Family

So we started a new series Sunday morning called, "Family Is..." The service went great. Worship had a great presence of God, Pastor Chris had a great message and the whole service just went really smooth. Family is a big topic this time of year with the holidays. Sometimes we take family for granted and let it become familiar, but family is truly the best part of life. Family is like a business and the parents are the CEO, the kids the employees (funny thought) and so on. God is the founder, president, chief, head honcho. In a family God has to be first in order to operate a successful family. Then goes the marriage, because so goes the marriage so goes the kids. You can't let the kids run the business. So many times in marriages I think the kids become the focus and the marriage just falls apart. The marriage has to be the foundational rock in a family. Spouses stay kids leave. We train a child in the way they should go and then they go. The spouse stays forever. The marriage is the very heartbeat of a family. The stronger the marriage the stronger the family becomes. That's why it is so vital to have time as a couple to grow, enjoy, & romance each other. When those things go so goes the marriage out the window. So this series will be great talking about God's heart for family and how important it is. After all God uses the metaphor for the Kingdom of heaven, the church to be the family of God. The Bible talks about the family to be a mirror of the structure of God's kingdom and heart. We need to reiterate God's structure in our family, demonstrate God's love in our family, and communicate God's word in our family.

Speaking of family, my beautiful, amazing, talented, strong, genius, gorgeous, God-loving, honoring, sweet, gracious, compassionate, soft yet firm, purpose-driven, smokin' hot, great cooking, caring, home-school teaching, inquisitive, self learner, encouraging, supporting, understanding, super fun, best friend, loving, God-fearing, great leader, hard working, servant, thoughtful, humble, funny (laughs at her own jokes), piano learning, take charge, make it happen, giving, selfless, really great MOM, stunning wife is heading up VBS 2010 next year. She is CRAZY pumped about this. God has given her a HUGE vision to see not only our children at the church be impacted but salvation come to the children of our community. She is planning BIG for a BIG GOD. We made a video (well she basically told me everything to do for the video I just put the pieces together for her) for Sunday morning. Really though she planned this whole video out and I just carried out the notes she left me. We played this video Sunday morning as she pitched the vision for VBS 2010. My new slogan for this is, "VBS 2010, YOU BETTER BE IN"