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Happy Birthday Laurie!

Today is Laurie’s 25th Birthday (for a third time :-)). As part of her celebration she took the day off and is enjoying some pampering at the spa today. I planed to take her to dinner tonight to California Pizza Kitchen but last night she mentioned she may prefer Johnny Carino’s instead. Either is fine with me. Just look forward to spending the evening with her.

On the topic of birthdays, saw this video today that gave me a chuckle. It’s been said that the key to a man’s heart is through his stomach – I guess it may be through his coffee mug too. But have no fear – I know all of you are concerned – I’m not using this video to suggest I got Laurie a cup of coffee for her birthday (although that might not be a bad idea ;-)).

You can’t have your coffee too

I talked with a local pastor about his new church plant last week.

I thought this was interesting. What’s your take on it?

“We want to be progressive,” the pastor said. “Our music is praise and worship music along with singing out of the hymnal. It’s a combination of the two.”

Then immediately after that comment his wife made sure to say, “But you won’t see us bringing coffee into the church. We’re bringing reverence into church.”

Does coffee take away reverence in church? Is progressive all about singing “praise and worship?” Can you be progressive and reverent at the same time – or are the two mutual exclusive? What makes a church progressive and what makes it reverent?

It was interesting that they said they wanted to reach out to the unchurched but then complained about visiting another local church where people sitting around them were talking during the service.

Could it be that those people were unchurched and weren’t aware of our “Christian way of doing things?”

There was a couple at my church yesterday that was sitting behind me and talking during the service as well. Personally I just tuned them out, but not everyone can do that. I know several people turned around and looked at them, but I wonder how many actually stopped and welcomed them. They didn’t look like anyone I recognized. I would guess it was one of the first times at our church. Hope they weren’t kicked out or sent to time-out for talking.