Baptism party tomorrow afternoon at 3pm.

You have to be there…it is going to be awesome.  Looks like we are baptizing roughly 13 people.  I’m so jazzed.

Elevation has two softball teams this season.

A co-ed team and a men’s team. 

I haven’t been able to play on either one of the teams this year with my schedule…but last night I was able to play with the guys.

We lost…but what a fun game.

I’m out of shape.  My legs were jello by about 35 minutes into the game.

What was funny about the game was that our pitcher, Mike, didn’t know that the team we were playing was deaf.  So, he kept trying to figure out their “hand signals” as he called them.  He kept telling the rest of us, “these guys are serious about softball, they have hand signals.”

Finally, I had to tell Mike that it wasn’t hand signals, but American Sign Language.  I shouldn’t have told him…I should have just kept letting him try to learn Sign Language and be paranoid.

Here is the sermon trailer that we showed on Sunday for our 23 sermon series starting June 1st!

We are beginning our new sermon series this weekend.  Taking a little break from the book of JOHN for the next 7 weeks.  We are planning some fun stuff for this series as well as experimenting with some different video things…

23
Psalm 23 is one of the most loved passages of Scripture of all time the world over. 

Its beautiful lines feed our souls beyond ways we understand.

A Shepherd that loves us and provides all that we need – we all yearn for that, don’t we? 

In this world of conflict, challenge and need, having hearts that long for something higher and deeper, we are looking for a heart-contentment that we know we can’t provide for ourselves.

Although David will speak of green pastures, his thesis is not rest.  He will describe death’s somber valley, but this poem is not an ode to the dying.  He will tell of the Lord’s forever house, but his theme is not heaven.

Why did David write the 23rd Psalm?

To build our trust in God…to remind us of who He is.  Join us as we look at 23.

Psalm 23 (NIV Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society)

 1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

6 Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.

Funny blog title huh?

mental health

Well mine is not good right now.

Yep, I admit it.  I’m tired.  I’m worn out.  I’m not thinking straight.

The last four years of working non-stop has finally caught up to me.  In the last four years, not one Sunday have I taken off…not one.  I’m fried right now.

Last night we had people over to our house and I love this couple that came over, but I realized when they left that I am boring.  BORING.  ME.  I Am.  I’m no fun right now.

All I want to do is sleep.

All I want to do is nothing.

If you don’t see me around in the next few weeks…it is because I’m just taking some Jesus days.  Some days to hang with Jesus. 

• our former co-pastor and founding pastor, Ryan Lind, returned this weekend after his departure one year ago.  Ryan is now the pastor of Oak River Church outside of Cleveland, Ohio.  It was soo awesome to have him back.  It reminded me of why he and I had partnered to plant Elevation Church way back in 2003/2004.  He spoke an incredible message on JESUS this weekend.  Check it out here.
• Byron did a great job with the worship this weekend.  A GREAT JOB!  The last song of the worship set, God is Great or whatever the title, was just perfect.
• We are starting our Psalms 23 sermon series next week.  Brandon did a great job with the trailer for the series.  It will be up on youtube and our website soon.
• I got lots of sleep this weekend.  Probably too much.
• Our weekend crowd wasn’t as low as I thought it was going to be, last weekend we were super LOW.
• We all went to Noodles and Company after the gathering Sunday and just looking around it made me so happy.  The entire place, other than one table, was packed with our community.
• Happy Birthday Brandon…big 23!

Ami and I are putting our 2006 Toyota Corolla up for sale.  We will probably list it next week and get the signs on the windows.

We needed to get a bigger vehicle for our family, so we just moved up to a Camry, next size in the Toyota family.  We wanted to keep the great gas mileage and we LOVE our Toyota.  So we would keep the Corolla if we didn’t need the space for the girls and all their stuff.

If you are looking for a GREAT vehicle with AMAZING gas mileage, this is the vehicle for you.  Email me…seriously, I’ll make you a deal WAY below value.  We are very big into paying our vehicles off fast, paying cash, no loans, etc…so in other words, we don’t have a loan that we need to pay off with the Corolla, gives us room to wiggle.

Ok…I’ve decided that I am a jinx to anyone who is trying to win a reality tv show.  Everyone I have voted for or hoped would win a reality tv show has LOST.  I’m a jinx.

Last night, I predicted that David Archuletta would win American Idol.  I had the best reasons why and I really liked the kid from SLC.  So, I jinxed him…sorry David.  His counterpart, David Cook won tonight.

I have a theory about the voting…since last night, Simon said that Archuletta knocked out Cook for the title…I think those for Archuletta didn’t vote as much as those for Cook.  My wife was voting all night for Archuletta and at one point I even said to her, “Hey, enough already…the kid won…hands down…”

I think Simon’s words to David Archuletta actually hurt him last night.

Congrats Cook.  You both will make great albums.