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Field Trip – Yeah

Today I will board a bus with 60 fourth graders and ride up to Nashville to tour the Capital and the home of Andrew Jackson.  I have decided to spend one of my 700 days off ( I figure that’s about all I get in my working career) not because I am such a political history buff that I have a great desire to see these historical landmarks again.  I go to impact the children that I have been given.  To me this is part of that whole leave it day to impact people thing.

So today, I leave too much work undone, and head off into the land of elementary education.  Sharing my day with a bunch of over zealous fourth grade boys, hopefully impacting them in a way that helps turn them into men, and in a way that leaves some moments that they will talk about about the high school reunions which will come all too soon.

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)

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Power of Love

Wednesday night I was afforded the privilege of being able to see Huey Lewis and the News in concert.  It was a pretty good show.  It was good to hear songs that I had not listened to for a long time, and to remember those great days in the eighties!
Anyway, its just an obvious leap that I have to take it – The Power of Love!  And that takes me to Romans 8, one of my favorite chapters in the Bible.  Check it:

31-39So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. (Romans 8:38-39, The Message)

So on this Friday, ‘when all you want is a couple days off’, but you have to keep on ‘working for a living’, remember the ‘Power of Love’ in your life and the impact you can have on those around you!

“Step by Step, rung by rung”

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Fleeting

I have been considering all that is Las Vegas, and as I was doing some browsing around this morning I stumble on this thought in two different locations. It seems fitting giving my location at the time.

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30, New International Version

Just like my time in this city, most of the things here are fleeting shallow and temporary.  Today invest in things that have value, that impact people for good and that make others better.  (Maybe like the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council which is also meeting in the same hotel as my conference. )  Well that’s not what I am talking about, put I think you know.  Go Do It Up!

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Intoxicating

This place is intoxicating – if you let it.  Its really strange, so much luxury, so much comfort, so much “playing”.  It even smells luxurious.  The amount of temptations are actually overwhelming.  Its really the most interesting, but yet the most bewildering place.  Yes I am still talking about Vegas.  I mean, even this morning while I was running I saw a truck with a billboard on it that proclaimed that there were ladies here that wanted to meet me!  I couldn’t believe it.  Those ladies really want to meet me!  I didn’t call them….

Anyway, the thing I noticed is the the temptation is so blantantly obvious that its seems that you are either going to jump right in with both feet or you can very easily guard yourself.  The extremeness of it is so different then the real world – where you have to be on guard all the time.  And that is my message for all you unfornunate souls who are not spending two more days in Vegas.  Be on guard.  Be strong and show others the greatness of the living a life of hope.

 6So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, 7rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.  Colossians 2:6-7 (New International Version)

Oh by the way, Bally’s still has the sign up.   hm.. …Buffet of buffets,.. whatever.

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Offended

This morning I went for a run down the strip in Las Vegas, and lets just say, I  am deeply offended. I was running along, enjoy the enormity of the buildings, checking out the over the top decorations and even reading all the video displays when there it was.  Right on the side of Bally’s Resort and Casino was a huge sign. The sign covered 10 stories of the resort, and it said “Enjoy the Buffet of Buffets”.  Let me tell you that took me back.  This blog is the Buffet of Buffets. Right?  I am still in a little bit of shock!

Anyway, yes I am in Vegas today, and that is why this post is a little late, besides finding a good internet connection, I am a little off on what time of day it actually is.

I was a little apprehensive upon my arrival here, I was not sure what to expect, but I can tell you that the sheer size of everything is absolutely amazing and a little overwhelming.  I fell a little like Jacob in the promised land – those grapes are the size of my head!

So enjoy whats left of the day on the East Coast, and remember how big and how great and how enormous is the gift you have been given!

9 I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.

10 For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be over all the earth. Ps 57