"You can not be anything you want to be"

I had a pretty good weekend. The title of the blog is a quote from one of Kevin Twit's podcasts that I just suscribed to and listened to a couple today. Kevin is the RUF campus minister at Belmont and God has given him extraordinary talents in presenting the gospel message and in particular calling out false truths laid out by today's culture and even within Christian culture. I love listening to Kevin talk because he does not shy away from difficult issues and finds a way to tear into everyone's comfort zone. In my struggle to find a church up here it was especially timely to hear him talk about the church being a place that should bring you closer to reality, not tune out of it - which a lot of church services seem to do. The other thing I really like about Kevin's messages is he doesn't just throw out flowery analogies and tell you to believe something without telling you why. For any given message, he usually explains the history, the opposing opinions, the scripture - going back to greek, other reference scripture, the improper interpretations, etc. - ties all that together and explains his interpretation of the scripture message along with the implications. Anyway, I highly recommend Kevin's podcast - type in RUF Belmont in Itunes to suscribe - it is only half an hour a week, and no matter what you believe, I promise it will intrigue and challenge you.

Other items of note from this weekend:

- Company bowling tournament! This was hilarious - we all were very curious to see how Mr. Jo (from our Korean plant) did at bowling. He got up for his first bowl and nailed a strike - it was a classic moment in my life - we all just looked at eachother not sure whether to laugh or cheer - he was already celebrating so we jumped up to give a good American high five - I guess in Korea they do fist knocking, so we did a little of each as the games went on. Mr. Jo wound up beating all of us. I don't want to talk about my scores - they were my worst ever.

- It always crack me up when older married people want to know what I did over the weekend, hoping it is something exciting so they can dream about life as a young, carefree single person. Well, these are the weekends when I really let people down. So here it is, what I did with my Saturday night: I was up until about 1 am working on getting around the moon with a car that could only carry 1/5 the fuel it needed to make the trip and a full container of fuel that could fill the tank. If anyone asks me the classic question on Monday - I imagine they probably never will again....I'll let you know.

- I think I set a record for time on the phone in one day. Saturday I talked to Grandpa, Kelly, Anna, and Megan. And that was on top of bowling tournament and my moon trip - what a crazy day.

- Today I took another adventure on the bike - I really liked the loop I did, it actually took me by work and the Y, and about 5 miles of it is along Lake Michigan, which is awesome. I miss Cherokee Blvd, but it doesn't come close to being lakeside :)

- I didn't make it to church today - I am still church hunting, I just didn't make time like I should have to set the plan for today. Next week I think I might drive to the closest PCA church, which is 50 miles away, but at least I might be able to talk to people and find out what other good churches might be closer. I figure, if I could drive 30 miles to work every day, surely I can drive 50 to a good church if I need to - we'll see. But, I downloaded Kevin's podcasts and as always, he had very relevant and timely things to say that I needed to hear.

OK, definitely enough rambling for today - I hope everyone has a great week!