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So the whole idea of working a part-time job, while at first a little frustrating because I’ve done this before with ministry and a part time job. But I’m really having a good time. I think this will be a great chance to get to no some folks outside of my little church bubble. The people I’m working with are really nice as well so that’s cool.

Kathy has been home with her mom on BP med’s and trying to figure out what’s going on. It’s a little stressful, but we’ll pull through. I don’t know how much longer we can do this whole not knowing what’s going on thing. But I just have to trust God that he’s big enough to take care of us.

Judah’s the cutest thing since, well anything. He’s great, he’s such a little person. He sleeps a lot so I don’t get to see his eye, and I don’t think he recognizes me, but he’s still pretty cute. Being at work so much really makes me miss him. I can’t wait at the end of the day to see him.

It seems like I haven’t been able to blog in awhile I don’t know why, there has been a lot to talk about with Judah and Kathy, but I just haven’t had the energy or the time to really write about it.

I’m speaking this coming weekend at tNC so that’s always fun. I love to talk about the Bible, and this week I’m talking about Korah’s rebellion and I’m looking at the contrasting leaders, and I’m going to try to make the application that all of us are leaders in someway or another and this message will give people a chance to kind of do a self inventory of their leadership styles.

It’s Friday and I’m ready for a day off!

So having a kid has changed my life. Many firsts have already happend. First time i’ve ever wiped someone else’s but, first time I’ve ever been peed on, first time I was happy to get three hours of sleep, and many, many more.

it’s weird because sometimes I can get so frustrated that he won’t go to sleep, and then three minutes later he makes me smile so big it forces out tears. Maybe it’s the sleep deprivation, maybe it’s the hospital food, I don’t know, it’s pretty crazy.

But it’s cool becuase he’s the coolest and he’s sleeping right now.

Yeah, so Judah’s the cutest ever, but man am I tired. I gotta say, if there are any teenages who are sleeping around and reading this blog, you don’t want a baby. Not yet anyway, someday when you’re older, and married, and ready. I don’t even know how ready I really am. But there’s no going back now. But it’s all good, because this kid’s amazing.

Judah’s here, I’m so excited. He’s perfect, beautiful, and he’s got great lungs. We went to the hospital last night because Kathy had some high blood pressure and a head ache. We ended up staying the night and having a c-section this morning at 9am.

let me share some pictures

Kathy and I before the birth

prepping

this is me about to pass out (i get squeamish)

Here’s Judah He came out making a joyful noise living up to his name, Judah Timothy means Praises Honoring God.

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Well, I was on the phones yesterday. It was good times. I think I’m going to be able to do well in this job. I will be working with nice people, so that always helps. A lot of the people seem to be the creative artsy types. These are usually fun people. I also learned about reserving conference rooms and I surprised my trainer by how well I knew Outlook. Thanks Safeco for the five years of training that you gave me. :o)

my chair at Cutter & Buck is really uncomfortable so we will get to work on getting that fixed.

I also have to read the employee handbook so I gotta get on that today or tomorrow. Good times.

So over the past couple of days I was informed that a friend of mine is gay. This is quite a shocking discover for me. I really never would have guessed. It’s just not something that you really ever think would happen. This is a guy who had a huge impact in my life. He was a spiritual leader in my life, he was a mentor in a lot of ways, and then we just kind of lost touch.

And then I hear from my wife about this, and my heart hurts for him but also for the students that will have all kinds of questions and confusion. It hurts.

I also hurt because he seems sure that God is okay with this, that the Bible doesn’t mean what it means. As a Bible guy that makes me so angry because it just doesn’t work, but it also hurts my heart because some where there is deception that got into his head and his heart.

I also hurt because of the way that people have reacted to this news. Some of his oldest friends seem to have turned their backs on their friendship. Is that how Jesus would have responded?

I have been going through 1 john with transit and the two things that keep being rehearsed again and again is that you can’t be in God’s light and willfully continue to sin, and Christians don’t get to choose who they love. We need to love everybody. I don’t think that having a prayer meeting, or debating all the scriptures is going to win anyone over to the faith, or lead anyone out of homosexuality. What is the most promising course? Loving people the way that Jesus loved the woman at the well, or the woman caught in adultery, or Nicodemus, or Mary Magdeline, or any of the disciples.

Does my heart still hurt? Yes. Do I have any real answers? No. Do I know what my miission is? Love.

Mark Driscoll has a great post about the da vinci code, a good website for people to post to. Driscoll is funny.

check it out here

I was cruising the blogs in my book marks and I came across this link on Seth Godin’s blog. I thought it was particularly timely with all the changes that are coming up with tNC/Creekside Church.

Flexibility

The one thing that’s certain about your marketing plan, your products, hey, even your life is that it won’t turn out the way you planned.

Given this proven truth, doesn’t it make sense to spend most of your time building flexibility into whatever you’re building?

It’s a lot easier to change your mind in advance… doing it when you have to is painful–especially if you have to persuade a team. The most flexible plans have the need (and ability) to change built right in.

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I hope I can build that into my planning and strategizing, and life in general. I had a friend who always said that he was Gumby, and I think that is a good mantra to build into our lives.

So the staff here at the church are facing some pay cuts due to some financial troubles at the church. And I was already looking for a part-time job, and I got one. It’s a good office job and a high-end golf apparell company. It’s going to be a cool job and it pays well.

But, I had to do a drug test today. I hate doing these things. Today was no different. I drank a bunch of water on my way down to the place, I figured it wouldn’t take long to pee in a cup so I would be ready. Turns out I was wrong, and I drank way too much water to endure the wait. So I finnaly submitted to the will of my bladder and used the facilities. Ahh . . . relief.

But I get back out to the lobby and five minutes later, they call my name. So I wasn’t ready anymore. i had to drink a bunch off dixie cups of water, and finally I could go again.

And incase I have any regular readers, guess what, I’m clean. It’s good to know that the youth pastor has not been doing drugs. You can rest easy.

Good Times.

I start working at the Golf Apparell Co. on monday. It’s crazy how fast this all comes about.

Pray for tNC/Creekside Church, we need God to help us out.

Here are my thoughts from Colossians 2 from this morning’s staff devotional. You can read Col. 2 here

vv. 1-5

-Who do we have alongside us?
Outside of this group are we getting support from others?
– What is our tapestry?
It’s not just about our churchh – it’s about the kingdom. We are woven into the tapestry of Christian History, and Present. The more we realized our overall connection the stronger we will be, the more grounded we will be.

vv. 6 and rest of the chapter

– Living what we’ve been given
We have a purpsoe and mission from God, now we need to make sure that we are living it. It’s all about Jesus and his gospel.

– Meaningless distractions
People will try to get us off track, and off mission. They’ll try to debate us over trivial matters and with no results. We don’t need toget wrapped up in these debates. We need to speak the truth.

The universe is empty w/o christ.

– What’s distracting us?