#1. Louie Giglio: Hope (8:31)

#2. Francis Chan – Balance Beam (3:53)

#3. Is a horrible sermon from some guy that looks like his church is in 1 half of a trailer pastor Steven L. Anderson preaches on “Cursed is the man that pissith against the wall” And we wonder why Christians are made fun of…Jokers like this dude! (4:37)

It’s amazing to me how life has changed so much in just 2 months!

Now that Kym is having to go to work everyday and I’m staying at home with the little man, I’m learning ALOT about being Mr. Mom!

One of those things is how drastically a kid can and will change your life!

Here is the actual play by play for the past 24 hour stint as Mr. Mom.

9:45pm 5 oz. bottle and asleep.

11:45am Restless and in need of bottle.. 2 oz. and one diaper and he’s asleep within 20 minutes

3:00am 2 oz., and back asleep within 15 minutes.

5:30am 1 more oz. and back to sleep

8:25am  3 oz. and he’s awake for the day?   Mom leaves for work while I’m still half asleep. Diaper change

9:00am  Another bottle  4 oz.

9:40am  He’s sleeping… is this a nap or more sleep from overnight?  Who cares.

10:00am Awake.  Diaper change.  Change clothes because he just puked all over Himself and Me

11:45am Diaper change.  Clean mess that went through diaper!!  Change his clothes again dude deiced to put on a water display with pee, despite crying.

12:00pm  Bottle.  2 oz. that put him to sleep.

12:35 Awake.  I clean 2 more oz.   He swings and watches me.

1:15  Diaper change. sit on couch and watch braves game with dad…

2:00pm Bottle, only 1 oz. is consumed before sleep.

3:30pm.  Awake.  AND SCREAMING!

4:00pm. Bottle 4 oz.

5:00pm  No applause for me, just a diaper.

5:15pm  Another diaper.

5:30 Nap time again

6:00pm Awake and back to the swing. Diaper

6:30pm MOM”S HOME!

7:00 Bottle 3 oz and loving life…No crying, No Screaming, Nothing…Just a peaceful baby for mom!

8:00-11:00 Bedtime..(sometime in that time frame)

12:00 am..We Start all over again!

Results:  11 bottles  7 diapers, 3 times up overnight……..

And n0 chance I’d change a thing!  I love my son…I thank God he is a healthy big boy!

So all-n-all Being Mr. Mom is no problem at all!

¹¹Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. ¹²In a loud voice they sang:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
and honor and glory and praise!”

Why are we afraid of “stillness”

Frankly stillness scares us just a littel; quietness tends to be unsettelling to us so we do our best to avoid it..Filling every area of our lives from the moment we wake up with alarm clocks…right into the shower were I turn the radio on..to getting dresses with the TV on…to the car where I listen to music..I’m surrounded by noise and that is what keeps us from being alone with our thoughts and the Lord.

We are afraid of stillness for a few reasons:

1. Afraid to lose ground…

Taking time to think and reflect, we think, takes time away from doing things, from moving ahead…We get into the mindset that Busyness equals Spirit-ual-ness ..We are afraid that if we stop and think, breath, listen and wait..Others will get ahead of us and we will never catch up.

2. Afraid to look back…

in our human minds, we offten associate stillness witha  lack of initiative and resting with laziness..

Have you ever been sitting at your desk thinking, considering the best course of action, sorting out all the solutions that are wise rather than expedient, only to jump when someone comes in and then you try to pretend you are and were busy?

We don’t want to look bad when others are madly rushing around…so instead of settting aside time to work smarter, we join the, in working harder and longer without considering the overall impact on not only the job, but on our families and especiall on our relationshop with Christ or Lord…

3. Afraid to listen quietly…

Why are we so intimidated by silence? Is it that we cannot stand to be quiet so that we might listen for the still small voice of God?

God does not usually shout His instructions to us regarding His will, nor does He yell at us to inform us of His great love for us.

Those things come to us in times when we have withdrawn to the quiet place, to lie down in green pastures, to be still beside the refreshing waters which quench the deep thirsting of our souls for more that this world can give.

4. Afraid to look inside…

As long as we keep going, we don’t have to expose the vulnerable side of our hearts, but once we get still and begin to listen as the Lord speaks, we are afraid of what He might bring to light..

Have you ever had a friend that did not want to be alone with you because they did not want to have to talk with you anything of substance?

We are afraid to be too alone with Christ and so we keep moving figuring that our constant motion will protect us from His scrutiny.

So today I challenge you..

1. Be Still

2. Wait on the Lord

3. Listen for His still small voice

My great grandpa Groves told me one time and I’ve never forgot it.. Even though he passed away when I was 10 I remember him telling me this quote and I’ve held on to it for almost 20 years now…

“Live your life every moment to where when the Holy Spirit speaks you not only hear His voice but you know it”

My prayer for you today is that you will Be still

Maybe it is the first time in a looooong time

Maybe you’ve never just been still in His presence and listened for His voice.

Maybe it’s been so long since you’ve just sat and Listened.

Well I challenge you today to do just that…Watch these two videos and BE STILL!

Hit Play on “come and listen” @ 1:13 of be still…It flows better that way!

True Love: Phil Wickham

God of this city: Chris Tomlin

Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

About 5 years ago when I was the Youth pastor @ “The Bridge” I  did a  6 week series called…” Let the facts speak for themselves” Talking about the Miracles Jesus did while He walked this earthto prove that He was truly God in the flesh…so

These facts were what I opened with each week..And just like the last post, I found these in a box that I haven’t opened in probably 2 to 3 years…So with out any further typing…

Enjoy SOME FACTS:

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. (No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.)
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• The average secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
• “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size — “L.A.”
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s A Wonderful Life”
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
• John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.