Out of My Mind

Each week has both Highs and lows. So here are my highs and lows over the last week:

The Georgia - Florida Game. As a Dawg fan, it was pretty awesome being in the stadium with my two sons and my dad. The fans for both sides were fired up, and the game was intense. It was an electric atmoshphere. I have never enjoyed a game so much in all of my life. Go DAWGS! This was a HIGH!!!

My dog Shep ate my IPod! Yeah, you read it right. Some dogs eat homework, and others eat IPods. In my opinion, the IPod is perhaps the greatest invention in all of history so I was pretty bummed. I was hoping I could at least yank on Shep’s tale and hear a Third Day song, or have him recite a podcast or something. No such luck. He didn’t actually swallow it, but he demolished it. If it were not for the kids, that dog would be history. This was definitely a LOW!!!

My Fantasy Football Team won - finally. After winning my first two games, I was thinking I could run the table only to lose 5 straight games. That was almost as bad as having the dog eat my IPod. But I finally got back on the winning track. I had forgotten what the sweet taste of victory was like. This was a HIGH!

My son Jonathan had an awesome 35 yard touchdown run in his Little League football game the other night. It was a sweep to the right - he broke a tackle, juked out a man, and then cut it back to the left all the way across the field and beat a man to the corner of the end zone. It was sweeeeeet!!! That’s my boy. Well, what would you think - a high or a low. HIGH Baby!!!

I prayed with a guy to receive Christ at the end of our 8 oclock service. We had a video testimony from one of our members, Kevin (see the link to the video at end of post) . At the end of the service, I just mentioned that I felt like there was someone here that may need to come and know Christ. Well Kevin ended up front with his friend Brian. And Brian who has been struggling with recovery issues was ready to trust Christ. Major High. Ministry is about changed lives!!!

I keep trying to think of more lows, but it has been a great week. I have met with God, spent time with my family, seen God at work in the people around me. I give Him thanks. And even though the dog ate my IPod, I give Him thanks. It doesn’t hurt that I ordered another one off the internet, and it already arrived (HIGH!!!).

Life is full of emotional highs and lows. I know that next week, I may have more lows than highs, but I plan to praise and give Him thanks any way. Next time, I want to share with you a time where my wife and I sought to turn a valley into a mountain with God’s help.

Will we praise Him in the valley like we will when we are on the mountain? I would love to read some of your highs and lows this week. How was it for you? Where do you see God at work this week? What did you enjoy this week? What bothered you this week? Hope to hear from you.

DY

http://www.sscommunitychurch.com/kevin-adkinson-changed-lives/

This is my first official blog, and the world will never be the same!!!!

If you continue to read this blog, I guarantee that you will become better looking, smarter, closer to God, richer, and pretty much the envy of all of your friends. So as you can see, you will probably want to drop by pretty often. Really, I am not just trying to get you to come back by making a bunch of cheesy promises that I cannot actually deliver on…

Okay, maybe I am. I actually can’t guarantee any of the following, but I hope something that I say somwhere along the line might strike a chord in your heart. I hope I can stir something inside of you that might make you think a little differently. That is in part why I have titled this blog “Out of My Mind.”

This blog is called “Out of My Mind” because:

• As a pastor, husband, and father of three, I sometimes feel that I have completely lost it and I am totally out of my mind. That will be quite evident if you choose to come back and visit often (which I highly suggest by the way - just in case you were wondering).
• Every good thought, creative thought, stupid thought, humorous thought, boring thought, and every other thought you read here will have come out of my mind. Well I may steal/borrow some ideas from time to time, but they will at least have come through my mind. You get my drift though. This is a place where I can share what I have been thinking about and chewing on and then do some verbal vomit. I will give you a minute to get over that mental image and then continue.PAUSE

  Okay are you ready again.

• Last of all, the scripture tells us that we have received the mind of Christ. A major goal of the Christian life is to learn to think differently so we can therefore live differently. Proverbs says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7)  We need to get out of our minds and into the mind of Christ. I am learning more and more how much “stinking thinking” I have had and lived with for such a long time. I am tasting some new freedom in my heart and my mind. I am learning to get out of my mind. Hopefully some of the insights I share may be a real encouragement to you. So what do you say, are you ready to get out of your mind with me???????

As I close my first blog, let me give a shout out and a little link love to a few of my peeps who work with me at St. Simons Community Church. They call me Trumps because I get to wear the pastor/leader hat, but these guys are good friends and a lot of fun to hang out with. Two of the guys lead our technology department at the church, and the other is our Director of Worship. These guys are all pretty tech saavy so they are all geeked up about my first blog. So I dedicate this first blog to my mom and these three guys.

Now here is the link love fellas:

Props to Fred McKinnon, aka Blog boy. You are the source of my blogging inspiration.

Props to Travis Paulding, longtime friend and soon to be first time father. Enjoy the sleep while you can.

Props to Chris Moncus, who was a big help getting this site off the ground. Thanks for the excitement man. This blogs for you!

Props to Mandy Thompson - from what I understand, she is the blogging queen in B-Town.

Hey guys, I am outta here. But come back by Thursday. I will put up a post that you will not want to miss!

DY