The youth devotional last night went well. I had all my notes together and seemingly presented it adequately enough. I would have gotten a picture of myself doing it, but it happened outside and in the dark. A flash photograph is just too distracting for these kids. Plus it makes me look kinda vain. But then again this whole webpage could make me look vain if taken the wrong way.
Mt. Juliet Elementary mentioned on the front page of today’s Tennessean. That school is a dump. They need to tear it down completely and build a new school from the ground up. I would avoid that school like the plague.

There’s an old Far Side cartoon which shows a kid in class raising his hand saying “Excuse me, teacher, my brain is full.”
And my brain is full. That’s what happens when you have a college professor….not a preacher….to come to preach on Sunday morning. He went overtime by about 35 minutes. Not that I am a big stickler for making sure preachers stay on time. This professor does this seminar all the time at various churches all over the US. So much of it sounded canned….as if you were listening to the same tape over and over. Robotic? Yes….
We did have 2 girls to get baptized today. What was weird was that about 15….yes…15 women and girls went “backstage” to the dressing room with them. I know that dressing room is not very big at all. Seems to be a trend these days to do this. It’s great to see support, but this is overkill. Give someone some breathing room. Give them a hug after they come out. Not while they are trying to change into dry clothes.
You know what Mt. Juliet needs? It needs an Office Max or Staples. Some kind of office supply store. I am tired of having to drive to Hermitage to get mailing envelopes. And I will need to get mailing envelopes for all these audio tapes that we are doing for this creation seminar at church.
That tv show “Freaks and Geeks” is the best thing to come along since “The Wonder Years.” Too bad they decided to cancel it. Normally they always keep the junk shows like “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” but they get rid of good shows like Freaks….

I hate the Sony Mavica digital cameras. I knew image quality on a 3.5 floppy disk wouldn’t be very good. And my suspicious were confirmed when I got a hold of some images from a Mavica. Terrible quality. Grainy. Small. Not worth the price of the camera. You could pay as much as $350 for one of these cameras. Or you could pay the same price for a Olympus C-3000 and get much better image quailty.
As I sat in yet another Creation Evolution seminar session today I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the kids who were there. Here they were suffering through what amounted to a upper level biology lecture. Their parents made them come so they could find out exactly where the dinosaurs came from.
Some people salivate when they get a chance to argue creation and evolution. It’s all a big conspiracy. Those sneaky scientists are always out to disprove I for one don’t believe the scientists had a big meeting so they could disprove creationism. I do believe that scientists are logical thinkers and therefore wouldn’t necessarily believe in a creator.
Attending a Christian college has made be grow tired with these type of discussions. In our biology classes, chapel, and Bible classes I’d hear the same arguments over and over again in regards to creationism and evolution. I don’t care anymore. This has been discussed way too long.

We had a Creation/Evolution Seminar at church Friday night. I’m not too terribly impressed with the speaker (more on that topic later).
When we arrived it was raining. I dropped off my sister and dad under the carport of the church. They kept asking me if I wanted an umbrella. Nope. After parking I calmly walked through the pouring rain to the building. I don’t melt when a drop of rain hits me.
On a side note, the topic of Creationism vs. Evolution is fiercely debated throughout the country. I don’t care. It isn’t keeping me up at night. I was taught evolution in schools, creationism in the church. I am not warped because of it. I know what I believe and why I believe it. I certainly wouldn’t expect them to teach creationism in schools. Maybe there could be an understanding that they shouldn’t teach any of it. Leave philsophical questions to the philosphy classes. Scientific facts belong in science class. Faith belongs in the church. Easy solution.

The church directories are supposed to be out soon. We actually had our pictures made at Christmastime, but somehow it took this long to get them. Anyways Kevin Bass gave me a CD from Olan Mills which contains pictures of the all the families at church. Sorta sad looking through this because some of the people have since stopped coming. Church is a revolving door of people. Just as some leave, more come in. Makes this directory out of date before it is even published.
I am afraid of change. Before being laid off I was pretty confident with myself and my abilities. Now, afterwards, I am not very confident with myself. I am somehow apprehensive about changing jobs…or actually going out on interviews. All of these job descriptions seem so overwhelming….

Today I talked to my minister, David Shannon, about my job situation. He gave some good advice. He told me to make as many contacts as possible. He gave me the names of some people to talk to at church. David is a very sincere person and is a good listener. I guess that’s why he is the preacher.
I’ve got to prepare a devotional for the pre-teen youth devotional this Sunday night after church. I’ve selected the topic of “Looking for Good Examples and Being a Good Example.” Hopefully I can get one prepared and be able to practice it several times before actually doing it. I’ve been told the kids requested that I give the devotional.
They played a new song on Lightning 100 called “The Last DJ” by Tom Petty. Pretty awesome song. I hope it will get some airplay on some of the mainstream stations.