i definitely have friends who do this…

you know who you are…. 

tonight i discovered/decided that crock pot liners are the greatest invention ever.

I thought this was pretty darn cool…

THIS is very good. 

very good.

go read it.

now.

stop reading this and go read IT!

flip, flip

my dad read this exerpt to us on Monday night.  It encouraged me greatly.

“Have you ever been to the optician to get your eyes checked?  You
press your face up to a device that allows the doctor to flip through
what feels like three hundred lenses.  Of course, your sight may not be
as bad as mine.  As he flips from one lens to the next, your sight gets
sharper bit by bit.  I think this is what God does in our lives.  Like
an expert optician, he flips the eyes of our faith through the exact
combination of circumstances – one lens after another – necessary for
gradually sharpening our spiritual sight.  With each passing
circumstance, with each flip of the lens, we learn to rely on him a bit
more  ‘Can you learn to display my sufficiency and my glory with this
circumstance in your life?  or without that one?’  One lens, and then
another.  ‘Will you display my glory to my creation even if I take that
thing you love away from you?  or if I never give you this other thing
that you desire?’  Flip, flip.  ‘What if I ask you to go through these
difficulties?’  And on and on, each flip sharpening the eyes of faith a
bit more.  That is the call he gives us, and how he works out our
salvation.”

— Mark Dever, The Message of the New Testament: Promises Kept p275

typo

part of my job at the church involves the production of the bulletin each week.  checking the calendar for upcoming events, crafting announcement text, consulting with our administrator, printing the sheets, having them chopped, running them through the folding machine, and leaving them downstairs for greeting team to distribute. 

it’s a fairly routine part of the job.

well, being the flawed individual that i am, sometimes, even after getting a 2nd set of eyes on the announcements, typos still slip through. 

like this sunday.

the announcement for our next new member’s class – which is called Starting Point – ended up like this:
———
New Members Class: Are you interested in learning more about Sovereign Grace Church?  Please join us for our 10-week “Staring Point” class that will help you understand more about who we are, what we believe, and how God has called us to walk out our mission.  It begins next Sunday, January 27th, and meets from 8:30-9:30am on Sunday mornings.  For more information, or to sign up for the class, please visit the information center in the foyer after the meeting.
———

now, besides the fact that next Sunday is the 20th and not the 27th, the very title of the class gives it a whole new meaning! 

in honor of this typo, the lovely and talented luz crafted a flyer for this special class —

i about died laughing.

confession: i like kids music.

some kids music i like because it’s reminiscent of my childhood.  the words and fills come rushing back and i can sing (and in some cases – dance) along as if it were yesterday…

but some kids music i really like because it’s exactly what my soul needs.

recently i’ve been listening to Awesome God,

the children’s cd that Sovereign Grace Ministries produced a couple years ago, as well as Treasure the Word: Ephesians, the scripture memory verse song album that our church put out last month.

both cds have been a particular blessing to me over the last couple months.  i think it’s because the truths that are being sung are either 1) direct scripture or 2) simple yet profound truths about God’s character that have important ramifications for my life and that i desperately need to be reminded of again. 

today i’m thankful for kids music.