"Hi am a Mac and I'm a PC".... have you seen the comercials? Have you taken sides on this major issue of life?
I have been a mac user for over 15 years and I live and die by them. This last week I faced a serious challenge when my / churches mac laptop hardrive died. I have no problems with macs in 15 years, and this was a big one. Two days before Easter, planning a head to the discussion series, a lot of creative materials, e-mail addresses, church documents and much more untouchable. Man it was scramble.
I ended up using a Dell PC this last weekend (still using this Monday morning)to pull off the service. It was a lot tougher... really! I have to admit that the PC software did the job and did not lock up, but it but was really hard switching platforms.
With my laptop being three years old, a dead hard drive and growing visual and creative needs... we are taking a big step forward. This week we plan on purchasing a Dual processor mac. It will handle both the Mac creative stuff that I use, and allow the tight system that I have trusted these 15 years, and allow us to use some PC worship software. Many have enjoyed the friendly debate of Mac/ PC at Journey and I'm sure that it will continue. But for the record... we use a mac... that happens to be able to work with PC software. Now that I have that off my chest :)
Monday, April 09, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
God Speaks
Have you ever wonder if or how God speaks to people? Does God still speak to people today?
As I read the scriptures, I find it interesting that God spoke to many different people in many different ways. God spoke through visions, light, angels, people and even a donkey. As I read and ponder that, I wonder how does he speak to me?
There have been several times in my life when I sensed or felt God "speak" to me. No there was no audiable voice, but there was a unmistakeable sense of clarity of thought and ideas. Idea, thoughts, even words that were clearly not of my own creation or planning came together. Asking my wife to marry me was clearly one of those moments. I could not sleep and I clearly remember "hearing" God inpress on my to not missout on a life with our her. Launching and plantiing Journey was clearly a vision and dream that God communicated to me. It was so clear and vivid long before it ever came to be.
This week I had another experience when God "spoke" to me. I had already prepared my next message series for after Easter, even began promoting it and putting together visual elements. Then God spoke through the actions of my wife and oldest daughter, Abbi, as they were spring cleaning. God showed me a perfect message series about how to teach and demonstrate how we as Jesus followers get to put on the "new nature / new clothes" and change. It was so clear, so powerful in a half-hour the 6 week series was thumb-nailed out. Then today, I had an entire "Mothers Day" service featuring two special guest planned, lined up and confirmed within an hour! It was like a switch was turned on and had to get the pieces all put together right away. And it happened so amazingly fast! It was exciting and fun to go with God's voice and vision. My other series will follow this new one. A revisied newsletter is in the works and I am so pumped to see what God does over the next month.
More and more I hear God at the oddest times and it is powerful and clear.
Taking a shower in the morning, after 11 p.m. and especially as I am alone in the car driving.
I look forward to these moments with God. I am getting more and more comfortable "Hearing and sensing" his voice and visions. How does God speak to you? Are listening? God knows that I am visual person and he uses that to talk to me.
God knows each of us, inside and out and he knows what to use to "speak" to us. Are you looking, listening and ready to respond?
As I read the scriptures, I find it interesting that God spoke to many different people in many different ways. God spoke through visions, light, angels, people and even a donkey. As I read and ponder that, I wonder how does he speak to me?
There have been several times in my life when I sensed or felt God "speak" to me. No there was no audiable voice, but there was a unmistakeable sense of clarity of thought and ideas. Idea, thoughts, even words that were clearly not of my own creation or planning came together. Asking my wife to marry me was clearly one of those moments. I could not sleep and I clearly remember "hearing" God inpress on my to not missout on a life with our her. Launching and plantiing Journey was clearly a vision and dream that God communicated to me. It was so clear and vivid long before it ever came to be.
This week I had another experience when God "spoke" to me. I had already prepared my next message series for after Easter, even began promoting it and putting together visual elements. Then God spoke through the actions of my wife and oldest daughter, Abbi, as they were spring cleaning. God showed me a perfect message series about how to teach and demonstrate how we as Jesus followers get to put on the "new nature / new clothes" and change. It was so clear, so powerful in a half-hour the 6 week series was thumb-nailed out. Then today, I had an entire "Mothers Day" service featuring two special guest planned, lined up and confirmed within an hour! It was like a switch was turned on and had to get the pieces all put together right away. And it happened so amazingly fast! It was exciting and fun to go with God's voice and vision. My other series will follow this new one. A revisied newsletter is in the works and I am so pumped to see what God does over the next month.
More and more I hear God at the oddest times and it is powerful and clear.
Taking a shower in the morning, after 11 p.m. and especially as I am alone in the car driving.
I look forward to these moments with God. I am getting more and more comfortable "Hearing and sensing" his voice and visions. How does God speak to you? Are listening? God knows that I am visual person and he uses that to talk to me.
God knows each of us, inside and out and he knows what to use to "speak" to us. Are you looking, listening and ready to respond?
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