The Measure Of A Woman

Here is a great post...for any of my female fanbase. Check it out.

http://www.faithimagined.com/2010/07/st-publication-measure-of-woman.html

Satan Is A Nerd, 2

I woke up Sunday with a sore throat and stuffy nose. When I got up, I knew I would be at church regardless because we had a baptism scheduled, and had to reschedule it once already. But I thought that it would be a chore to be there. Boy was I wrong. I have been around the block enough times to know that when the devil does not want me to be there, being there is imperative. We had the largest Sunday school number since I’ve been at Beaverdam, and a great crowd in the worship service. My voice started to give out toward the end of my message, but I was feeling it. You fellow preachers know what I’m talking about. After a relaxing afternoon, Sunday night saw another big crowd and Patty and I hosted the youth’s SNAC. That’s Sunday Night After Church. It was fun. Like I said, when Satan starts nagging… start expecting God to show up.

Blessedly Old

Here are a few reasons I feel old:

1) Children: Today my BabyGirl registered for classes at college. ***siiiigh**. As if the constant reminders about my graying hair and receding hairline didn’t make me feel old enough, I only have one left in school.

2) Diets. I started dieting last week. When I was young I could cutback a little, drop the cokes and up the water and lose weight. I did good this week. Weigh in was today and I have lost 5 pounds. Not bad for week one, but I know I’m getting old because I didn’t LOSE any of it! I know exactly where it went. A lot more work goes into it now. I am considering a new blog. I can chronicle my weight loss journey. I think I’ll call it FatPastor.

3) Twitter. I came in to the blog world hesitantly, but soon found I loved it. I came into the FaceBook world kicking and screaming, and found it to be laborious and boring, but OK as a communication tool. Please don't ask me to join your mafia. I don't even know what that means! Twitter I don’t get. Never will get. I feel like some of the seasoned adults at church when they speak of computers. “I don’t know nothing about ‘em, and don’t want to learn!” Amen, on Tweating.

Let me ask you; are "Twitters" egomaniacs that think that I really care that they just ate lunch, or are they so consumed with their consumer electronics that they must justify the thirty bucks a month they pay for their Media ad-ons by updating their status sixteen times a day? Where do you people work!? How do you have time to tap out sixteen status updates on that wee little keyboard? In either case, Leave Me The Heck Alone! Tweat to some one who has time to read a bajillion texts a day! And let me tell you, that ain’t me!

Here are a few reasons I feel blessed:

1) This is the day the Lord has made.

2) I will rejoice and be glad in it.

3) I ministered to a family today, (a group of siblings) that made the toughest decision of their adult lives. Details can be spared, but I spent my day at a nursing home. It was heartbreaking all around. In the midst of the anguish; however, we all laughed as their mother relished in her talking teddy bear. It was a beautiful moment of levity in a stress filled day. And I silently thanked Jehovah Jireh, the Lord Who Provides, for that blessed moment.


Thank Him always,
for everything,
for He is worthy!

A Year? How Time Flies!

Here are a few of my favorite posts from last summer, just in case you missed them. Don't forget that I was in Atlanta looking for a church. A real live pastor, with out a real live church. :)

Jesus Christ, Superstar?

Handling Fear in the Face of Oppression

The Inconceivable Glory of Fish Vomit



Blessings,

Steve

New Name Part Two

So a new name. Again. A Fish Called Grace. When Jonah was swallowed by the fish he thought it was a prison, but it was really a rescue vessel, it was a fish called Grace. In Jonah 3:1 God gives Jonah a second chance. He was rescued by Grace, and given a second chance by Grace. I love my Jesus, and His grace is amazing. Grace, grace, marvelous grace. Grace that is greater than all my sin.

Blessings

Steve