Preaching/Oscar Thoughts

1) I’m very excited to sit down.

2) Water.

3) Did anyone listen?

4) I should take a nap… but I know I won’t.

5) The Artist… Made possible by the Americans, twice.

6) Hugo = Adele of the Academy Awards

7) Ryan Seacrest had ashes dumped on him. I was joy filled.

8) Every time Billy Crystal opened his mouth I heard Monsters Inc.

9) Watching the Oscars with good friends made it worth watching.

10) I ate bacon three times this weekend & used it for making a point in my sermon twice.

Things I Struggle With...

1) Loving The Avett Borthers, NEEDTOBREATHE, The Civil Wars, Adele (Ahem-Taylor-Swift-ahem), and Mumford & Sons too much.

2) Agnostics: I was one. And I love logic.

3) Moralistic Therapeutic Deism: The American Church’s fake Gospel. It’ll make sound truth of Matthew 7:21-22.

4) Lady Gaga: What’s a ‘gaga?’

5) ‘Christians’ taking their list of conscionable (extra-biblical) morals and placing it on everyone (i.e. legalism).

6) Folks that ask for advice then don’t take the advice. The Three Musketeers had a quote about that, “As a general rule, 'he had once said, 'people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.'-Athos”

7) WSU’s Earth Science class, last week we learned about Mars (?!?), and all the videos are from 1980, so mullets prevail.

8) Jalapeño Cheez-its. They look like the original, but they are most definitely not the original, surprise!

9) Straight evolution: If it was Theistic evolution I might could understand a bit more, but straight up undiluted evolution makes me go, “Whoa, that’s a lot of faith,”

10) The Silmarillion, it’s good, but you need to focus to read it.