I told Carie that I may or may not blog about this and her vote was no, but she laughed so hard when I told her I probably would that she basically gave me the desire to write todays post. It’s her fault.
Last night Carie and I had a mini date night. We went to Panera Bread Co. and did some work on our laptops, we ran into ou friends, the McGuiness’, and then we drove home. I had to do a few things at the church when we arrived onto our home property, so she walked into the house and proceeded to do some more work. When I walked in she was working and we started talking about what to do for the rest of the evening.
*Caution: You might find this inappropriate, which of course will encourage you to actually continue to read it.
Eventually we found ourselves on the couch of “the room without the TV” as we like to call it because there doesn’t seem to be a good purpose for the room, and we were talking about things like what to do with this room decoration-wise, and other basic church stuff. And then we did that love bug thing and we kissed. I need to tell you that Carie had left the DirectTV Christian music channel on for background music. I always find this highly offensive. As we kissed (for a long time), Amy Grant came on the radio. At this time, both Carie and I agreed that kssing was not really compatible with the Christian music station DirectTV channel, and more specifically, not with Amy Grant. And although I tried to convince Carie otherwise…
This includes the song “Baby, Baby.”
This post was written with Watercooler Wednesday in mind.
Carie and I love to play the game Boggle. Okay, I love to play the game Boggle and Carie tolerates it. So I got this idea. What about seeing who in the Martyholman.com world would win in a big nasty internet game of BLOGGLE – or the art of playing the game Boggle on my blog. So here are the rules:
*Be the player with the highest score card at the end of a 3 minute time period. Please keep your own time and be honest. You score by listing words of the highest point value you can find in the four rows of letters.
*You’ll just need to go back and forth between the comment section of this page and the letters and type your found words as a comment.
*Letters in words must always connect, although they can connect in any way possible (back and forth, up or down, etc…)
*Proper nouns (Smith, Ohio, France, Heinz, etc…) and abbreviations are not allowed.
*Point values 3 letters=1; 4 letters=1; 5 letters =2; 6 letters=3; 7 letters=5; 8 or more letters=11
*Don’t look at the other peoples answers who might have played before you!
*3 MINUTES ONLY; Be honest.
Todays Cube:
U D W E
Z T E H
N C A E
T D N K
Last week’s winner: Jeff Campbell with 10 points. Who can dethrone the king?
Here we go!
Carie and I love to play the game Boggle. Okay, I love to play the game Boggle and Carie tolerates it. So I got this idea. What about seeing who in the Martyholman.com world would win in a big nasty internet game of BLOGGLE – or the art of playing the game Boggle on my blog. So here are the rules:
*Be the player with the highest score card at the end of a 3 minute time period. Please keep your own time and be honest. You score by listing words of the highest point value you can find in the four rows of letters.
*You’ll just need to go back and forth between the comment section of this page and the letters and type your found words as a comment.
*Letters in words must always connect, although they can connect in any way possible (back and forth, up or down, etc…)
*Proper nouns (Smith, Ohio, France, Heinz, etc…) and abbreviations are not allowed.
*Point values 3 letters=1; 4 letters=1; 5 letters =2; 6 letters=3; 7 letters=5; 8 or more letters=11
*Don’t look at the other peoples answers who might have played before you!
*3 MINUTES ONLY; Be honest.
Todays Cube:
L I U T
A E E U
G I O T
N A H F
Here we go!
John 15:13
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Depending on who you are, you like to be in certain kinds of relationships. You’ve probably said or heard things like this:
“I like having lots of good friends who I can be around all the time” or
“I only have a few very close friends, who I share my life with” or
“Wow, I hate people, and especially you Marty.” (please don’t say this, as I would be greatly upset)
Your relationships make up the person you are, and this is not a bad thing, but no matter which one of these (preferably not the last) you are, let me challenge you to go beyond a cultural mandate and do what people don’t expect of you.
For instance, the first statement is where I live. I used to have tons of friends, and none of these relationships were very deep. Then a friend challenged me on this, and I “worked on it” – developing closer ties to individuals.
“sorry, she doesn’t count in this question, but she can cook up a storm.”
Or if you are one of those people who have a few close friends (not counting your computer, your mom, or a bottle of Jack Daniels), it might be worth going outside of your comfort zone to reach out to more people.
How do you like your relationships cooked?
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….
3!
Earlier this week, I scooped up this phone from Verizon. I think I like it, but I need you to call me to find out. If you have my digits, feel free to call me this afternoon. But not until then. f you don’t have them, email me for them at marty@fellowshipholden.com. My morning is packed.
Who wants to talk to Marty?
