Marc’s Musings

Just read this from SmallChurchPastor.com:

“The four hardest jobs in America are the president of the United States, a university president, a CEO of a hospital, and a pastor.” - Peter Drucker

This past weekend, 20 VCW’ers went out into various parts of our community handing out free boxes of Peeps and inviting people to the Vineyard Church for Easter. They had a blast! They gave away 240 in all!

Even if you didn’t get the Peeps, you’re invited to our place for Easter.

Click here for a link to the virtual invitation.

From Ransomed Heart’s daily email:

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Remembering Our Glory
03/30/2007

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Every woman is in some way searching for or running from her beauty and every man is looking for or avoiding his strength. Why? In some deep place within, we remember what we were made to be, we carry with us the memory of gods, image-bearers walking in the Garden. So why do we flee our essence? As hard as it may be for us to see our sin, it is far harder still for us to remember our glory. The pain of the memory of our former glory is so excruciating, we would rather stay in the pigsty than return to our true home. We are like Gomer, wife of the prophet Hosea, who preferred to live in an adulterous affair rather than be restored to her true love.

We are the ones to be Fought Over, Captured and Rescued, Pursued. It seems remarkable, incredible, too good to be true. There really is something desirable within me, something the King of the universe has moved heaven and earth to get. George Herbert reached for words to express his wonder:

My God, what is a heart That thou shouldst it so eye and woo Powering upon it with all thy art As if thou hadst nothing else to do? (Mattens)

King David used a similar refrain:

What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. (Ps. 8:4–5)

(The Sacred Romance , 95–96)

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From The Ransomed Heart, by John Eldredge, reading 89
Ransomed Heart Ministries www.ransomedheart.com

The worst place to be in a power outage is in a windowless bathroom.

Take it from me.

Our sending church, the Vineyard Church of Lewiston, moved into it’s now 1000 seat sanctuary last Sunday.

So my creative wife videotaped and edited what she calls a “video bouquet” as a housewarming gift for them.

Enjoy!

The link to the video is at: http://www.vcwaterville.org/lewistongreeting.html

Yesterday in my sermon, I said “half-asked” twice.

I got home to have the two adults tell me I said “half-assed”! Oy! I didn’t even know that term existed! They swore that “half-asked” wasn’t a term.

Thank God for Google. Evidently my term is a term but a softening of half-assed. Who’d have thunk it?

At the Eggcorn Forum it says:

A half-assed effort is one that is unplanned, incompetent, or ambivalently undertaken. ‘Half-asked’ nicely expresses the similar idea of partial or indifferent motivation.

What is half-assed any way? One cheek?

It’s muddy out there! It must be officially Mud Season.

Where the rest of the country is celebrating the March 21st start of spring, we’re playing in the dirt.

For those of you from away, in Maine, we celebrate four seasons:

• Winter
• Mud Season
• Spring
• Fall

Summer is the two or three days in between Spring and Fall.

…to pray that Rocky get’s voted out at the tribal council?

One of the most pressing questions heard in our living room last night.

Unfortunately, he’s still in!

[3/30 Update: He isn't any more!!]

It’s official! The Subaru is totaled.

I’m now a happy Prius owner!!

I’m playing with a new Amazon.com WordPress plugin from manalang.com.

Here’s what I’m currently reading.

• Hardy Boys The Secret Warning (Caleb’s recommendation)
• Paul: The Man and the Teacher in the Light of Jewish Sources by Risto Santala
• Communities of Kindness by Steve Sjogren
• Wild at Heart by John Eldridge
• Epic by John Eldridge
• Waking the Dead by John Eldridge
• The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
• The Book of Acts (TNIV)
• Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes by Andy Goodman

Did I mention I read multiple books at one time?