I did not write this childrens’ book:
Month: May 2008
The legend continues, as we enter the 8TH month of these ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’:
1. Travis sent me an ‘Untwitter’ (an ordinary cell phone text message) shortly before 2 PM from my favourite Chinese restaurant aqui en Homestead. Apparently he’s eatin’ good in the neighbourhood at the Peking House. NICE !
2. I’m a ‘Law & Order’ type of guy – not the actual TV shows, but the simple Life concept of law and order. I wouldn’t survive in a world of anarchy and chaos.
3. Just in time for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend – we may actually experience the effects of an extremely rare cold front here in South Florida with cool and gusty northeasterly winds coming straight off of the ocean and afternoon high temperatures struggling to get past the 80°F mark. Look for it (potentially) on Sunday and Memorial Day Monday.
4. Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the last official day of the 2007-2008 television season. It will forever be remembered as the season that the 100-day writers’ strike interrupted. It also continued a trend in which prime time network television viewership hit all-new record lows.
5. I have so many exciting ideas floating around in my brain for Life Pointe Church. Some of these ideas will never see the light of the day, but I think that most of them will in some way either sooner or later. I’m not alone. I hang out every Sunday morning with a whole bunch of my friends who serve, praise, worship, and love Him. They have some really cool ideas for their church. These are our future leaders at the LPC. We are going to spread the Kingdom of God here in South Miami-Dade !
6. You think I’m old-fashioned ? This morning I personally witnessed a late-50s-something guy (a co-worker of mine) rockin’ an electric typewriter like it’s 1972 ! He felt right at home on that thing !
7. Speaking of the early-1970s I had two dogs when I was a little kid. Brandy was a German Shepherd, and Girlie was a sheep dog. Brandy was taken away from me in 1973 because she was digging holes underneath the backyard fence, crawling under it, and then running loose and terrorizing the neighbourhood. Girlie was taken away from me in 1975 because I was allegedly not taking care of her – as a 7-year-old. The real reason why she was yanked away from me is because of the impending arrival of my little brother.
8. The people that complain the loudest about the rising gas prices are usually the people that waste the most gas with their lousy driving habits. Don’t throw stones at the oil man when you live in a glass house.
9. I would see Neil Diamond LIVE in concert. Go ahead. Make fun of me.
10. Florida Power & Light should have a roving team of technicians that fix street lights that don’t work properly. If you’re wondering why there are no lights on late at night or early in the morning on selected streets it’s because they may be on all day long instead. Sometimes it takes FPL several months to the greater part of a year to find out about these malfunctioning lights and then correct the problem. You can help them out by reporting these street lights via their official web site.
Hello Friends. It’s the Monday night edition of ‘Bedtime Stories’. Thanks for joining me here.
Everyone needs to run – don’t walk – RUN ! – over to Harmony’s blog right this very minute to check out this masterpiece. I laughed hysterically when I first read it, and I think that you will too. I just couldn’t wait until this Friday night to share it with you on the ‘Blogroll Review’. Harmony’s been on a blogging roll lately, so she may top herself with something even more crazy and hilarious later this week. Catch it now and thank me later.
Paul is sick at home again. He caught the bug that everyone around him had over the past couple of weeks. Feel better and get well soon ! Sunday is going to be Fun Day at Homestead Bayfront Park ! You’re not gonna wanna miss any potential shenanigans.
I may never tweet, but I actually enjoy reading Phil’s Twitter messages – no matter how mundane some of them are. I think that The P.J. will outgrow this passing fad before the end of the Summer. Incidentally when are we going to hang out for Lunch at El Nachito ? I’m free on most weekdays between now and the end of June. 😀
Well that’s all I’ve got for this Monday night. This is the night that I stay up late (past 11 PM), watch “Monday Night Raw“, and serve The Lord on behalf of Life Pointe Church here at home. I consider this to be the Lakeshore Campus of the LPC.
Have a great evening everyone, and until we hang out again here on the blog or LIVE and in-person remember this:
It’s after 6 PM as I begin this blog entry, and I just got home after 11-hours of service, praise, worship, fellowship, bi-county driving, and Hollywood movie fun. Here’s the skinny McPhinny:
1. I arrived at the movie theatre at my normal time this morning – 7:20 AM – but that wasn’t early enough to beat Anne J. and Paul H. to the punch. I helped to setup, as we transformed a place of Hollywood movie fun into a place of worship on this glorious Sunday morning. As the Life Pointe Church family began to arrive for the 9 AM service I hit the road Jack.
2. I got on Florida’s Turnpike at 8:50 AM, and I drove 48.3 miles north up to the heart of Weston Florida. I arrived at InDependence Church a mere 45 minutes later. Their Sunday morning service starts at 10:29 AM; however, their family pretty much straggles in during the first 30 minutes of the service. (It’s not just a Life Pointe tradition – it’s a South Florida tradition.) Their first 30 minutes consists of a long rockin’ Praise & Worship set followed by about a 10-minute intermission. This was my 2ND service at InDependence Church (my first was Presidents’ Day Sunday), and I’m happy to announce that Life Pointe’s Brannon & Taylor have made InDependence their church close to home. They live up in Weston now, and this was their first service there. They still plan to visit Life Pointe occasionally, as Brannon still works at the air base.
3. We had a special guest speaker at InDependence this week – a guy that trains police departments around the world on truth detection. After he spoke briefly on his profession Pastor Nathan took the stage to wrap-up ‘The Moment Of Truth’ message series (loosely based on the FOX-TV show). This week’s topic – ‘Have You Ever Asked Someone To Lie For You ?’ Lying is hard to do. Telling the truth is easy. You don’t have to think real hard to tell the truth, but when you lie it requires extra brain cells and blood pressure. We always look toward the permissive. What can we get away with ? If we can get away with it then what else can we get away with ? It’s a spiraling effect. As believers, followers, and obeyers of Jesus Christ we must be different than what the rest of the world is saying and doing. We must know right from wrong. We must have integrity, truthfulness, and honesty forever. ‘The Moment Of Truth’ is always and forever before God.
Genesis 12:1-20 was this week’s primary Scriptures – ‘The Call Of Abram’ and ‘Abram And Sarai In Egypt’.
4. I had a fantastic time at InDependence Church this morning. It was well worth the trip. As a 2007 church plant of Life Pointe Church it’s kind of like a reconnaissance mission for me to visit the new and developing church and see how much it has progressed since my last visit. It’s always cool to hear Pastor Nathan speak. Pretty soon I’ll be able to hear him speak on a regular basis – via their church web site – as they place their podcasts online. I’ll also be back LIVE and in-person later this Summer for a follow-up visit. Keep doing your thing up there in Weston. Transform that beautiful manicured city into a place where God is livin’ large and fully in-charge. Expand His Kingdom ! Kick the devil out of the city !
5. On my return trip southbound I made a pit-stop at the Muvico Paradise 24 in Davie (right along I-75). I’ve always wanted to see a movie at that theatre ever since it opened for business back in the Spring of 1999, and today – over 9 years later – I finally did it. I saw “What Happens In Vegas“. It was fantastic. I laughed hysterically all throughout it, and it wasn’t nearly as dirty as the previous movie that I (unfortunately) saw (in Orlando).
6. Once I got back home into Homestead I hung out with Travis, Kelly, and Tammy at the Life Pointe offices for a couple of hours. Trav introduced me to “Guitar Hero“, and each time I played it with him I got better at it. I even beat him in one game (barely), but it was a game in which he played it ‘hard’ and I played it ‘easy’. Now my fingers and arms hurt ! After today’s 11-hour adventure I feel like a worn-out 41-year-old rock star. I’m exhausted like that.
Have a great Sunday night everyone ! THANKS for hanging out with me earlier today LIVE and in-person – and / or right here right now on the blog.
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