It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.

I think you'll need to click to enlarge so you can see the front cover of his book.

My brain is fried, its typical Sunday evening condition. Matt had to make a last minute trip to Texas yesterday so I led worship, too. But that stuff happens and God gives grace.
What made the morning a special blessing was the visitors we had. For the second week in a row we had a couple come as a result of our ad in the community newspaper and a family come as a result of our direct mail piece. Both gave us very good feedback afterward and said they'd be back.
I've mentioned here how earnestly I've been asking God to bless this outreach effort, and I know others at Pathway have, too. So I feel an obligation to mention here that God has answered those prayers, or better, is answering those prayers (Greek present tense verb, continuous action in the present). The last batch of the direct mail piece went out last Monday but that doesn't mean God can't still use it to bring others to church.

Did you watch the Lakers/Rockets game at your house. We did here and noticed a stretch during the game when every other commercial was messed up. We got the music but not the dialogue. It was like somebody had turned off one channel of the sound track.

Pam said that if the Lakers play the Cavaliers in the final she's going to root for Cleveland because she likes LeBron. I asked her where she was going to sleep.

They're building a new court complex in Tuscon, southeast of Phoenix, down near the border. In the process of doing the site work they uncovered a cemetery with the remains of 60 Civil War soldiers from the 1860's. This weekend they reburied the remains of those soldiers, but the cool thing is that they did it with full military honors as though it was 1860. They used period correct caskets, men in Civil War uniforms playing 150-year old music on period instruments, the whole bit. Cool story. I would have like to have seen it.

Speaking at Notre Dame President Obama said that both sides of the abortion debate need to work on finding "common ground." I agree with him that we need to dial down some of the rhetoric and work to help mothers who decide to keep their babies. But there can be no common ground when it comes to taking the life of a child except to agree that it's a moral evil, wrong at every level.

I've already rec'd some responses to my letter about the curriculum. Encouraging.

That's all I've got on a Sunday evening. We're going to get down to the upper 70's tonight and triple digits again tomorrow for the 13th day in a row. So I'll be out on the bike very early.
G'night