Avengers

My boy and I went to see the Avengers today.  First we needed to go to the store and get a $1 box of Mike & Ikes for me and some Airheads for Brandon.  We were 2 of 6 people in the room and 2 of them were staff.  With so many seating options, it was difficult to choose our seats!

It was a good movie and quite funny. The best part was when Loki says to the Hulk, who is looking quite angry, "Enough! You are, all of you are beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I shall not be bullied..."  Then the Hulk grabs him and totally thrashes the room with him.  It was impressive to say the least.  After he has embedded him into the floor, the Hulk says, "Puny god."

I am sure that there are a few sermon applications here but you can think up your own.  I am just glad that I had a great time with my son and that the world didn't have an unruly, ego-maniacal, otherworldly power thinking that I should bow down to him.  It was a good day!

Father's Day

It is tough to be a dad!  If you are a dad you know what I am talking about.  I don't mean that being a mom or being a student isn't tough.  It is just tough to be a dad.  Especially a godly dad who wants to do things right.  To do things the way God wants them done.

Today we thank God for all dads.  The ones who want to do things right and even the ones that are/were not very good "dad examples" for us.  What a blessing is a dad that shows us Jesus despite their flaws!  Maybe through their flaws!

I love you dad!

We played this great video this morning at church!  What a tribute to godly dads!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZBFdKXKIE

Bored With Blogging!

I am bored with blogging!  There, I said it!  Haven't you ever just get bored with doing something so you stop doing it?  You aren't totally sure why you STARTED doing this thing in the first place but you no longer find the joy in doing it anymore.  It isn't that it is a a bad thing to do but the fun has gone.

I stopped blogging around 2 months ago because I was just bored with it.  I am still not sure that anyone reads these ramblings from the cobwebs of my brain!  If it is just me writing for the sake of writing, what is the use in that?  I can entertain myself without typing out a few paragraphs about my insights on life which may or may not be insightful.

The other day when I was about to give up blogging forever, a person asks me if I am going to keep blogging.  They said that they missed reading my blog.  I tell them thanks and that I will consider writing it again.  I really think that they are just being nice.  Then another person asks me the same thing.  Is this a conspiracy?  Does this overcome my boredom with it?  Do I see a reason to continue blogging now?

I have met many people that get bored with going to church or even the people at church.  They find that they don't receive one little bit of joy from attending a Sunday worship service.  They find that it is rather tedious to hang out with people from church because they are not fun!  So they don't go.

Then, just when they are going to give up on church and sometimes God too, someone asks them how they are doing.  The person asks if they are coming to church on Sunday because they missed seeing them.  It is that interaction that leads to a quandary: do they continue to go to church until they find a purpose?  Does the interaction with a caring person overcome the boredom in their heart?  Someone appreciates them so maybe there is something to this gathering of misfits at church.

If I know anything, which is often in doubt these days, I know that people usually return to church after their "vacation" because someone made it personal.  People genuinely cared.  Strike up that conversation with your friend who is on "vacation" from your community.  Make it personal and care for them.  And if God lays it on your heart to do this, invite them back again.  Maybe you are the reason they have been looking for.