Anita and I have been checking out those new Hi-Definition wide screens for about a year. What we wanted was priced at about $1200 and that was more than we wanted to spend. When WalMart started advertizing free shipping for Christmas, we began checking online, and found the set we wanted at under half price. So we decided to get ourselves a new TV as a Christmas gift to each other.
Setting it up wasn’t bad, either. But moving our old monster TV from upstairs to the downstairs was a major undertaking. First, we had to dispose of our old 1980’s console model, which had been struck by lightning and had no inputs for video or anything. Nathan came out last night and helped me carry that Goliath to the basement. My leg muscles were so sore I could barely make it back up the stairs, but we did it!
The new TV works great, but we’re going to have to call the DISH network guy back to get the old behemoth working property downstairs. Somehow, that is not syncing with the satellite system.
All those different electronic gadgets we hook up to the TV system have to be connected for the system to work. So it is with the church. We all must have vital connections with one another or the church Family just doesn’t work like its intended. Stay connected.
Tags: connections
Today marks the four week period since my surgery and I’m doing well enough to report back to work tomorrow. My first speaking engagement is this Wednesday night when I’m preaching a Thanksgiving message. I hope you’ll make a special effort to make this one-hour time a part of your Thanksgiving holiday plans. I will be sharing some things to be thankful for that the economy cannot take from us.
This is my final entry in the Casting Out Cancer category of my blog. But, I can see that this blog has connected us in the body in a new way, and I think I may continue it. I might continue to develop a daily blog devotional idea to keep us connected.
I am claiming Isaiah 50:4: “The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue,
to know the Lord that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.”
I will ask God to give me a word for the body of Christ every day. Would that be a waste of time? What do you think?
Tags: awakening, connections, devotions, weary, word