This past Sunday the Seahawks scrimmaged a Pee Wee team from the Denver area but thankfully the game was called because of the mercy rule. Wait! What? That was the real team from Denver?!? Oh well at least the Superbowl commercials were good right? Nope wrong again. Perhaps if this one had made the cut America would be talking, laughing and a bit creeped out.
Whatever Wednesday: Random Thoughts
- Haven’t been motivated to write this past week so this is easy to do a Whatever Wednesday post since I can just bullet point stuff.
- I’m still wrestling through the emotional stuff from the shooting.
- I don’t think about it immediately when I wake up now but I have started dreaming about it…although that has morphed into some weird things.
- The other night it was of Lisa getting shot. That’s even worse than me so I don’t like those thoughts at all.
- I have an appointment with a counselor tomorrow so hopefully he will be able to help keep me on the right track.
- Ok enough of that…what else is going on?
- Was disappointed with the Super Bowl…not necessarily the outcome but just the game itself…really thought it would be a close, exciting game.
- The commercials were a bit lame as well this year.
- I’m taking my own advice from this past Sunday’s message and I’ve done a good job this week not complaining about the snow, ice, cold, shoveling, etc.
- It’s been nice this past week with all the bad weather having Lisa home more.
- After not using it hardly at all our first few winters here in Harrisburg, we are firing up the gas fireplace quite a bit this winter.
- Not so much for the heat but just because it’s relaxing.
- It was a bad night for my sports teams last night…both the Caps and Terps suffered disappointing losses.
- Oh well, at least the Wizards are above .500 for the first time in 4 years!
- I’m excited about our new series that starts this week at Exponential. It’s called “Crazy Love” and is based off the book of the same name by Francis Chan.
- The entire premise I’m going off of for this series is, “You won’t do what God wants you to do until you fully appreciate who He is!”
- Now you can do stuff for God but if you’re doing it because you HAVE to instead of you WANT to, all of the sudden your faith will seem like a burden and will be no fun.
- This is why many Christians struggle with their faith and have no joy.
- This is also why a lot of people reject Christianity…they think it’s just a bunch of rules and rituals…but who wants that? No one…so they end up missing out on the most life-changing and awe inspiring relationship a person could ever want.
- So for 6 weeks I want to help people fall in love with who God IS not what He can do for you or wants from you.
- OK guess that’s all for now…I have a busy day tomorrow but if I have time I think my Theological Thursday post will be my thoughts from last night’s Evolution vs. Creationism debate.
Super Bowl Thoughts
Here are a couple of thoughts on the game and a few spiritual insights gleaned as well:
- What a great game…maybe one of the best ever.
- I was surprised the Cardinals did as well as they did.
- In fact they really dominated the game in many aspects and deserved to win just as much as the Steelers did.
- However, the final score said Steelers 27- Cardinals 23 and that’s what matters most, so congratulations to them and all you Steelers fans.
- Which brings me to my first point…it’s all about the final score. No matter the methods you use or how much the other team may have seemed to dominate it’s what shows up on the scoreboard in the end that matters most. It’s the same with churches…in the end it won’t be about how we did it, or how much more “spiritual” others may seem to have been, but rather how many people did we help come into a true, life transforming relationship with Jesus.
- Second lesson learned is that it’s all or nothing…because time is going to run out. At the end of the first half James Harrison picked off a pass from Kurt Warner and started rumbling towards the end zone. Time expired and so if he got tackled the half was over. Instead he determinedly kept going, breaking tackles, giving it his all until he finally just barely fell into the end zone for a touchdown…which as it turned out was greatly needed. Our lives are the same way…time is running out…we need to give it our all if we want to “score” or as the bible says “produce fruit” with our lives.
- Last lesson is that the games outcome was determined by a matter of inches. Both Harrison’s touchdown and Santonio Holmes touchdown with less than a minute to go in the game had to be verified by instant replay because they were that were so close to being ruled the other way. In both cases instant replay confirmed that they had just barely scored. In other words, the difference between winning the Super Bowl and losing it was literally a combined 2 or 3 inches. Two months of training camp, 16 regular season games and 4 play-off games later…a champion was crowned because of…inches. Life is the same way…all of our hard work will come down to just the little things that we do or don’t do…the difference between ordinary and extraordinary someone once said is that little word “extra”. So how about it for you? What’s the little extra you need to do to go from a runner-up whom history will forget, to being a champion?