Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Getting to Know You...

Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You... or however the song goes. This should be our attitude about our relationship with Christ. Getting to know Him, should be our goal. Is He real in your life, or are you just a Sunday Christian? Just some thoughts that have been rambling in my head for a few days.

Things are going well here in Kansas. We finally had lunch with the family we have been trying to get together with for MONTHS!!! I believe our first attempt to get together was in September of '06. Finally, in January... We had a lot of fun and look forward to more times with them in the future. At this rate that will be in late May. We'll be looking forward to it.

We have a video camera that will make it easy to upload videos to the computer. In time I may put it on the blog if I can figure out how to do that with Blogger. Hmm, I have an idea... Oh well, I will experiment later.

Pray for me as I prepare a series through Judges. I haven't done a series through any historical books or through a narrative rather than a letter such as the epistles.

God bless,
Tyler

Thursday, January 11, 2007

The New Year

Hey Everyone!

I trust that 2007 (yeah, just like everyone else I started off writing '06) is treating you well so far. We are doing quite well so far this year.

As an update on my computer problems, my hard drive did finally bite the dust just before Christmas. I have a new one installed and pretty much everything is up and running. I need to find a few drivers online and then I'll be back up to normal.

Our Christmas programs were incredible! Our Sunday School program was probably the best I had seen. The Gospel was very clearly portrayed with the question "Do You Believe?" being prominent throughout. It was followed by a cookie fellowship time. I had a chance to meet many new people, but when you have an additional 33% in the church that is to be expected. The next week was our Candlelight Service. Again, it went very well with the opportunity to meet new people.

We then drove through the night to my parents house in order to surprise my Mom on Christmas morning. That was a LOT of fun!

New Years was a lot of fun with Misty's family visiting us. I'm one of those fortunate enough to have wonderful in-laws (Doug and Peggy, if you're reading this you better comment!)

That pretty much brings us up to the present. I'll be finishing up my series in Galatians this week with a sermon addressing the question "What Really Matters?" For Paul, it didn't matter what others thought about him. He said that the world was dead to him, but not only that, he was dead to the world. As far as they were concerned Paul was dead. They didn't care for him at all. They just needed a body to complete the thought. Hmm, interesting. Does the world matter to you?

God bless,
Parson Larson