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INSPIRE was born out of a dream that God would take a bunch of average, ordinary, messed-up people & do something great through them. We want to live like Jesus, for Jesus... No games. No hype, No pretense. Just Jesus. We ain't there yet, by a long shot, but we'd love for you to take the journey with us! - Pastor Jeff

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Two of My Heroes

Holy COW it's raining hard in New Olreans today!!

To give you an idea of just how hard... I just saw a parade of animals walking 2x2!!

No... I didn't really. In case you're wondering.

But anyway...

After church, I was in the foyer talking with our guests. During one conversation, we were talking about just how hard it was raining, when I noticed two of our Dream Teamers out in the rain loading up our equipment into the truck!!

I couldn't believe my eyes at first, but I walked out onto the covered front entryway, and--sure enough--it was them: Rene & Jessica!

And they were SOAKED!!!

Did they complain?

Nope.

Did they have a bad attitude?

Nope.

Were they having fun?

NOPE!

But it needed to be done... So they did it!

No one told them to.

No one ASKED them to.

No one needed to.

Yep... That's the kind of people we have on our Dream Team.

Rene & Jessica, you are amazing!

You both blew me away with your service to Jesus & Inspire today!

You are my heroes!!

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Jumping Up & Down On My Spinal Chord

Today after church, Jennifer & I were watching House Hunters on HGTV. We like that show.

Usually.

But today, the couple the show spotlighted were from an area of the country where I used to live.

Having been in the military, I've lived in quite a few places. There were some things about each place that I really liked. And there were things about each place that I...

Didn't.

And--like the others--the area on this episode had some things about it that I really liked.

BUT...

One of the things that I did NOT like about this area was the accent people spoke with.

And I really didn't like it.

REALLY.

Holy cow... That accent!

I recognize it every time I hear it.

Some accents are awesome. Some are amusing. Some are just downright annoying.

Like... Jump-up-&-down-on-my-spinal-chord annoying.

This accent is one of those.

And after 30 minutes of spinal-shord disco, I can't tell you how glad I was to see the end-of-show credits!

Jennifer just laughed at me.

But she did thank me for moving away from there.