FAILED AT THE FIRST HURDLE

Sorry if you've heard this before, but I love New York. Sure California was sunny, warm, beautiful and slower paced, but there are a bunch of strange people ovver there and their drivers are something else. It's great to be home.

Sitting back in my own den and watching the Mets beat up the Yankees, I figure life is good!

Service was good this morning. Not the best I've ever preached by a long way, but I hope I got my main thoughts across. If not, here's a summary - Don't live life in neutral, wake up and be prepared to take risks.

Those of our folks who read my blog will have been aware that I spent two days last week listening to one of this country's greatest communicators teach about preaching. They might have been looking today to see if I had learned anything and I assure you I did.

One thing I decided that I need to do is preach shorter and make sure there is time to focus on the application and invitation at the end.

I planned to start that straight away with this morning's message.

FAILED!

I left out a chunk of stuff as I went through the sermon, but still found myself rushed at the end. Must work on that!