Just a few scenes from my biz trip this week:
On my after-dinner, 3+ mile hike tonight, I saw these cool lighted trees … backyard project???
A ton of Tweets flooding the wire…
NoiseTrade has to be one of my favorite sites for finding new music…
If you are not familiar with NoiseTrade, check it out – click on the image to start exploring!
ENJOY!!!
The WordPress, thedailypost.com post prompt on Wednesday was “Describe your first encounter with a celebrity.”
…while this may not be my first celebrity encounter, it was memorable none the less.
Approximate Date: February 2004
Place: Bellagio Hotel & Casino, Osterio del Circo, Las Vegas.
Celebrity: Ed McMahon
The Story
I was in Las Vegas for a business meeting and Karen came along for the trip (the chance to stay at the Bellagio was hard to pass up.) We didn’t have a view of the strip or The Fountains, but it was an experience. Catching “O” from the 4th row was an experience as well!
Anyway, partway into one of the group dinner functions, Karen excused herself to use the restroom. My wife is celebrity junkie and she came back excited that she had seen Ed McMahon checking in at the restaurant. We joked about it and went on with our meal.
This verse punched me this morning:
He [Hezekiah] … broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it.
2 Kings 18:4 (NIV)
wow, silly Israelites. (be honest, you know you’ve thought that when reading the Bible. We’d never do the stuff “they” do…)
Yet, how easy it is for us to misplace our worship…even when “good” things are involved.
We focus on a song, a place, a person, a building, a sermon, a feeling, a ministry, a cause, etc. and the way they impacted, made, or make us feel…
… instead of focusing on God.
We assign value to and worship our personal or church-created “bronze snakes” rather than our awesome, holy, and forever-worthy God.
Friday and Sunday were HUGE for those who follow Jesus. Those days, the things that Christ did and accomplished are what distinguish the Christian life and worship from other religions. We worship a risen savior!
At the some time, it’s easy to get caught observing them, celebrating them in a macro sense: “For God so loved the world…”
I pray that we also observe and celebrate them just as much in a micro sense: “For God so loved <insert your name here>…”
Christ suffered, died, and rose for the world and for each person personally at the same time.
Don’t miss that.
Continue Reading…
MY REDEEMER LIVETH.
ANON.
“I Know that my Redeemer lives,”
What comfort that sweet sentence gives !
He lives ! He lives ! who once was dead :
He lives, my everlasting Head !
He lives, triumphant from the grave ;
He lives, eternally to save.
He lives, all glorious in the sky;
He lives, exalted there on high;
He lives, to bless me with his love;
He lives, to plead my cause above;
He lives, to upbind and make me whole ;
He lives, to calm my troubled soul.
DENNARR(dot)COM 