Well, I'm finally getting over the trip to Lubbock this past weekend. It was great to get to see old friends, and some of them are really looking old...not me of course. We got to attend worship at Calvary. First time I've been in a service there since we left in 2000. Great auditorium. Dr. Richard Rush is the pastor there now and he did a great job with the service. Didn't realize when we went that it was VBS Encore. Mandy leaned over at 11:40 AM to remind me that Richard still hadn't preached. We thought it was going to be a long service but we were out at 12 Noon.

This Sunday morning, I have the opportunity to preach at our church. I preaching about worship. The sermon title is "Worship: It's Not About Me." Worship has to be one of my favorite topics to preach about. So many of us really don't have a clue what worship is. We try to make it about us-our style of music or instrumentation, our style of preaching-don't want anything that might make us move out of our comfort zones. There's also a lot of us who have lost our passion for worship. We just go through the motions of worship. In Amos 5, God chastised the Israelites for just going through the motions. It's not worship. Worship has to be whole hearted, passionate seeking of God that calls us to respond to Him.

Matthew West has a great song out right now entitled "The Motions." Think about these words this week as you worship God individually and corporately.

I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wannt spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything, instead of going through the motions?"

What about you? Are you tired of going through the motions? I hope you'll wholeheartedly search for God. And when you find Him, you fall at His feet in worship.

Here We go

It's been a long time since I did any blogging. This may be a totally stupid idea because I often wonder if I have anything to say that's worth reading. I guess this site will be a place that I can place some random thoughts or post what God is saying to me. Hopefully it will be of some use to people, if anyone ever reads this.