Dylan (9 years old) was on me…he said, “Man Gilbert you went really long today…we were just waiting out in the hallway for you to finish”.
- Truthfully the new song we did today I wasn’t 100% sure of even after Thursday night’s practice. But as usual the team pulled it off great and I really got into it.
- Yes, I do realize that the above means that I had to “Embrace Uncertainty“.
- Funniest moment of the day occured when Andy’s daughter Hannah wanted to take both of her baby dolls to Sunday School, but Andy said no you can only take one. She was about to get upset about it when he explained that we needed her in order to help run sound for the day. So we dressed her up with full size head phones and put a mic in front of her. Thus the picture above.
- Aaron at lunch today asked me to say something nice about him in today’s blog…ummm…thinking…”Great comeback on me at the 10:45 about not wanting to worship&q
Other Weekend Thoughts
- Friday for the first time in a long time, I truly felt like it was a day off…wow that was refreshing.
- The only thing I did that was even close to being ministry related was go out to breakfast with a pastor friend of mine.
- Saturday too was pretty laid back…other than putting the finishing touches on the weekend’s message.
- Speaking of, I’m not sure I’ve ever had so many comments on a message…for whatever reason that one really hit home with a lot of people.
- I’m really excited about what God is doing in people’s lives right now and I believe that even better things are yet to come!
- God is personally stretching me right now as well which is really cool!
- Last night we went with Andy and Gayle to the Hershey Bears hockey game.
- The game was great for 4 reasons…
- We were in a suite so how can you beat leather seats, a TV to check out the football games and of course free catered food!
- We got to see an AHL record be broken when Alexander Giroux scored a goal in his 15th consecutive game. Any time your at a game and they have to stop it to do a special presentation, you know you just saw something pretty significant in the sporting world.
- Hershey won after being down 2-0.
- Can you say…Dippin’ Dots.
- Last night I finally got tagged on Facebook to do the 25 facts about you thing. Here’s the link if you’re interested. If the lonk doesn’t work let me know and I’ll re-post it on the blog.
- Today I’m studying and writing for the message on February 1st…it will be on taking risks and I can’t wait for you to chase even bigger lions!
- Speaking of big lions, I have a meeting tomorrow morning about a big lion the church is chasing that could impact us for many years down the road so please pray about that. Then in the afternoon, I’m going up to Harrisburg with Earl so we can help our denomination chase a huge lion.
- I’d be interested to hear what lions God is calling some of you to chase…let me know in the comments section.