but the baby is not.  Looks like I will have a little more time to get myself all pumped up for the whole thing while we leave the bun in the oven for a little bit longer!

I can’t believe the due date is already here!  The countdown says 1 day left!  The past 9 months or 40 weeks (whichever sounds longer) has really flown by.  Well, looking back it flew by, but in the situations and dealing with the pain and discomfort and sickness it really crawled.  But the main thing is that we are now 1 day away from being a full and official 40 weeks.  That is FOREVER!  The families are beginning to assemble here in beautiful Huntington Beach and hopefully the newest member will decide that she is ready to grace us with her little face.

Thank you everyone for all the prayers, love and support!  Stay tuned because there will be plenty more blogs to come as we attempt to write through as much of this as we can!  Here comes the baby!

Yesterday around 1 PM my grandma, Granmary, finally went home to see her Creator.  I would say that at 95 she lived quite a life.  She was huge into missions and there are many more people that now know the Lord because of her.  She loved her Sooner football and walked with her sister from her house in Norman to Oklahoma football games well into her 80’s!  She loved her family and brought up three pretty amazing sons who all had 3+ kids each who many of them have had multiple kids as well.  She and Papa left quite a nice little legacy there.

For all of you that think you are good at Scrabble, she would kick your butt.  I used to think I was decent at Boggle, but she would come up with words that had to have been made up!  I’m not sure that anyone has EVER done more crossword puzzles than she did in her lifetime and she did it all with her tongue twisted and sticking out too (apparently that helps you think)!

I am very thankful for all the things she has done for me and my family and the love that she continuously showed us (even when I was playing with a ball in the house, knocked down one of the “special” plates from the mantle, broke it and found out there was one less plate that would be passed down to us).  I am thankful that she got to see her sons and their wives for extended periods of time before she went home.  I am thankful that she is no longer fighting (although she was quite the fighter and did so for a long time) and is now resting and worshipping with a scene that I can’t even imagine!

Goodbye Granmary!  I hope that when I get to be 95 I can follow your example and look back and see the countless ways that God has used me to change my world.  Tell everyone we said hi!

Change is a crazy thing sometimes.  As children, change is hard.  As a young adult we don’t seem to necessarily mind change or at least we seem to be better at coping with it.  But it seems to me that many times as we get older change gets hard again.  Last year I went for a job interview at a restaurant while my wife and I were in between churches.  As I was filling out my application and waiting for an interview an older guy came up to me and told me that they have a “no facial hair other than mustaches” policy.  I was a little caught off guard, but knew this was not gonna be the place for me.

• Technology changes and it is difficult to keep up with it.
• Music changes and our favorite bands start gaining air time on the classical stations.
• Clothing changes and we realize that our wife beaters and jams aren’t cool anymore.
• Hair styles change and people start looking at our mullet and mustache attitude funny.
• Church methods change and we just want to go back to the way we have “always” done it.

Each new generation wants to (re)invent their own style (which is generally a mutation of several generations before them).  We are constantly looking for bigger, better, faster.  We want new and fresh.  So at what point in our lives do we stop this search?  When do we stop looking for and implementing change?  Do we just assume that because it worked for us it will work for the next generation?

Technology, music, clothes, hair and many other things look completely different than they did for our parents and than theirs did for their parents.  Knowing this is true, why do we as church leaders all over the world assume that it doesn’t apply to the church as well?  As Craig Groeschel always drilled into our heads at LifeChurch.tv, the methods change but the message never does.

Disclaimer: I am not always good at changing.  I like my routines.  I like my comforts.  But I do hope and pray that I can continue to wrap my mind around changing methods in order to reach those that the old “style” isn’t hitting.  If I do get to that point, I hope that I have the smarts to step down from my role and let someone else in!

Do you accept, embrace and implement change?

What are you doing to change the methods from the old to reach the new with the only constant in our universe, Jesus Christ?

If you have not seen this video yet…well, that’s why I’m here.  OK Go, one of my favorite bands, is very creative to say the least.  It all started with the treadmills and dance moves and has taken off since then.  YouTube has been extremely kind to these guys.  They even play a song to only handbells live in concert.  That was pretty insane.  Well, now they have a new song out called This Too Shall Pass.  Not only is it a catchy song that I have had stuck in my head for a couple weeks now, but their newest video is, well, quite a work of genius.  I can’t imagine the hours spent figuring all this out and getting it timed out (well, maybe I can because I’m pretty sure that would be a blast)!  So here it is.  Enjoy this week’s amazing Video Of The Week!