Month: April 2008

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God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  Neither Anne J. nor myself were the first to arrive this morning at the movie theatre. Pastor Paul beat both of us. He was determined to build that Information Booth piece by piece in no time flat like nobody else can !

2.  At precisely 8:58 AM I turned on the two-minute countdown at the laptop that controls the small video screen at the Information Booth, and the loud Christian punk anthem that plays totally frightened Anne J. as she was standing right in front of the screen and the stereo speakers. She recovered nicely from the momentary fright-fest and proceeded to do a little bit of the ‘robot dance’ circa 1982. If you snoozed then you missed it !

3.  It was Luciana and I that rocked the Kids Life Registration tables before and during the 9 AM service. Luci led, and I followed her lead. I filled in for the vacationing Lisa Trinidad. We prayed for her safe return back home to Homestead and Life Pointe Church real soon.

4.  Pastor Travis led this week’s teaching for Week 3 of our current ‘Simply Jesus’ message series entitled ‘Why Did Jesus’ Mom Need To Be A Virgin ?’ We learned about 7 items that Scripture does NOT teach us about the Virgin Birth of Jesus:
– That Mary did not have a normal delivery. (Yes she did.)
– That Mary remained a virgin for the rest of her life. (No she didn’t.) 
– That Jesus’ virgin birth was a myth taken from other religions. (No.)
– That belief in the virgin birth proves the deity of Jesus. (No.)
– That our sin nature is only passed through the male line. (No.)
– That Mary ‘mixed it up’ with God. (No she didn’t.)
– That the virgin birth is unimportant. (It is important.)

5.  Some people have elevated Mary to a position that is virtually equal with Jesus while other people have diminished her importance. Mary should not be an object of faith. She should be an example of faith for all Christians, as she loved God, was a woman of prayer, and lived in holiness as marked by her virginity up until marriage.

6.  This afternoon about 3 dozen of us jam-packed into Travis & Kelly‘s dining room to eat CiCi’s Pizza and brownies and discuss the ‘Moonlight Easter Egg Hunt‘ of 16 nights ago. We’re going to do it all over again in April 2009, and we’re going to do it bigger and better next year with a whole lot of planning and with a whole lot of help from our friends. We’ll be starting up a fresh new blog for the sole purpose of planning next year’s MASSIVE event, so that we can instantly interact with each other online on how to make it all happen.

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Blogging Humor

Saturday Night Checklist

1.  Get all dressed up for an evening of all-night clubbing with Nathan in Weston.

2.  Get all dressed up for a fond farewell dinner at the base for the Chief of the building that I work at.  CHECK !

3.  When I return home late tonight watch a 6-hour marathon that I have on tape of a week’s worth of “Monday Night Raw”, “ECW”, and “Friday Night Smackdown”.

4.  When I return home late tonight get a good night of restful sleep in preparation for tomorrow morning at Life Pointe Church. Blatant Plug:  Be sure to catch an all-new edition of the ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’ tomorrow at a special later time on Sunday night here on this blog.

5.  Bring my stapled, collated, and binded 24-page dissertation with me to Travis‘s house tomorrow afternoon on how to improve upon the ‘Moonlight Easter Egg Hunt’ for 2009.

6.  Bring my simple list of 10 items of interest with me to Travis’s house tomorrow afternoon.

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People Sports

The Chris Day Club

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Bedtime Stories

It’s nearly 9:30 PM on a Friday night, and that’s a perfect time for ‘Bedtime Stories’ – brought to you by Kentucky Fried Chicken – ‘We Do Chicken Right !’

And tonight’s edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’ is actually about KFC !

It’s one of the most criticized and ridiculed fast food restaurants of them all. We all do it, but put several buckets of original fried chicken on a table with potato wedges, mashed potatoes and gravy, cole slaw, and biscuits – and watch the crowds of people flock to that table like flies on … (you know what I mean).

We had a farewell luncheon for a well-liked coworker today, and it was kept nice and simple. You should have seen all of us gobble up all of that chicken in record-breaking time. We are a bunch of fried chicken chompin’ maniacs. It was all lip-smackin’ delicious. I also can’t say enough about them tasty potato wedges. I think I ate about 25 of them in all. After the feast most of us came close to passing out on-site. We nearly had to call in the cardiologists. There may have even been a few silent heart attacks occurring. Where’s my Lipitor ?

Speaking of chicken I am reminded about the smartest cat that ever lived (with me) – Boots (1993-2007). That dude was the feline equivalent of me. I taught him everything that he knew. He clearly understood somewhere between 900 and 1,000 words of the English and Spanish languages. One of his all-time favourite words – ‘chicken‘. That cat would go nuts whenever he heard that word because he knew what it was, and he knew that it was the tastiest thing he’s ever eaten.

Back when I ate chicken on a fairly regular basis Boots also ate chicken with me. He was all over me when that chicken was on my dinner plate. He was meowing up a storm. He was pointing to the chicken with his paw. He was smelling the chicken as it went into my mouth, and YES – he also got tiny pieces of chicken to claim as his own. ‘Chicken‘ – just the mere utterance of that word grabbed his undivided attention. He would even wake up from a deep sleep when he heard that word !

And so there you go with my fried chicken themed ‘Bedtime Stories’ for this Friday night. Be sure to catch the blog for more fun tomorrow (Saturday). Have a safe and peaceful night everyone, and until we hang out again remember this: