Dropped Calls, Roosters and Survivors

The last few days have been a blur.  Lots of traveling.  Lots of work.  Some random thoughts.  Here's a recap.

I finished The Davinci Code.  It was definitely off, but I have to say that I had a hard time putting it down.  It was a page turner.  The mystery and suspense reminded me of my childhood Hardy Boy collection.  I used to wait in anticipation for Franklin W. Dixon to finish his latest book.  I had to get it and read it before my friend Chris Horvath did.  If he got it first he would tell me the ending.  He loved to irritate me.

Phil Gocke and Emily Smith graduated from CBC last Thursday.  I'm glad I was be there to see it happen.  Emily was chosen by the faculty to deliver the keynote message for her graduating class.  As senior class president, Phil carried the American flag down the aisle.  I'm glad he didn't trip.  He could have impaled someone.  That would have put a damper on his graduation celebration.  I can't wait for both of these future church planters to get to our church this summer.

I drove four hours from Springfield, Missouri to St. Louis.  I used to drive that stretch all the time during College.  I forgot how boring it is.  After running the battery power out of my ipod I had to resort to calling through the numbers in my cell phone.  That's when I discovered something.  There is a direct corellation between places where the only radio station that comes in plays country music and places where Verizon has an unusually large amount of dropped calls.  Those places are the same.  Someone should do something about this.

I finished teaching the Conversations with Jesus series with a message called Roosters and Rowboats.  We had 3 more people surrender their lives over to Jesus.  Fantastico!  Supero!

I started reading The Divine Conspiracy after Rob Bell filled up the footnotes to Velvet Elvis with references to it.  Two thoughts.  One, I can't believe I waited this long to read it.  Two, Rob Bell has got it going on.  Seriously, who reads the footnotes?

I watched Mission Impossible 3 last night.  Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is a survivor.  Ethan Hunt is the original Jack Bauer.  Then tonight Ryan and I bounced between the boardroom in the apprentice and the water tank in NYC where David Blaine was submerged for 8 days under water.  Two more survivors.  Lee has been to the boardroom 8 times and yet lives to go again.  If he only has nine lives then he has to win out the rest of his tasks.  And this guy David Blaine...there's only one word that comes to mind.

Why?

Comments

[Katie]

I would have fired Lee a long time ago. I don't know why Trump has kept him around!

[blue_monkey]

Rob Bell's great, huh? I read Velvet Elvis right after it came out and have since listened to many archived messages from Mars Hill. The man's on fire!