Day 1 – Worship God —
Alls I’m sayin is…things really couldn’t have be going any better. Seriously, it’s astounding how God is at work.
Look at the good vs. “bad” so far…
Good:
- Woke up at 4:59am when my alarm was set to go off at 5:00am
- Left the house on time
- Didn’t forget any of my chargers for any devices
- Met my boy Pat on time and left on time
- Stopped for 1 pee break and 1 coffee break and STILL got her in exactly 5 hours with next to no traffic whatsoever
- Able to check into the hotel early
- Free coffee 24hrs a day at hotel
- Free wireless internet at hotel
- Free cookies at hotel
- Free fruit breakfast at hotel
- Great lunch at Taco Bell
- Made it back to church perfectly on time for first session with Bob Kauflin
- Bob walked in, immediately shook our hands and introduced himself, and made a reference to my Twittering and my blog
- GREAT Seminar with Bob!
- Now back at cool hotel before dinner
- PIPER is speaking tonight
- NA band is doing worship tonight
- Did I mention that I’m at this hotel on my Marriott points?!!!
“Bad”
- Forgot nail clippers
- Forgot my little beard trimmer thing
- No coffee at church
Can’t wait for Piper…I’ll share more later. 🙂
Mike Ruel 
OK… WAIT WAIT WAIT! I was good until item 11. You are clearly on cloud 9 if you would make such a ridiculous statement…”Great lunch at Taco Bell”. Has it been more than 15 minutes?! Then hold the accolades and wait a few minutes more. No doubt you will be missing some of the “pre-conference seminar” at 1pm with our dear brother BK (and I ain’t talkin Burger King! 😉
Oops… I should have finished reading your list. I feel ashamed to have questioned you my “ruEling elder”… BK made reference to your twittering and your blog?…hmmm, maybe he isn’t as deep and grounded as I first thought(grin). JK… jk. You know I’m still pale green with envy that I was dealing with 3 hrs of lost AutoCAD work while you…. well anyway, I’m settling down a bit now.
As for JP tonight… well don’t get me going again!!
Listen well brother! and bring it home to us here at GPBC@!
P.S. what beard!? 😉
and then there’s the NA band!!! Oi vey!
Pat… you’re just not pullin off the whole ‘biker’ thing in this picture…
ummm.. while I’m commenting (so freely ;)… maybe you could just ask your fav dude to come visit the dark of NJ?… I think the elders would make room in the sermon schedule for some insight into worship. (I am ripe with questions re Sov. Grace and gift of the Spirit in the Church.)