A Hodgepodge
April 16, 2008 11:49 am Blogs
Yes “hodgepodge” is a real word. Pronounced ˈhäj-päj deriving its etymological roots from a 15th century alteration of “hotchpotch” meaning a heterogeneous (different things) mixture. My entry from last week (HERE) was a pretty heavy hitting entry, so I thought I’d lighten up and just give you this short mixture of unrelated things.
First, there is some new things on my blog to check out. An alphabetical list of completed sermon series and probably more helpful an alphabetical blog titles list. I started writing these blogs once a week back in July of 2007 and already there is quite a list. If you haven’t read some of them, this way there is an easy way to check out and click on a topic you might be interested in.
Second, I wanted to throw out a big thanks and well done to a few individuals. Sunday was a rough day for plans and technology, but Jake, Kenny, Josh and Q all rolled with it. Well done gentlemen. There are always two sides to our service on Sunday. One is to attempt to remove as many barriers as possible to enable us to enter into worship. Thus technology, smoothness in the service time, and quality music are all things which are important. The other side of it is that those things don’t always happen the way we plan and despite that, it doesn’t mean we can’t worship. Our God and our gospel is greater than the things which just help us worship and thank him. Perhaps you have never read our “Theology of Sunday Worship”? You can read/download it HERE
Third, I thought I’d let you in on a few new websites I’ve recently discovered and been enjoying. One is a Bible study site called Blue Letter Bible (www.blueletterbible.org) which has some good research tools to it. Another is a site called Goodreads (www.goodreads.com) which has been described as the myspace for nerds who read books. I haven’t put my whole library up on there yet because of the time constraints. But I like that there isn’t a bunch of soft porn on it and IT’S ALL ABOUT BOOKS!
Well, I said it would be short. Here’s a Scripture for the week: Isaiah 45:5 “I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God.”
- Pastor Duane