GREAT MORNING

What a great service this morning! Good crowd, tons of visitors, baptisms, very positive vibe - all this and Easter is still to come! Next Sunday is very much on my mind right now, but I don't want to totally let go of today.

Standing, watching people getting into and out of our horse-trough/baptistry, I was amazed at what God is doing in people's lives. Each of them has a different story, but they converge at Grace Church and more than that, at the cross of Christ. We were celebrating new life already - seven days before Easter.

An afternoon at the gym, a trip to Queens to srop off our friends who have been visiting and now I'm vegging out watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I love this program - it's like a picture of what we are all called to do, be involved in building up others and be restorers of hope.