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None of them are good, but some Sunday nights are worse than others. My body feels like I just fought one of those chain link cage fights...and lost. I could tell that, for no particular reason, I was tense this morning. I've always had a tendency to flex what few muscles I have when I preach or teach and I caught myself doing that a lot today.
I had my normal two cups (mugs) of coffee before I left the house this morning and took a can of Diet Coke with me. In between services I had another (small) cup of coffee, and then a large Diet Coke at lunch...which I refilled for the drive home. Add way too much caffeine to Preacher's Fatigue and I'm doing both halves of the manic-depressive cycle at the same time.

We normally record my message. One of my Sunday afternoon tasks is to edit that audio file and email it, along with a brief description, to the guys who manage our web site. They then upload it to our church site. But the gremlins did something today that gave me an empty file - nothing to edit. Oh well.
It was a shorter sermon than usual because we took time earlier in the service to celebrate one of the most important things that will ever happen at Pathway Bible Church. Aaron turned six the middle of last month, but he was (spiritually) born three weeks ago in his Sunday School class when he accepted Christ as his Savior. Aaron came up to talk with me, with his dad as a safety net. (John said that as of 7:00 this morning Aaron had decided he wasn't going to say anything.) No need for a net; Aaron did a great job, including reciting Rom. 10:9-10 perfectly. Then he told us about accepting the gift of salvation.
We've said all along that Pathway is blessed to have almost as many children as adults. But no blessing surpasses the privilege of being used by God to see one of his children become one of his children. Lord willing, Aaron is the first of many such blessings to occur at Pathway.

While I was working here at the house yesterday I had our stereo system on the local NPR station so I could listen to Car Talk. But because I was all over the house I decided to listen through my new generation 5 iPod Nano that Pam got me for my birthday. The Gen. 5's have a built-in FM receiver. I also left the stereo on.
At one point I came back into the living room and noticed that the sound out of my ear buds was a fraction of a second ahead of what was coming out of the stereo system.
How come that???

The AZ Cardinals just might be for real.

I think I had something else in my head I was going to write about but I can't find it in there anywhere. So I'm going to hit "publish post" and veg while I watch the rest of the Pats/Colts game.
Tomorrow, folks.