Random Stuff

This is all stuff that grabbed my fancy from the blogosphere in the last couple of days.

• Perry made me cry with this.
• Rob's got me really wanting to buy a few new books and spend my Christmas reading. Read this and this.
  
• Los made me flat-out spew coffee with this.
• Jeff Boris is my new hero. Click here.
• And this post on Seth Grodin's marketing blog totally nails my view of how a church should think in view of its presentation.

If you actually go to all of those links and you're on company time... well, let's just assume that you're reading this on your own time ;-)

Good wishes to couple of my homies...

So a couple of my good friends are both going to have a small operation done this week (not together). It may not be the most physically dangerous surgery in the grand scheme of things but this particular surgery can be especially hard on a man's... self-image.

I feel for ya guys! I'm a two year member of the usta'could club myself. So, Dan and Dave, this video is for you.

Disclaimer: this is PG... no vulgarity or overt crudeness, but definitely an adult subject being addressed in a somewhat humorous way.



BTW, the guy in the video is the worship leader at Buckhead Church and a pretty well known blogger in his own right. Check him out at Ragamuffin Soul.

Trunk Monkey... I need one of these!

Most of you have probably seen this before, but I almost spewed my tea this morning watching it. So here you go...thanks to my bro for the link.

Granger Let It Be...Christmas

Okay... it's not very often that I have church envy (alright, maybe a little often) but I am totally blown away by the opening service of Granger Community Church's Let It Be...Christmas.

Go here and click the video logo at the bottom right to watch the entire service. Do it soon... The service will only be up until sometime on Saturday.

p.s. Every week the link changes and takes you to the most current service... the service I originally blogged about was Dec 2. Today (12/18) the link takes you to the 12/15-16 service.

21-day challenge Day #12: John 12

Read: John 12

My Key Verse: John 12:42-43 "Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; for they loved praise from men more than praise from God."

My Reflections: This may be for me the saddest verse in all the bible. (I equate this right up there with the young man offered a spot with the 12 but who rejected it for earthly wealth.) They had seen the signs...they had seen him in action...they believed he was who he claimed to be... But they threw away their eternal life with Jesus because, "they loved praise from men more than praise from God."

My Prayer: O God, may this never EVER be said about me. Please bring me to my knees, completely desperate for your approval. Send me back in to the fight again and again, battered, exhausted, wounded but undefeated, all to come back to you and hear, "Well done." I pray that as I seek to open new doors for your Spirit to work through, as I offer all that I am to be a simple tool in your hand, please never let me give one moment of heed to any voice that is different from yours. Help me always recognize what you are saying to me, and then to courageously step out in faith. Let me never be impressed by anyone in this world, except that they model for me what true dedication to you is.