Coffee House
- CoffeeHouse was a blast this evening. JimGunter was teaching (on a wide range of topics). From what I saw, the kids came in quite discombobulated and my feeble efforts at getting them into a game and then on to worship were -- well feeble. The Lord finally got their attention at the very end of worship and I really felt they were praising him on as they sang "More love, more power" (great song). After that they stayed pretty riveted to Jim for the rest of the night.
- GeorgeDakin is out of town next wendsday and I voluntered to teach CoffeeHouse. Pray for me as I study and seek direction from the Lord on what to say.
- AM: More snow last night, but the sun is shinning and it's the biggest slushy mess you've ever seen! I've spent a almost rediculous amount of time now preparing for teaching CoffeeHouse this week, and am still not sure what I'm going to say. I can only pray that the Lord will give me some words when the time comes!
- I had a great talk with George this afternoon regarding my teaching CoffeeHouse this wednesday. I think I finnally have some idea what I might talk about!
- 10 PM: Uneventfull got swallowed up by a gapeing crevase in the earth. I guess the Lord was trying to calm me down a bit before pileing it on, and pile it on thick. Sometimes I doubt that verse that says that the Lord wil never give us more than we can handle, but hindsight always proves me wrong. Tonight was like that. Even though we leave for mexico in twenty four hours I'm going to ignore that for now and talk about youth group thinight. Everything got started wrong. I'm sure now that the Lord knew what He was doing, but I wish I had trusted that to Him soner. It started with Rod showing up before CoffeeHouse and announceing that He was sick and wasn't going to talk. I was. I had offered as much when George said he was going to be gone, but Rod took it. So I got the soap box tonight on about ten minutes notice. Only the Lord's intervention averted disaster.
- I just got home from CoffeeHouse and checked the news knowing that war may have started -- and apparently it has. The very first headline I read at the top of google news was "war begins with a tomahawk strike at Iraqui leadership". Unfortunatly I got more out of the headline than most of the article. I find it hard to fathom that our media is such a bunch of hogwash. The first paragraph I read goes like this: (reprinted without permision)
- I added some pictures to photos today. I also overhauled the website for Canyon Creek Jeep, which pushed IWiki to a new level, so maybe it will be ready for it when I need it for OCRA. Yesterday I built a database driven reservations calendar for Chicago Union Station and managed to completely forget a CoffeeHouse planning meeting. Sunday, Saturday, Friday --- maybe I will remember what I did on this days tomorrow.
- Many commited and rededicated to Christ tonight at CoffeeHouse. It was a time of joyous praise, somber reflection and ernest prayer.
- Yes, this will be a little bit odd for a weblog. These are actually my notes for tonights CoffeeHouse talk typed out into a semi-readable form. I would write something else, but this is what has been on my mind today; well for that matter the last week. If you think you'll be offended by a what is basically a sermon stuck into my WebLog, you don't have to read it.
- God is faithful. Again. Always. Now if he would just make my stomach stop typing itself in knots. I think the snacks at the CoffeeHouse YouthGroup? party tonight want to kill me.
