Randomness from the weekend…
- Nice weekend in Vegas the past few days … 80s
- Played some golf
- Watched some girls volleyball. Kayleigh is getting really good.
- Took Zac and his buddy Mark to see The Karate Kid. It was actually a very good movie. The theater was packed and people broke into applause on numerous occasions.
- Watched UFC on Saturday night. IceMan should retire. Great fighter in his day but his days are over.
- I survived watching A LOT of punching on Saturday without actually punching anyone.
- Sunday was another solid day at GP.
- It is great to see new people step up and lead in our band. Good stuff.
- The Big I is getting a lot of positive feedback.
- This series is so relevant b/c it is a subject with which we deal every day of our lives.
- I didn’t really understand the depth of idolatry until I began this series.
- This week I taught on the story of Abraham and Isaac. God taught me some fresh lessons this week from this story.
- Some of the highlights of the message:
“Acquiring your heart’s deepest desire can turn out to be the worst thing to ever happen to you”
“We will worship something or someone and without divine intervention the object of our worship will never be God”
“Seeking to find meaning and value in anything/one outside of God will eventually destroy your heart”
“Abraham’s greatest desire would eventually become his greatest heart test”
“Was Abraham trusting God because He was God or because He was a means to an end?”
“Will I trust God even when it does not make sense to do so?”
“WE will go and WORSHIP and WE will come back to you (Abraham’s faith)”
“Abraham’s test was about loving God supremely”
“God’s test was merciful”
“Will I let God be God in my life and in the lives of those around me?”
“The true sacrifice for Isaac was not the ram but the Lamb of God”
“God wants to be all that we need and this only happens through the gospel”
“You don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have”
“God deals with the destructive idols in our lives not to wound us but to complete us”
- Usually our best series are the ones that flow from God’s work in my own life.
- My older brother Dale from West Palm Beach was at GP yesterday.
- Really enjoying the Lakers-Celtics series. Great game again last night.
- Lesson from last night’s game: a great leader still needs a support cast around him. We can’t do it alone.
- I love the more relaxed environment we have around GP during the summer. The heat creates it and we always need it.
I think that’s about it. Enjoy your week.
Devin