DLmail 10/6/2009 creepy #472

Everyone watched it last night, even us Bears fans who don't like either the Vikings or the Packers watched. What I saw was one huge coincidence and I don't know if I am the only one out there who noticed it, but Brett Favre threw 3 TD passes and his career total now stands at 472. The coincidence....ESPN aired 472 commercials during the game. Creepy.

We had a nice crowd Saturday night for our first lesson in the whole church series titled Experiencing God. Rick Rogy did a nice job teaching and I think his opening example for logic, surviving the plane crash, was a hit with the boys. My 9 year old daughter on the other hand thought the story about the plane was creepy. Creepy, but if her plane ever goes down she'll be prepared.

I expect another decent crowd this coming Saturday. We will be shorthanded with just Kevin, Tim, Pam and myself serving. Dr. Momica remains on family leave, however she is now spending her leave with her family at church, just not leading yet, or leaving her baby in the nursery. Joshua Stewart was welcomed to Northwoods for the first time ever last Saturday, 16 days after he was born. It was great for everyone to see him and his mom looks and feels great.
We have one verse that will remain constant throughout the month that the kids should be learning, Matthew 22:37 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind." Small group info might be accessible by clicking here. When I tried it earlier I encountered an error. If it doesn't work for you, let me know and I will email you a copy. The specific verse for this weekend (kids have a chance to memorize two verses and be rewarded with an extra truck dock buck) is "Give me understanding, and I will keep Your law and obey it with all my heart." Psalm 119:34. Our Bible story is titled The Bible is like a seed: It gets planted in my heart (the parable of the farmer and the seed) Matthew 13:3-23. The bottom line: The Bible is God's Word and I need to learn it and understand it. If you would like to catch Cal's message from last weekend, click here. Don't forget to spend time in prayer and in the Bible as you prepare for this weekend. We each have junk in this world that distracts us and brings us down, let your preparation for serving be a refuge.

Keeping with the creepiness of some parts of this DLmail, let me leave you with this pic, to which my daughter replied, "Oh Josh, that's just creepy."