Just Checking In

So, it has been a little over a week since I last posted, a week since I accomplished my Lenten task of 40 blogs in 40+ days. It has been good to not feel the pressure to write a blog almost every day, but I have missed it a little, the sense of knowing I have something that I need to accomplish, the sense of completion. I don't really know how much I am going to write tonight, but I was checking NCAA scores and updating a playlist on my iPod so I figured I might as well type a few things.

I was supposed to be just getting out of a concert right about now, but I got an email this afternoon saying that Derek Webb had lost his voice and hence the concert was canceled. Supposedly he is going to be rescheduling, hopefully it will be on a day where I can still go. Interestingly enough this is the second straight time Derek was going to be performing in Anderson and he ended up canceling. Last time he did cancel the entire Square Tour that he was going to do in support of his CTRL album, so there are different circumstances this time around. I understand the problem of losing your voice quite well because a little over a year ago I lost mine on the way home from church on Sunday and thought I was going to have to find someone to preach for me the next week, in the end I started to get my voice back on Thursday and had it pretty much back to normal by Sunday.

I had a difficult time trying to figure out what to preach about tomorrow. I finished my previous series last Sunday (Easter) and didn't know where I wanted to go, I still don't in general so tomorrow's sermon is a one off focusing on Luke 24:13-35 where two disciples (not apostles) encounter Jesus on the road to Emmaus. I have been reading a book on parables by John Dominic Crossan and in his intro he mentions the passage. I was telling Mary about what he had to say and she suggested that I could preach on it, this was after she had made about 3 other suggestions that I thought about but never felt any passion about. This time I felt a little bit of passion so hopefully it will translate well tomorrow. It could possibly just crash and burn, but I kind of live in that possibility every Sunday since I started preaching, and definitely since I started preaching from an outline.

I suppose that's about it for tonight. Hope this finds you doing well, I'll pray for you, please pray for me.

Peace and Love,
Pastor K