Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

The chance of snow tends to cripple the nation's capital. I'm from the midwest so I don't totally get it :) But that is reality in Washington, DC. All you do is roll with the punches. Our worship band did a great job of that. They did an improv of Let it Snow to kick off our services at Union Station. All things considered, I was pleasantly surprised with our attendance yesterday.

We kicked off our DTR: Define the Relationship series. I preached on defining your relationships with yourself. I think most relational problems are actually personal problems. But we're in a relationship! I always know a message hits the target when people come up and say, "I felt like that message was for me." Had a bunch of them yesterday. I used Jacob as a case study and I think lots of people can identify with the dysfunction in that ancient family. Not much has changed!

Different messages feel different. I sort of felt like yesterday's message was "heavy" because I was talking about healing relational wounds. But I felt like it was the right way to kick off this series. Until we're in right relationship with God and right relationship with ourselves we can't be in right relationship with others.