This past weekend was awesome!

1) We had a total of five weekend services (three regularly scheduled and two Christmas
eve services). I preached in all of them! Can you say “TIRED”?

2) I wrapped up our sermon series entitled, “What Do You Want?” In this series we
taught that Jesus offers hope, peace, joy, and love. It was an exciting series, and a
refreshing one for me! It’s really cool to just focus on Jesus! Here’s a link to the sermon
on Sunday (the one on love). (Keep in mind that links to the sermon are the notes that
I have in front of me when I preach. At this point I have not begun editing the sermons
for online reading. Some of the things in the sermon I say and some things that I say
aren’t on the manuscript).

3) Anthony led the worship in the Saturday night service! He is going to be a great
addition to our team! I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about him from you!

4) Jeff planned the coolest Christmas eve service I’ve ever seen! At our 11 p.m. service
we took communion at the manger! Great call Jeff!

5) This weekend we had 669 people for our regularly scheduled services, and 821 people
at our Christmas eve services!

6) At our 7 p.m. service I gave a straightforward gospel message (here’s the sermon).

7) At the 11 p.m. service I did something I’ve never done before… I called the people to
nine points of meditation. It was a cool experience for me and several others
commented that they too enjoyed the meditative mood. Here are the meditations.

8)What a great weekend! I think I enjoyed this Christmas more than I have any other in
a long time!