Cookout at the Johnson's

On Saturday night, we took the crew over to Patrick and Jennifer Johnson's home to cookout and play an 80's trivia game (Ex: which modern artist appeared on the 200th episode of the Love Boat, and in which year? Answer below). They'll be at our house on Monday to watch the BCS National Championship. For those of you who don't know, the Johnsons were some of our best friends in Tupelo, MS, when we lived there. Now we've been reunited. For Patrick's challenging and encouraging website on being a generous tipper, click here.

Also, we are hosting a new, weekly home fellowship/Bible study beginning this coming Wednesday. I think we are going to go through Jonah and explore why, like Jonah,my flesh/sinful nature is so allergic to the beauty and power of God's pure grace, and what it will mean to finally get the disease (and keep getting it). :0) In March I begin teaching a group at Perimeter on Sunday mornings. The title (so far) of that series is Don't Waste the Pain: Understanding and Embracing Suffering, Failure, Brokenness and Loss. In light of understanding and embracing my own personal brokenness, I plan to study folks like Moses, David, Paul, Ruth and Naomi (using the profoundly helpful book Shattered Dreams, by Larry Crabb), and especially Jesus.

Back to some pics of the cookout and 80s night:



Andy Warhol, 1985- you're right!