Christmas Memories in a Filthy Texaco Station
December 25th, 2007 by Pastor Eric
Deep Thought: As I sit here and listen to the sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof on this cold Christmas morn, it reminds me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.
It is memories like this that make me love Christmas. I hope your Christmas is filled with like-so memories.
- We had a couple of great services on Sunday as we had a Dysfunctional Hollywood Christmas. If you missed it, you can watch it @ www.shorelinechurch.net.
- If you attended the 1st service, you might want to watch it again because the 2nd service was better. I didn’t do that on purpose. In fact, I hate it when one service is better than the other. Especially when it happens on the Christmas service. They say that Easter is the Superbowl Sunday of church services. So I guess that would make Christmas the BCS College Bowl Championship of church services and who wants to choke on the big day. Sometimes I just don’t get into the flow until the 10:30 service.
- This Sunday is our last service of the year and we are calling it Open Invitation. This would be a great service to re-invite someone who might have come to Shoreline before, especially if it was the Christmas service. This message is about the heart of one of our core values - grace. It will be a great message for someone to see why we do what we do as a church.
- On the 6th of January we start a 5 week series called Boundaries; we all need boundaries in our lives. The first 2 are also great invite services. This time of the year people start talking about going back to church and the first 2 topics, alcohol and sex are good services to invite people who don’t go to church. Here is the web site for it, www.sexandbooze.com.
- You can go onto the site and listen to the ad that we will be running on 99 Rock.
- We gave out invite cards for the first 2 messages. Here is what they look like. If you didn’t get any Sunday, you can pick some up this Sunday.
Until then, enjoy the cold frosty morn and the wonderful sight of some moron in his bath robe dumping raw sewage into the water run off on your street.
Merry Christmas,
Pastor Eric