- Great to be back preaching again!
- After 5 weeks off I had some butterflies this morning.
- Thought there was a great energy today and that the team did an awesome job with the music.
- Also, Brian and the stage team did an incredible job with the stage set…really love the huge TXT reflective panels.
- Pretty good morning from a set-up standpoint so I was relaxed as we got started.
- At the conclusion of the 9:15, I remembered I had forgotten part of the message…then I realized oops I forgot about 10 minutes worth.
- Can you say rusty?
- In any case, for you 9:15’ers I posted the 10:45 Experience so if you want to hear the entire message you can.
- I’m super excited about this series…I love God’s Word and hope others will fall in live with it as well.
- As a reminder…this week we’re all reading the book of James and answering two questions each day in our notebooks.
- If I had to summarize the chapter I just read in a sentence or two, what would it be.
- Question two is what is one thing I can do today as a result of what I just read.
- After that we’ll all be posting online our answers.
- You can come back to my blog tomorrow for mine and comment there or you can also find it on my Facebook profile.
- Even though attendance was down, there was just somethingspecial about today and I think God is about to break loose big-time.
- Time for a nap then off to freind’s house for dinner.
- “See you” tomorrow online with your answers for James chapter 1.
Inside Today’s Experiences
- Wrapped up the One Prayer series today with an awesome message from Perry Noble.
- I really enjoyed this series again this year…not only does it give me a break but also getting to hear from so many great communicators is inspiring.
- Set-up this morning was easy, but we were having power consumption issues throughout the building so lights were flickering that shouldn’t have.
- I got the lift out and went up to reset some power buttons which helped a little.
- Thought the band did a really great job today.
- The 9:45 crowd was really into the message…
- It’s amazing being able to sit out in the crowd and see and feel the difference between the two crowds.
- At 9:45 I almost forgot to take the offering…ok I did forget but the ushers bailed me out.
- As I said, after 5 weeks of not preaching, I’m a bit rusty even to do something as simple as doing announcements.
- Loved Perry’s challenge to “run up the score”.
- Basically we’re trying to “win” forgetting that Jesus has already won for us…the game is out of reach…now run up the score.
- Met some great folks from other churches in our denomination…great to have them with us.
- Disappointed that attendance is down for the summer but even with the “summer slump” we just completed our highest attended quarter ever!
- Next week we begin a new series called “TXT” in which I’ll be sharing how to be transformed by God’s Word.
- Also got some cool announcements coming up in the coming weeks…stay tuned…the best is yet to come!