Highlights of the Week… 1. Taking Nathan to buy the new U2 album. I can’t play catch with the 10 month old yet but I dream of the day when he pushes me in my wheelchair as we buy the physical album of U2’s Greatest Unreleased work in 2067. That’s going to be a good day. 2. Youth Leader Enroute Training Day. We took our wonderful youth leaders to this Sonlife training day. It’s about exploring transformational youth ministry with God’s narrative. It’s been pretty good and makes a great day of training and our other youth pastor, Tim blogged about it here. 3. We had our fantasy baseball draft yesterday. Commissioner Tim Nye is at the helm. I’m confident that he will do a much better job than Bud Selig. My team name is, “I Am Wolverine!” so we hope to live up to the name.
Disappointments of the Week … ARoid. But I was smart enough not to draft him ;-)
Listening to … U2’s No Line on the Horizon, Homebrewed Christianity podcast 44 (Evolution and Faith with Daniel Harrell), Mars Hill Bible podcast 2.15.09 (A Life that Shines with Jeff Manion)
Watching … the best show on television – Lost.
Student Ministry Update … Our students are still loving They Like Jesus But not the Church video curriculum. Doing some rethinking about certain things in our ministry. Praying for wisdom.
Feeling … good about this current class at school. (although I’m a little behind in certain parts.)
Looking Forward to … Amidst the Powers Conference with Evan.
Understatment of the week … In a Washington Post article discussing the need and cost for super fast trains:
“But experts and government officials caution that despite the billions, the amounts are still not nearly enough to pay for the kind of sleek “bullet train” systems that crisscross Europe and Japan at speeds of 200 mph or higher. The California project, for example, would cost an estimated $45 billion, including $9 billion in state bonds that voters approved last year.
“It sounds like a lot of money to Americans, but it’s really just a start,” said James P. RePass, president of the National Corridors Initiative, a nonprofit rail advocacy group. “We’re not going to wake up in a year and see a bullet train. But we are going to see much faster service for relatively little money.”
LOL – I know he used the adjective “relatively” but it still made me laugh.
Looking forward to next weekend, too.
I did not buy the U2 album because I like good music. [jk, avid U2 fans].
I love how James P. RePass sees $45 billion as “chump change.”