Question

What is the best Valentine's Day gift you have either given or recieved?

Top Five

Just so you know...

1.) Memphis (Conference USA - plays nobody)
2.) DUKE (ACC - true champions)
3.) Kansas (Big 12 - choke artists)
4.) Tennessee (SEC - football conference)
5.) UNC (ACC - steady #2 to another North Carolina team)

Pumped

Sitting in the middle of our creative team meeting right now. I am already pumped for wednesday night. It should be legendary. More details to come.

Bret

Maunday Morning

No matter what stage of life, I think I will always hate Monday mornings for the rest of my days.

Here's what's on my radar for this week...

- Looking for extra-creative stuff for ReMix on Wednesday night

- Speaking of (above) I need to find a really creative person to add to our team

- Ready to read Timothy Keller's book soon!

- Valentine's day is on Thursday...I really am excited. Last year I gave Lane a house, so this year I am going to have to work extra hard to top that.

- My goal is to have all of my tax stuff done BEFORE March 1 this year.

- Please pray that this is the week that I get back to 100% physically. ( I feel like it's been a while)

- Great CD...IN A VALLEY, BY THE SEA by Hillsong United. Their new EP that you need to download directly from their website TODAY.

- Also- I'm not wearing socks today...it's my way of petitioning Spring to get here early this year.

Random Sunday Stuff

- Great Sunday today...We continue to have more and more new people show up on Sundays

- Every time I see Pebble Beach on t.v. it makes me want to go and live in carmel, ca

- Saw my first roller hockey game last night. All i can say is, "ducks fly together in the flying v!!"

- Check out Newsweek's article on Dr. Timothy Keller called, "the smart shepherd," in this week's magazine. wow. Also- his book comes out this week and I am totally excited.

- The past week has me wondering...Where does snot come from?

- Already excited about our Wednesday night service this week. It is going to be SICK!!!

- Praying for my friend and his wife this weekend.

- I really really want the writer's strike to be over

Oswald is still the man

Read today's Oswald Chambers devotional. I think this was written for me to hear today but it might be for you too.

Enjoy:

Exhaustion means that the vital forces are worn right out. Spiritual
exhaustion never comes through sin but only through service, and whether
or not you are exhausted will depend upon where you get your supplies.
Jesus said to Peter - "Feed My sheep," but He gave him nothing to feed
them with. The process of being made broken bread and poured out wine
means that you have to be the nourishment for other souls until they learn
to feed on God. They must drain you to the dregs. Be careful that you get
your supply, or before long you will be utterly exhausted. Before other
souls learn to draw on the life of the Lord Jesus direct, they have to
draw on it through you; you have to be literally "sucked," until they
learn to take their nourishment from God. We owe it to God to be our best
for His lambs and His sheep as well as for Himself.

Has the way in which you have been serving God betrayed you into
exhaustion? If so, then rally your affections. Where did you start the
service from? From your own sympathy or from the basis of the Redemption
of Jesus Christ? Continually go back to the foundation of your affections
and recollect where the source of power is. You have no right to say - "O
Lord, I am so exhausted." He saved and sanctified you in order to exhaust
you. Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him.
"All my fresh springs shall be in Thee."

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Taken from 'My Utmost for His Highest', by Oswald Chambers. © l935 by Dodd
Mead & Co., renewed © 1963 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn.,
Ltd., and is used by permission of Barbour Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio.

Link Love

I stole that saying from Carlos Whittaker...just to make myself feel cooler.

Just wanted to give a shout out to Keith Watson.

Thanks for the linkage man!!!

Papi.....wow. It is just perfeck.