So I can blog from my iPhone now and I hope I will update it a bit more now that I can just send short messages to my blog from my phone.

These are Bea’s Top 10 stupid things that her students have written in papers over the year. It’s hilarious and a little sad. Enjoy.

10. The age of disco was risky.  The drugs and sex made people make poor choices in fashion as well as lifestyles.
9. Nuclear weapons cannot be enlightened economically. (the student did not comment on whether or not nuclear weapons could be enlightened spiritually)
8. Before the 1910s, criminals were pretty easy to catch.  But then they started to get organized so they came up with “organized crime”.
7. Before Rosa Parks changed the whole wide world, she was a secretary for the NAACP.
6. The Disco scandal also brought out a revivalry between races.
5. Just because Blondie and other 80s female artists were women did not make it okay to call them, “you B-otches suck” and “you must be lesbians or whores”. (nothing like a solid direct quote)
4. Watergate was a scandal because no one would want it to happen again, especially Nixon.
3. The wish that the factor of the first idea was gone had seemed to vanish. (read as many times as you like, it will never make sense)
2. Hiroshima, also known as a mass suicide, was a surprise because Americans had been over the town all day and the Japanese weren’t scared of flying planes just landing ones  (this is not a joke, she really wrote all of that).
1. Timothy McVeigh could have avoided all of the anger and bombing if he had, “trusted in the Lord with all his heart and leaned not on his own understanding”.

Oh summer, I love you. I can’t wait until you are here. One more week and you will be with me.
Waking up at 5:00am every day will be gone for your season. My wife, kids and I will enjoy mornings together without stress and hurry.

Oh summer, I love you. Come quickly.

Kris Allen Singing “God Of This City” {American Idol} from Rick Smith on Vimeo.

I don’t know much about this, but Jason Loftis sent me this.
You may know this already, but Kris Allen is part of New Life Church in Little Rock. Apparently, he is an occasional worship leader at the church’s Conway campus. I even came across a poor quality video of him leading worship in an African American church: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMS3E5QF708.

I’m teaching our How to Grow LifeLab this Wednesday night at Calvary Church. It’s all about wilderness experiences in the sense of spiritual dryness. I think it will be really helpful for people. It’s so easy to give up or get depressed when we don’t “feel God.”

What has been helpful for you when you feel spiritually dry?

What are LifeLabs?
LifeLabs are 4 week, interactive experiences designed to help you learn how to live out the Christian life and the purpose of Calvary Church… to Connect, Grow and Reach.

How To Grow
This is the second class in our Connect, Grow, Reach series that will help you learn what it means to be a growing person and who you are in Christ. You will learn to grow through Bible study, prayer, and other disciplines as well as find some help for when you feel spiritually dry.

Wednesday, May 6 | Week 1
o Am I a Growing Person?
o What is spiritual growth?
o 5 Lies about Spiritual Growth

Wednesday, May 13 | Week 2
o The Problem of Sin in our Growth
o The Role of the Holy Spirit in our Growth
o How to Pray and How to Read the Bible

Wednesday, May 27 | Week 3
o Growing when I feel dry
o Growing when God seems distant
o When growth gets hard

Wednesday, June 3 | Week 4
o Practical steps to spiritual growth
o Ingredients for Closeness with God
o Advanced Spiritual Disciplines