50 Goals!

I have made 50 new goals - one for every year I have lived. I would highly recommend that you do the same. It's a good excerise. Some are big; some are small. I review them twice a week to keep me on task.

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In a few weeks the summer movies will start rolling out. A few that I am looking forward to are: Prince Caspin, Indiana Jones, Get Smart. All in all, looks to be a disappointing summer season of flicks. Thoughts?

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Is it harder to loose weight or keep it off?

I'm back!

Spent the last week in Dallas doing some odd jobs around my mother's house. It was great to spend a few days with her and eat some good "tex-mex". Some things are just worth the calories! I forgot how much I miss a good cheese enchilada smothered in queso.

Then, I went to Oklahoma City to pick up my daughter at Oklahoma Christian. We cleaned up her apartment (so she could get her deposit back), then hit the road for 20 hours.

Boy, it's good to be home! Seeing those snow covered mountians were a sight for sore eyes.

Working on my sermon series for this summer. We're doing a CBS - combined Bible study - our sermons, adult classes and small groups will evolve around the theme "Psalms in the Summer". Should be a great way to spend our summer!

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Six Razorbacks were taken in the NFL draft. Felix Jones went to the Cowboys! I'm not excited to see Darren McFadden in the Raiders uniform. Oh, well. I'll be a McFadden fan but will continue to hate the Raiders.

Sunday Night Relfections

Finished "The Purity Principle" sermon series this morning with "Getting Radical About Purity". I was really nervous about this series. I studied. I prayed. I read upteen books. I prayed some more. I believe the church needs to talk more about these kinds of issues facing our society.

All of the sermons, along with powerpoint slides (we're working on getting the slides posted) are posted on Southside's website.

We also concluded our shepherd selection process with two new men being affirmed as spiritual shepherds of our congregation. We will now be blessed with 6 men to shepherd, bishop and as elders of the band of believers. I am really blessed to be working with such godly leaders.

Sermons now posted

Some of my most disappointing movies - "Praire Home Companion" is right up there, along with "Eragon" "The Firm" (why make a movie of a book if you change the story?). Have a movie that you were looking forward to yet were disappointed in?

We now have the first two sermons of the Purity Principle now posted on our church's website (www.southsidechurchutah.org).

The NBA playoffs begin this weekend. Have a favorite? The Jazz and Lakers both seem to be hitting their strides. Should be interesting. The champion should come from the west.

Purity Principle

Can't believe it's been almost a month since my last blog. My laptop crashed again -- the fourth hard drive that Best Buy has installed. Thanks to Utah's lemon law -- it happens again and I get a new laptop!

Been preaching on "Purity Principle: God's View of Sex" for the last several weeks. The response has been incredible! They have been recorded. We hope to have them posted on the Southside website very soon.

I've read some great resources for this series. "The Purity Principle," "Passion and Purity" "Sex is not the Problem; Lust Is!" "Techinque to Intimacy" "Interviewing Your Daughter's Dates" are a few of the books I researched for the lessons.

Went to see "Leatherheads" the other night. Pretty disappointing. Can you think of some movies that you had high hopes for but it just didn't deliver for you? What are some of your all time movie disappointments?

It's good to be back.