Mental Musings

This is my first post for Fred McKinnon's Sunday Set List . We had a guest pastor (actually one of our own members who is in Bible College preparing to be a pastor), so we took a step away from our series on Strange Stories From the Bible. This series has actually been very difficult for worship planning, so it was nice to just plan something basic for a change. Believe it or not, we fit this much into one hour. Prelude: Band plays Mighty to Save Prayer by me Songs I Could Sing of Your Love Forever in F by Martin Smith (we did this much faster than the YouTube demo and it leads in nicely for the next) Forever in G by Chris Tomlin Holy Is the Lord in F by Chris Tomlin Mighty to Save in G by Rueben Morgan Here I Am to Worship in F by Tim Hughes How Great Is Our God in Bb by Chris Tomlin (we add chorus of "How Great Thou Art" a cappella after final chorus and then come back in full one more time for chorus) Children's Sermon VBS Commissioning Sermon Decision: Here...

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I have been to camp with my boys each year since we moved to Maryland, but this is my first time to attend a youth camp with one of them. Since both of our boys are autistic, we do our best to help them understand proper responses for social situations. Sometimes it is much harder for them to grasp. Ashton went to his first youth camp last year. Wendy went also, but he had freedom because she was not staying in his cabin, obviously. He had some problems when one of the boys from his group told him to leave them alone because nobody liked him. Although it really hurt his feelings, he made other friends during that week and simply hung out with these boys. Since Ashton does not quite get the social aspects of making friends, for example he never learned their names, we were very happy that he was able to make some friends and enjoy the rest of his camp experience. This year I was glad to find out that a couple of his friends would be at camp, but both of these boys have discovered girls ...

I recently made the switch to a MacBook Pro after nearly 25 years of using PCs running Microsoft operating systems. My first home computer was actually a Commodore 64. Great little gaming computer back around 1980. Then I moved up to the Amiga and thought I was in heaven. During that time I was using PCs with Microsoft DOS at work and school. I remember installing my first copy of Windows 3.1 and how exciting it was that Microsoft had finally moved to a graphical interface. Then I progressed to Windows 95 on a little desktop that wewere given for our home. Around 1998 I finally got rid of my Amiga and we purchased a home computer that had Windows 98. After Windows XP came out I tried to upgrade that computer and eventually gave up and bought another computer that had XP installed. I never made the switch to Windows ME, but we did purchase a laptop for my wife last year which had Vista on it. After four days with my new MacBook Pro, I can honestly say that this has been the easiest chan...

A choir member sent these videos to me after my devotional last night on not judging too quickly. They are hilarious, so I thought I would share them with you.

I doubt that we could get three teen boys from our youth choir to sing like this. These guys are good. After some lessons on stage appearance they will shine.

I got a friend request from somebody I did not recognize, so I clicked on their link to find out more about them. I was amused by what showed up in the info section: