Do you remember the old McDonald's chicken nugget commercial where the worker at some other fast food restaurant kept saying "parts is parts"? This Sunday we look to see if there's anything special about the parts we each play in the Body of Christ.
This Sunday we start a new series. One I'm very excited about. iCrave. We'll be thinking about temptations, cravings, and the things we want in life.
OK. One thing I can promise is that we WILL NOT be singing any circa 1984 Michael W. Smith songs this Sunday, but we will be talking about friendship.
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Friends. Spouses. Co-workers. Bosses. Brothers. Sisters. Parents. You can't live with 'em; and you can't live without 'em, right?
Our Road Trip continues next Sunday, March 25. It's going to be a great morning with some great music in both services. This week we talk about the ways and places we need to "pull over" and rest. When my youth group would travel to North Carolina every summer to go to Lake Junaluska, we'd leave at midnight so we could travel through the night. Invariably, the driver would get tired and so we'd pull off the highway at one of the rest stops so he could sleep for an hour before moving on. This was a way of ensuring the safety and success of the rest of our journey. What could happen if we did the same with our spiritual lives?
I grew up Catholic, so I remember my first confession very vividly. The priest was Father Swift. My first communion/first confession were supposed to be on Easter Sunday 1978 (or was it 1979?). But because of the floods across Mississippi that year everything got pushed back a week. After our family wandered over the United Methodist Church, I left thoughts of confession, Hail Mary's, acts of penitence, and communion every Sunday behind.