a weekend summary

This weekend was a great weekend.  It all started Friday.  Can you believe that? Friday night Em and I went to the Louisiana State Fair.  As you can imagine there were a lot of weird things at the fair.  The one that caught my attention the most were 4 high school boys who were strutting their stuff.  The only problem is that its hard to look "hot" when all 4 friends are carrying stuffed animals around the fair with no women along side of them.  I'm sure they thought they looked cool knocking milk bottles over with a baseball, making a basket or tossing a pingpong in a fish bowl.  I wonder if they thought about what it looked like afterwards?  Actually I know the answer to that question but I wonder how long it took them to figure out.  However a highlight came out of the state fair.  Fried snickers bars are really good.  If you have the chance to try one do it!  

Saturday morning I woke up and my wife and I went to Robert Church of God for their fall festival.  It was so cool to see around 50 volunteers helping face paint, entertain, ride horses, give hay rides, watch inflatables and serve food.  All of this was free too!  What a caring church!  I think my favorite part was watching one of the volunteers accidentally lift up a flap to one of the inflatables and let go of it only for that flap to fling back and knock this little kid down.  The kid laughed so hard.  You could tell the kid wanted the worker to do it again.  He just stood there and waited.  Very cute and funny.

Later that evening we had a couple of students from a local church in Baton Rouge come over.  We watched some football and played nintendo wii.  They are some cool peeps!

Sunday I drove over 2 hours to Lake Charles Louisiana to preach at a youth service.  I spoke on "A shot at love" playing off of mtv's television hit "a shot at love".  Talking about the need to understand what true love really looked like I gave them examples of what love "isn't".

Love isn't about...

I ntentions

S elf

N atural Feelings

T rends

Through the years I've seen and come up with a few illustrations to prove my points.  One of my illustrations was to pull out some gaff tape.  Gaff tape has more stick than duck tape.  I showed the students how every time they give themselves to another person in a way that God did not intend that they lose what God intended for them to have with their spouse.  So I found the hairiest guy and busted out the tape and stuck it on his arm.  Yanked it off and stuck it on again.  After a little while of doing this the pain wasn't as bad because it lost its stickiness.  Then I showed the tape to the students and they saw all the hair on the tape.  I took the time to share with them how if I were to take that tape and stick it on someone else that they would also have to live up to the person who had already visited that tape before them.  The point was received very well!  After that I also took two bottles of water and asked one of the students which one she would rather drink from.  She chose one bottle.  I then opened that one and my wife and I drank out of it.  I asked her the question again and this time she chose the other bottle of water.  I asked her why?  She got it quickly and so did the students.  The other bottle was pure and didn't have any germs on it.  I explained that's how marriages work.  You want the pure thing because you know where it came from and you know its safe.  

Overall we had a great weekend.  I'm a little tired now but I loved every moment of it.  Probably the highlight of the entire weekend was feeling my baby girl kick my hand though. That is a special feeling!  Lots of fun!!!