Bullet Points

Finally back home and getting ready for this week's communion service. Although I was able to work on it some while I was gone, it's a good feeling to just sit and think and work and get some things done. Anyway, here are a few updates.

*FAMILY--Went to my for a couple days after we left Suz's parents house and had a wonderful time at both places. My dad found out that he doesn't have any cancer in his lungs or his bones, which is about the best news we could expect from what we knew. Thank you all for your prayers and please continue. He just started chemo yesterday, he said he felt pretty good when he got home from the hospital, but he was pretty pale.

*IGNITE--Ignite was ok. JR opened the night in a really weird, incoherent way. He showed his photography, rapped the Ebonics version of "The Night Before Christmas" and sang a cheesey song about Christmas from the perspective of Joeseph. It just felt weird. John Heaver spoke about Brokenness which I thought was really good. He talked about how leaders need to be transparent so self-disclosure can take place. Noel's message was a great balence to that. He used the Chaos theory to show how connected we are to others and that we are broken, so we can have empathy with others and serve them. Pavi Thomas also had a good message explaining the differing beliefs throughout early church history and how we need to find more unity in our core instead of dividing over the "jars" that are farther out.

One highlight of the conference was hanging out with Tim and JD on Tuesday Night. We hit Mac's bar and had a good discussion about Authority, the Bible and even some Dispensational/Covenent debate. Good times. Then on wednesday Jimi joined Tim and I. I was tired, but in the mood to step out of reality and mess with people. We asked a few Igniters for a cigarette. We saw a tray of food in the food court, at a table and decided to take all the seats around it, to see what kind of reaction we would get. we thought about asking Pavi if we wanted to go out to eat with us. We would take him to McDonalds and tell him "get whatever you want." Then we would continually refer to him as "Ravi" and ask him questions about apologetics.

*Movies--Dodgeball was better than I expected. Garden state not nearly as good as I expected. The Life Aquatic was amazing! I'm going again to see it with Suz on Saturday. Great movie.