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Apparently NBC is giving away free buttons as an attempt to get support for their shows in the upcoming Emmy race. I ordered The Office, Conan, Heroes, SNL and by far "the best show on TV that no one watches" Friday Night Lights. Seriously, the character development in the show is outstanding.
Go here to order your free buttons.
Last Sunday's message is now available on podcast or you can listen to it here.
Every time I am at my friend, Hiram Rios', house he makes his famous cafe con leche. It is the best way to feed my caffeine addiction. Not sure it's a good thing Janie went out and bought our very own aerolatte. I took my first shot at it tonight and I must admit it was really good. Not as good as yours, Hiram, so you still have to make mine when I come over next time!
Cooking is so much more fun when it's a family endeavor. Janie and I saw an article in the latest GQ on proper grilling techniques and it fired us up ... fired, get it ... (ugh) to try grilling ribs on our Weber charcoal grill. We had already decided Memorial Day would be a day we would just spend together so this was the perfect occasion to try it.
While Janie worked on all the sides, I prepared the ribs. This meal has gone down as one of the top three of my entire life. The whole experience: the food, the perfect weather, the beautiful girl (not in that order). It was a great day.
The only bad decision was to cap off the day with the movie, "No Country for Old Men." I have no idea how this movie won so many awards. It had potential but the last 1/2 of the movie was unwatchable. The only part of Memorial Day I'd like to forget.
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Sunday was a great day for The Pursuit. I have compared church planting to a roller coaster before and right now we are heading down one of the hills (the tingling sensation in the stomach included).
- Being Memorial Day weekend we expected many of our regular attenders to be gone. We were right. What we didn't expect was Sunday being one of the largest groups of 1st and 2nd time guests we've ever had.
- We kicked off the WeLoveSoFlo campaign
- The Big Idea for Sunday was: We become good news to South Florida when we love like Jesus.
- We looked at how Jesus was good news to people around him just by living the life God created us for. As we follow Jesus, we need to be good news as well.
- South Florida has more than its share of obstacles right now. It seems to be a growing trend in SoFlo to complain about the problems instead of looking for ways to love the community. Acts 17:26 reveals to us God "determines the times set for (men and women) and the exact places where they should live." In other words, he has placed us in South Florida for a purpose and I believe that purpose is to be good news in tangible ways. Sorry the podcast isn't up yet. I think we are having some technical difficulties on that. I'll post it when it's up.
- We developed the "WeLoveSoFlo" card (see below) and challenged everyone to do something "good" for someone else this week and pass on the card and encourage them to do the same.
- We also launched the WeLoveSoFlo Community website which is a place we can tell our stories of how we were good news.
- I am really excited about the potential of this movement. Everyone left on Sunday grabbing extra cards and thinking of creative ways they could be good news!
The Pursuit Christian Church is declaring it's love for South Florida!
Check out the website at www.welovesoflo.com.
Join the community at www.welovesoflo.ning.com.
Although WeLoveSoFlo was launched by The Pursuit, we encourage everyone to participate - individuals, families, businesses, civic groups, governments, churches - anyone who loves South Florida and wants others to do the same.
Found an article in the Boston Globe (of all places) about the Miami music scene from 2007. In it is a few paragraphs about one of our artists, Raul Morera, who uses his amazing talent to lead others in worship at The Pursuit. Several people are now part of the church because of Raul's invitations. His drummer Sugeily also plays in the band on Sundays.
Most Saturday nights they are out until 3:00 a.m. but are absolutely committed to being up early on Sunday morning for rehearsal and sound check.
Janie and I are going to a club in Coral Gables tonight to catch his band live.
Janie and I just got our passports! I officially feel like an adult. I want to fill this baby up.
Where should we go first?
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