Random Thoughts with beautiful Autumn weather

I mean seriously, check it out! If you live in Michigan I hope you've had some time to be outside this week, it has been spectacular.

1) On Sunday South attempted for the first time a truly unique endeavor. Instead of going to Church in the morning, "Southies" were encouraged to "be the Church" by participating in one of several service projects for the community. There was an evening service to celebrate and join together after the day of serving.

The unfortunate paradigm for Churches is that usually 20% of the people do 80% of the work. I was happy to hear that a vast majority of our congregation participated in this service day. To clarify, I know how many participated, but I don't know how many members the Church has, but honestly that's not important. What's important is that those who were involved had an amazing experience. I joined a group that stained the wooden parts of a playground at Hawk Island park and it was a great time.

This was a great idea for a Sunday and I sincerely hope it we don't wait a year for the next one.

2) I had a phone interview with Westland Free Methodist on Monday. This was interesting. I try not to get excited about interviews, because they are a part of the process and you want to keep looking until you get an offer. When I sent my resume to Westland they had already made a selection and given that candidate an offer to join them. He unexpectedly refused and the Church was not at peace with the other people they had interviewed, so they went back to square 1. We'll see where that ends up but honestly I don't think I'm a fit for what they are looking for. I don't say that to down talk myself at all, rather my take on what they are looking for and what I want to do are different.

I've found a few more places that I am fishing out and getting resumes too, it's exciting to see possibilities opening up. God is good.

3) Today during lunch I caught a jeopardy rerun on GSN with Ken Jennings. I like watching Jeopardy and I love the puzzle of some of the clues. However I must say that Ken is really funny to watch. In case I've lost you, here's a refresher: Ken Jennings is the best Jeopardy contestant alive. He was on the show 74 consecutive episodes and won over $2 million while on the show. He's crazy. This particular episode I watched to the finale of the double jeopardy round, at which point Ken had accumulated roughly $24,000 and change. The closest contestant had about $5000 and the third person had $400. That's funny.

4) Gaming - This deserves a mention. Half Life 2 is an incredible game. So many great first person shooting games on the computer stem from "modifications" of the engine (program) used to create this game. Games like Counterstrike, Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat are all very successful games made using the tools used in Half Life 2.

The company who created this game encourages the gaming community to use the tools and the engine of Half-Life 2 to make their own games, or their own "mods." To encourage this further, last week the company took the best 5 mods and made them available for free on their online program.

So why do I mention this? When I have time to set aside for some gaming I have become absolutely enamored with one of the free mods named "Zombie Panic Source." It's all online, multi-player and free. Basically the game is a zombie survival game with many twists and turns. Players play both humans and zombies and success for either team will not happen without teamwork, which is why I love it.

5) Verse of the post: I couldn't find the one I was looking for. I blame myself, not my Bible College education, but while searching I did rediscover this nugget which I thought might be thought-provoking. Proverbs 29:9 "He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, Even his prayer is an abomination." Interesting.

Have a great rest of the week.

EDIT: I need to throw a classic in: