Thanks to those of you who voted in last week’s poll about how long Blake can keep his car clean. Here are the results:
<1 week: 45%
1-2 weeks: 36%
3-4 weeks: 18%
>1 month: 0%
It will stay clean: 0%
I understand from Blake that the cleaning is taking place in phases so it’s not quite cleaned out completely yet. So you still have a chance to vote in the poll if you’d like.
Here’s what I found this week:
If Blake’s tweet is true, this may be the last installment of this series for a while. He claims he is cleaning out his car. I hope to have pictures next week. Tell me…how long do you think it will take for Blake’s car to have random things in it again? Take the poll and let me know. I’ll post the results on Monday or Tuesday.
Set list:
Cliff spoke on a topic a lot of pastors get nervous about because it makes people uncomfortable – money. Now, it’s not a bad thing to have money but it is up to us to control our money and not let our money control us. Ultimately, finances are a spiritual issue. To hear the full message, go here.
On a related note, our co-pastor Donny has begun a blog. I wasn’t sure this would ever happen. (He still isn’t on Facebook or Twitter, but who knows what might happen?!) Donny’s blog is going to provide resources related to the weekly message as well as some other insights. I’d encourage you to read it.
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working at Liquid Highway (a locally-owned coffee shop). I’ve noticed some interesting things about people, but especially about how we seem to travel in packs even when we’re completely unaware of it. It never fails – business will be S-L-O-W (as in no one for an hour) and then all of a sudden there will be three cars in the drive-thru and two people at the counter – and it’s a random time of day. Then…nothing again. I’m sure these people don’t call each other to come at the same time nor do they sit in the parking lot waiting for more people to show up.
How many times has this happened to you? You walk into Target and there is no one at the registers but when you get ready to go and check out, every lane that is open is full. Why does that happen? I’m sure there are people much smarter than me who can somehow explain this. Do they read my blog? Will they tell us why?
I just realized today the World Series is starting. I’m not sure I care. Why? Pretty simple, actually. The Red Sox aren’t playing. Am I that shallow? Yes. If they were playing in it, I would know it and would watch it. But since they aren’t, I now have that time to devote to other things. I’m not bitter – there’s just no need to watch it now.
In light of all that, I will still give my prediction: Phillies in 6 games (You didn’t think I’d actually pick the Yankees, did you?!) 
Saw this guy at Catalyst. This is really cool. He also did live-mixing of songs before the sessions. I need to find someone like this. Know anyone?
Don’t you wish you could sing five octaves like Shane? Wow.
This was one of the most incredible moments from the Catalyst conference – actually, it’s one of the most incredible moments I’ve experienced ever. While it is a little long, it’s well worth it. If you don’t have time to watch the whole thing, start at least at 3:45. Oh, and get your Kleenex.
If you’d like to know more about Compassion International and how you can make an impact like this, visit their website.
There were some cool moments at Catalyst that were very spiritual and deep. There were also some that weren’t very spiritual but were very cool. One of those Cliff mentions in this post. Another was the guys from Dude Perfect. These students from Texas A&M make some really incredible basketball shots. But they also are committed to Jesus and are using their hobby to make Him famous and to help kids around the world through a great organization called Compassion International. This quote is from Dude Perfect’s website:
“Ultimately, Dude Perfect is a group of college guys that follows Jesus. We didn’t plan on this type of interest in our videos and we’re incredibly grateful. We want to use this platform for something bigger than us.”
Here are a couple of their videos for you to enjoy:
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