Mary Ordinary
| Posted in Bible, Ministry | Posted on 11-30-2008
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Today I did the main teaching portion in the Elementary services. With many volunteers either out of town, or just returning from Thanksgiving vacation it made some sense to put more on myself during this traditional “down time.”
This Sunday we kicked off week 1 of the Stars of Christmas series. It’s a Grammy-style presentation, with DVD media-driven skits; but 100% of the teaching is done by teachers in the large group and in small groups. I’ve torn the curriculum to shreds and put it back together again to get it to fit what we do at Trinity. Other than the DVD player being possessed by evil spirits, the first Sunday went off pretty well. I spoke to the kids about God’s ability to use ordinary people to do extraordinary things. When one really takes the time to look at Mary, the mother of Jesus, her ordinariness is quite alarming. She isn’t anyone important as far as scripture tells us. We don’t know her to be a women of much accomplishment, nor is she known far and wide for some great skill. Yet knowing all these things she was still honored by God to do something quite extraordinary, don’t you think?
I love her humble response to her life-changing news,
May I learn to let God use my ordinary self in extraordinary ways (and trust me, I’m as ordinary as they come!)
BONUS: Remember this classic Bizarro from last year?
So Much Better
| Posted in Links | Posted on 10-25-2008
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The only comic that makes me seriously laugh out loud.
Not the internet version of LOL, but audibly laughing out loud.
Love Me Do
| Posted in Links | Posted on 09-03-2008
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Anytime I have a blog posting that might confuse some of my more loyal (Conservative Republican) readers it makes me uncomfortable. I struggled for days about how to review that book without friends and family being worried about my eternal salvation.
In the spirit of that controversy, let me encourage all of you with my favorite cartoon. If you don’t like them, well then you can…nevermind…I don’t know what to tell you to do.
Who is this making fun of? Thinking…thinking…thinking…
This particular Bizarro reminds me of the Vortex of Thankfulness post I did last year.
I can’t even tell you how many times I want to link to a video but it has some minor curse word at the end or maybe a flipping of the middle finger that would discourage me from embedding it on the blog. “But it’s really, really funny” I say, and then never do it.
