Sunday, May 06, 2007

Weekend Reflections

This is one of those weekends where I lost my voice. I've been speaking so much that it's taking a toll on the old vocal chords! Really enjoyed our services this weekend, and I really felt like the Lord helped me.

I don't believe God blesses lack of preparation when that lack of preparation is the byproduct of laziness. But there are weeks where you're going in so many directions that you don't have as much time to prepare. And I've found that sometimes God blesses those messages even more because you know how much you need God's help! That's how I felt this weekend. I spoke four times at the Fusion conference the last three days so I was pretty wasted. But I really felt like God used my lack of strength, lack of voice, and lack of study time to speak! Sometimes all we have to do is get out of the way.

I also enjoyed the change of pace. We typically worship going into a message, but this week we decided to worship coming out of the message.

3 Comments:

At May 06, 2007 8:23 PM, Blogger F. Thomas said...

Pastor Mark, I sent an email to amanda@theaterchurch.com last week about ordering a case of "In a Pit..." but have not heard back. I feel a sense of urgency about sharing this awesome book so I thought I would check here - What timeframe are we looking at and what would the cost be for a case of 24 books, including shipping? Thank you.
Blessings,
Tom Rubenstein
tom.rubenstein@gmail.com

 
At May 06, 2007 9:13 PM, Blogger Mark Batterson said...

Tom,

Amanda was out some last week. I'm sure she'll follow-up first thing this week. We just got restocked Friday and we can turn an order around pretty quick :)

Thanks for sharing the book!

Mark

 
At May 06, 2007 11:51 PM, Blogger F. Thomas said...

Pastor Mark,
thank you very much. Have a great week.
Tom R.

 

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