(Perhaps it’s only funny if you’ve actually heard me “sing.”)

It’s been a while since we had a good ol’ fashioned “Come to Jesus” sunday at our church, and to me Genesis 19 just screams the duality of grace and justice. I’m just old fashioned enough to thing that giving people a moment in time to commit, or recommit, to living a live in God’s grace is a good thing.

So, maybe we’ll go that direction. Doug, how awful would it be if you suddenly came back to a church full of “born-again” evangelicals?

You’re the winner in my book.

I like the idea of telling stories, too. Maybe your Veggie Tales video isn’t such a bad idea. And thanks for fixing the html markup.

But, as my father has always maintained, a groan is as good as a laugh.

Also, if you are short on content, you can burn at least five minutes with the story I told you many months ago — I believe it was at our local Chili’s after a Christmas concert, and a partially consumed margarita was involved.

To wit: I dreamed one night that Chad and Erica wanted a tougher dog than Copeland, and purchased a Doberman that they named Mace, hoping that he would serve as a deterrent to any prowler that might happen by their home. But all Mace wanted to do was eat grass in their front yard. Despite his gentle vegetarian ways, they decided to keep him, hoping that his size alone would scare off any potential burglars.

One day Chad was fixing a sprinkler and dropped his wrench in the grass, which was overgrown because they had spent the previous week traveling to Fresno and Sacramento. As he was searching for it, you arrived and asked what was going on. At that moment, Mace strolled up with the missing wrench in his mouth.

“What’s with the big dog?” you asked innocently. And Chad replied…

“A grazing Mace, how sweet the hound, that saved a wrench, Mike Lee!”

Another idea knocking around in my noggin for a sermon topic: Telling good stories. Granted, this is something about which I am personally passionate and maybe no one else would be interested in the least…but I suspect that many people would like to given the tools to share God’s story and their story in a compelling way, without resorting to the Four Spiritual Laws and the like. Up until fairly recently, the Judeo-Christian tradition had a rich legacy in this area (Jesus himself was a heckuva yarn-spinner), but I think it’s a legacy that has been largely abandoned for various reasons, and one we desperately need to reclaim.

That’s my two pence.

Have you ever come across this web site?:

http://www.globalrichlist.com

When I’m feeling impoverished and deprived because I can’t afford a new tech toy, I log on here and get a reality fix.

Just so you don’t get the wrong idea, I don’t come anywhere close to living up to the goal.

Eric

What would Jesus drink?