My Friends are happy, so I am happy!
I’m writing today because tomorrow Carie and I will be away for a day celebrating our anniversary. So please try to write comments on all my other blogs I’ve written over the last 8 months. I’m skipping lunch for this post.
Yesterday I was going to meet my beautiful wife for dinner because she had to stay at school for a late meeting. The penalty of this is that I have to meet her half way at Barbers Crossing in Sterling, MA. Yummy!
So on the way there, I received a call from Clay, who told me about this amazing opportunity he was doing to put up a new web site and blog – one that I think might become famous over the next few months. He was pumped about it, and quite frankly I don’t blame him. He then made me pumped when he told me that his family would be visiting the Holmans in Massachusetts in late July. So when the site officially goes up, I will share it here at martyholman.com, even though Jeff is not going to like it very much.
Next Brandon called me from texas. Brandon was also in my wedding (Clay was the best man) and served with me here at the FC for a number of years. It has always been Brandon’s dream to work at a church full time, and leave it up to him to fulfill that dream in a big way! He was on cloud 9 when we talked and I am so happy for him. he really has worked hard to be a good leader in the church. A shout out to the Whittalls please!
Next I called up Lonnie, my former lead pastor, who was also jumping from the rafters” (is that a quote?). He told me about a message he preached at his church, and the fruit of the message was that several people commited themselves to following Christ and be baptized. Since this is one of the main things the church should be doing, I celebrated with him. He also told me my uncle (his pastor now) told him it was “the best evangelistic message I have ever heard preached.” I’m guessing that after 30 years of ministry that’s saying a little something.
I am proud to call each of these guys my close friends, and think that as a community we should celebrate with them, so on the count of 3: 1…..2….
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Happy Anniversary Marty! Keep going strong!
#1) That’s an incredibly cool/gross graphic at the top of the site.
#2) Happy Anniversary!!!
#3) You have no idea how hard I’m trying… Though you didn’t give many details, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that this new site will be politically oriented.
I’d come up with a number of quite clever and smarmy possibilities. My sarcasm would have been epic.
I’m working so hard at setting my heart on targets that are bigger than politics. So the compromise that I made with myself was to brag about the anti-Republican jabs I almost made, rather than actually taking the pot shots.