Random Thought Friday

Mar 24, 2006

To those who think all religions are the same…please read this. Folks—if you make the claim that all religions are the same and that we are all basically taking different roads to the same place…then that tells me two things about you…

#1 - You have never taken the time to seriously investigate what other religions believe. And if you have….then…

#2 - You are an intellectually dishonest individual!

Can you imagine if the story were reversed? Can you imagine if America began executing people who were not Christians? There would be World War III…but for some reason I feel that this dude, if he is executed, will fade away into the third segment of the national news and eventually be forgotten.

I think it was John Piper who said it best, “A Muslim will kill to convert you—a Christian will die to convert you.” Enough said!

In other news…

My brackets are so screwed up! I had Duke and UNC going to the finals…I usually pick with my heart and not my head! I could not believe my eyes last night!!! Oh well…now I will just pull for the underdog!

Pray for my calf muscle—my left calf is experiencing some serious soreness…AND we have a 16 mile run tomorrow!!! Believe it or not—I am stoked about the 16 mile run…we are not going to be heading to Clemson or anything—it will be a course around here! What I am REALLY excited about is going to Pizza Buffet tonight to load up on some carbs!!!

I am PUMPED about this weekend! I really enjoyed taking last Sunday off…but right now I feel as if there is a fire in me…and I am about to explode. Let me just say this about Sunday…it’s going to be AWESOME…the band is going to do a song that is going to knock you out of your seat…and the video we are going to show will…let’s just say you’ve never seen anything like it.

I would make sure I was there EARLY this week because the service is structured a little different!!!

Quick question—is it supposed to be spring? I thought so…would someone please ask the Lord to turn up the temperature! :-) Don’t get me wrong-it is HIS weather and all…it’s just that I would like it a little warmer for these long runs.

One last thing—EASTER at NewSpring is going to be incredible. We spent a lot of time this past week working on the environment we want to create…and I have been laboring over the message like crazy! I can’t wait!!!

We are going to do four services Easter weekend…there will be two on Saturday night and then two more on Sunday morning. We will be doing that schedule for one week only…the following week we will move back to our normal times! We are doing a series of messages called, “DaVinci Decoded” that will investigate the claims Dan Brown makes in his novel about Jesus. (I will post a complete article on this at a later time!)

OK—I lied…one more thing…we did series planning this past Tuesday and planned through Thanksgiving—OH MY! I can’t wait…we also threw some initial ideas out about Christmas Eve this year AND next year! WOW! I love my job!!!