The link to my sermon is here: Conflicted Minds, Holy Hearts I thought it would be fun and make the Word file an Adobe File so if you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader yet, then you need to go here:
to Download it (FREE) to view the sermon. This is a great program that almost all of you should have on your computer anyway, so just download it (if you do not have it already). Lots of company's use this program to create forms and other things that they do not want you to mess with in a format you can see, but not change. I really hope that this sermon (even though it is long) can be a blessing to all of you!Also the website JustPeaceumc.org has a great brochure talking about how to deal with conflict as a Christian. I had copies of their brochure in the Narthex for people to pick up just in case they ever get into conflict and need some help. BTW: the brochure is in a Adobe Reader format too (.pdf file extension) so for you to read that one then you need Adobe reader...see told you that it is a program you should just have on your computer!
Also, I thought a few of you might like to know that they finally named the next StarWars film:
A fitting title if you ask me, since at the end of this one all hope is lost until a little man by the name of Luke Skywalker shows up on the scene. Oh man I can not wait for this movie!
Oh yeah, and if none of you have ever done one of these it can really suck you into them, but a new thing going around now days is internet enigmas. At least that is what I call them...other people call them Alternate Reality Gaming. It is basically a form of a game that involves really had clues and text hidden in the html of web pages, and even hidden text inside photos and jpegs. So it is a real computer nerds example of fun, but they can started one for the soon to be released Halo2 game for the Xbox. And if any of you want to be sucked into ARG, then be my guest this one is not too hard, but man it blows me away to see the ways that people hide things in the riddles and clues. It all started with the Halo2 movie trailer showing in theaters across the country in Lowes movie theaters. At the end of the movie trailer is has a website titled ilovebees.com. This website will send you to a web site that looks like it has been hacked, but the messages are found all over the place, and then you can go to a blog titled ilovebees, and then to other blogs. These games are always meant to be played as a ground of people so you can go to places like this website to read about the history of the ARG and help with deciphering the clues and such. Just a really cool way of getting you to spend a little more time waiting for the game to come out and then the ARG will tie into the actually game so it really is lots of fun. A warning to any of you who want to play.....these things pride themselves into blurring the lines between reality and fiction, so if you call the phone number listed on a website then you get a message that you would expect to hear. Some of these games have gone so far as to call you and leave messages to make the game more immersive. Yeah, it is cool...if you like that sort of thing and you never know what is part of the game and what is not and someone just playing around with the gamers.
Well, seen some other cool stuff that I will save for later. God bless you all! oh yeah...
Jay Update:
Well, he is doing fine in his second round of intensive chemo, and they have now knocked off his last (one of two...can't remember) rounds of chemo and will be doing a Stem Cell Transplant after they do one more intensive round of chemo, so please KUTP!!!! Jay loves and thanks each of you for all the prayers and support! I even feel it and it is wonderful! Thanks again!
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2 comments:
Deeg,
Excellent sermon on a difficult topic. I don't know the circumstances behind the need for that type of sermon, but you did a great job of telling the truth while gently stepping on toes, and, most importantly, keeping it all scripturally-based. Keep on doing this and you might make a preacher yet. 2 Tim 4:1-5.
CB
Thanks Cody. Yeah Biblical is what you get by going to Asbury Seminary, won't find too much else in my sermons...or I will not consider that I preacheed the Word. (Which I believe there is nothing else anyone should be preaching, heh) Thanks again, and actually it was not hard to preach, sure some people felt I was yelling at them, but honestly I was just excited about Jesus' words. If they did not like the topic then they will have to not like what Jesus said, because the sermon is as much scripture as I could make it. Love ya man!
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