Summer Blog Comments

Hey,

If you just happened upon this blog and noticed that there hasn't been any recent postings. Take heart. It's only a summer thing. If you want to know what I am thinking or meditating on stop by GC! Or by my house. Come to one of our beach days, don't miss out on GC Camp, or be a part of our largest invite nights ever! (free surfboard giveaway) Can't wait to see you this summer.

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Summer Sun

Ah! Summer. Well for some of us, summer has began. For the rest of you in a few short weeks you will be enjoying the slower paced days of the summer. The beach days, park days and so on and so forth. We get to enjoy the tans and burns and all that great stuff. But something has occurred to me the last couple of days. That no matter how much sun (burnt or otherwise) I get on my face, it seems that a zit will always be redder! (note: redder is a word that means more red) I had a "blemish" on my face recently, so I decided to use the power of the suns rays for good (and not evil) to vanquish said "blemish" off my face. Sadly, no matter how much sun I got the "blemish" kept increasing in it's shade of red!

You may or may not have noticed it, the fact of the matter is that no matter what great lengths we go to hide our blemishes, in truth God sees all. So rather than try and hide, just confess your sins, get right with God and have a great summer!

There's lots to do this summer, check back often. Bring a friend to GC, don't let "homework" be an excuse for why someone can't come.

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Airport Lines

One of my favorite past times is traveling via "jet airplane at 30,000 feet in the air". Many of us call it flying. Actually, I would be remiss to say that the actual fact of flying is my favorite so much as it is an anticlimactic event compared to the task of getting on the airplane. I often wonder what goes through the minds of the people who are waiting to get on the plane. Are they really even listening to what the flight attendant is saying? Do they understand that those who have seats in the middle of the plane or the back of the plane get loaded on last?! I will give some slack to those who have never flown on an airplane before, but for the 99.99999% who have flown, what is your problem?

On my return flight from Seattle a week ago, this phenomenon occurred again. The flight attendant began her routine of calling families with small kids and old people. 40 year old men, couples with no children and random people run to clog up the entrance of the gate. Meanwhile, the people who need assistance getting on the plane are locked out by people who can't even get on the plane yet. The plane isn't going to leave without them, their seat isn't going to be taken, they won't run out of meow mix (which is what they serve now that everyone is allergic to peanuts). It's mind-boggling. The pandemonium that hits people as they begin to call out the rows is even funnier. Now that their row has been called, they now have full license to "form" a darwinian line (survival of the fittest, where fittest means largest luggage and most dirty looks).

Ha! I love it. It's even better when they call the first class passengers (and row 6) to board after the assistance people, and poachers try and sneak on. As if the flight attendant forgot what rows were called. "Sorry, we're not boarding your row yet." Another one of my favorite things is mob mentality. If someone else in a undefined group begins to do something everyone else should. If someone makes a move for the gate everyone then panics and begins to rush towards the gate because they might now let them on! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

While they are mobbing towards the gate, I calmly walk by to the flight attendant b/c I am in row 6.

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PS Bring somebody to church!

New pictures up....

Thanks to Jay-el Cash-money we have put some new pics up on the website. Check em out. I am going to be preaching tomorrow afternoon at UCSD for the SONOFGOD festival. I will blog after that and let you know what's up! Bring somebody to GC.

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Oh, hi.

Hello, I just wanted to apologize for not updating the gallery, the GC camera has vanished into thin air! So we are looking high and low for it. In the meantime, if you have pics you took of GC email them to info@gcsocal.org and we will put them up.
Back in a few.


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The Long Awaited Dishwasher Post

The people have spoken! A new blog shall be written. It wasn't that hard was it? No. Just a stop by and say, "hey, I read the blog and think you are the best!" That's all, I am not looking for some sort of high praise or anything. Anyway, I have an observation I would like to pass along to the masses of GC. Actually, two.

1) Do the people who invent/ design dishwashers actually ever try and put dishes in them? Or do they just come up with a design that looks like it will hold dishes, bowls, cups, utensils, etc? I have yet to find a dishwasher that can hold my bowls straight up, instead they fall over on each other blocking out the powerful scrubbing bubbles of my brand name dishwasher detergent (whatever that means?). The only thing that works at all is the utensil holder. Which, in reality, is nothing more than a series of mesh boxes. I mean a genius it does not take to figure that one out. I think the standard for really great inventions will be the dishwasher that can really hold ANY type of dish. My suggestions is adjustable/ removable little holders. So, that if you wanted to wash giant pots and pans (cuz you're lazy like me, when it comes to washing dishes) that you could remove or adjust the holders. Or if you had a thousand plates and cups and bowls, you could adjust them as needed. Genius! It's a shame really, that some of the greatest ideas are locked up in the Kingdom of God. We need to start releasing our ideas into every arena of life. Even the "insignificant" ones.

2) This second observation is in relation to this past week's message. Don't live ordinary this week. Do something just oustide of ordinary. Do something extra-ordinary! Invite somebody to become extraordinary by giving their life to Jesus.

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Dodge This!

In reality, there are two things that I love. 1) The presence of God. 2) Hitting people in the head (mostly the face) with any sort of object (anything life-threatening or damaging excluded). That's why I loved GC last Thursday. A great combo of two of my favorite things. If you missed GC last week you missed out. We had one of the best party nights ever! We played dodgeball, or at least some derivative, we had the obstacle course setup, we had free pizza and best of all we had a great time worshiping and hearing the word in His Presence.

It's okay if you missed out last week, because there's another GC this Thursday (and a GC2 on Wednesday at UCSD). You have an opportunity to invite someone to experience the best youth church in So Cal. So come and be apart, don't dodge out on the presence of God. If you are going to dodge something dodge the fiery arrows of the devil!

See you Thursday! We are at Willow Court again this Thursday.

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