Wow! What a weekend!
So... it all started with the Phil Wickham concert. Freshflow promoter, Pam Evans, brought this superb musician to Zeke's in Ames because she felt that a man with this much heart and talent needed a bigger venue than what she had available to her in eastern Iowa.
Well... Kristen, Rex, and I (along with 90ish other people) were blessed by Phil's music and his stories. It was a great time. Here's one of the songs he sang. It's not at Zeke's. Sorry about that.
Then I tried something new at church this past Sunday (10/5). I decided to do a message without notes, using only powerpoint. I felt that I knew enough of the subject matter (Creation/ Genesis... it will be up on the Stonebrook site soon) that I didn't need to restrict myself to notes on a page. So I just set my phone to ring at the allotted time (I shot for 20 minutes but landed at 30) and went for it. Other than talking fast to get it all in, many people told me that it was exceptional. To Him be the glory.
Then, after the message, a sister in our church that I had been talking to about the Walking with Dinosaurs Live event in Des Moines, came up to me and offered me 3 free tickets to the final show later that day. Wow! I could hardly believe what I was hearing. So I humbly accepted and Nina, Wayne, and I went... and Rex went too buying a ticket with his own money since he is gainfully employed with the Tribune these days.
The animatronic dinosaurs were truly incredible. We had a spectacular time... although it was tainted with billions of years of evolutionary philosophy by the MC, but you come to expect that in a today's world.