Okay, I did it. I said the word purpose four times today during the introduction. That’s what happens when you get frazzeled just before speaking I guess.

Note to self: The word purpose is now expunged from your vocabulary. Use any of the following words when it comes to mind – advantage, avail, benefit, duty, effect, function, gain, goal, good, mark, mission, object, objective, outcome, profit, result, return, target, utility.

Don’t get me wrong, this whole 40 Days thing has been good and I am excited about the Ministry Fair next week. It’s marketing, but I can’t be too cynical of a fun idea to get folks involved. It certainly isn’t high-pressure and it definitely isn’t the “do this or else” mentality I became accustomed to in my old church.

Today was a great day. The only bad thing that happened was Junior’s contiued car problems. At least this time, he caused his own problem by wrecking. Stay tuned Little E fans, he only has to finish tenth before the points reset.

Otherwise, today was a great message on spiritual maturity, good talks with folks, a plan for the dinner with my small group, all kinds of good things. I made kabobs for the first time with great success. I also found out that someone donated a computer to my church for use by the recording crew. Nifty.

There’s more news about the computer biz, but can’t talk about it now. Just pray. It’s been a dream of mine for a while to have a computer business.