This time it’s not really the news…it’s better!  It’s a blog!  Cory Miller at Church Communications Pro scoped out the Abundant Life Church website.  Not only are we cool, we’re now officially “Rockin’ Cool”.  Check out the post here and leave a comment!

So, I have signed up for a couple of google alerts its this great service that allows you to track words or phrases when they are used on the internet.  I like to keep up on Abundant Life in the news etc… and this one showed up today. What an awesome thing. A church member stopped by the office to tell us that her autistic son had been kicked off the bus and had not shown up at home yet. She was very worried. All the people in the office mobilized (especially those awesome youth group kids…way to go guys!). They searched for a couple of hours and as the TV station guy was setting up his camera, he spotted Dylan in the bushes (he’d been spotted by the search teams a couple times but he kept running off). Way to go team!

We just finished a 6-week study of the book of Ruth, here are a couple take aways…

• We teach women that they are supposed to be pursued, if a man won’t pursue you he isn’t worth the time and he doesn’t really like you and that this concept comes from the Bible. YET Ruth is very aggressive with Boaz to the point that she practically proposes to him and it works really well for her. hmmm…
• Names mean so much in the Old Testament yet Naomi (Ruth’s mother-in-law) names her sons Mahlon “sickly” and Chilion “destruction”. They (surprisingly) die off in the first chapter. Who would have guessed? It didn’t seem like they were really setting their sons up for long and happy lives.
• Ruth’s faithfulness was a blessing to all around her: She ended up with a loving husband, Boaz ended up with an awesome wife, and Naomi, who could have died an old, bitter widow, was a doting grandma by the end of the book.  She was able to look past the hopelessness of her situation.  I want to learn how to do that.

We’re going through the Nav Press book Th1nk: Lifechange Ruth and Esther. I really like these books because they give great social context and just enough history that you understand what’s going on without feeling like you pulled out an ancient history textbook. I’ll post the Esther thoughts in a couple weeks when we’re done.

Have you read the book of Ruth? What would you add to this list?

So, I have been flirting with the idea of blogging for sometime now. it just looks like fun. I don’t really have a lot of time to blog, in fact, it’s probably the last thing that I should be doing right now. but. I just recently took an art class at Warner Pacific College (yeah Knights!) and realized that I like creative writing…you know, you spend so many years in school writing to get a grade and you don’t always realize that it feels good to get words on paper a computer screen.

So, this might be the end or it might be the beginning…

Is there anything that you have been putting off that you just want to try?  What’s stopping you?