– Today was insane!  I don’t know what the count was, but even the first service felt full!  
– We turned 7 today!  We’re officially a 2nd grader!  
– I am truly amazed that I get to do what I do.  I was watching a guy today at a supermarket that looked depressed at work.  I’m so glad that God called me to Pastor this church!  
– This was a crazy week!  Next week should be back to normal!
– Made to Stick was a great book!  I’ll review it in the next couple of days.  
– We had hundreds of people at our annual picnic.  The outdoor Laser Tag was the hit of the party!  It was a 90 minute wait to get a turn.  
– My Wiffle ball tournament didn’t go so well for me.  Let’s just say that my team’s fielding assisted to me giving up several UNearned runs 🙂  My curve ball was giving me nothing!  
– I feel like I’m learning more now than I have at any other point in my life.  God is teaching me a lot through other people and through the Word.  
– Hanging with Gary this week was a lot of fun.  His insistence on taking things over the top just adds to the excitement!  (BTW, I did marry out of my league)
– Got to hang with a couple groups of Pastors this week.  It showed me how much I didn’t know and how much I need to learn.  
– Our Elevate series had a great kickoff!  I’m so excited about what God is going to do!  
– I pushed our staff pretty hard this week, but they came through big time!  There’s no one on our staff that thinks in terms of 9-5.  Ministry is a way of life for them!  That’s the kind of people you want around you!  
– We announced our next baptism for the 1st time today.  What I was shocked to learn was that 30 people were already signed up and we hadn’t even announced it publicly yet!  
– We’ve had the biggest response ever for groups!  We’re at close to 70% of our Sunday attendance signed up!  But a lot of people signed up today!  So that number should be higher by week’s end.  
– My Small Group starts this week.  I’m really excited about it!  I’m hanging with about 20 college-aged students.  We’re going to study Chazown by Craig Groeschel.  It should be fun.  
– The Dolphins defense is killing me!  Thanks for nothing!  I need the Patriots to come up big tonight!  
– The Red Sox pounded the Yankees on Saturday.  After their pathetic display on Friday, they needed a big win!  Let’s put them away tonight!  The magic number is 9.  
– My daughter is officially the most popular person in our church!  
– Mark and the band were off the charts today!  They make every song they play better than the original! 
– I’m exhausted.  I’m not as young as I used to be.  33 going to 93 🙂 

