Elmo Goodnight Lullabies

If your bored tonight and find yourself done watching the X-Games or your done watching the Sixers lose to the Lakers and you want to spend three minutes potentially laughing, check out this video.

Weekend Wrap Up

• Great to be back from camp.  Had 1 student give their life to Christ at camp and saw that he brought his family to church today.
• So many students were broken at camp.  I have been involved with camps for 9 years and have never seen students broken after I did this week.  Not in an emotional brokenness but an awareness of the junk in their life broken.
• Worship was full of energy this morning.  Jeff does a great job leading his team.
• Set-up team had so many obstacles today and did a great job anyways.  Being portable is always an experience and they rose up and got us ready today.
• Dan did a great job with video announcements from Kid Venture.  Just so you know Dan I would have caught you.
• I got to watch the X-Games this weekend and loved it.
• Salome Thomas-EL brought it this morning and encouraged us to really step it up in our community.  Share our faith and more importantly know what our neighbor’s faith is.
• Love how him and his family brings diversity to Fellowship, I wish there was more of it.  There is a vision that Fellowship would look more like Heaven and I appreciate his willingness to be the catalyst for change.
• Got to see my 6 year old and 5 year old worship this morning with air guitars.

X GAMES vs. Church

How can you not love watching the X  games?  I love all the tricks and I love all the spills and just the thrill of the competition gets me going.  Tonight while watching the freestyle moto x one of the announcer’s said, “Oh and he went up without a trick.”  If you were not watching you would have thought that the rider simply went over a jump, however, if you were watching you would have seen the rider do a back flip over a 145ft gap.  The other announcer corrected the first guy buy saying, “Well he did do a back flip.”  I remember watching only 5 years ago when a back flip would have won a competition.  Three years ago a guy named Travis successfully landed a double back flip in competition making the single back flip not even worthy to be called a trick.

I have been pressed to remember that Jesus is the best “thing” going when it comes to the church and life.  No matter how relevant we try to dress church up and how hard we try to make it flashy it is still Jesus that changes lives and takes ordinary people and allows them to be a part of something extraordinary.  [Not that dressing it up or making it flashy or anything like that in church is wrong.  I personally believe church should be fun and engaging because Jesus is.  I personally believe that if more churches met people where they are than people would see that Jesus was standing there all along.]  I do wonder though if we look at Jesus and simply go it’s “just Jesus”.  I wonder if Jesus has become like a single back flip?  I wonder if we have become so unimpressed with Him in our lives, so unimpressed with His power and the way that He changes lives?  I wonder if we have forgotten what it was like to know Him just a couple years ago when He rescued us?

I was reminded again this week at camp that it is Jesus that changes lives and it is Jesus that rescues the broken and that it is Jesus that is still the best “thing” going for this world and for the church.  Jesus may never come across flashy like a back flip to knack knack with a no hand-er lander [That's what 6 hours of x-games will do to you] but He doesn’t need to.  He’s Jesus and He loves us for who we are and where we are.

What does Jesus look like to you today and is it any different than a year ago?