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Bedtime Stories

Greetings Friends. It’s time for the Sunday night edition of ‘Bedtime Stories’.

What a crazy week it’s been here on this blog. Monday (April 14TH) was the ‘best day ever’ – by far. The following day – Tuesday (‘Tax Day’) – was the biggest Tuesday in our history. As it turns out it was our biggest 7-day (Monday to Sunday) week EVER !  Thanks so much for blogging with me – whether you read and run or read and comment. It is most appreciative !

This upcoming week I’ve got some really cool stuff coming up. I’ve got another exciting edition of ‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’ tomorrow (Monday) afternoon. Get ready for a special on-location in Orlando edition of the ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’, as well as at least a couple of special editions of the ‘Tossed Salad’ from the 2008 National New Church Conference in Orlando. I may even throw in another edition of ‘The Chris Day Club’ while I’m at it !

Incidentally if you wish to see some pictures of me here on this blog then send some pictures of me via E-Mail. I keep getting my picture taken at Life Pointe Church services and events, yet I never see those pictures. Somebody has those pictures of me. If you send them to me than I will post some of them for all to see. I don’t own a camera. I have never owned a camera. I don’t want a camera. I have a photographic memory. I am fortunate for that, but most people are not.  😉

OK that’s my schpeel for tonight. I wish you all a safe, peaceful, and blessed Sunday night with your loved ones. Take good care of yourselves, and I’ll see you all again … when I see you all again … which means Tuesday morning for a bunch of you that will be in Orlando with me.

Good Night Everyone !  Good Night Venus !

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  You can arrive at the movie theatre as early as you wish on a Sunday morning, but you’ve got to get there mighty early in order to beat Executive Pastor Paul to the punch. Anne J. arrived in third place (this is not a competition), but more importantly her voice was back to full-strength again !

2.  Paul stated that I can add new poppin’ and rockin’ songs to the iPod that plays loud and proud in the main lobby. This contradicts everything that he has stated about this subject in the past to me. I will get to work – just as soon as I buy a docking station for the iPod so that I can pull those iTunes off of my computer here at home.

3.  ‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’ now has about 400 new members due to the fact that we gave away about 5,000 fortune cookies to our guests, attenders, and members this morning. They are in support of our fresh new message series that begins two weeks from today.

4.  Lead Pastor Travis returned to lead our two services this morning, and he delivered some of his most sincere discussions and powerful teachings to date. After the shenanigans that occurred last Sunday afternoon at Homestead Bayfront Park these were the ‘can’t miss’ Sunday morning services from Travis. We discussed 10 places that Jesus is today:

– Jesus physically ascended into Heaven.
– Jesus is in Heaven with departed Christians.
– Jesus sits at the right hand of God the Father.
– Jesus sits on a throne.
– Jesus rules and reigns as Sovereign, King, and Lord.
– Jesus intercedes as our living God-man mediator.
– Jesus grants His spiritual authority to Christians.
– Jesus is preparing a room for us in His Father’s house.
– Jesus is enjoying an urban paradise.
– Jesus is with us as we bring the Gospel to the world.

5.  Right now as I conclude this week’s edition of the ‘Tossed Salad’ here at home about three-dozen regular attenders of Life Pointe Church are over at The Capri restaurant in Florida City making that next big step to become official members of their church. It is not the church that they go to. It is not the church at the movie theatre. It is my church. It is your church. It is our church. We are the church. We are the living breathing body that is the church. We are the church no matter where we are – at home, at the movie theatre, at Publix, at the Capri, on Florida’s Turnpike, on South Beach, in Orlando. Everywhere. Be the church. Represent.

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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Sky: Partly Cloudy
Temperature: 67°F
Relative Humidity: 80%
Winds: E 3 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.05 Rising

My thoughts:

1.  I ate a MASSIVE breakfast at the Cracker Barrel in Florida City this morning during the six-o-clock hour. A stack of warm and buttery French Toast was totally drenched in authentic maple syrup and accompanied with scrambled eggs with melted American cheese and hot smoked sausage. P.S. I weigh 165 pounds.  😉

2.  After the feast I came home to do the walk during the seven-o-clock hour. It was another record-tying 2.2-mile walk, and I did it in less than 41 minutes (compared with 42 minutes last Saturday morning). I guess I walked just a tad bit brisker this week than last week.

3.  During the first quarter of the walk I totally frightened a woman who was carelessly walking her dog. As I walked my continuous straight line along the left-edge of the street a lady walking her dog was approaching from the right-side of the street. She was crossing the street, but she wasn’t looking where she was going. She was looking in the completely opposite direction. Her dog was going nuts, but she was totally oblivious to it. I swerved around her so that she wouldn’t walk right into me, and as I walked behind her that’s when she noticed me. Pedestrians get killed by oncoming vehicular traffic when they pull stunts like that. Ironically, “Wake Up” from KJ52 and Toby Morrell was rockin’ my iPod Shuffle at the time.

4.  I may not have big muscles to show for it, but I am the most physically fit today than I have ever been in my entire life and Life. I am in far better shape today than I was during my late-teens and early-to-middle-20s when I had to run a mile-and-a-half every year in the Air Force.

5.  Tomorrow morning at Life Pointe Church I get my weekly workout from 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM lifting, carrying, moving, and setting up objects in the main lobby of the movie theatre as we transform it into a setting that is suitable for our church family. I’ll be sweating again. It’s all good. It’s all for God.

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Blogging

Friday Night Blogroll Review

You’ve waited an entire week for this to roll back around again, so without further delay I present to you my favourite blog entries of this past week from my favourite bloggers:

Travis stated that ‘Homestead (Florida) is without a doubt the best place on the planet’, and I wholeheartedly agree with him !

P.J. is obsessed with Twitter. We’ll find out if he is still obsessed with it in June.

Blake had a ton of fun in Seattle Washington with his Mom and Dad this past week. Happy 6-Month Birthday Blake !

Paul burned off some steam real late on Monday night / real early on Tuesday morning by clubbing on South Beach like a dude half his age and then eating cheeseburgers afterwards. Paul then spent all day Tuesday recovering from the party. I reminded Paul that he is nearly 41-years-old.

Nathan doesn’t appreciate his recorded voice. He’s planning to hire a voiceover announcer – perhaps rock and roll legend Peter Frampton – to mask his own voice. This may just be the funniest blog entry I have read in recent memory. Go check this one out !

Owen exlaimed, ‘My Mom needs a coffee so she can stay awake !’ as the two of them entered a local Starbucks yesterday.