I mispell things!
One of the things the Point area does well is music in the parks. Tomorrow starts the annual Riverfront Rendezvous, which will be 3 days of constant activity. Tonight was the weekly city bands concert. It is usually in the band shell but that was taken for the setup for tomorrow.
I do love the Point area.
I just put our hide-a-bed out on the street and posted a curb alert on craigslist for anyone who wants to pick it up. If it isn’t gone tomorrow I will take it to the dump. Oh how I hate this thing as a hide-a-bed. As a couch it really wasn’t that bad.
Anyhow here’s the curb alert that I posted.
It’s a hide-a-bed but not just any hide-a-bed but one specifically designed to have its support bar put into the most painful position available for a guest’s back. Really, you wouldn’t believe how perfectly this support is setup for uncomfortable sleep. You might think you know, but you have no idea. Like I said it is perfect.
Why is the perfect? Well because it ensures that your guest won’t stay that long. A stubborn guest might make it two nights on this hide-a-bed. A truly talented leach of a guest might be able to stand three nights on the hide-a-bed. I promise they won’t stay for a fourth night. It is a perfect way to have a guest spend the night and be assured that they will not over stay their welcome. You can pretend like you want them to stay, “No please don’t leave, there is so much more we can do.” It won’t matter what you say because they will be looking for a way to get out of your house and away from this painful hide-a-bed. You’ll never have to ask someone to leave again.
It is said that in olden times people would display a pineapple in public when a guest arrived.
It was a sign of welcome but also a reminder not to over stay your welcome. When the pineapple began to turn you needed to be out of the house. Well this hide-a-bed is your modern day pineapple. It says “hey you’re welcome here, we have a place for you to sleep” and then it adds “but you don’t want to stay too long.”
It’s your’s for free. Just pick it up and then tell your guests you have a place for them to sleep … at least for a little while.
No holds. First one here gets this beauty.
Hey Ladies & Gents. I’ve missed collaborating with y’all and thought I would start off Google Doc files for the Malachi series so that you can collaborate in the preparation of the sermon. How do you do this> Well you read the text for this week’s sermon and then record any comments, questions, stories, images, etc that come to mind from your reading of the passage of scripture. You will also be able to see my work on the message each week and make comments on what I have been writing.
Below is a screencast of how to operate in Google Docs that I created for those who were helping me collaborate on sermons for my D.Min project. The information in it still works for a basic primer on how we will use Google Docs for collaboration.
I decided to start this a little late this week. Form now on the file for the week’s sermon will be open starting each Monday. For those of you who can be with us because you have gone for the Summer or you are traveling this is a manner in which you can still be involved in the message of Christ to our community.
Here’s the main link page that I will link every sermon prep Google Doc to and here is the actual Google Doc for this week.
There is a guy who walks in our neighborhood that Noah and I called Wisconsin Man. The reason for this is that rain or shine, cold or hot, sunny or overcast he wears red Wisconsin Badger gear head to toe as he walks all over Plover. Seriously, I can’t see his shoes or socks too well as I see him when I am driving but everything I can see is UW-Madison gear. If I were a betting man I would place money that the socks are Badger socks. Usually it is warmups that he wears, but it can be other things too, as long as it is Badger gear. Seven years of seeing him and I’ve never seen him dressed in anything except red Badger gear. It is kind of fun to see him and Noah and I both point him out as soon as we see him. It’s kind of like a Plover version of Where’s Waldo.
Yesterday he betrayed us. He was wearing black warmup pants. That was a big enough deal but I was at least initially able to assum that they were badger gear too. It was strange enough that I slowed down so I could get a look in for any logos. Oh there was a logo and it was for the RAIDERS!
You have crushed me Wisconsin man. Crushed! Judas!
I get to listen to a lot of very interesting podcasts during my drive to the various companies for which I chaplain. To The Best of Our Knowledge by Wisconsin Public Radio. Today one of their segments that I listened to was Touching Sound, an interview with Dame Evelyn Glennie who is one of the world’s leading percussionist and profoundly deaf.
While she is talking about music she is primarily talking about listening. She makes great points that we listen with our being, not just with our ears. She talks about learning to “touch sound.” To rephrase her words a little, I think we have to constantly focus on learning to be touched by the sound from the people and environments in our lives.
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Pam regularly gets calls from professional “head hunters.” It is a part of her being awesome and in a profession that has a high value and need. She received another call today. She doesn’t even know about most of the calls she gets because I know she loves being a professor, so I just delete most of the calls she receives, while telling her every now and then that she received a call, just so she knows she is incredible.
While I understand them in professions, I have always been thrown off by ministerial “head hunting.” Every now and then I receive emails or phone calls from some ministerial search company. I’ve received two from ministersearch.com this week. To be honest I kind of get mad every time I receive one of these blind, cold call emails/calls.
Why? Well if the gospel is about the relational God wanting to redeem fallen people into relationship with Him, then the way those gathered together as His people should function is relationally. In other words, the church should functionally relationally because we belong to the relational God. I can’t imagine calling someone to lead a church in such a non-relational manner and expecting good things to happen. We should function out of who we are, and this type of heading hunting functioning makes me worry about who such churches are.
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If you don’t do so already you should begin reading Pam’s blog (actually she has two and both of them are great). She is consistently brilliant. I really like her latest post “The Theology of Coffee Cups” concerning the quiet servant heart of one of the “threads.”
As many of you now Tapestry is trying morning worship gatherings for 3 months as an experiment. This week I realized two unforeseen consequences of swapping to morning worship gatherings for however long we are doing this.
1. Tomorrow is Daylight Savings Time. How in the world did I not check this out? This is the second week of the trial and it is the worst Sunday for morning church. Spring forward stinks. Argh.
2. It changes my ability to run Sunday running races. For example, the Oshkosh half marathon is Sunday, April 13th. I usually go and run this half marathon and then come back for church. Not an option this year. Just means I can’t do the Oshkosh half this year. No big deal really. I just didn’t think of it before.
The problem this arises for me is that I need to pick a new Spring/Early Summer half marathon to run. Anyone have any experience with any of the following?
I haven’t run any of them so I don’t really know much about them. Any help would be appreciated.
All together not really big problems to deal with in trying mornings out. I will probably feel different about this tomorrow morning.
Through my own extensive daily research I am pretty sure the above information is spot on. I love my dogs but boy do they take their time sniffing everything.
Pam told me that my last post was lame and therefore I thought I would try to up the lameness a little with this post.
Hi. This post is about nothing.